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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-10 09:41 AM
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Congressman Steve Cohen of Memphis teed off on the Tea Party movement
Edited on Sat Apr-03-10 10:05 AM by spanone
Congressman Steve Cohen of Memphis teed off on the Tea Party movement in a Thursday night radio interview attracting national attention.

The two-term Democratic congressman said the Tea Party — "without hoods and robes" — has shown an angry, hardcore side of America that's against any type of diversity.

“We saw opposition to African-Americans, hostility toward gays, hostility to anybody who wasn’t just, you know, a clone of George Wallace’s fan club,” he said on The Young Turks, an Internet and satellite radio talk show.

Cohen said he doesn't see a Republican standing up to appeal for reason.

"I think they're afraid of it," he said. "When I saw John McCain stand behind Sarah Palin, he looked more like a captured soldier in North Vietnam than he did a United States senator. It was very sad."

In a telephone interview late Friday, Cohen said Palin, the former Republican vice presidential nominee, shouldn't be able to sit at the same table as McCain. In her black leather,

Palin looks more like Elvis in his comeback tour than a political leader, he said.


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livetohike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-10 09:43 AM
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1. Elvis in his comeback tour
:rofl: I think I kind of see a physical resemblance too.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-10 09:44 AM
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2. nailed it, eh?
bwahahahahaaa
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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-10 10:39 AM
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5. FAT FACED AND FIFTY...yeah just like him.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-10 10:46 AM
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6. sadly, elvis was only 42 when he died.
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livetohike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-10 11:21 AM
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9. Palin has that trademark sneer down too
Someone posted a picture of her without make up (or the way she would look without make up). She could be Elvis' sister (or daughter). Now wouldn't that be a good rumor.
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ananda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-10 09:46 AM
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3. There is no reason operating now.
There can be no appeal to reason anywhere with anyone
actually.

We are all beyond reason now. What is needed is a
whole new way of NOT thinking about the chaos and
destruction around us, letting the answers come
through to us individually and collectively...
instead of trying to analyze it through reason.
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Newest Reality Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-10 09:54 AM
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4. That's called ZEN ...
The Void that is not nothingness?

Form is emptiness and emptiness is form.

What is the sound of one teabag clapping?
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laughingliberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-10 10:53 AM
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7. Good for him! nt
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Lint Head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-10 11:07 AM
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8. I love Steve Cohen! I live in TN and he is a voice in the wilderness
here but a LOUD voice.
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socialist_n_TN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-10 11:21 AM
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10. Yep. He's much more vocal..................
than my rep here in the Peoples Republic of Nashville and Davidson County. Jim Cooper is OK most of the time, but he's not a real "tell it like it is" type.
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