QUOTE: Your series of questions gave rise to a thought: Let's say a couple of years ago we were writing a Captain America story about a subversive fifth column group of drug runners and gang members that want to bring down the United States. That's good meat for a Captain America story! And, because we want to reflect the real world, we juxtapose our storyline against the mass marches of the illegal immigrants, so the implication is that (at least some) illegal immigrants are working hand in glove with our nasty subversives and part of this insidious plot. How much holy hell do you think that story would raise? How quickly would we be branded insensitive racists and hate-peddlers? And just how different is that characterization from what Brubaker is engaged in now?

Interesting scenerio.  Trying to picture that scenerio.

I'm sorry, did my post come off as snarky?  I thought Joseph made a point.  As I said wayyyy upthread, the teabaggers are a lot like other protesters (including environmental groups, the most liberal pf groups) where thay have a vague idea but don't accept that there are complexities to these issues.

For example, I give Bush credit for not wanting to run up the debt.  He did it because he started one too many wars, and he wanted tax cuts to finance the wars.  The fault lies in the invasion of Iraq and fiscally unsound tax cuts, not his liberal spending policies.

Obama has expressed a desire to get spending under control, and started to get things moving in that direction.  The huge spending is in response to the financial crisis, and he sees it as necessary.  (Have you noticed the Republicans who voted against the recovery act but love getting the money for their home districts?).  I doubt the government can fix our economy, but it will improve anyway (we're starting to see growth now).  The government will become more fiscally sound, like back in the 90's.

It isn't easy.  You can't change things with teabag convention.  It takes more ideas than making the rich pay or making people who can't speak English leave.  But I think America will get things under control in the long run, and I think, right now, Barack Obama is the man to lead us!

(There are also plenty of Republicans I like, including John McCain and Scott Brown.) 

I'm guessing most of the tea baggers don't exactly know what they're protesting. It's just an opprotunity for ignorant people to make a lot of noise in public and insult Obama by calling him a socialist, communist, or fascist, you know because they all are the same thing. I'm no fan of Obama either *for other reasons) but the fact is federal taxes are only being raised on those making 240k more a year (those who can afford it) and even then US will still have one of the lowest tax rates of any industrialized country in the world.

If these people are so opposed to paying taxes, then they should rip up their medicare cards, refuse to collect social security checks and stay off roads built with state and federal tax money.