Baton Rouge, State Capitol (Photo Geauxlouisiana)
Posted on 04/16/2009 2:15:37 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
From the theoretically respectable to the far-left fringe, liberals seem to have gone off their medication when it comes to discussion of today’s Tax Day Tea Parties, expected to take place in over 300 cities and towns across the nation.
New York Times “economist” Paul Krugman spent his Monday column about the “tea parties” calling Republicans insignificant and “embarrassing to watch.” He strains what little credibility he has left (among NY Times subscribers, since he’s long past having any with rational people), by trying to tie Tom DeLay’s disbelief in evolution to the genesis (pun intended) of the Tea Parties.
Krugman also claims that the Tea Parties are not “spontaneous outpourings of public sentiment.” I suppose only rallies organized by ACORN or MoveOn.org are “spontaneous”. But Krugman’s point is also wrong on the facts. Yes, FreedomWorks is helping to centralize Tea Party information so their members and others can learn where to go or even how to organize our own Tea Party protests. But, there is no doubt that these Tea Parties are being organized by people who are truly angry with the direction this nation is going.
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
To counter Tax Day Tea Party, Obama throws Kool-Aid parties
What if they had a Tea Party and everybody came? Everybody except liberals, principally because there's no welfare check to collect at a tax protest. Liberals don't work for a living since they simply mooch off the taxpayers like they do their parents, whom they live with. Liberals seem shocked that higher taxes, bigger deficits, more spending and more corporate bailouts aren't wildly popular with taxpayers. They felt sure those higher electricity taxes would be a big hit.
Liberals have always mindlessly opposed tax protests, going all the way back to the first one, in December 1773, when tea was thrown into Boston Harbor and the protesters were slammed at the time in columns by Helen Thomas.
The ball got rolling again two months ago in Seattle when bloggers organized a rally, followed swiftly by rallies in Denver and Mesa, Ariz., then came CNBC's Rick Santelli's 'rant heard 'round the world' and the whole thing's snowballed into a Tea Party movement ever since. Rallies in St. Louis, Cincinnati, Orlando, etc. drew thousands. In fact, the rallies had gotten so massive, the media didn't cover them.
There were so many tea parties popping up everywhere, Baghdad Bob could detect them. There IS a presence of American infidel tea parties but we will slaughter them! And continue to slaughter them!
Admittedly, some of the rallies were small, like the one that drew more reporters than protesters -- but that was the ACORN "rally" over AIG bonuses. The 'rally' was small enough to earn wall-to-wall media coverage. MSNBC's entire audience was there.
Apparently, the press doesn't consider the Tea Party rallies -- including yesterday's Tax Day Tea Party -- to be 'legitimate' since the protesters aren't flashing their boobs nor chanting "FREE MUMIA, THE COP-KILLER!", "TROOPS OUT!", nor do they smell like rotten fish. Even worse, no free sex nor bong smoke and speeches praising North Korea filling the air. The tea parties must've been organized by Fox News!
Paul Krugman, who looks like Baghdad Bob, this week wrote a critique of the protesters' tax stance by invoking Tom Delay's position on the theory of evolution. Then ranted about Rush Limbaugh's "campaign of innuendo" during the '90s, a Karl Rove speech about terrorism, and Dick Armey. Delving into tax policy details even further, he complained that Fox News is covering the tea parties and that the tea parties aren't really grassroots because Fox News is covering the tea parties. (He then called Republicans crazy.)
As if to prove it's a Fox News conspiracy, Geraldo Rivera of Fox News bashed the Tea Party movement on Fox News, dismissing the protesters as fringe people upset with Obama over higher taxes (as opposed to most Americans who yearn for higher taxes and more wasteful government). Sounding cranky, he called it a right-wing, "anti-Obama, anti-Democratic" Party movement and that the rallies were not spontaneous -- as opposed to the annual White House Easter Egg Roll. Geraldo has his own Fox News show -- Geraldo At Large -- to spout off nonsense, so clearly it's all a Rupert Murdoch plot.
Sending liberals into paroxysms of paranoia, the folks at the rallies yesterday consisted of home-schoolers, school teachers, engineers, military, blue-collar, white-collar, retired, doctors, nurses, salesmen, builders, farmers, firemen, policemen, young, old -- all ferried in black helicopters to the rallies by Fox News.
