by Justitia Themis 32 Replies latest jw friends
This video documents a meeting between Coffee Party leaders and students at Wesleyan University on Feb. 26, 2011. The meeting led to the incredibly successful "I have sex" video, which is transforming the national debate about ideologically driven "budget cuts" bein
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqW4F-EQ9LM&feature=player_embedded
The Coffee Party is a "me too" group formed as a response to the Tea Party.
The Tea Party's plank is that the government should not spend more than it takes in, and that government should be limited as outlined in the Constitution.
Tell me, what is EXTREME about that?
The Coffee Party is a pitiful little band of losers.
Looks like some prefer Colombian, while others insist on French Roadst for their Venti lattes.
The schism in the Coffee Party is so bad, they split up into two different booths at Denny’s
Just because the Coffee Party was a fraudulent “Me too!” effort to counter the Tea Party, and it’s all but forgotten a mere year later — even after a concerted media effort to convince you that yuh-huh, you are too interested in it — that doesn’t mean Ben Smith at Politico is done talking about it:
Schism brews in Coffee Party
The Coffee Party, which launched last year to mild public curiosity in reaction to the Tea Party wave, has receded from public view — in part because of a schism between its centrist leadership and some left-leaning grassroots.
The movement, co-founded by filmmaker named Annabel Park, was initially seen as a progressive alternative to the Tea Party.
As Newsweek reported of an early meeting, members “were angry. They hated the Tea Party, and the Republican Party. They wanted to get even.”
Park, however, says she intended the group to be centrist and non-partisan. She at one point weighed legal action to prevent the left-leaning faction from using their copyrighted logo after Darrell Bouldin, a Tennessee-based activist, started an offshoot called “Coffee Party Progressives.”
Drama! That was on Thursday. Smith followed up on Saturday:
We reported on Thursday of a schism between the progressive wing of the Coffee Party and its leadership. Launched with high hopes last year and seen by some as a progressive answer to Tea Party, the party has instead been an example of the failure to counter the power and energy of the tea party movement — and its own board members are portraying it as an organizational disaster.
This week, the organization also announced the dissolution of the interim board this week, and three board members lashed out against the two cofounders in response.
“We are writing to you because it is our belief that much can be learned from the experience of the Interim Board, and the dynamics on the Board which we believe seriously impeded our process. We would like to identify some issues which, from our point of view, have become problems within the Coffee Party, and which, if not corrected, will hinder its success,” wrote ousted board members Bahiya Cabral-Johnson, Teri Torres-Hart and Sabina Virgo in an open letter.
Painting a general picture of organizational chaos, they pointed to a lack of civility in the organization, a lack of democracy and a lack of consultation.
Not to mention a lack of interest among the general public.
Some things never change… (WARNING: Naugty language)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE&feature=player_embedded
But don’t get too smug, you wingnuts. The Coffee Party might’ve failed miserably, but F*ck Tea is really going to capture the popular imagination any minute now. Yep. [Taps foot, checks watch] Aaaaaany second now. You’ll see, teabaggers. You’ll see…
P.S. And how about US Uncut? Pre-made signs: Check. Marxist rhetoric: Check. Pathetic turnout: Check. Just another failed astroturf campaign.
Thanks for commenting and bumping this thread to the front NeckBeard. :) Please continue...
The Tea Party's plank is that the government should not spend more than it takes in, and that government should be limited as outlined in the Constitution. Tell me, what is EXTREME about that?
Where to begin?
The Tea Party's platform, as described, is not so simple and is not what they practice. For one example, they want to pare down the federal budget by giving more power to corporations, deregulation, reducing entitlement programs and exempting military spending from cuts. IN PRACTICE, they are racist, homophobic, anti-environmentalist and promote a religious (evangelical Christian) agenda to tear down the separation of church and state. You speak of astroturf - what could be more astroturf than behind-the-scenes oil billionaires bankrolling the Tea Party movement? http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer?currentPage=all So far, the Coffee Party can't match the deep pockets of the Koch brothers. But the protests in Wisconsin are at least genuinely grassroots.
Great nonresponse response, JT.
By the way, shouldn't your thread about pathetic schismatic reactionaries be in the Politics section, or do you not understand categories?
BizzyBee you can whine all you want about Koch, and that is a paranoid red herring.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/paranoid-style-liberal-politics_555525.html
The Coffee Party is funded by Soros. What do you have to comnment about that?
anybody up for a beer and whiskey party? The tea party was supposedly started by Ron Paul and then hijacked by a bunch of corporate facist
Tea party? Coffee party? What's next? A reconstituted orange juice party with extra pulp?
Why do Americans feel the need to associate perfectly acceptable beverages with politics? Is nothing sacred anymore?
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The Coffee Party is funded by Soros. What do you have to comnment about that?
Hah! If that were true wouldn't the Coffee Party be more successful? And wouldn't you have a factual link?
