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Today American taxpayers in more than 300 locations in all 50 states will hold rallies -- dubbed "tea parties" -- to protest higher taxes and out-of-control government spending. There is no political party behind these rallies, no grand right-wing conspiracy, not even a 501© group like MoveOn.org. ED-AJ347_reynol_E_20090414145152.jpg

ReutersA rally and march in protest of higher taxes in Santa Barbara, Calif., April 4.

So who's behind the Tax Day tea parties? Ordinary folks who are using the power of the Internet to organize. For a number of years, techno-geeks have been organizing "flash crowds" -- groups of people, coordinated by text or cellphone, who converge on a particular location and then do something silly, like the pillow fights that popped up in 50 cities earlier this month. This is part of a general phenomenon dubbed "Smart Mobs" by Howard Rheingold, author of a book by the same title, in which modern communications and social-networking technologies allow quick coordination among large numbers of people who don't know each other.

In the old days, organizing large groups of people required, well, an organization: a political party, a labor union, a church or some other sort of structure. Now people can coordinate themselves.

We saw a bit of this in the 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns, with things like Howard Dean's use of Meetup, and Barack Obama's use of Facebook. But this was still social-networking in support of an existing organization or campaign. The tea-party protest movement is organizing itself, on its own behalf. Some existing organizations, like Newt Gingrich's American Solutions and FreedomWorks, have gotten involved. But they're involved as followers and facilitators, not leaders. The leaders are appearing on their own, and reaching out to others through blogs, Facebook, chat boards and alternative media.

The protests began with bloggers in Seattle, Wash., who organized a demonstration on Feb. 16. As word of this spread, rallies in Denver and Mesa, Ariz., were quickly organized for the next day. Then came CNBC talker Rick Santelli's Feb. 19 "rant heard round the world" in which he called for a "Chicago tea party" on July Fourth. The tea-party moniker stuck, but angry taxpayers weren't willing to wait until July. Soon, tea-party protests were appearing in one city after another, drawing at first hundreds, and then thousands, to marches in cities from Orlando to Kansas City to Cincinnati.

As word spread, people got interested in picking a common date for nationwide protests, and decided on today, Tax Day, as the date. As I write this, various Web sites tracking tea parties are predicting anywhere between 300 and 500 protests at cities around the world. A Google Map tracking planned events, maintained at the FreedomWorks.org Web site, shows the United States covered by red circles, with new events being added every day.

The movement grew so fast that some bloggers at the Playboy Web site -- apparently unaware that we've entered the 21st century -- suggested that some secret organization must be behind all of this. But, in fact, today's technology means you don't need an organization, secret or otherwise, to get organized. After considerable ridicule, the claim was withdrawn, but that hasn't stopped other media outlets from echoing it.

There's good news and bad news in this phenomenon for establishment politicians. The good news for Republicans is that, while the Republican Party flounders in its response to the Obama presidency and its programs, millions of Americans are getting organized on their own. The bad news is that those Americans, despite their opposition to President Obama's policies, aren't especially friendly to the GOP. When Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele asked to speak at the Chicago tea party, his request was politely refused by the organizers: "With regards to stage time, we respectfully must inform Chairman Steele that RNC officials are welcome to participate in the rally itself, but we prefer to limit stage time to those who are not elected officials, both in Government as well as political parties. This is an opportunity for Americans to speak, and elected officials to listen, not the other way around."

Likewise, I spoke to an organizer for the Knoxville tea party who said that no "professional politicians" were going to be allowed to speak, and he made a big point of saying that the protest wasn't an anti-Obama protest, it was an anti-establishment protest. I've heard similar things from tea-party organizers in other cities, too. Though critics will probably try to write the tea parties off as partisan publicity stunts, they're really a post-partisan expression of outrage.

Of course, it won't be the same everywhere. There are no national rules, and organizers of each protest are doing things the way they want. And that's the good news and the bad news for Democrats. It's not a big Republican effort. It's a big popular effort. But a mass movement of ordinary people who don't feel that their voices are being heard doesn't bode well for the party that positioned itself as the organ of hope and change.

