# Tea Partiers pissed at GOP **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 2, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-partiers-pissed-at-gop/566152 "2011-01-02T18:18:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-partiers-pissed-at-gop/566152/41 "2011-01-03T19:50:58Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > And the old perennial “wastefraudandabuse”. They’re using German terminology now?! ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-partiers-pissed-at-gop/566152/42 "2011-01-03T19:56:24Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > They’re using German terminology now?! Dude, they’re already goose stepping and prepping up for book burnings… ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-partiers-pissed-at-gop/566152/43 "2011-01-03T19:58:27Z")
No, you’re confusing it with _schadenfraudenbuse_, the distinct pleasure of seeing one’s neighbor busted for something one has gotten clean away with. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-partiers-pissed-at-gop/566152/44 "2011-01-03T20:00:08Z")
> [@Capitaine\_Zombie](#): > > Dude, they’re already goose stepping and prepping up for book burnings… Sarah Palin as die Führerin? ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-partiers-pissed-at-gop/566152/45 "2011-01-03T20:03:46Z")
_Aaaaannd_ Godwin raises his head. ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-partiers-pissed-at-gop/566152/46 "2011-01-03T20:05:03Z")
> [@Tranquilis](#): > > _Aaaaannd_ Godwin raises his head. It aint Goodwin till you say either the N word or the H name. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-partiers-pissed-at-gop/566152/47 "2011-01-03T20:08:53Z")
> [@Capitaine\_Zombie](#): > > It aint Goodwin till you say either the N word or the H name. OK, If I must: Hitler! ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-partiers-pissed-at-gop/566152/48 "2011-01-03T20:14:43Z")
> [@Capitaine\_Zombie](#): > > It aint Goodwin till you say either the N word or the H name. Pft. Close enough to get his attention. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-partiers-pissed-at-gop/566152/49 "2011-01-03T20:20:06Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > OK, If I must: Hitler! No, it doesn’t work that way. You have to say it five times in front of a mirror. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-partiers-pissed-at-gop/566152/50 "2011-01-03T20:33:34Z")
Three times and you have to do it with a lit candle as the only source of light. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-partiers-pissed-at-gop/566152/51 "2011-01-03T20:49:49Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > you’d think she’d be aware that the budget is compartmentalized, if she was a leader. Possible answers could have been: “Entitlements” “Welfare programs” “Defense” “Foreign aid.” Of course, all these answers invite further questions, some of which are quite sharp and pointy. Which is why a favorite answer is: “Well, we can start with earmarks and cutting government waste.” That always sounds good. Never seems to HAPPEN but it sounds good. Saying you are going to fix the deficit by cutting government waste is like saying you’re going to fix the energy crisis by eliminating friction. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-partiers-pissed-at-gop/566152/52 "2011-01-03T21:41:14Z")
“Eliminating waste” plays well with the masses, but it is essentially meaningless. May as well say “I promise to cut all the stuff you don’t like, and keep the stuff you do”. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-partiers-pissed-at-gop/566152/53 "2011-01-03T21:44:00Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > “Eliminating waste” plays well with the masses, but it is essentially meaningless. I used to think that, until I tried **COLON BLOW** cereal! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-partiers-pissed-at-gop/566152/54 "2011-01-03T21:50:55Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Saying you are going to fix the deficit by cutting government waste is like saying you’re going to fix the energy crisis by eliminating friction. This is the quote of the very young year. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pikey\_pete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pikey\_pete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pikey_pete)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-partiers-pissed-at-gop/566152/55 "2011-01-03T21:58:13Z")
this is the byproduct of the dumbing down of america ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2011, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-partiers-pissed-at-gop/566152/56 "2011-01-04T00:30:24Z")
> [@Capitaine\_Zombie](#): > > It aint Goodwin till you say either the N word or the H name. No, it ain’t _Goodwin_ until you say Saul Panzer. Or beer and orchids. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2011, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-partiers-pissed-at-gop/566152/57 "2011-01-04T00:54:33Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > My favorite one of these was an interview I heard the day after the election. It was right after E-Day and ‘Here and Now’ had a woman who was leader of one of the three largest Tea Party groups on. The exchange went something like this: > > “OK, you’ve won. What do you think congress should do?” > “Cut the budget” > “OK, what part?” > “The budget.” > “What part of the budget?” > (pause)“The budget.” > “Moving on…” She might really have meant all of it. There is a strong drown-government-in-the-bathtub wing of the GOP, and has been since well before there was even a Fox. Look up Grover Norquist sometime. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2011, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-partiers-pissed-at-gop/566152/58 "2011-01-04T03:47:00Z")
You think you got parental issues? Did your folks name you “Grover”? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2011, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-partiers-pissed-at-gop/566152/59 "2011-01-04T03:53:56Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Wouldn’t you expect them to be? Belated reply, **Beej.** Yeah, I guess, but maybe not so much that they are quiet but that their voices are not being magnified through the astroturf money machine that exaggerated their shrill and strident mania. The Koch Brothers stopped paying for the amplifiers and speakers. the roadies have taken down the stage and are shipping it to Akron for an auto show. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2011, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-partiers-pissed-at-gop/566152/60 "2011-01-04T04:26:48Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > She might really have meant all of it. There is a strong drown-government-in-the-bathtub wing of the GOP, and has been since well before there was even a Fox. Look up Grover Norquist sometime. Dude, I’ve **interviewed** Grover Norquist. He’s a weird guy to be in a room with. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-partiers-pissed-at-gop/566152.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-partiers-pissed-at-gop/566152.md?page=4)