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Rick Santelli: If It Wasn’t For The Tea Party, America ‘Would Have Been Rated Triple B’

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CNBC’s Rick Santelli is considered by many to be the “Father of the Tea Party” and this morning he forcefully defended his “baby” from various attacks. Insisting that it was embarrassing to see the Obama administration blame everyone and everything for the S&P downgrade, Santelli instead demanded to know when a real leader will stand up and tackle the big problems in our economy?

Santelli unleashed a furious critique of the Treasury Secretary for trying to “blame Bush, blame the sun” and instead Santelli urged:

“In the end we need to address problems we know exist. A Treasury Secretary or a President should be out here, not fighting S&P, not grabbing the other coach and slapping him around, taking the umpire behind the barn – he should be getting the team psyched.”

And the Obama administration was not his only target, as he was disgusted by Senator John Kerry’s attempt to describe S&P’s action as the “Tea Party Downgrade.” Santelli responded, “blame the Tea Party? Jesus, no wonder Kerry did so well in an election. If it wasn’t for the Tea Party they would have passed the debt ceiling thumbs up. We would have been rated Triple B!”

Throughout the segment Santelli barely took a moment to catch his breath, as even in the final seconds he maintained his anger as he declared it was “reprehensible” that all of the leaders in Washington are now on vacation for a month during this crucial time. Luckily for Tea Party supporters and fans of unpredictable television, it’s not likely that Santelli would ever be away for that long.

Watch the clip from CNBC below:

(h/t MoFo Politics)

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek Bulk Vanderhuge

    Who in their right mind would blame a bunch of every day Americans for the problem we face? Why would you not blame the party that’s been in power since 2006? When Republicans were in power, the media explained its sole focus on them by saying, “they’re the ones in power”. What ever happened to that? 

  • HIHIHI

    hahahahha rick santelli is a funny mofo

  • Anonymous

    Your first sentence answered your question.

  • Dronetekissostupid

    t baggers aren’t everyday americans, they’re terrorists of the worst kind

  • Dronetekissostupid

    t baggers aren’t everyday americans, they’re terrorists of the worst kind

  • Moderate

    I really like  Rick Santelli, I always seem to agree with him.

  • Anonymous

    Another barnstormer from Santelli.  Where’s the leadership?  Playing the blame game.  Blame Bush, blame the Tea Party, blame S&P, blame the rich, blame the cops who acted “stupidly,” blame critical media, blame the CEOs, blame Israel, blame the doctors cutting off the feet of their patients, etc. etc..  Someone else said it already.  This is the first administration in history not responsible for anything.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SI5NXALBPMGH5A7BLRV6GWW3BM Jim

    Wow… Awesome… The Truth Will Out!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZIQS6YEA47QFXGOR4JWUBU2QRM Shark City

    Media and the libs simply amend “they’re the ones in power” to Bush fault or blame the last admin..yes

  • Anonymous

    Santelli and his Goebbelsian talent to ‘pacify’ the situation and bring he common sense to cope with real problems… Sigh!

  • Anonymous

    We are a nation whose leader CANNOT accept responsibility for ANYTHING.  We are going on THREE YEARS that this dumbass has been in charge of this economy, and things aren’t getting better, they’re getting worse.

    I wonder if this will finally be the encouragement that Harry Reid needs to pass a budget for the first time in more than TWO YEARS.

  • Moderate

    Maybe it is our fault, we tend to vote for politicians that give out the free goodies, not aware that it is coming out of our wallets.

  • PA dad

    stock market was going pretty well before this whole %$%$^#$$#^$# CREATED by these tbagging morons
    worst day for my stock portfolio
    F@!#

  • Michelle

    Can you ask Move-on to get a new talking point?  You libs have maxed that one out. 

    Oh speaking of Move-On:

    (Daily Mail)
    — A mystery investor or hedge fund reportedly made a bet of almost
    $1billion at odds of 10/1 last month that the U.S. would lose its AAA
    credit rating.Now questions are being asked of whether the trader
    had inside information before placing the $850million bet in the
    futures market.There are mounting rumours that investor George
    Soros, 80, famously known as ‘the man who broke the Bank of England’,
    could be involved.He made more than $1billion on currency
    speculation when the British pound left the Exchange Rate Mechanism on
    Black Wednesday in 1992.The latest bet was made on July 21 on
    trades of 5,370 ten-year Treasury futures and 3,100 Treasury bond
    futures, reported ETF Daily News.Now the investor’s gamble seems
    to have paid off after Standard and Poor’s issued a credit rating
    downgrade from AAA to AA+ last Friday.Whoever it is stands to
    earn a 1,000 per cent return on their money, with the expectation that
    interest rates will be going up after the downgrade.

  • Anonymous

    Actually the second administration not at fault. The previous administration blames both the one before it and the one after it for everything.

    It is the new way in Washington – never their fault…or responsibility.

    I actually no longer care who is at fault. I just want something to get done without the drama.