Will these flash crowds be a flash in the pan? It's possible that people who demonstrate today will find that experience cathartic enough -- or exhausting enough -- that that will be it. But it's more likely that the tea-party movement will have an impact on the 2010 and 2012 elections, and perhaps beyond.

What's most striking about the tea-party movement is that most of the organizers haven't ever organized, or even participated, in a protest rally before. General disgust has drawn a lot of people off the sidelines and into the political arena, and they are already planning for political action after today.

Cincinnati organizer Mike Wilson, a novice organizer who drew 5,000 people to a rally on March 15, is now planning to create a political action committee and a permanent political organization to press for lower taxes and reduced spending. Tucson tea party organizer Robert Mayer told me that his organization will focus on city council elections in the fall as its next priority. And there's lots of Internet chatter about ways of taking things further after today's protests.

This influx of new energy and new talent is likely to inject new life into small-government politics around the nation. The mainstream Republican Party still seems limp and disorganized. This grassroots effort may revitalize it. Or the tea-party movement may lead to a new third party that may replace the GOP, just as the GOP replaced the fractured and hapless Whigs.

Mr. Reynolds is the author of "An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths" (Thomas Nelson, 2006). He will be covering the tea party protests today at PJTV.com.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123975867505519363.html

Intéressante initiative indépendante née de l'internet.

Joli costume.

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je suis curieux de voir s'ils vont se faire fracasser la tete comme de vulgaires alters.

J'attends aussi avec impatience que libe nous placarde ca 'manif de droite', ou manif des ultra-neoliberaux americains :icon_up:

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je suis curieux de voir s'ils vont se faire fracasser la tete comme de vulgaires alters.

Nan nan, ils défilent pas à Paris hein. :icon_up:

Le mouvement pourrait bien être important puisqu'entre 500 milles et 1 millions de personnes sont attendues dans plusieurs villes du pays.

Autant d'engouement en si peu de temps montre bien que la notion de taxpayer aux US signifie encore quelques choses. Les américains sont capables de se battre pour conserver un minimum d'intégrité fiscale, tandis que le fronçais de base bataille inlassablement pour garder ses chaines.

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http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/cnn/cn…_fox_114141.asp

CNN Reporter at Chicago Tea Party: It's "Anti-CNN Since This is Highly Promoted By the Right-Wing, Conservative Network Fox"

aussi :

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/a…wing-extremism/

Napolitano stands by 'extremism' report

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CN…;show_article=1

US govt faces veteran anger at extremism report

CNBC Asks Santelli to React to Tea Parties: 'I'm Pretty Proud of This'

Chicago Mercantile Exchange floor reporter and taxpayer tea party revolt inspiration calls movement 'about as American as it gets.'
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Mais les démocrates considèrent cette démarche comme une fausse initiative de la base, menée par des militants de la frange la plus à droite des partis. "La réalité de ces +tea-parties+ est qu'elles sont menées par la même bande qui conduit les conservateurs dans l'impasse", affirme David Waldman, du blog politique Daily Kos.

"Ces +tea parties+ ne seront pas l'expression spontanée des sentiments du public. Ce sont de faux événements populaires, orchestrés par les suspects habituels," relevait récemment le prix Nobel d'économie américain Paul Krugman.

http://www.france-amerique.com/articles/20…etats-unis.html

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Euh .. quel est le rapport avec la choucroute ?

“I don’t know about cultural phenomenon, but I’ll tell you what,” Santelli said. “I think that this tea party phenomenon is steeped in American culture and steeped in American notion to get involved with what’s going on with our government. I haven’t organized. I’m going to have to work to pay my taxes, so I’m not going to be able to get away today. But, I have to tell you – I’m pretty proud of this.

Ce monsieur peut être fier de lui en effet ! Espérons que ce mouvement prenne de l'envergure sans récupération politique ni acharnement médiatique, comme ça serait certainement le cas en France. Après tout, l'Amérique est un modèle non ?

