That's because, at the most fundamental level, Tea Party protests are about what is best for the country (i.e., a selfless mindset), whereas the OWS is all about what is best for the protesters themselves (i.e., a selfish mindset). One protest (the Tea Party) is conducted in an orderly, rational fashion, while the other (OWS) is basically mob rule.

Difference is, he became a nuclear engineer when all you had to do to get the degree was be able to spell n-u-c-l-e-a-r, and not have an aversion to glowing in the dark...

Yeah, man - Liberals are so much smarter than... You gonna eat those Fritos?

What was I saying? (munch munch munch)

Wow... The inmates of the asylum are starting to eat their own... This could get interesting...

Gotta love the hypocrisy - When a bill only affects the people but not Congress. then it's "Well, we have to pass it to find out what's in it."; however, when it's a bill that could potentially affect Congresspeople, then it's "We look forward to reviewing the text of the bill..." In other words, they are going to go over it with a fine-tooth comb before it ever even hits the floor for a vote.

Pelosi is a horrible, disgusting creature...

In the case of the financial crash, it comes down to the fact that banks were forced to sell these bad mortgages by the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 (thank you, Jimmah, for getting THAT ball rolling <rolls eyes>), and some unscrupulous and greedy financiers found a way to make some money off of them. Unfortunately for these dimwits, the financial sector is full of greedy dimwits who were all too willing to either go along with the scheme or propagate it to the point where it became a systemic issue. Then, when the bottom fell out in 2008, the same greedy dimwits who were profiting off of these schemes were put in charge of fixing it, leading to more issues and stagnating any potential recovery.

So, your entire theory for the financial crash boils down to "I hate my parents, so I'm going to crash the whole financial system just to get back at them." Wow! I think you need to get out of that cube or office of yours once in a while and see what life is really like.
A better theory for the both the Holocaust and, indeed, the financial crash (if there could be any parallel drawn between these two events) can be summed up in two words - "Mob Rule". It comes down to participants in the act saying to themselves, "Well, everyone else is doing it, so it must be okay."

I've got a simple solution for the Senator - reduce the size of government and the number of government workers, and then you will no longer have to worry about 300,000 government workers being "inconvenienced", but a much smaller number.

Because blatant stupidity (like Pester's) demands corrective action by responsible people... And on some sick level its fun to watch him paint himself into a corner and squirm...

Sick thing is that they need to have a special law passed just to make our leaders as accountable for their actions as ordinary citizens... This should have been understood from the get-go...

If anything, the penalties should be even more costly since they (as our leaders) should know better...