  • Anonymous

    Give ‘em hell Rick. We are far from having settled anything with this crisis and those demanding real action need to keep bearing down on their representatives to get government out of the way in order to promote job creation, cut spending, get rid of Obamacare, save Medicare, save Social Security and collect taxes from those who are unfairly not paying.

  • Anonymous

    Right On !  (as a community organizer once said). This is an indictment of the governing class and the left wing. Too many wimpy Republicans + arrogant, left/ far left Democrats all feel (they don’t think) that they and only they can solve problems that we can’t solve. So problems = throw money at it.
    If not for the Tea Party, we would be well on the way to becoming “The United States of Argentina”….we already have our Peron.  

  • Michelleissostupid

    im not part of the fox sheep
    i dont follow talking points bitch

    how does it feel knowing you have michelle malkin on your side?

  • Kftrb09

    Rick Santelli is a buffoon, he didn’t seem to mind too much when the banks were getting bailed out. So STFU rick and go play in traffic you douchebag.

  • insideguy

    Tea Party Downgrade useful quotes and sourcesPosted by Jules SiegelBy Party Boy (Fark) “If a bond holder misses a pay ment for a day or two or three or four — what is more impor tant is you are putting the gov­ern ment in a mate ri ally bet ter posi tion to bet ter pay its bills going for­ward.” — Paul Ryan (R-​​WI)I don’t think it’s going to have an adverse impact on the econ omy for the days or weeks or per haps even months that this would con tinue, I doubt that it would be that long, I doubt that it would be dis rup tive to the econ omy per se, but it would be dis rup tive cer tainly to the peo ple who are accus tomed to and rely ing on the pro grams that would nec es­sar ily be cut. — Pat Toomey (R-​​PA)Well, I think it is, Chuck. […] Say to the Con gress, we’ll sequence the spend ing, pay those debt oblig a tions with the inter est as they’re due, make sure the mil i tary gets paid and taken care of, then let’s have the debate on enti tle ment reform that every body always gets on your show and shows like this and say, ‘Savan nah, Chuck, it’s time to make the tough deci sions’ and they never do. The only way the politi cians are going to make the tough deci sions is to put their backs against the wall. Tim Paw lenty“When you look at this final agree ment that we came to with the white House, I got 98 per cent of what I wanted. I’m pretty happy.” John Boehner“I think some of our mem bers may have thought the default issue was a hostage you might take a chance at shoot ing,” he said. “Most of us didn’t think that. What we did learn is this — it’s a hostage that’s worth ran som ing. And it focuses the Con gress on some thing that must be done.” Mitch McConnell (R-​​KY)CAVUTO: I would wel come a down grade. I really would. I think it would be the pain from which we have a gain.STOSSEL: Maybe that would wake peo ple up.Eric Cantor’s glar ing con flict of inter estHe’s the GOP’s chief debt ceil ing nego tia tor. He’s also invested in a fund that will sky rocket if there’s a default

  • Reddpenny

    So, which of the Koch brothers has his hand up Santelli’s ass?

  • Anonymous

    That is reprehensible. Characterizing patriotic Americans, as I suppose you believe you are, as terrorists lowers your own status. You should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself for saying it, but I suspect you are incapable of that.
    If you knew the Tea Party members that I do, you would never have thought of using that sort of pejorative. They are, in fact, decent, everyday, concerned citizens. I am not a member myself, but then, I’m not a member of anything anymore.

  • Anonymous

    Excellent question. Answer: The misinformed haters.

  • Texan

    Pretty sad when you have to lick yourself, patsy. Pretty sad.

  • Anonymous

    we know you secretly adore michelle royal – but seriously, this is beyond creepy.

  • Texan

    You don’t have a portfolio.

  • Texan

    “Koch!”

    *drink*

  • Republicans are Liars

    Obviously you have had brain trouble sometime during your life. The average Americans are being manipulated by the Kock Brothers (I know its spelled wrong), FOX News. Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beakhead to think about things which help keep the rich richer and the average American heading to the poor house. Of course most of you out there with no education and little understanding of what is happening just follow along because they put it into terms of not wearing flag label pins and getting you fired up about a debt problem that needs to be managed not eradicated over night. ASK YOURSELF THE QUESTION HOW HAS THE NATIONAL DEBT EFFECTED MY LIFESTYLE? Raise taxes on the rich. Do it now. the President was fixing the country and now sinece the TeaTards are running the House the economy is tanking again. This should spell everything out for you  but you people with blinders on will not see it.

  • Anonymous

    glad we have you to show us the way.lol

  • Republicans are Liars

    Are you still wondering if we really did land on the moon as well?

  • Anonymous

    Boy, I’d like to be the fly on Obama’s face during tonight’s Oval Office discussion between him & GE, CEO turnedspooning partner Jeff Imelt over what to do about Santelli daring to speak the truth.

  • Texan

    Thanks Patsy!

  • Republicans are Liars

    How’s that Governor working out for you back in Ohio?  Another Republican laughing stock. Has he taken your right to collective bargaining away?