Also attending the Tax Day Tea Party were many small-business owners, overwhelmingly middle class -- in other words, the very "wealthy" according to Obama. Or 'capitalist running dog evil bastards', according to his pirate-loving nut-base.
Most of the Tea Party goers had never attended a political rally before. And, unlike liberals, they have a life. And despite Obama's miraculous economic "rebound", they have a job.
In his goofy column, Krugman sniffs that "the tea parties don't represent a spontaneous outpouring of public sentiment. They're AstroTurf (fake grass root) events . . ." I can cite no evidence for this, but trust us! We're the New York Times!
Krugman's lame-o excuse for why the crowds are so large is that Dick Armey's group supports the Tea Party movement. And groups would never try to claim credit for the success of the Tea Party movement, noooooooooo.
Liberals, always with the hots for highly centralized, top-down command structures, can't imagine millions of real Americans organizing into a movement on their own, without a 'leader' or politburo or raving maniac telling them what to think. Which is why, if left to their own devices, liberals give you paradises like Cuba or North Korea.
Being the indispensable paragons of free speech, libbies scream that ralliers flying 'Don't Tread On Me' flags and doing re-enactments of Thomas Jefferson reading the Declaration of Independence are all wrong, since today is so, like, totally not like the Revolutionary period, man. On the rare occasion when liberals are coherent, they note the colonialists were protesting taxation without representation, then leap from there that Obama-Pelosi-Reid were elected, ergo, they have free reign to tread on us all.
The problem with that idiotic formulation is that today it's the flipside, representation without taxation -- a good chunk of the population not on the tax rolls, scamming off the taxpayers by voting thieves into office promising to keep the loaded gravy train on track, whistling past the graveyard, for the loafers. But it's just a l'il tax hike on the really bad rich! What's the big deal? A 3 cent-per-pound tax hike on tea got you the Boston Tea Party then American independence three years later. But it's more than just about taxes for us menacing thought-crimes perps on Rupert Murdoch's payroll. It's also that tiny $800 billion pork-o bait on the Nancy Pelosi Congressional Gravy Train as the warm-up act, projected teensy-weensy deficit of $2 trillion for this year and promises of trillion-dollar deficits stretching as far as Nancy Pelosi's ayes have it, all in the goal of building a more perfect Nancy State.
Even beyond the preposterously bloated size of the taxing and spending-us-into-hyperinflation stuff, it's also how government and its glorious bureaucracies, renowned for their efficiency, gloriously use all the tax dough. AIG bonuses? Check. Millions for the endangered monk seal? Check. Big bucks for the Canton Symphony Orchestra Association in Ohio? Check. Big shovel-ready bucks for the Dance Theater Etcetera in Brooklyn? Check. For swine odor research in Ames, Iowa? Check. For tattoo removal programs in California and essential lobster research in Maine? Check, check. (Source: Citizens Against Government Waste, 4/14/09).
Obama's media still wonders why, after Obama promised to spend us into debt for all eternity, crap-and-trade us to bail out banksters and run the most ethical administration of tax cheats and lobbyists with waivers in history . . . why are people protesting? Any idea???
That's the essence of the Obama media reaction to yesterday's seismic shift. The Kool-Aid impaired boys and girls of CNN had a massive coronary. MSNBC spent the day giggling about "tea bagging", alienating all 2 of their viewers, both in San Francisco. The broadcast nets, in an apparent slip-up, covered the tea parties. Fox News, which employs actual reporters, got attacked by MSNBC and CNN for being out of touch with Keith Olbermann and Anderson Cooper.
In any event, I have a hunch the Founding Fathers were smiling down on the tea parties yesterday.
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"
Of the 40 comments about the article (prior to mine), only one local person had commented. There were a few from neighboring communities, but by far, most of the comments, ranting about 'silly, evil rethuglicans', came from places a thousand miles away (in various directions).
I can only conclude that ACORN or Moveon or something similar assigned people to search across the nation for articles and disparage any news about the gatherings.