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Perry fires up anti-tax crowd

04/15/2009

By KELLEY SHANNON / Associated Press

Texas Gov. Rick Perry fired up an anti-tax "tea party" Wednesday with his stance against the federal government and for states' rights as some in his U.S. flag-waving audience shouted, "Secede!"

An animated Perry told the crowd at Austin City Hall — one of three tea parties he was attending across the state — that officials in Washington have abandoned the country's founding principles of limited government. He said the federal government is strangling Americans with taxation, spending and debt.

Perry repeated his running theme that Texas' economy is in relatively good shape compared with other states and with the "federal budget mess." Many in the crowd held signs deriding President Barack Obama and the $786 billion federal economic stimulus package.

Perry called his supporters patriots. Later, answering news reporters' questions, Perry suggested Texans might at some point get so fed up they would want to secede from the union, though he said he sees no reason why Texas should do that.

"There's a lot of different scenarios," Perry said. "We've got a great union. There's absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that. But Texas is a very unique place, and we're a pretty independent lot to boot."

He said when Texas entered the union in 1845 it was with the understanding it could pull out. However, according to the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Texas negotiated the power to divide into four additional states at some point if it wanted to but not the right to secede.

Texas did secede in 1861, but the North's victory in the Civil War put an end to that.

Perry is running for re-election against U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, a fellow Republican. His anti-Washington remarks have become more strident the past few weeks as that 2010 race gets going and since Perry rejected $550 million in federal economic stimulus money slated to help Texas' unemployment trust fund.

Perry said the stimulus money would come with strings attached that would leave Texas paying the bill once the federal money ran out.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, also Republicans, have been outspoken against the federal economic stimulus spending and were supportive of tea parties in their states. The protests were being held throughout the country on federal income tax deadline day to imitate the original Boston Tea Party of American revolutionary times.

In an appearance at the Texas Capitol last week, Perry joined state lawmakers in pushing a resolution that supports states' rights protected in the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. He said the federal government has become oppressive in its size and interference with states.

Since then, Perry has been featured on the online Drudge Report, and other conservative commentators and citizens have latched on to his words.

After praising veterans in the cheering crowd Wednesday, he said: "I'm just not real sure you're a bunch of right-wing extremists. But if you are, we're with you."

Perry said he believes he could be at the center of a national movement that is coordinated and focused in its opposition to the actions of the federal government.

"It's a very organic thing," he said. "It is a very powerful moment, I think, in American history."

For her part, Hutchison issued a newspaper opinion piece Wednesday criticizing the Democratic-led Congress for spending on the stimulus bill and the $1 trillion appropriations bill.

"On April 15 — Tax Day — some in Congress may need a reminder of just who is underwriting this spending: the American taxpayer. I am deeply concerned over the swelling tax burden that will be imposed on all Texas families," she wrote.

The crowd at the Austin tea party appeared to be decidedly anti-Democrat. Many of the speakers were Republicans and Libertarians.

One placard said, "Stop Obama's Socialism." Another read, "Some Pirates Are in America," and it showed photographs of Obama, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wearing pirate hats.

Rebecca Knowlton, 45, of Smithville, said she took the day off of home-schooling her three children and brought them to the rally to teach them about civic duty. Knowlton, a critic of the Social Security system and the United Nations, said she felt camaraderie at the demonstration.

"The movement is growing stronger," she said. "You're not alone."

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/AP…/D97J48IO2.html

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La «révolte» de contribuables américains contre Obama

VIDÉ0 - Des dizaines de milliers d'Américains ont protesté dans quelque 200 villes contre la politique fiscale du gouvernement Obama. Lefigaro.fr était parmi eux à Palm Beach en Floride.

Un air de révolte soufflait mercredi sur West Palm Beach, l'une des cités les plus riches et les plus huppées des Etats-Unis. En ce 15 avril, date limite d'envoi de la déclaration d'impôts, un millier de personnes s'est rassemblé dans le centre-ville pour dénoncer la politique fiscale et de relance de l'administration Obama.