  • Republicans are Liars

    That is what he has always wanted. Alfred E. Newman agreeing with him.

  • Republicans are Liars

    Unfortunately you are unable to see anything but hate. The country was getting better. The economy was getting better until the TeaMorons came to Washington. Do you self a favor and vote a straight Democrat ticket. We will all be better off in the long run.

  • Anonymous

    you mean collective bargaining rights the federal government gives……oh never mind federal employees dont have those rights

  • gsplsngr

    Might want to check your facts, Rick Santelli was against TARP and has railed about the money that has been given to Fannie and Freddie Mae

  • Darladoon

    actually, “everday americans” wanted tax increases on the wealthy.

    75% of them. 

     

  • Darladoon

    terrorists don’t only strap on bombs, and what not.  they can merely use intimidation or threats
    to meet their demands.  

  • Anonymous

    You think he may have a bias, since help concocted this Tea Party drivel. Where was this joker at when the debt was being ran up during the Bush Administration? Where was his outrage when Dick Cheney said: “Reagan proved ‘deficits’ doesn’t matters”. This fellow is revising history and paying accolades to the people who caused the problems.

  • Whitj1966

    he is a racist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_W6RLFUOLWP23SJ5RQHENEPHKME David L

    You are an idiot !!  Get to the nearest hospital and ask to be hooked up to life support, maybe they can use some of your organs to save  a sloth, you are already brain dead !!!

  • piglosisuxreid

    Could you please please tell me how this president of yours ” WAS FIXING THE COUNTRY”. I have to hear this one genius

  • Libs are sheep

    you’re a douchebag

  • BARRACKalypse Now OBAMAgeddon

    Yeah we’ll be just like Greece! Exactly when was the country getting better? The unemployment was still sky high and the debt was still 3X higher than when Obama took office. Fact: The Tea Party does not have enough members elected to make a difference… YET. The pathetic deal the Republicans CAVED and gave the Democrats is proof of that. The downgrade happened (according to S&P and Moody’s) because the government did not show how they would be paying down the debt.  They did the OPPOSITE of what they needed to do.  Without the Tea party it would have been WORSE.  Thank God for the Tea Party!!!

  • piglosisuxreid

    yup getting better why jobless rate fell from 9.2 to 9.1…only took 3 years

  • Tracy

    Thanks Rick, keep pointing out the facts!  Dear Leader has a year and a few months to go and then he can go back to Chicago where he belongs!

  • Gonefishing

    Offer a child some candy, the child will always take it. Somebody paid for it, but the child doesn’t care who paid for it.

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    Maybe you should have bought gold.

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    You definitely need listen to this guy!

    He knows all about how terrorized he was after he had testicles in his mouth.

    That’s the teabaggers you are talking about right?

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    So union bosses are terrorists then?

  • Michelle

    Dude, you are really embarrassing yourself.  This week, Ohio’s credit rating was UPgraded. 

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    Raise taxes on the rich by how much? You do understand that its not a zero sum gain right? That raising taxes doesn’t necessarily lead to the rich paying them? And by hampering small businesses with more taxes keeps them from hiring?

    Your “plan” if you can call it that still wouldnt come close to covering the fiscal gap either:

    http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/08/bloomberg-the-debt-deluge/

    Click on the above link from Bloomberg Business week and inform yourself.

    We are 211 TRILLION in the hole my friend. Who are you going to tax to cover that?

  • Anonymous

    Boy this guy has really led the TP down a a garden path hasn’t he?  Keep it up!  They’ve done so well under your tutelage.

  • Anonymous

    I know.  It all seems so unfair doesn’t it?

  • Anonymous

    Love your user name.  So deeply true.

  • Anonymous

    Love your user name.  So deeply true.

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    Its too late…right after he urged people to vote a “straight democrat ticket” he flatlined.

  • nancillarypeloslinton

    A 1300 point drop on the Dow in little over a week and Obammy is out campaigning? Getting paid to destroy America must be the campaign theme here.

  • nancillarypeloslinton

    You Obama-Garglers are a hoot!

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    Some people have no use for reality. It only gets in the way of their agenda.

    I’d love to ask “republicans are liars” exactly what the tea party accomplished that was so monumental in thrusting our “revived” economy into the crapper, but my bullshit quota has already been met for the day.

  • Texan

    sock alert

  • Latin2

    Tea Party people are more educated and more financially suave than the average American…and that was according to a CBS poll of Tea Party people.

    Bernie Goldberg said on O’Reilly:  “Blaming the Tea Party for the downgrade is like blaming the guy who called 911 to report a fire.”

    Only the ignorant would be believe it was the Tea Party’s fault…uh…so I guess that includes you.

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Yes, keep telling yourself that. Keep your portfolio in stocks and bonds, while I count my gold bars. By the way, have you heard anything from anyone over the last 4 years, besides idiots like Krugman and say Bawney Fwank?

    Keep listening to those leftist idiots, they got you this far.

