A Tea Party for the Left? Coffee...

[ProfessionalLeftist]

http://www.coffeepartyusa.com/

[randr]

1. I like the slogan--Wake UP--Stand UP

[Rectangle]

14. "Smell the coffee!!"

[BurtWorm]

2. Frankly, I hate the idea of a tea party for the left.

What is teabaggery? It's group-think, mob-action, pre-fab politics. Feh! They can keep that shit.

What the left needs--what America needs--is a wave of critical thinking to wash over the nation. People need to stop thinking with their guts, taking pre-digested political stands on issues and use their brains for a change.

[NorthCarolina]

3. I'll go with a Tea Party for the left while you wait for hell to freeze over. nt

[ProfessionalLeftist]

4. Me too. I don't care what it's called, the Left needs to organize

and FIGHT.

[BurtWorm]

7. I'll take hell as it is if it means no baggers of any kind.

[budkin]

11. What about grocery baggers?

[The Midway Rebel]

8. Strange.

Your second paragraph is EXACTLY the Coffee Party platform.

[BurtWorm]

9. Are you shitting me?

The baggers are about critical thinking? Bull shit.

[The Midway Rebel]

10. Bull shit yourself then.

Coffee Party Mission Statement:

"We are Americans working to create a fair and inclusive society. Our members represent the diversity of thought, background, and circumstance that is found in the cities, towns, and neighborhoods of our country. We are a meeting place for Americans seeking common ground and collective action to strengthen our democracy.

We maintain our independence from all political parties and labels. Yes, we are non-partisan, but being non-partisan does not mean we will not take positions. It means that Coffee Party members will arrive at positions based on principles and facts; not on party affiliation. By seeking and spreading accurate information, we empower ourselves to take action and participate in government based on informed decisions.

The Coffee Party provides a place where men and women of all ages, races, physical abilities, and orientations can come together for a respectful and honest exchange of ideas. We believe that by talking and learning together - we can take action to solve the problems facing our nation. Along with national goals, we encourage Coffee Party chapters across the country to pursue local and regional projects chosen by their members.

As voters and grassroots volunteers, we understand that the federal government is not our enemy, but the expression of our collective will – and we pledge to both support leaders who work toward positive solutions, and hold accountable those who obstruct them. The Coffee Party USA believes that the influence of money, and the politics of fear and exclusion, stand in the way of a government “of, by and for the people.”

We believe in the Constitution and ‘the common good’, and will work to ensure that the voices of the people - not the power of the dollar - decide the policies and the direction of our nation.

Our love of country is not based on division. It is founded on our shared belief in democracy, equality, liberty, and justice. These are the ideals that define us as a nation. This is the heritage we wish to pass on to future generations."

[Poboy]

12. You've just defined all political parties to some degree,

making your point meaningless. If you are waiting for a 'wave of critical thinking', you wait for something that has never come, nor something that will ever materialize.
Hope in one hand, and shit in the other. See which fills up first.

[BurtWorm]

16. What's left is a shithole of a country

Which pretty much describes it as it is.

[SharonAnn]

17. It's demagoguery!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demagogy

Demagogy or demagoguery (Ancient Greek: δημαγωγία, from δῆμος dēmos "people" and ἄγειν agein "to lead") is a strategy for gaining political power by appealing to the prejudices, emotions, fears and expectations of the public—typically via impassioned rhetoric and propaganda, and often using nationalist, populist or religious themes. What qualifies as demagogy has been the subject of debate and ambiguity since Aristophanes first used the term, in reference to the Athenian statesman, Cleon.<1>

[BurtWorm]

20. Yes it is. Which is why it's so repulsive.

It doesn't make any sense to fight demagoguery with demagoguery.

[leftstreet]

5. We already have a party - the Democratic party. Let's take it over n/t

[xchrom]

6. Wow - I'd heard so little about them

I'm surprised they're still around.

[JVS]

13. We need a four loko party!

[markfall]

15. wow. what a knee jerk

"Tea party? Huh, well, uh, ......lets have us a cofee party! No, no, an espresso party!"

They couldn't even come up with something meaningful? At least the tea party's name means something.

[SharonAnn]

18. It means something? What is that?

[RandomKoolzip]

19. It means "duh."

[markfall]

21. Its a reference to the boston tea party.

Kinda goes along with the whole taxation thing and the revolutionary tie in also has some appeal.