Officiellement, il ne s'agit pas d'une manifestation un terme réservé aux Démocrates et à la gauche - mais d'une «tea party», en référence à un épisode-clé de l'histoire américaine. En 1773, des révoltés avaient jeté dans le port la cargaison de thé d'un navire de Boston pour protester contre les taxes imposées par les Britanniques.

A Palm Beach, comme dans environ 200 villes américaines, les participants , qui arboraient leurs sachets de thé, ont entonné l'hymne national, des chants patriotiques et des prières. Sans oublier les banderoles : «Chains we believe in» (allusion au slogan de campagne d'Obama, «Change we believe in»), «le socialisme n'est pas une valeur américaine», ou «Obama et sa bande de voleurs : voilà les actifs toxiques de l'Amérique», «Les impôts, c'est de la piraterie», «Pour la première fois de ma vie, j'ai peur de mon gouvernement».

Source : http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2009/…ntre-obama-.php

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L'immonde

Les conservateurs américains organisent des "tea-parties" anti-Obama

Des milliers d'Américains hostiles à la politique économique et fiscale du président Barack Obama ont défilé mercredi 15 avril dans plusieurs grandes villes du pays. A la façon des révoltés de 1773, ils ont réjoué la fameuse "Tea party" de Boston, épisode phare de l'Indépendance américaine, au cours de laquelle la cargaison de thé d'un navire britannique avait été jetée par-dessus bord en signe de protestation contre les taxes imposées par les Britanniques.

La date des manifestations n'avait pas été choisie au hasard. Aux Etats-Unis, c'est le 15 avril que les déclarations d'impôts doivent être remises. Couverts de sachets de thé ou en habit d'époque, les manifestants ont entonné l'hymne national, des chants patriotiques et des prières. Sur leurs banderoles, étaient inscrits "Obama et sa bande de voleurs : voilà les actifs toxiques de l'Amérique", "Les impôts, c'est de la piraterie" et "Pour la première fois de ma vie, j'ai peur de mon gouvernement".

"Obama n'est pas leur tasse de thé", résume le Washington Post. Dans la capitale américaine, ils étaient près d'un millier à protester sous la pluie devant la Maison Blanche contre la politique économique du président, mais les autorités leur ont interdit de déposer des sachets de thé au square Lafayette.

D'après le New York Times, les appels à la manifestation ont largement circulé sur le Web, via Twitter, le site TaxDayTeaParty et la radio RFC. Andrew Lager, président du groupe conservateur Institute of Freedom et l'un des organisateurs, a enjoint la foule d'envoyer des messages électroniques à la Maison Blanche, au Trésor, aux services du fisc et au Congrès en signe de protestation. "Est-ce que nous sommes un mouvement de la base ?" demande-t-il à la foule. "Oui", répond-elle, agitant des banderoles où les lettres du nom d'Obama sont déclinées ainsi : "One Big Awfull Mistake America" (Une grosse bêtise pour l'Amérique). Pour Dick Armey, président du groupe conservateur Freedom Works, ces manifestations sonnent "comme un avertissement alors que les contribuables se défendent seuls contre les dépenses incontrôlées du gouvernement".

Les défilés ont été largement relayés par Fox News. Réputée pour ses prises de position conservatrices, la chaîne de télévision américaine s'est livré à une véritable "propagande" jusqu'à sombrer dans le "pseudo-journalisme", a estimé le directeur de l'école de journalisme de la Northeastern University, Stephen Burgard, interrogé par Politico.

Barack Obama a défendu mercredi sa politique économique, reconnaissant lors d'une rencontre avec des travailleurs à la Maison Blanche que "la date du 15 avril n'est pas la date préférée de qui que ce soit" et arguant que son administration "avait pris de vastes mesures pour accorder des réductions d'impôts aux Américains qui en ont besoin".

http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/20…l#ens_id=863164

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Euh .. quel est le rapport avec la choucroute ?

c'est la mise en place de la defense anti-Texas: la meme chose que font libe et l'immonde, a savoir faire passer le contestataire pour un dangereux terroriste, mais en version Americaine.