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Yes, keep telling yourself that. Keep your portfolio in stocks and bonds, while I count my gold bars. By the way, have you heard anything from anyone over the last 4 years, besides idiots like Krugman and say Bawney Fwank?

    Keep listening to those leftist idiots, they got you this far.

  • Latin2

    Speaking of Move-On and Media Matters…their big benefactor George Soros made a killing when the US was downgraded.

    Soros makes his big money when a country goes belly up.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023809/Did-George-Soros-win-10-1-return-S-Ps-US-credit-rating-downgrade.html

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Gulp.

    Captain and Koch.

    What’s your drink?

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Rick nails the truth.

    By the way, been saying this for 3.5 years now, maybe one day you might listen lefties.

    Got Gold? Got Oil Stock? Got Food Stock? Got Food? Got Lead? Got Info? Got TEA?!

  • Anonymous

    Hahahaha…JACKASS DONKEY Libs loved saying that things ‘would have been worse’ if not for the stimulus.

    Here’s Santelli ramming the same rod up THEIR hole, and I LOVE it!

  • Republicans are Liars

    You people are just funking idiots. You don’t even deserve a comment you’re stupid as Funk . You will always be stupid as funk and you don’t have the balls to put your education up on line. so Funk you all. All  of you.  You have trashed this country. Now live with it. I  will be just fine. so Funk the rest of you.

  • Republicans are Liars

    and you are an idiot I wil take douche bag over idiot any day of the week

  • Republicans are Liars

    Hey Moron. how can you argue with the fact. S&P state Repub are the cause of the down grade. Funk you up side the head

  • Republicans are Liars

    You are delusional/ 211 in the hole get a life. You are the same as those who believe we didn’t land on themoon.

  • Republicans are Liars

    increased private sector jobs. Bus lostthem one month 750k+ Stock market came roaring back. Funk you

  • Tedderman

    Someone please take this ignorant piece of dog dirt(Santelli), out behind the woodshed  and beat some sense into his moronic ass.  Note: It may require a 16 pound sledgehammer in order to get through Rick Santelli’s thick skull.  So use it liberally!

  • Anonymous

    Santelli’s comments are the best analysis devoid of any party, ideological or corporation bias.Santelli’s comments/opinion is what pays the salary for everyone at cnbc.com;  they should be kissing his feet for the respect/credibility that he brings to cnbc…
    Cramer is a subdued, better-toe-the-line-or-else reporter, and Lies-man is just a pathetic cheerleader….
    the rest are frightened, gutless talking heads… that is the truth about anybody working at nbc, msnbc or cnbc

    Santelli deserves a Purple Heart for reporters that have (cojones) guts and are not afraid of the ‘Administration’ bully tactics.

  • Anonymous

    If it were not for the tea party we would have card check, cap and trade, amnesty, the complete neutering of the congress and be well on our way to becoming 1950′s eastern europe.
    Thank You Mr. Santelli…. Thank You
    p.s. The scary thought is that the left owns the educational system through unions, the media, plus they are pro-letting every illegal alien in this country if they vote for them… it is just a matter of time before they will own this nation… UNLESS the American people realize it and do something about stopping them.

  • Anonymous

    Pres. Brrroke Insane Obama needs to listen to Santelli, rather than pontificate, for a change…

  • Anonymous

    Come on.  Please no violent talk.

  • Anonymous

    Good for you being happy about how bad things are.

  • Anonymous

    So he is the poppa of the bastard child.
    Good to know, I guess.

  • Anonymous

    The blame is not on every day Americans.  Part of the blame lies with the so-called Tea Party members of Congress and the Republicans who felt like they had to placate them.  They acted like children.

  • Anonymous

    So anyone with an opposing viewpoint is not in their right mind?

  • Anonymous

    It’s ok when Wall Street does it?

  • Anonymous

    Capitalism is only for Conservatives?

  • Anonymous

    The people who did the downgrading did the blaming.

    It’s not the Americans who belong to the Tea Party.

    Unfortunately the Tea Party is one of the biggest exercises in false consciousness the world has seen, a fake grassroots movement, it purports to be a spontaneous uprising of concerned citizens, but in reality it is founded and funded by elite interests. It is mostly composed of passionate, well-meaning people who think they are fighting elite power, unaware that they have been organized by the very interests they believe they are confronting.The Tea Party platform and set of opinions benefits the wealthy. Look: tax breaks for the wealthy, less interference in corporate matters by government, opposing the unions, blaming the problems of the country on government – when the problems are caused by the mega corporations. The Tea Party platform is detrimental to the middle class and the organizers want you to believe the opposite.

  • Anonymous

    The most prosperous time in America was when the rich were taxed 90%.  Obama gave small businesses tax breaks.  This isn’t about taxing small businesses, it’s about making the mega corporations and the mega wealthy pay their fair share.  Home prices have been falling and yet 3 records were set this year for the most expensive homes sold in America.  The rich can still afford to pay sickening prices for homes while the middle class gets squeezed.

