Fox Nation's revolt steeped in ... demagoguery

The Fox Nation is revolting....?

I admire their introspection.

Their lack of "representation" could be because Republicans can't win elections!!

I'm confused.

How can it be called taxation without representation when every house seat was up for grabs in the 2008 election?

So aren't the districts being represented according to the will of the electorate?

Does Fox have a problem with the way we elect congressmen and senators?

Just to repeat it here. This "grassroots bipartisan" event which consists of only righwinger politicians and rightwinger shills speaking to rightwinger crowds is really run by rightwinger organizations and think tanks. This info can be found at think progress, BTW.

Despite these attempts to make the “movement” appear organic, the principle organizers of the local events are actually the lobbyist-run think tanks Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Works. The two groups are heavily staffed and well funded, and providing all the logistical and public relations work necessary for planning coast-to-coast protests:

– Freedom Works staffers coordinate conference calls among protesters, contacting conservative activists to give them “sign ideas, sample press releases, and a map of events around the country.”

– Freedom Works staffers apparently moved to “take over” the planning of local events in Florida.

– Freedom Works provides how-to guides for delivering a “clear message” to the public and media.

– Freedom Works has several domain addresses — some of them made to look like they were set up by amateurs — to promote the protests.

– Americans for Prosperity is writing press releases and planning the events in New Jersey, Arizona, New Hampshire, Missouri, Kansas, and several other states.

This type of corporate ‘astroturfing‘ is nothing new to either organization. While working to promote Social Security privatization, Freedom Works was caught planting one of its operatives as a “single mom” to ask questions to President Bush in a town hall on the subject. Last year, the Wall Street Journal exposed Freedom Works for similarly building “amateur-looking” websites to promote the lobbying interests of Dick Armey, the former Republican Majority Leader who now leads Freedom Works and is a lobbyist for the firm DLA Piper.

Americans for Prosperity is run by Tim Phillips, who was Ralph Reed’s former partner in the lobbying firm Century Strategies. The group is funded by Koch family foundations — a family whose wealth is derived from the oil industry. Indeed Americans for Prosperity has coordinated pro-drilling ‘grassroots‘ events around the country.

But my personal favorite?

But Cavuto’s claim ignores a Fox News poll released last week, which found that only 36 percent of Americans said they would “be willing to join” a “tea party” protest.

36%, which is the same number of people who have professed their hatred of everything Obama. A minority of useful idiots, if you will.

What Fox is doing is downright disgraceful.

Repugs representing that mad 30% of the U.S.....

Fox News = 30%

And we shal taunt them a second time . . . and shout ni at them!

Can we now stop pretending Foxs News is a news channel -- not news to anyone on this site, I know. And as such can we now stop allowing them the freedoms and courtesies given the press -- example sitting in the White House press room and on the daily briefings. We can work out from there to the libel and slander charges.

Guess these folks don't remember that their patron Saint of Taxes, Ronnie Reagan, raised a bunch of taxes

Reagan may have resisted calls for tax increases, but he ultimately supported them.

In 1982 alone, he signed into law not one but two major tax increases. The Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA) raised taxes by $37.5 billion per year and the Highway Revenue Act raised the gasoline tax by another $3.3 billion.

According to a recent Treasury Department study, TEFRA alone raised taxes by almost 1 percent of the gross domestic product, making it the largest peacetime tax increase in American history. An increase of similar magnitude today would raise more than $100 billion per year.

In 1983, Reagan signed legislation raising the Social Security tax rate.(doubled it actually)

This is a tax increase that lives with us still, since it initiated automatic increases in the taxable wage base. As a consequence, those with moderately high earnings see their payroll taxes rise every single year.

In 1984, Reagan signed another big tax increase in the Deficit Reduction Act.

This raised taxes by $18 billion per year or 0.4 percent of GDP. A similar-sized tax increase today would be about $44 billion.

The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 raised taxes yet again.

Even the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which was designed to be revenue-neutral, contained a net tax increase in its first 2 years.

And the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 raised taxes still more.

The year 1988 appears to be the only year of the Reagan presidency, other than the first, in which taxes were not raised legislatively. Of course, previous tax increases remained in effect. According to a table in the 1990 budget, the net effect of all these tax increases was to raise taxes by $164 billion in 1992, or 2.6 percent of GDP. This is equivalent to almost $300 billion in today's economy.

http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_bartlett/bartlett200310290853.asp

You must be kidding. Why does anyone take right wing lunatics seriously? They are overtly trapped in the past, and proud to be belligerent. The greatest pleasure that they experience is a shallow sense of superiority over those who foolishly believe them. They create frenzies over nothing. Some of its followers wouldn't know who to hate if it was not for the repetitive misleading guidance of a leadership that is addicted to making fools of its followers. They have nothing but contempt for true believers, yet true believers are loyalists. It is like being a friend of a person who can't resist peeing on you.