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Tea Party Participants Show Signs of Confusion

by Watch Out for the Right Wing
Some Signs Seen as the Extremist Right Wing "Tea Party" (TEA = Taxed Enough Already) participants descended on the intersection of Stevens Creek and Winchester in San Jose on July 5.

Top Photo: "Tea-baggers" seem to like the humorous moniker given to them by the very people that oppose them. The tea party participant here has tea bags hanging from his sign.
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Union members, *Health Care for All* Activists, San Jose Peace and Justice Center members, WILPF members, Raging Grannies, and other Single Payer Health Care Plan supporters faced off with right wingers who could use a lesson in American Government.

First of all: it isn't spelled Gov'mnt. Nor is it abbreviated that way.

Second of all: Obama is not a socialist...not even close!

Third of all: Fill in what YOU'd like to teach the Tea Party people in the *comments* section below!
§We've already got this...so what's your point?
by Just Some Kooky Signs!
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Free Market Health Care has gotten us exactly WHERE?
§T-shirt says it all
by ...
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Christian, American, Heterosexual, Pro-gun, Conservative...
and, he might have added, likes to draw animal netherparts as a pastime.
§Really kooky sign!
by Just Some Kooky Signs!
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"Clinging to my bible and guns, and now my wallet too."
§Chains You Can Believe In...Obama Care
by Just Some Kooky Signs!
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Worries about Obama at night.
§This argument was a stock talking point
by Just Some Kooky Signs!
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According to the tea party people, Canadians and Europeans are fleeing to the US because of our wonderful health care, and Japanese get most of their elective surgery done outside their own country. Sounds like a Rush Limbaugh line if you ask me....
§Gov'mnt?
by Just Some Kooky Signs!
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§Another sign
by Just Some Kooky Signs!
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Obama on a dollar bill
§Three stooges and stats
by Just Some Kooky Signs!
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§Confronted by two single payer advocates
by ...
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Health Care? Yes!
Insurance Companies? No
§Serious discussion
by ...
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At left, Tea Party Go'er with Stars and Stripes faces off with member of Steam Fitters Union and two Raging Grannies.
§As a Raging Granny was leaving...
by ,,,
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...San Jose's mounted police decided the crowd of several hundred might need closer "monitoring".
§A Raging Granny is sad...
by ...
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...that the Tea Party go-ers think that only their OWN views are patriotic. They wave their flags beyond. (Real patriots are concerned for more than their own wallets)
§On the side of Single Payer
by ...supporting Single Payer, yeah!
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§On the side of Single Payer
by Go Green
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Green Party members
§Veterans for Peace
by ...supporting Single Payer, yeah!
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§Health Care for All, David Ledesma, San Jose Peace and Justice Center, more
by Solidarity with Single Payer!
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Just some of the groups that support Single Payer and sent members to counter protest against the Tea Party were: Santa Clara County Single Payer Healthcare Coalition, Raging Grannies Action League, South Bay Mobilization, Peninsula Peace and Justice Center, One Voice!, Californians for Justice, San Jose Labor Party, San Jose WILPF(Womens International League for Peace and Freedom), and the San Jose Peace and Justice Center.
§2 of twelve Raging Grannies who came
by Rockin'!
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§The last word
by Single-Payer Advocate
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