  • Anonymous

    As I’ve said previously, the Tea Party is one of the biggest exercises in false consciousness the world has seen, a fake grassroots movement, it purports to be a spontaneous uprising of concerned citizens, but in reality it is founded and funded by elite interests.

    It is mostly composed of passionate, well-meaning people who think they are fighting elite power, unaware that they have been organized by the very interests they believe they are confronting.

    The Tea Party platform and set of opinions benefits the wealthy. Look: tax breaks for the wealthy, less interference in corporate matters by government, opposing the unions, blaming the problems of the country on government – when the problems are caused by the mega corporations. The Tea Party platform is detrimental to the middle class and the organizers want you to believe the opposite.

  • Anonymous

    As I’ve said previously, the Tea Party is one of the biggest exercises in false consciousness the world has seen, a fake grassroots movement, it purports to be a spontaneous uprising of concerned citizens, but in reality it is founded and funded by elite interests.

    It is mostly composed of passionate, well-meaning people who think they are fighting elite power, unaware that they have been organized by the very interests they believe they are confronting.

    The Tea Party platform and set of opinions benefits the wealthy. Look: tax breaks for the wealthy, less interference in corporate matters by government, opposing the unions, blaming the problems of the country on government – when the problems are caused by the mega corporations. The Tea Party platform is detrimental to the middle class and the organizers want you to believe the opposite.

  • Anonymous

    Bacardi, diet Koch

  • Anonymous

    As I’ve said previously, the Tea Party is one of the biggest exercises in false consciousness the world has seen, a fake grassroots movement, it purports to be a spontaneous uprising of concerned citizens, but in reality it is founded and funded by elite interests.

    It is mostly composed of passionate, well-meaning people who think they are fighting elite power, unaware that they have been organized by the very interests they believe they are confronting.

    The Tea Party platform and set of opinions benefits the wealthy. Look: tax breaks for the wealthy, less interference in corporate matters by government, opposing the unions, blaming the problems of the country on government – when the problems are caused by the mega corporations. The Tea Party platform is detrimental to the middle class and the organizers want you to believe the opposite.

  • Anonymous

    Yea yea… if you believe that the current admin had nothing to do with the current economical nightmare you are delusional and should be back on your meds.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PMUQ2WC6JSMODAMOFH4IORH62Q Dredd

    Jealous much, fishy?

    Sounds like Tea Party Envy to me…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Nicolls/100000381703144 Tony Nicolls

    oh so ur a msnbc sheep? Because she was not well known till msnbc started ripping on her.unless of course your secretly watching fox news and just don’t want your friends to know your secretly a conservative? Either way Michelle makes me sleep better at night by reminding me that retards like you and the progressive_kitty exist. to lazy to follow talking points (thats whats going on in the world dumbass) and then trying to comment on them takes on a whole new level of verbal Darwinism. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PMUQ2WC6JSMODAMOFH4IORH62Q Dredd

    Worst. President. Ever.

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    fishchef, I am about to refurbish and do Captain and Dr Pepper, no Koch, darnit!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Nicolls/100000381703144 Tony Nicolls

    yo dumbass. its tax breaks for every class except the bottom 45% of the income bracket (they don’t pay taxes anyways…)  Thats the theory behind a free market economy. you can keep lower taxes due to the amound of purchases and imports. the sheer numbers make up for far more than any tax hike could ever hope to achieve. Clinton knew that. deregulation is how he got alot of tax revenue when he was in office. so all im seeing in ur argument is that you cant even take a good example from your own party. Oh and why would a major corporation even think about trying to fund every county/ and or burough in the US that has a tea party movement. (they are all individualy funded on the local level smart one) the paper work/ admin fees would be beyond obscene to track/manage and fund; much less the donations.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Nicolls/100000381703144 Tony Nicolls

     pasted this above too: yo dumbass. its tax breaks for every class except the bottom 45% of the income bracket (they don’t pay taxes anyways…) Thats the theory behind a free market economy. you can keep lower taxes due to the amound of purchases and imports. the sheer numbers make up for far more than any tax hike could ever hope to achieve. Clinton knew that. deregulation is how he got alot of tax revenue when he was in office. so all im seeing in ur argument is that you cant even take a good example from your own party. Oh and why would a major corporation even think about trying to fund every county/ and or burough in the US that has a tea party movement. (they are all individualy funded on the local level smart one) the paper work/ admin fees would be beyond obscene to track/manage and fund; much less the donations.

