Is The Occupy Wall Street Movement an Answer to The Tea Party Movement?

[heironymouspasparagus]

This thread has gone way beyond ridiculous - will catch you all elsewhere.

[Conan71]

Here we go again..

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_19583654

That would be arson if a Tea Bagger had done it.  This is just civil disobedience.

I think I've finally figured out the lexicon:

"Civil disobedience" = debauchery, dooshbaggery, buggery, and general asshattedness when it's done by liberals or their chosen poster kids.

[guido911]

That would be arson if a Tea Bagger had done it.  This is just civil disobedience.

I think I've finally figured out the lexicon:

"Civil disobedience" = debauchery, dooshbaggery, buggery, and general asshattedness when it's done by liberals or their chosen poster kids.

"asshattedness?" I'm calling Webster's right now.

[guido911]

This thread has gone way beyond ridiculous - will catch you all elsewhere.

I agree. The conduct of these morons is beyond ridiculous. But, that's what democracy looks like I guess.

[Teatownclown]

Well, it's official. The Tea Party has driven the GOP over the edge....

You will not see the %99 drive the Dims over a cliff.....

And there you have it!

[Gaspar]

You know, I never thought about it this way, but Actor Matt Damon may have a point.

This is not what Democracy looks like (actually it is).  This is what a lack of leadership looks like.

“I’ve talked to a lot of people who worked for Obama at the grassroots level,” says Damon. “One of them said to me, ‘Never again. I will never be fooled again by a politician.’”

As Damon put it, “If the Democrats think that they didn’t have a mandate – people are literally without any focus or leadership, just wandering out into the streets to yell right now because they are so pissed off.”

“Imagine if they had a leader.”

http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2011/12/matt-damon-rips-into-obama-again-108304.html

I think he may be exactly right.  We've spent so much time trying to analyze the psyche of the OWS crowd that we've overlooked one thing.  No one is taking a leadership role for the Democrat party, either as executive or as idealogical figure.  The president campaigned until he could get away with playing kick the can, and then paid back all of his cronies forgetting about the actual votes that put him in office. He has operated as an empty suit full of disjointed ideas since then.

Now those votes have mobilized and turned to pushing the more fundamental foundations of the left, and without a leader they oddly represent zombie apocalypse, grasping at socialist groups, and union groups, and anyone willing to offer some leadership, a home, warm blanket, or some fresh brains.

Last night President Clinton on O'Riley made an outrageous comment that if he were president he would have taken the advice of Obama's Blue Ribbon Gold Star Supercommittee, because that would have gone a long way to fix the economy and reduce uncertainty. Clinton has never been one to edit himself but lately he has certainly broken with the president, and he still represents the Democrat party in most peoples eyes better than President Obama.

OWS may just be an entire population of people learning a great and painful lesson.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore our belief in our own guidance. – Henry Miller

[guido911]

You know, I never thought about it this way, but Actor Matt Damon may have a point.

This is not what Democracy looks like (actually it is).  This is what a lack of leadership looks like.

“I’ve talked to a lot of people who worked for Obama at the grassroots level,” says Damon. “One of them said to me, ‘Never again. I will never be fooled again by a politician.’”

As Damon put it, “If the Democrats think that they didn’t have a mandate – people are literally without any focus or leadership, just wandering out into the streets to yell right now because they are so pissed off.”

“Imagine if they had a leader.”

http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2011/12/matt-damon-rips-into-obama-again-108304.html

I think he may be exactly right.  We've spent so much time trying to analyze the psyche of the OWS crowd that we've overlooked one thing.  No one is taking a leadership role for the Democrat party, either as executive or as idealogical figure.  The president campaigned until he could get away with playing kick the can, and then paid back all of his cronies forgetting about the actual votes that put him in office. He has operated as an empty suit full of disjointed ideas since then.

Now those votes have mobilized and turned to pushing the more fundamental foundations of the left, and without a leader they oddly represent zombie apocalypse, grasping at socialist groups, and union groups, and anyone willing to offer some leadership, a home, warm blanket, or some fresh brains.

Last night President Clinton on O'Riley made an outrageous comment that if he were president he would have taken the advice of Obama's Blue Ribbon Gold Star Supercommittee, because that would have gone a long way to fix the economy and reduce uncertainty. Clinton has never been one to edit himself but lately he has certainly broken with the president, and he still represents the Democrat party in most peoples eyes better than President Obama.

OWS may just be an entire population of people learning a great and painful lesson.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore our belief in our own guidance. – Henry Miller

No. OWS are just douches. Don't need to over think things.

[Gaspar]

No. OWS are just douches. Don't need to over think things.

Some people cannot be led, and others cannot live without leadership.

I think when you subtract leadership from a population of people who have never learned to survive without it, you get chaos and despair. Perhaps OWS deserves the benefit of the doubt, they may simply be strays without a master.

[guido911]

You know, I never thought about it this way, but Actor Matt Damon may have a point.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnPWJOJYVKc[/youtube]

[dbacks fan]

The city of Eugene OR calls for dismantling Occupy Eugene after violent night. They were given an extension as long as they kept things peaceful and that lasted all of 36 hours.

http://www.kval.com/news/local/Occupy-Eugene-campers-moving-out-of-park-135963333.html

Related stories:

http://search.kval.com/default.aspx?ct=r&q=%22Occupy%20Eugene%22

[Gaspar]

Looks like LA is facing budget cuts to pay for Occupy LA.

LOS ANGELES (CBS) — The City of Los Angeles reportedly faces millions of dollars in expenses brought about by the Occupy LA movement.

City agencies have been ordered to calculate what was spent on the Occupy LA protests.

Repairs to City Hall’s lawn where the Occupy group set up camp on Oct. 1 will require an estimated $400,000. The police action to clear out the encampment on Nov. 30 cost more than $700,000.

Additional expenses are attributed to hauling away debris from the camp, and cleaning up graffiti that defaced City Hall marble walls and trees.

Mayor Villaraigosa says more budget cuts will be necessary to offset the costs.

[guido911]

Money well spent because that's what democracy looks like.

[Townsend]

Money well spent because that's what democracy looks like.

Getcha a gander at our esteemed Congress these last few days as well.  It seems our democracy is jacked on both ends.

[RecycleMichael]

Bogus story.

Look at this link on Los Angeles and their budget woes from months before Occupy movement started.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/19/local/la-me-0519-la-budget-20110519

The police department was already way over budget. WAY OVER. The Los Angeles City council cut $80 million dollars out of the Police overtime budget alone. $80 million just out of overtime from the year before.

Now you whine about how the city says it is going have to spend $700,000 on overtime on this.

It sounds to me like the Los Angeles Police Union has found a way to get officers more overtime pay to me.

[guido911]

Getcha a gander at our esteemed Congress these last few days as well.  It seems our democracy is jacked on both ends.

You got that right.