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Stephen Pitt is NationofChange's art director. Stephen is a southern California artist whose work focuses on matters political, social, and economic. In 2004 Stephen began drawing and painting political imagery to communicate his sincere displeasure with disturbing changes set in motion by ideologues acting in bad faith. With a background in figurative drawing and respect for color, Stephen traded the 6B pencil for a digital stylus and went to work. Published by the San Francisco Chronicle and Z Magazine, Stephen’s work has since been seen on Truthout and Firedoglake.
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16 comments on "Tea Bagged Boehner"
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August 07, 2011 3:35pm
Dick, you are the one who does not get it. The debit drama was fabricated by the GOP driven by the teabaggers as a smoke screen to gut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Their success at this has set the country up for the second dip in the current depression, and will cause further losses in the job market. Any economist worth his salt will explain to you that it is a very serious mistake to reduce the debit during a period of high unemployment, and that what needs to be done is tax the super rich, wall street transactions, and the banksters that caused the crash of 2008. The savings from these measures should be used to stimulate the spending of the poor and middle class. The people who will spend the money unlike the super rich who will only put it in treasury bills or the like. The rich do not create jobs. There is no trickle down effect. Melton Freedman and Ronald Reagan were wrong. The shock doctrine does not work. Do your homework with an open mind. You might be surprised in what you discover.
August 06, 2011 10:20am
Apparatues???
August 05, 2011 9:48pm
Read your history.
August 05, 2011 3:50pm
Poor Dick...you have GOT to stop drinking the TEA. Your brain is soggy, dude.
August 05, 2011 1:51pm
Stephen: How about forming a 'Nation of Change' artists group, and pulling together artistic responses to events in a weekly round-up?
And get some artists to the First National Democracy Convention Madison, WI August 22-28!
August 05, 2011 4:14pm
Hi Mimistokes,
Thank you for a fine idea! I will attempt to answer all questions which might go Art, to strategy, emotive potential of idea, color, the limitations and strengths of digital painting/drawing, theory, draftsmanship, and many other interests.
I will be glad and excited to meet the people visiting Nation of Change to see my pictures and/ or ask questions.
Smiles and thanks to you.
August 05, 2011 1:54pm
I think Dick is confused. The Bush administration fought two unnecessary wars while borrowing and spending like a drunken a congressman. At the same time he and his cronies instituted huge tax breaks for the wealthy. This left the bill for the middle class and poor (who rightfully are mad as wet cats). But it wasn't Pelosi and Reid that got us in this fix, as the tea baggers contend. It was the radical right that shifted the burden of the cost of government to the middle class. Remember, when Bill Clinton left office our fiscal house was in order.
August 05, 2011 1:40pm
Right.On.Caitlin.
August 05, 2011 1:30pm
People don't get it. While the Tea Party drew in some interesting freshman congressmen, their ideals are based on "SPEND LESS!", which is what they were sent to Washington to do. All the poor liberals can do is nervously laugh at the people that are spitting mad at what Pelosi and Reid did to this country as hand-maidens of Obama's "Borrow and Spend" philosophy. Until the Feds make REAL reforms and REAL cuts, we need to keep sending people to DC as mad as we taxpayers are. (To oppose the liberals voted in by those who don't actually pay taxes.)
August 06, 2011 1:44pm
i'm going to start a new job soon: start a missile-manufacturing corporation and become one of those fat cat military contractor ceo's because those guys are sucking up our tax dollars like a bunch of kids in an all-you-can-drink-for-free soda shoppe. if it's not a war in iraq or afghanistan, then it's building and disassembling nuclear weapons in the desert. that, combined with a world-wide military presence, guts the US financial system like an open, gaping wound ... and i see all of those corporate military ceo's standing around with straws, sucking the blood of our servicemen and women, swallowing by the trillions the lifeblood of our entire nation, telling congress to start more wars ... OR ELSE! TeaParty ... should be called the TearTheUSApartParty
August 05, 2011 9:51pm
Dick,
Your really a little black and white in your thinking. You might want to consult the facts instead of what you have been fed by the corporates who want to conquer and divide us.
August 05, 2011 12:57pm
I'm hoping that the Dems and Independents who are not happy with what's been going on will vote not only the Teabaggers out but also the old-timey Rs who are pure evil. We must put Dems in the place of all Teapublicans.This interpretation of Boner (spelling chosen on purpose) is amazing. What a dissipated Tea Puppet he has become and this portrait says it all. Thanks, Mr. Pitt.
August 11, 2011 2:41pm
You are most welcome, Caitlin, and thank you for such kind words.
Stephen.
August 11, 2011 2:43pm
sorry for the extra comment.
August 05, 2011 12:10pm
That Tea Bag is going to go through some hot water come election day IF the voters thinking apparatues are not paralyzed. Amen.