  • Anonymous

    Triple B, huh?  More tomdouchery from Rick.  I feel bad about starting a petition to make the other traders in Chicago stop stealing his lunch money.  Not even my wife would sign it after I explained he wasn’t a ten-year old kid, but a trader at the Chicago commodities exchange. :(

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Nicolls/100000381703144 Tony Nicolls

    Hmms seems i came back from iraq after rounding up some of obamabinladen’s buddies and found that half the country was in a depression and the national debt had doubled in less than 2 years. funny how it wasnt like that the first time i came back and Bush was in office. you know for a unpolished redneck he seemed to have done a better job at promoting job growth even with 2 wars going on than the boy king has. course the fact that he had double the spending of the Bush administration and he has only been in 3 years now is kinda inconvienent huh? and i agree with piglos. but please tell me some specifics about private sector jobs (union jobs contracted by government agencies dont count as private sector incase you are as dumb as i think you are)  

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Nicolls/100000381703144 Tony Nicolls

    Please tell me when the rich were taxed at 90%?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Nicolls/100000381703144 Tony Nicolls

    yo dumbass. its tax breaks for every class except the bottom 45% of the income bracket (they don’t pay taxes anyways…) Thats the theory behind a free market economy. you can keep lower taxes due to the amound of purchases and imports. the sheer numbers make up for far more than any tax hike could ever hope to achieve. Clinton knew that. deregulation is how he got alot of tax revenue when he was in office. so all im seeing in ur argument is that you cant even take a good example from your own party. Oh and why would a major corporation even think about trying to fund every county/ and or burough in the US that has a tea party movement. (they are all individualy funded on the local level smart one) the paper work/ admin fees would be beyond obscene to track/manage and fund; much less the donations.

  • Jerry Baustian

    Liesman serves as the straight man for Santelli to bounce his ideas off. 

    Santelli asked a simple question: does anyone think there is a single country in the world that’s the same as it was five years ago? The ones with commodity based economies, like Australia and Canada and maybe Russia, they are doing okay.

    “In the end, we need to address problems that we know exist.” Again, he is right. When the federal government increases spending 30% or 40% in three years, we do not have a tax problem, we have a spending problem. Blaming S&P, blaming the tea party movement, does nothing to solve the problem — and who will Geitner blame, who will Obama blame, the next time the bond rating is downgraded?

    It seems to me that the Democrats have dug themselves in a very deep hole, and Obama’s not going to reverse his declining popularity by trying to blame the rating agency and the tea party movement and a media that should not give equal time to his critics. (sic)

  • Owl22

    What crazy nonsense from this teabagger clown!

  • Jerry Baustian

    And exactly why is your opinion worth the cost of the electrons that turn on and off the pixels on my screen?

  • Republicans are Liars

    Funk all of you Republican Teabag Ass Wipes. You wouldn’t know the truth if it smacked its D*$& across your face. You are morons. Will always be morons. You’re bigots and racists and will always be bigots and racists and you should all move out of the country. Go find a place where you can live with might equals right mentality. You are all a bunch of illiterate pieces of trailor park trash. You don’t have the guts to put up your educational background nor admit that you have accomplished anything in your life but to be a malcontent and racists. Funk all of you. Teabags are destroying this country. this wonderful great country and you will get yours at some point. Hopefully sooner or later. You free loading bunch of malcontents! Pay your taxes! Be a man. Pay for the services you get. quit bitching about it. Just once… any of you.. .just tell me how many funking jobs have you ever created? None probably. You are parasites. You live off of other peoples work and then gripe about how mistreated you are. You should all be ashamed of yourselve but that would take self-realization which none of you have for you only learn what is on FOX news. You know I wasn’t going to post this but I went back and read the idiotic posts of David Kramer, Pablo, Michelle, Barney Frankenstein and others then realized you all need some serious help. How do you keep a roof over your head being so stupid. You should really go up and thank who ever keeps you employed for they are putting up with a lot keeping you around. I really can’t see how any of you are able to keep any job short of on the line at MacDonalds with the limited scope of your inteligence.

  • Republicans are Liars

    Buy a dictionary and let anyone who lives with you read your prargraph and see if they can tell you what you were trying to say.

  • Republicans are Liars

    No you are wrong idiot. Raising taxes does not hamper companies from hiring people. DEMAND or lack there of is the harbinger of whether there is hiring. How many jobs have you created?

  • Republicans are Liars

    It was a Republican president named Eisnehower. Call him a communist now why don’t you.

  • Anonymous

    Too much Obama Koolaid?

  • Republicans are Liars

    How has that national debt effected your lifestyle? You obviously have not read anything about the amount of job lost that happened under Busch or you wouldn’t embarrase yourself with such a stupid statement. see once again your offended by something other than the truth.

  • Republicans are Liars

    another idiot heard from

  • Republicans are Liars

    You are swiming in a  sea of delusion

  • Republicans are Liars

    You are a racist and a bigot. Clueless to history. Probably a high school drop out

  • Republicans are Liars

    lol! wait till all of those idiot Republicans are voted out of the Wisconsin state legislature tomorrow. You will be having a good laugh then, morons.

  • Tedderman

    Bush raised the debt limit seven times while you were gone and blew the debt up like a suicide bomber.  He set the future spending trends as we continue to pay for his two wars, his two tax cuts for the rich, his Medicare prescriptions for the elderly, TARP and other shit as well. If you think your facts are correct, think again because you’re pointing the dummy finger the wrong way.

  • Tedderman

    Worst republican Americans ever, idiotic, moronic, know nothing, Fox news lemmings.

