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Exposed by none other than Bruce Bartlett, adviser to President Reagan and Treasury official under President George H.W. Bush.

"For an antitax group, they don't know much about taxes.

On March 16 the Tea Party crowd showed up for yet another demonstration on Capitol Hill in Washington. Curious about the factual knowledge these people have regarding the issues they are protesting, my friend David Frum enlisted some interns to interview as many Tea Partyers as possible on a couple of basic questions. They got 57 responses--a pretty good-sized sample from a crowd that numbered between 300 and 500 people. (Survey results are here.)

The first question that was asked concerned the size of government. Tea Partyers were asked how much the federal government gets in taxes as a percentage of the gross domestic product. According to Congressional Budget Office data, acceptable answers would be 6.4%, which is the percentage for federal income taxes; 12.7%, which would be for both income taxes and Social Security payroll taxes; or 14.8%, which would represent all federal taxes as a share of GDP in 2009.
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Tuesday's Tea Party crowd, however, thought that federal taxes were almost three times as high as they actually are. The average response was 42% of GDP and the median 40%. The highest figure recorded in all of American history was half those figures: 20.9% at the peak of World War II in 1944."

Forbes article is here.

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Tea Party as "useful idiots"

Secrets of the Tea Party: The Troubling History of Tea Party Leader Dick Armey
Friday 26 March 2010

As the Tea Party movement has gained momentum during the last 12 months, it seems few Tea Partiers have caught on to the troubling past of the man at the center of their movement: FreedomWorks chairman, former House Majority Leader and recently-retired lobbyist extraordinaire, Dick Armey.
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In the weeks before April 15, 2009, local newspapers began reporting that groups calling themselves TEA, or Taxed Enough Already, were planning rallies to protest wasteful government spending.
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Armey went on to lead the masses in the chant: "Freedom works! Freedom works! Freedom works!"
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Only one month before that populist moment on Capitol Hill, Armey was employed as a lobbyist by leading international "consulting firm" DLA Piper. In that capacity, from 2005 to 2009, Armey promoted the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, otherwise known as Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), which the State Department has branded a terrorist group. Armey lobbied his former colleagues on behalf of legislation that would have provided taxpayer support to the MEK.

Armey's work as a lobbyist--during which time he also served as chairman of FreedomWorks and organized Tea Party protests--is not mentioned in his FreedomWorks biography.
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As a lobbyist, Armey has not let his stated ideology stand in the way of his paycheck. In 2008, as corporations and banks across the nation were being bailed out with billions of tax dollars, Armey was lobbying on provisions of the TARP Reform and Accountability Act of 2009 for CarMax, a Fortune 500 company that went on to issue $1.5 billion in asset-backed securities eligible for investor loans under the TARP and Federal Reserve-subsidized Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF)

Rest of Truthout articleis here.

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Check out this brilliant political parody by Tea Baggers:

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Wow.

shiver me timberrrrrrrrrrrrrs? WTF?

Darrel wrote:Check out this brilliant political parody by Tea Baggers:

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Wow.

DOUG
That was so stupid I can't stop laughing.

And isn't the lobbying firm going to sink if the country does? And what are the holes supposed to be metaphors for? This thing has absolutely no substance.

I hope they raise money and make it into a nationally televised commercial. That would really make them look like morons.