10 Lessons for Tea Baggers:

[JoyJuice]

1. President Obama Cut Your Taxes
2. The Stimulus is Working
3. First Ronald Reagan Tripled the National Debt...
4. ...Then George W. Bush Doubled It Again
5. Republican States Have the Worst Health Care
6. Medicare is a Government Program
7. Barack Obama is Not a Muslim
8. Barack Obama was Born in the United States
9. 70,000 Does Not Equal 2,000,000
10. The Economy Almost Always Does Better Under Democrats
11. Spam email and talk radio is a short sighted source for hysteria.

 

[oldbetang]

1. President Obama Cut Your Taxes
2. The Stimulus is Working
3. First Ronald Reagan Tripled the National Debt...
4. ...Then George W. Bush Doubled It Again
5. Republican States Have the Worst Health Care
6. Medicare is a Government Program
7. Barack Obama is Not a Muslim
8. Barack Obama was Born in the United States
9. 70,000 Does Not Equal 2,000,000
10. The Economy Almost Always Does Better Under Democrats
11. Spam email and talk radio is a short sighted source for hysteria.

LOL! Plenty of <staff edit> in there. Starting with the title. Teabagger is a derogatory term. 70,000 does not equal 2,000,000, that's true. But it doesn't equal a million either. Which is pretty close to what the real number was. 6, 7 and 8 are the only accurate ones. 3 out of 11. That's outstanding for a liberal.

 

[kermit]

LOL! Plenty of <staff edit> in there. Starting with the title. Teabagger is a derogatory term. 70,000 does not equal 2,000,000, that's true. But it doesn't equal a million either. Which is pretty close to what the real number was. 6, 7 and 8 are the only accurate ones. 3 out of 11. That's outstanding for a liberal.

#4 is 100&#37; accurate. 3# is a bit off, it was Reagan and Bush(41) combined that tripled the national debt.

If you support the Tea Party movement remember that 40% of your tax dollars go to pay the interest on the debt accrued by 3 Republican presidents.

#9 is at least partially true. While I can't confirm that the number of the 912 crowd was 70k the objective evidence puts it at no more than 500k.

The others I don't know enough to support or refute. Admittedly some are a matter of perspective.

 

[nvxplorer]

DC police said 60-75,000. Bill O'Reilly said 75,000. No credible source has said 1,000,000.

 

[Loudmouth]

#1 is 90&#37; true in that Obama cut income taxes for 90% of taxpayers.

 

[oldbetang]

#4 is 100&#37; accurate.

Nope. The National debt did not double under George W. Bush.

If you support the Tea Party movement remember that 40% of your tax dollars go to pay the interest on the debt accrued by 3 Republican presidents.

Interesting. All debt is accrued by the Executive branch? What is the role of the legislative branch again? Also, what % of tax dollars go to pay the interest on the debt accrued by Clinton and Obama?

 

[oldbetang]

DC police said 60-75,000. Bill O'Reilly said 75,000. No credible source has said 1,000,000.

There has been no official count. That includes from the DC police. There have been some attempts to come up with numbers based on fairly objective approaches.

How Big Was the Crowd?

Conclusion: probably well more than 850,000 in the crowd.

According to USAToday's Crowd-Size Estimator (Over a million.)

 

[sinner/SAVED]

Nope. The National debt did not double under George W. Bush.

Of course it did.

When Bush took office, the national debt was $5.73 trillion. When he left, it was $10.7 trillion. That's a difference of $4.97 trillion, almost $1 trillion more than what Emanuel said.

Close enough for government work....

 

[JoyJuice]

LOL! Plenty of <staff edit> in there. Starting with the title. Teabagger is a derogatory term. 70,000 does not equal 2,000,000, that's true. But it doesn't equal a million either. Which is pretty close to what the real number was. 6, 7 and 8 are the only accurate ones. 3 out of 11. That's outstanding for a liberal.

LOL, given their civility, calling them teabaggers is a step up in status.

No reliable source is making any claim of a million.

They are all accurate.

 

[sinner/SAVED]

There has been no official count. That includes from the DC police.

ABC News confirmed the DC police estimate of 60,000-75,000:



The only official agency to do so that day was DC police, which tweeted (under the handle @dcfireems) at 11:43am “UPDATE - several people treated for injury and illness on the Mall nothing extraordinary unofficial crowds 60,000-75,000 UNOFFICIAL.” We called the agency, which confirmed those numbers.

 

[pgp_protector]

DC police said 60-75,000. Bill O'Reilly said 75,000. No credible source has said 1,000,000.

But I saw it on a blog that is was 2 Million, it must be true, they even had pictures.

 

[oldbetang]

Of course it did.

When Bush took office, the national debt was $5.73 trillion. When he left, it was $10.7 trillion. That's a difference of $4.97 trillion, almost $1 trillion more than what Emanuel said.

Close enough for government work....

:o $1 trillion more than what Emanuel said, He said 5 trillion. Also, the difference is $4.66 Trillion. As I said, the debt did not double under George W Bush. Not even close enough for government work.

 

[sinner/SAVED]

But I saw it on a blog that is was 2 Million, it must be true, they even had pictures.

Yeah I saw one that had pictures of Farakhan's Million Man March trying to say it was the 9/12 whinyfit.

Slightly different demographic there.

 

[JustOneWay]

:o $1 trillion more than what Emanuel said, He said 5 trillion. Also, the difference is $4.66 Trillion. As I said, the debt did not double under George W Bush. Not even close enough for government work.

lol

whats a few hundred billion when we are talking about a trillion!!!!!!



it went up A LOT under Bush....nuff said

 

[oldbetang]

ABC News confirmed the DC police estimate of 60,000-75,000:



The only official agency to do so that day was DC police, which tweeted (under the handle @dcfireems) at 11:43am “UPDATE - several people treated for injury and illness on the Mall nothing extraordinary unofficial crowds 60,000-75,000 UNOFFICIAL.” We called the agency, which confirmed those numbers.

With emphasis on "UNOFFICIAL". The DC police would not be the go to source for a crowd estimate anyway.

 

[kermit]

:o $1 trillion more than what Emanuel said, He said 5 trillion. Also, the difference is $4.66 Trillion. As I said, the debt did not double under George W Bush. Not even close enough for government work.

So you think that he added 89% rather than 100% makes your case?

US National Debt: by Presidential Term, per Capita, and as Percentage of GDP

 

[oldbetang]

lol

whats a few hundred billion when we are talking about a trillion!!!!!!

Actually, you need more than a trillion to add up to a doubling of the debt under Bush.

 

[oldbetang]

So you think that he added 89% rather than 100% makes your case?

I think that an increase of 85% does not equal to a doubling, yes.

 

[Saving Hawaii]

I think that an increase of 85% does not equal to a doubling, yes.

So Bush ballooned the debt by 89%...

Hooray I guess? Hooray?

 

[oldbetang]

So Bush ballooned the debt by 89%...

No, he did not.