Posted on 04/19/2009 5:51:11 PM PDT by tobyhill
The nationwide angst about – and within – the so-called "tea party" movement continues to gather pace.
On the Sunday morning talk show, "Face the Nation," a senior adviser to President Obama, David Axelrod, said the tea parties organized April 15 to protest massive government spending could "mutate into something that's unhealthy."
The comment was immediately decried by elements of the blogosphere as an attempt to tar tea parties by inference – hinting that they are breeding grounds for the kind of antigovernment activity that led to the Oklahoma City bombings.
Say Anything, A North Dakota political blog, commented: "'Mutate into something unhealthy?' Like, uh, domestic terrorism? Is that what's left unsaid here?"
A sense of injustice is already acute among many tea partyers. Though Mr. Obama remains broadly popular, Dante Chinni of Patchwork Nation recently noted that he has created the widest partisan gap in America since the 1960s, according to poll numbers in the Washington Times. In other words, many people like him – a lot – but those who don't, really don't.
The tea parties have tapped into a sense of powerlessness among many conservatives and libertarians who do not approve of Obama and his popularity.
In addition, tea partyers feel that their movement has been willfully ignored by the mainstream media, wrote staff writer Patrik Jonsson. Saturday, they declared that the tea parties on Tax Day were the largest outpouring of American protesters since March 25, 2006, when 750,000 people marched in Los Angeles in support of rights for immigrants, Patrik added. Critics politely disagreed, with Patrik pointing out:
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As a strictly mental exercise, can you imagine the panic that would ensue if the tea partiers were to show up armed?
Nothing violent, just carrying them.
Get ready for the internment camps in a couple of years at this rate.
They think we're CRAZY, and I like the fact they do. I want them to fear me and everyone like me.
I want them to have nightmares...
Rat treason during a Repub administration is patriotic, but nonviolent protests of a radical socialist RAT president is “unhealthy”.
Coming from an Anti-American Scumbag this is amuzing!
Mutate into something “unhealthy?” Like FREE SPEECH???!?!???
Which one of Hitler’s henchmen would you compare Axelrod to? Rahm Emanuel is Himler so it would have to be someone else. He’s definitely got the Hitler moustache thing down pat.
I have a sign on my truck that reads, “Proud Member of the Right-Winged Extremist Club”.
Don't waste your breath. Those "people" think that men should marry men. And they celebrate the murder of unborn children.
“The tea parties have tapped into a sense of powerlessness among many conservatives and libertarians who do not approve of Obama and his popularity.”
I for one could care less if it were Ronald Reagan. If he had Obama’s views and policies, I wouldn’t be able to stand him. It has nothing to do with Obama himself and his popularity.
Axlehog is a pig....
Unhealthy to whom? Sounds like the condemned man trying to convince his executioner that it's not safe to play with sharp instruments.
I find it interesting that the people who rioted, vandalized and burned to protest the US government during the ‘60s are now concerned about peaceful gatherings to protest the US government.
FWIW, I used to be a five-alarm, flaming lib. Where there’s life, there’s hope :)
The harder these guys push the more we push back. Start doing Tea Parties every month. Be a part of local groups that help organize these things.
When an employee disses the boss, he gets the axe. So it goes with politicians as well. They work for us.
They are really threatened by this and will try to intimidate and try to ban these groups. All it will do is embolden the right and they will lose in 2010 and 2012 big time.
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