They are really afraid of this grass roots movement for some reason. Perhaps they believe that it is going to be more effective than even do most of the people who are attending the 'tea parties'
Not too bad for a place that has an official population of about 7,000, but not an earthshaking attendance either. Mostly 'old folks' in their 60s-80s. Maybe 10% were in their late teens through mid 20s. Another 10% were kids, some of whom actually seemed to enjoy being there. Not as many 'middle agers' as I expected.... But I imagine most of them were either still at work or at their kid's soccer and baseball games.
Oh, and 10 uniformed law enforcement people. (Who I thanked for bravely keeping control over a bunch of dangerous extremists like me.) Took some of them a couple of seconds to figure out what I was joshing them about, but all but one laughed, and one, a young Sergeant from the local PD even play punched me on my shoulder (We are pretty blessed with our local and county law enforcement people Every one I have had any interaction with, official or social has been a great guy (and 1 gal)). Oddly, the representative from the State Police was not at all amused by my jest. His only comment was "Just don't take MY picture."
I didn't tell him "Too late"... Telephoto from across the park, half an hour ago." But not to fear, officer, I'll not share it.
Not that anyone cares, but I put some photos up on photobucket:
HERE
For all the leftwing losers who want to continuously remind us that the Boston “Tea Party” wasn’t about high taxes, but taxation without represenation... it wasn’t about TEA EITHER YOU NINNIES!
Tea was the symbol they used and we are hijacking that same symbol for a new and different, yet similiar beef with the government.
I just love when some breathless kook wants to come on and remind us out history lesson. Ironically, that’s probably the only history lesson they know.
Yep, I'm wholly convinced that Axelrod, Plouffe, and Emmanuel have maintained many of their paid online operatives/trolls to conduct 24/7 information warfare against the online Conservative blogosphere and Conservative politicians. Just check out the comments section of any story about Sarah Palin, and you will see some of the nastiest, vilest, most disgusting smears and innuendos one would think impossible outside of outside of KOS and DU.
Except for the thousands of Freepers there.
Baton Rouge, State Capitol (Photo Geauxlouisiana)
Enjoyed seeing your pictures. Looks like you live around a great group of people and a beautiful part of the country.
Our local tea party was somewhat bigger since I live in Atlanta.
Thanks for your time and putting up your photos. BTW, I sincerely care. Quite hard working Americans from Podunk USA are America....it is what built this country, once stone at a time.
Thanks for your report and the very cool slideshow.
You might want to ask those very same ninnies just what sort of representation do they get when congress votes on bills they haven't even bothered to read? Like "Porkulous!"
Mark
"From the theoretically respectable to the far-left fringe, liberals seem to have gone off their medication when it comes to discussion of today’s Tax Day Tea Parties, expected to take place in over 300 cities and towns across the nation."
Or maybe they were taking too much.
"New York Times “economist” Paul Krugman spent his Monday column about the “tea parties” calling Republicans insignificant and “embarrassing to watch.” He strains what little credibility he has left (among NY Times subscribers, since he’s long past having any with rational people), by trying to tie Tom DeLay’s disbelief in evolution to the genesis (pun intended) of the Tea Parties."
This is an old strategy. It's like a liberal Rorschach test. They see what they want to see. Since any conservative raising embarrassing questions about evolution (for them) makes their liberal heads explode, this is what they go looking for. A normal person just sees a bunch of patriotic Americans voicing protest about taxes and the expansion of government. The liberal sees anti-evolution Bible thumpers, creationists, gun nuts, possible Klan or skinheads, misogynists, black helicopters, anti-immigrant nativists, abortion opponents, racists, those who oppose same-sex marriage, the "bitter" people in small towns "clinging to guns and religion." It is always viewed in the most negative terms with liberal paranoid fantasies. They let slip out this paranoid fear about people who don't accept Darwinism, because that's what they worry about.
The Left’s lies work. So ranting makes no sense for us unless we go on the attack. We must flood the WH and the GOP with complaints about taxes, Janet, et al and tell the GOP to stand up every day on CSPAN,, the Net, and Talk Radio. All this bitchin’ is useless unless real impact hits the WH and the Dem Congress with GOP and citizen led complaints on a daily level.
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