Ils preparent le terrain pour un debat qui va devenir tres serieux:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/articl…qvr-vwD97J67100

Republicans criticize report on right-wing groups

By EILEEN SULLIVAN – 14 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans on Wednesday said a Homeland Security Department intelligence assessment unfairly characterizes military veterans as right-wing extremists.

House Republican leader John Boehner described the report as offensive and called on the agency to apologize to veterans.

The agency's intelligence assessment, sent to law enforcement officials last week, warns that right-wing extremists could use the bad state of the U.S. economy and the election of the country's first black president to recruit members.

The assessment also said that returning military veterans who have difficulties assimilating back into their home communities could be susceptible to extremist recruiters or might engage in lone acts of violence.

"To characterize men and women returning home after defending our country as potential terrorists is offensive and unacceptable," said Boehner, R-Ohio.

The commander of the veterans group the American Legion, David Rehbein, wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano expressing concern with the assessment, which made its way into the mainstream press after conservative bloggers got wind of the analysis.

Rehbein called the assessment incomplete and said it lacked statistical evidence. He said the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing by military veteran Timothy McVeigh, cited in the report, was one instance of a veteran becoming a domestic terrorist.

"To continue to use McVeigh as an example of the stereotypical 'disgruntled military veteran' is as unfair as using Osama bin Laden as the sole example of Islam," Rehbein said in the April 13 letter.

Napolitano defended the assessment and others issued by the agency.

"Let me be very clear — we monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States," Napolitano said in a statement. "We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence."

Napolitano said the department respects and honors veterans and that she intends to meet with Rehbein next week after she returns from a tour of the U.S.-Mexico border and meetings in Mexico City.

Glen M. Gardner Jr., national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, disputed claims that Homeland Security analysts were describing veterans as terror threats.

"The report should have been worded differently, but it made no blanket accusation that every soldier was capable of being a traitor like Benedict Arnold, or every veteran could be a lone wolf, homegrown terrorist like Timothy McVeigh," said Gardner, a Marine veteran from Round Rock, Texas. " It was just an assessment about possibilities that could take place."

Homeland Security says the assessments are part of a series published "to facilitate a greater understanding of the phenomenon of violent radicalization in the United States."

In February, the department issued a report to law enforcement that said left-wing extremist groups were likely to use cyber attacks more often in the next 10 years to further their cause.

In September, the agency highlighted how right-wing extremists over the past five years have used the immigration debate as a recruiting tool.

Between September 2008 and Feb. 5, the agency issued at least four reports, obtained by The Associated Press, on individual extremist groups such as the Moors, Vinlanders Social Club, Volksfront and Hammerskin Nation.

But the references to military veterans in the recent report angered conservatives.

"The department is engaging in political and ideological profiling of people who fought to keep our country safe from terrorism, uphold our nation's immigration laws, and protect our constitutional right to keep and bear arms," said Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla.,

Texas Rep. Lamar Smith accused the department of painting "law-abiding Americans, including war veterans, as 'extremists.'"

Indiana Rep. Steve Buyer, the ranking Republican on the House Veterans' Affairs committee, said it was "inconceivable" that the administration would consider military veterans a potential terrorist threat.

on dirait deux sujet differents mais il s'agit de la meme question.

on note les termes judicieusement choisis par limmonde:

Les conservateurs américains organisent des "tea-parties" anti-Obama

Des milliers d'Américains hostiles à la politique économique et fiscale du président Barack Obama ont défilé mercredi 15 avril dans plusieurs grandes villes du pays. A la façon des révoltés de 1773, ils ont réjoué la fameuse "Tea party" de Boston, épisode phare de l'Indépendance américaine, au cours de laquelle la cargaison de thé d'un navire britannique avait été jetée par-dessus bord en signe de protestation contre les taxes imposées par les Britanniques.