  • Tedderman

    I know this one, wait don’t tell me, Oh, to get himself a snack.  No wait, that’s not it, uh, oh yea, to work the lever that controls Santelli’s mouth. LOL

  • Tedderman

    You’re right, I just can’t stand them gloating that they’ve destroyed the economy and pointing the finger at us as though we’ve done it.

  • Ajolily

    That discribes many people and groups including the democrats. Obama used a lot of intimidation and threats not the least of which was claiming that the social security checks would not be issued in Aug if he didn’t get his way.

  • RocketMan

    and your evidence is what?

  • Anonymous

    I’d be a lot more worried if the American people and the world weren’t on to them, that’s for sure.

  • Anonymous

    I’m sure it does.

  • Anonymous

    The Santellii is the most anti-American out there.  Even wall street doesn’t like him.  

  • LGeorge2241

    That is reprehensible behavior towards hard working Americans that had the guts to stand up and go out on a limb to yell at the top of their lungs that we could see down the road and it was a cliff!  Well-this Administration fell over it-and the rest of us are now stuck in the mud at the bottom of the cliff thanks to the idiots in the Senate -the leader of the Senate-Nancy Pelosi, and the man at the top with all of his crazy far left wingers.  We are not far right wingers-we are the middle of the road Americans you call Tea Party ,members. 

  • LGeorge2241

    Well the Dems thought the folks on social security were dumb enough to buy into the idea that it was all the fault of the GOP when in fact the blame is Big O’s for even suggesting that he would stop checks from going out to SS folks.  Intimidation and threats don’t much cut it with our crowd!  He can take a flying hike!  Even my step Dad who is in his 80′s and a life long Dem  is so ticked he can hardly wait to vote this man out! He’s furious that this administration failed the American public so badly all in the name of idiology. 

  • LGeorge2241

    You are dumber than a door knob-it was as basic as they came fool!  I was one of the first folks on the internet talking about taking a sign down to downtown Portland and protesting and calling it a Tea Party. I have never done any such thing to any previous administration in my life but would protest this stupid administration in a heart beat for their actions. You know nothing about the tea party!  There was not a dime of money to bring this group of folks together-it was our understanding of what the heck this country means to us!  Sit on it and spin fool!

  • LGeorge2241

    Buch of left wing garbage as usual-get real fool!

  • chai

    you are a sockpuppet. go away.

  • Anonymous

    Go Rick Go…. we are right behind you… all the way till the 2012 elections when Pres, B’roke Insane Omaba will be sent to the unemployment line.

  • Anonymous

    The Tea Party movement began when Rick Santelli called from the floor of the Chicago MercantileExchange for a bankers’ revolt against the undeserving poor (he proposed that the traders should hold a tea party to dump derivative securities in Lake Michigan to prevent Obama’s plan to “subsidize the losers”: by which he meant people whose mortgages had fallen into arrears.) On the same day,Americans for Prosperity set up a Tea Party Facebook page and started organizingTea Party events.

    I just like the facts (unlike justthefax).                             

  • Anonymous

    Taxes for the rich were at 90% during the most prosperous time in America – the 1950′s.  Clinton’s deregulation along with the deregulation that’s happened over the last 40 years is what led to the current economic and environmental problems.  When Wall Street side bets werre outlawed at the beginning of LAST century for causing havoc, you think they would’ve learned.

    The Koch Brothers funded the Tea Party. 

  • Teabaggershahaha

    Who is this clown? and why is he opn tv?

  • Teabaggershahaha

    Who is this clown? and why is he opn tv?

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    President Downgrade – your president – is doing a bang-up job. Really. Helluva job. We’ve had a AAA credit rating since 1917. Then Obama and the Democrats get hold of the government for two years and we’re downgraded becuase they spend as much money in two years than any administration and Congress in history.

    Then, to top it off, they blame the opposing party who said they shouldn’t be spending so much money.

    Guess all that astronomical, reckless spending since Obama waltzed through the door on a cloud of unicorn farts just spent itself, eh?

    Listen, troll. Your President just presided over one of the most embarrassing economic FAILS in the history of the country. When the history books are written, it’s going to be Obama’s name next to DOWNGRADE – not Bush’s or the party that controlled one house of Congress while the President’s party controls the Senate and WH.

    Obama = a downgrade for America.

    Choke that one down. You’ve earned it.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    What a powerful argument.

    About as sound and thought-out as the Obama Administration’s “economic policy” has been.

    You and President Downgrade deserve each other.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Indeed.

    President Barack “Downgrade” Obama. Democrat.

    You can almost see the spittle flying onto the screens of his bootlickers as they scramble and scream to defend their failed President.

    The cursing, the slurs, the parroted talking points, the childish rants that make no sense – all of it is very sad and indicative of a swath of Americans who have lost their credibility for this miserable excuse for a President.

    Entertaining, though!

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    President Downgrade – your president – is the most embarrassing excuse for a leader we’ve seen since Jimmy Carter.

    And the words downgrade and Obama will forever be linked in American history.

    How’s that grab ya?

