They only started booing when he said it was his entire fault. He mentioned Bush earlier, and no one booed him.

Government is bleeding us dry?  Last I checked we haven't had any brutal tax increases in awhile.  Actually most are still getting those tax returns.  The whole idea that the government is bleeding us dry of money is media bullshit.  We are bleeding ourselves dry is the truth.  Our awful spending on credit and debt is what ruined us.  If you want something blame... blame yourselves and your private sector.  Government didn't do anything... they only reacted when you started complaining.  Mainly when towards the businesses because of coruse the fault can never be ours.  Drive of course by fear.  The same fear that led the people giving up something more precious than money, liberties, after 9/11. 

You can point the finger at whoever you want but you make sure it's always directed back right at the people that allow it to happen... the people.  To live in such a fortunate country where it never has to get to such pathetic displays of hypocritical self interest as these "tea parties".  The government is simply trying to alleviate the problem right now... the one we caused.  Or if you want some structure to blame... blame the one that has complete control over your money, the Federal Reserve System.  Government is just putting your money back into the economy while they make it more worthless everyday.  Blame the corporations who's credit lines were bad from the beginning and "created money" to further loans( against the law by the way) and devalue the dollar.  And most of all blame the people who were too damn ignorant and who get their biased opinions from CNN or Fox News or even CBS instead of actually breaking down the facts.  The same people who spent on credit and eventually debt and out of fear started the government intervention.  There's where your blame should be.

I think it is the American people's fault frankly.  We have allowed politicians to do this for years without doing anything about it.  We reap the benefits of the tax cuts and increased spending and then choose to complain about it.

We always like to blame government for our problems, but we are the ones who elect them year after year.

But that being said, the middle of one of the worst recessions in the century is not the time to start being fiscally conservative.  Once the economy recovers, we should severely reduce government spending AND increase taxes.  We have to restructure our entitlement programs so that they will be solvent in the future.

And the American people need to quit acting like if taxes are raised it will be the end of the world.  We are much more likely to screw ourselves if the national debt isn't paid off.

That's not what I saw.  They booed at both parts.

Don't know which video you saw then. =/

I saw the same as Mafoo.

The situation as I understand it...

The Republicans like teabagging, they will teabag anyone. Right now they are teabagging the Democrats and rubbing it in their faces. The Democrats don't like people teabagging them in their faces, but then again who would?

Also, none of the protestors have a clue what they are protesting about and are unaware that 90% of the world mocks them. I watching interviews with them earlier, it was unreal. Basically

Protestor: "Obama is a tyrant"
Reporter: "Who would you say is the bigger tyrant, the British empire or Obama?"
Protestor: "Obama is the bigger tyrant"
Reporter: "But the British killed 30 million Indians"
Protestor: "Obama is worse, he supports a 3% tax increase, it's sick"

I mean come on...

1) Situations like that usually involve interviewing tons of people then picking out the one or two idiots.

2) It was a lot more then just republicans.

1. Yeah I know that really lol. I was watching Jon Stewart (the quality source he is lol) and I was just laughing my ass off at the guy at the protest, just had to be said lol

2. It seemed like 90% republicans to me when I watched it on big boy news though.

That would be consistent with the fact that it looked like there were 95% white people out there on those videos.

The thing that so few people understand about how the news is used to form opinions is by the information that is left out of their reports ...

At any gathering it isn't too difficult to find the most offensive and least intelligent member of the crowd, or the least offensive and most intelligent member of the crowd, and it is not unusual for reporters to seek out one of these people for an interview based on their own personal opinion about the gathering. On top of this, the editor can look through the dozens of interviews and sellect the one which best portrays the crowd in the light he wants to portray them in.

The fact that CNN's reporters, news anchors and commentators couldn't hide their distain for these protestors, tried to lecture the people they were interviewing about the greatness of Obama, and responded with the least professional attitude I have ever seen from any news organization, makes me think that they probably presented these crowds in the worst light possible.