La date des manifestations n'avait pas été choisie au hasard. Aux Etats-Unis, c'est le 15 avril que les déclarations d'impôts doivent être remises.

ND Jim16: SI ON VEUT UN REMBOURSEMENT!! rien a voir avec la date limite pour se faire fourrer a Trouducland.

Couverts de sachets de thé ou en habit d'époque, les manifestants ont entonné l'hymne national, des chants patriotiques et des prières. Sur leurs banderoles, étaient inscrits "Obama et sa bande de voleurs : voilà les actifs toxiques de l'Amérique", "Les impôts, c'est de la piraterie" et "Pour la première fois de ma vie, j'ai peur de mon gouvernement".

"Obama n'est pas leur tasse de thé", résume le Washington Post. Dans la capitale américaine, ils étaient près d'un millier à protester sous la pluie devant la Maison Blanche contre la politique économique du président, mais les autorités leur ont interdit de déposer des sachets de thé au square Lafayette.

D'après le New York Times, les appels à la manifestation ont largement circulé sur le Web, via Twitter, le site TaxDayTeaParty et la radio RFC. Andrew Lager, président du groupe conservateur Institute of Freedom et l'un des organisateurs, a enjoint la foule d'envoyer des messages électroniques à la Maison Blanche, au Trésor, aux services du fisc et au Congrès en signe de protestation. "Est-ce que nous sommes un mouvement de la base ?" demande-t-il à la foule. "Oui", répond-elle, agitant des banderoles où les lettres du nom d'Obama sont déclinées ainsi : "One Big Awfull Mistake America" (Une grosse bêtise pour l'Amérique). Pour Dick Armey, président du groupe conservateur Freedom Works, ces manifestations sonnent "comme un avertissement alors que les contribuables se défendent seuls contre les dépenses incontrôlées du gouvernement".

Les défilés ont été largement relayés par Fox News. Réputée pour ses prises de position conservatrices, la chaîne de télévision américaine s'est livré à une véritable "propagande" jusqu'à sombrer dans le "pseudo-journalisme", a estimé le directeur de l'école de journalisme de la Northeastern University, Stephen Burgard, interrogé par Politico.

Barack Obama a défendu mercredi sa politique économique, reconnaissant lors d'une rencontre avec des travailleurs à la Maison Blanche que "la date du 15 avril n'est pas la date préférée de qui que ce soit" et arguant que son administration "avait pris de vastes mesures pour accorder des réductions d'impôts aux Américains qui en ont besoin".

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Certes, renflouer les banquiers ultra-libéraux en puisant dans la poche du contribuable ce n'est pas moral. Mais comment les républicains ulta-libéraux feraient-ils ?

J'aime beaucoup les commentaires du Monde, heureusement qu'il y a des ultra-libéraux pour servir de boucs-émissaires, sinon comment feraient ils ?

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c'est la mise en place de la defense anti-Texas: la meme chose que font libe et l'immonde, a savoir faire passer le contestataire pour un dangereux terroriste, mais en version Americaine.

Ils preparent le terrain pour un debat qui va devenir tres serieux:

Ce rapport fait un amalgame crasseux entre extrême droite et vétérans. Ou comment toucher l'honneur de chaque américain et diviser un peu plus le pays. :icon_up: Chez nous, lancer une chasse aux sorcières est mille fois plus facile.

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C'est sympa, je soutiens, mais dans le lot, y'en a certainement qui n'ont rien eu à dire quand Bush a engouffré je sais pu combien de fric pour pour un pimpant séjour all included en Irak.

C'est à peine hypocrite. Et les journaleux pro-Obama sont décidément trop cons pour ne pas avoir relevé ça.

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Les frais de bouche à Bush sont une goutte d'eau comparés aux milliards des plans de relance. Certes c'est lui qui a bien gonfler la dette mais c'est le petit nouveau qui se tape la sale besogne. Le pauv'. Et puis les taxes fleurissent avec la crise. C'est aussi le printemps aux US.

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