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    President Downgrade – your president – is the most embarrassing excuse for a leader we’ve seen since Jimmy Carter.

    And the words downgrade and Obama will forever be linked in American history.

    How’s that grab ya?

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    President Downgrade – your president – is the most embarrassing excuse for a leader we’ve seen since Jimmy Carter.

    And the words downgrade and Obama will forever be linked in American history.

    How’s that grab ya?

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Another President Downgrade supporter.

    For his next trick, he’ll call Santelli a racist or something.

    KOCH!

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    I find your views fascinating and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

  • Anonymous

    you created a fake user name to mock someone one a comment board you disagree with.  then you call her stupid.  Really? 

    cyber staking is not healthy…. 

  • Anonymous

    good idea. encourage cyber-stalking, that’s healthy.   Stop by an AA meeting with some vodka too.  good ideas ….

  • Tedderman

    You’re talking to yourself again.

  • Anonymous

    1946, 1948, 1950: 91% 1952: 92% 1954: 91% 1956-1962: 89%
    Today: 35%

  • Anonymous

    snorting whiskey and drinking Koch-aine

  • Anonymous

    their fashion sense in particular, the tea bag earrings are all the rage.

  • Anonymous

    Everything leads to something else, it’s part of the evolutionary process.  Bush’s administration has an effect on what is transpiring today.  Nothing is instantaneous, we never know what the real outcome will be until much later.  Positive things come out of negative and the opposite is also true.

    The policies of the Bush administration had detrimental effects on this country and we continue to feel them.  Whether or not the Obama administration will have a positive or negative affect on the country in the long run, we don’t fully grasp.

    I understand completely that you feel that the affects from this administration are and will be negative.  Now you know how I felt when, during the entire Bush 8 years, I was politically sick to my stomach.   Every idiotic move he made, every botched decision, every mistake that he made, we pay the price for now. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GJAR5QJ6KNYDFJQ5RSWO6KYTTY Anonymous

    Is this guy out of his freakin’ mind? I mean S&P came out and said the reason they downgraded the rating was because Congress couldn’t get its act together. And who was responsible for that? The Tea Party Representatives, that’s who.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GJAR5QJ6KNYDFJQ5RSWO6KYTTY Anonymous

    Is this guy out of his freakin’ mind? I mean S&P came out and said the reason they downgraded the rating was because Congress couldn’t get its act together. And who was responsible for that? The Tea Party Representatives, that’s who.

  • Tedderman

    You know, you’re right.  I remember this president, I think his name was Bush, well, he sent out two rounds of checks of $300 to $600 dollars and suddenly most people said hey, this fella’s OK with me.
    That and two rounds of tax cuts which heavily favored the wealthy kept his poll numbers artifically inflated for years. 

  • CarmanK

    That old tbagger in WI who stood up yesterday and praised the TPARTY for setting up the down grade is demented. I wonder what is going to happen, when the ole coots find out that they have been played. It is the TPARTY that wants to Privatize SS to benefit WALL STREET, the voucherize Medicare to guarantee astronomical profits for Insurance companies and the abolish Medicaid, so the very old will have not nursing home care in their dotage. The AARP is finally waking up to the real dangers of the TPARTY NATION that wants to replace democracy with an oligarchy, concentrate wealth at the top, and divide the UNION in violation of the US Constitution. The old baggers are going to be crying in their tea cups and soon, once reality sets in.

  • http://twitter.com/cek100248 charles kirtley

    If it wasn’t for the T.P. the recent budget debate would have been over how much more to tax and how much more to spend. Because of the T.P. the debate became how much to cut and how much to spend. Taxes were not on the board.

  • Anonymous

    Oh man, I don’t know if you’re a chick or not, but I could kiss you.  You’re exactly right.  Nothing more true has ever been printed on this website.  (by the way I’ve had 4 glasses of wine and an espresso with sambuca at Carrabbas so I’m a tad loopy).  Oligarchy.  Oligarchy.  That’s what it’s all about.  Tea Party, the Conservatives, they don’t realize that what they are so pissed off about is exactly the opposite of what they want to achieve.

    God Bless America and God Bless the freedom of religion and the ability to doubt the existence of God or to worship him / her / it however you want to.

    And thank the founding fathers for the second amendment which says that A WELL REGULATED MILITIA, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Caroline-M-Corman/1790826629 Caroline M. Corman

    Sorry George. But that is BS! I checked them out too.  They are funded by the Koch Bros.  Karl Denniger, one of their founders, was kicked out for trying to keep party politics out of the group. Yes, I do agree that the original group was concerned about the TARP bailout, but this group was co-opted.  How does a grass roots group afford so many $750,000.00 dollar luxury tour buses?
    Sorry Mr. Koch, you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.

  • Gonefishing

    I don’t suppose you’re aware that elections have consequences and that voters chose Tea Party members because voters demand reduced government spending, reduction of the national debt and federal budget deficit, and adherence to the United States Constitution. I don’t suppose you know anything about those concepts. You have no idea what you’re blabbering about!

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