wilsowilso
08-23-2010, 05:29 PM
This is a just published article about the Koch Brothers.
If anyone wants to know why theses two guys started the Tea Party check it out.
It's an eye opening look into the power of corporate influence in American politics.
The billionaire Koch brothers’ war against Obama : The New Yorker (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer)
TheSmurfs22
08-23-2010, 07:36 PM
Interesting read for sure, thanks for sharing. Corporate influence is everywhere, hell you can find it in high school sports these days! The high school where I coach has a deal with Nike and Nibco.
I have no problems with the Tea Party, the majority of the people are just tired of their government not listening to them anymore and doing as it pleases at the expense of all of us. It is not an Obama thing, it is a government thing in general. Sure there are a few nuts here and there, but that is anywhere. I still do not think the liberal establishment does not know what to do with the likes of the Tea Parties of the world. When you do not understand something it is easy to discredit and try to pull apart.
firstdown
08-23-2010, 09:00 PM
I made for about two pages until they linked back to the 60's, blacks, and the communist party all rolled up in one.
GusFrerotte
08-23-2010, 10:17 PM
Sorry, the Tea Parties started in 2007 with the Ron Paul folks and it gained strength during 2008. The neocons through Sarah Palin hijacked it though after Obama was elected. The Koch brothers are big neocons and supporters of the GOP. They might be behind the hijacking of the Tea Parties, but they didn't start them. This piece is propaganda meant to discredit them.
I heard they invented the internet?
wilsowilso
08-24-2010, 12:44 AM
Sorry, the Tea Parties started in 2007 with the Ron Paul folks and it gained strength during 2008. The neocons through Sarah Palin hijacked it though after Obama was elected. The Koch brothers are big neocons and supporters of the GOP. They might be behind the hijacking of the Tea Parties, but they didn't start them. This piece is propaganda meant to discredit them.
Wrong. The Koch brothers are ardent libertarians.
They are by far the largest sponsor of "tea party" organizational funding nationwide.
The "Tea Party" as America knows it today was entirely shaped by the funding of the Koch Empire. They might have hijacked the name, but their financial support/influence made the current movement viable.
firstdown
08-25-2010, 11:07 AM
Wrong. The Koch brothers are ardent libertarians.
They are by far the largest sponsor of "tea party" organizational funding nationwide.
The "Tea Party" as America knows it today was entirely shaped by the funding of the Koch Empire. They might have hijacked the name, but their financial support/influence made the current movement viable.
No the people in the neighborhoods who organized meetings and such are the people made the movement viable.
FRPLG
08-25-2010, 11:31 AM
Sorry, the Tea Parties started in 2007 with the Ron Paul folks and it gained strength during 2008. The neocons through Sarah Palin hijacked it though after Obama was elected. The Koch brothers are big neocons and supporters of the GOP. They might be behind the hijacking of the Tea Parties, but they didn't start them. This piece is propaganda meant to discredit them.
They are not even remotely close to neocons. You are completely wrong on this.
saden1
08-25-2010, 01:33 PM
Who cares about their inception when we all know they are a doomed group once the Republicans suck the life out of these poor saps and are done using them.
firstdown
08-25-2010, 01:39 PM
Who cares about their inception when we all know they are a doomed group once the Republicans suck the life out of these poor saps and are done using them.
Kind of what the Dems have done with the poor for the past 50 or more years.