Obama Nation Billboard Draws Attention
New Sign Along I-70 Has Motorists Talking
POSTED: October 1, 2009
Posted on 02/17/2010 11:18:04 AM PST by Fred
How glorious is the tea-party movement? Some talk of its purity of heart, its patriotic spontaneity, and its abundance of republican virtue. To hear others tell it, the movement is but a few steps away from sacred.
After attending the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, the prominent blogger Glenn Reynolds wrote last week in the Washington Examiner that the movement amounted to "America's Third Great Awakening," a massive popular rising against "politicians and parties" that have "grown corrupt, venal and out-of-touch."
How strange, then, that this flowering of populist integrity should have been tended and pruned and succored by a group of Beltway operators known primarily for their venality and insider power.
Two weeks ago, the Washington Post sketched out a blueprint of the movement's leadership, naming the players and the organizations who have made the right's resurgence possible. It focused in particular on a shadowy but influential new outfit called the Conservative Action Project, which reportedly works to coordinate the movement's far-flung organizations, bloggers and publishers.
What struck me about the Post's story was the familiarity of it all. In particular, I kept being reminded of that ultimate conservative insider, the now-imprisoned superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, and the work he did on behalf of the Northern Marianas Islands, where garment factories churned out "Made in the USA" clothing under re-education camp conditions.
The object of Mr. Abramoff's lobbying, you will recall, was to protect that peculiar economic arrangement from federal meddling, a task his firm accomplished by bringing politicians, staffers and media types on trips to the tropical Marianas and urging them to understand the situation as a matter of "liberty" versus big government tyranny.
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Frank is TWSJ’s liberal housepet. He replaced Mr. Judy Woodruff.
They desparately hope to find strings to cut.
LOL ... Horse hockey, it’s played with BS.
Heh, so a leftist doesn’t like the Tea Party movement and wants to personalize it by declaring some people leaders and then showing them unworthy. What a surprise. Not.
Well maybe there are “shadowy leaders” in DC, but we haven’t seen or heard from them in my part of the world. And it would be best if they stayed away, we are happy with our independent, local uprising and intent to keep it out of either Party, or either party’s “shadowy leaders”. One of our greatest strenght is our lack of defined leadership, you can’t cut off our head, there are too many.
Obama Nation Billboard Draws Attention
New Sign Along I-70 Has Motorists Talking
POSTED: October 1, 2009
Oh, please, not Thomas Frank. What a tool. The WSJ went a long peaceful time without a token Leftist and I hoped Al Hunt wouldn’t be replaced. Spare us his brain farts next time.
The Tea Party movement is really just a rebranding of the Ross Perot/Reform Party movement. Right-wing populism has a long history in this country; some of it a very noble history, some of it not so much.
http://biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2010/02/17/clinton-plotting-tea-party-counterattack/
Big Government has learned that Clintonistas are plotting a “push/pull” strategy. They plan to identify 7-8 national figures active in the tea party movement and engage in deep opposition research on them. If possible, they will identify one or two they can perhaps ‘turn’, either with money or threats, to create a mole in the movement. The others will be subjected to a full-on smear campaign. (Has MSNBC already been notified?)
Big Government has also learned that James Carville will head up the effort.
I beg to differ and liken it more to a tsunami. A wave that kinda sneaks up on you. But time will tell.
Thomas Frank should stick to topics he knows something about - like Kansas.
The Tea Party movement is really just a rebranding of the Ross Perot/Reform Party movement.
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Other than having nothing to do with Ross Perot or his party.
If these weasels aren’t talking about Sarah - they’re talking about the TeaParty movement. Warning Republicans to watch out and how irrelevant they are! Too funny.
Meanwhile, who really is Barry?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEZB4taSEoA
Rick Santelli and the “Rant of the Year”
(zero to do with Perot)
Maybe for some but I wasn’t particularly interested in politics then and remember the Dana Carvey sketches more than the man himself. I have no idea what this has to do with Perot, though since I don’t know anyone who plans on starting a third party.
Cindie
It’s encouraging to see these type billboards popping up all over the US. Don’t live in that area anymore, but I know that exit very well.
They are scared, very scared. I don’t know how much the TPM helped Brown in MA, but they think it was huge and it scares the bejeebers out them. Their only recourse is to try and tie the TPM to radical right militia groups and imprisoned lobbyists to scare off the independents.
I find it interesting in one article the TPM is made up of a bunch of little far right extremist groups up in the mountains of Idaho somewhere and in the next article they are the brainchild of a well organized ultra conservative cabal working out of Washington and certain federal prisons.
Really? I don’t remember millions throughout the country holding rally’s and attending TownHall meetings during MrChickenPerot’s little media blitz.
Why haven’t we heard from him during this Marxist take over of our country? Patriot, NOT!!
There sure are a lot of Tea Party bashing articles today. Someone must have been busy on their email account last week getting the script out.
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