Posted on 04/24/2009 8:43:22 AM PDT by Zakeet
The Republican base is behaving like a guy who just got dumped by his wife.
If conservatives don't want to be seen as bitter people who cling to their guns and religion and anti-immigrant sentiments, they should stop being bitter and clinging to their guns, religion and anti-immigrant sentiments.
It's been a week now, and I still don't know what those "tea bag" protests were about. I saw signs protesting abortion, illegal immigrants, the bank bailout and that gay guy who's going to win "American Idol." But it wasn't tax day that made them crazy; it was election day. Because that's when Republicans became what they fear most: a minority.
The conservative base is absolutely apoplectic because, because ... well, nobody knows. They're mad as hell, and they're not going to take it anymore. Even though they're not quite sure what "it" is. But they know they're fed up with "it," and that "it" has got to stop.
Here are the big issues for normal people: the war, the economy, the environment, mending fences with our enemies and allies, and the rule of law.
And here's the list of Republican obsessions since President Obama took office: that his birth certificate is supposedly fake, he uses a teleprompter too much, he bowed to a Saudi guy, Europeans like him, he gives inappropriate gifts, his wife shamelessly flaunts her upper arms, and he shook hands with Hugo Chavez and slipped him the nuclear launch codes.
Do these sound like the concerns of a healthy, vibrant political party?
It's sad what's happened to the Republicans. They used to be the party of the big tent; now they're the party of the sideshow attraction, a socially awkward group of mostly white people who speak a language only they understand. Like Trekkies, but paranoid.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
mine already disappeared last week with a 14% pay cut.....
No he doesn't. He's obfuscating the facts, and you are buying into it, partially. Each one of those things listed is a symptom of the underlying problems, or an outright lie. The left knows it can't win on the facts, and/or can't tell truth from lie, so instead of bringing the discussion up, they have to drag it down to a level where conservatives get frustrated, throw their hands up in disgust and walk away.
Not anymore; we can't afford that. We have to learn to get down in the muck and either push their heads underneath it, drowning them, or drag them kicking and screaming into the light of day.
Seems nobody does. Maher does give a good take on what most Americans saw of the tea parties. Very little was actually covered on liberty.
We have to make a better effort at focusing on the loss of liberty than we do of it's symptoms. We need to become better spokesmen for our founders ideals.
In that case Bill, better to keep the mouth shut and be thought an idiot than open it and remove all doubt.
No puke alert!!!
Love it when they think we are interested in their opinions.
Obama Didn’t Know Nuthin’ Of The Tea Parties – But The Rest Of The World Did!
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/10417
(excerpt)
An amazing thing happened on Wednesday, April 15th, Tax Day, when nearly a million people took hours off from their workdays – many sacrificing pay cuts and even the threat of being fired – to attend thousands of Tea Parties across America. What motivated this huge number of Republicans, Conservatives, Democrats, Independents, Libertarians, and even apolitical people to come out in mid-week with placards aplenty and passion unprecedented? It was to tell President Obama that they rejected and resented just about everything he and his radical-left Congress have foisted on our nation during his 90-plus days in office. These include:
•A frontal assault on free-market capitalism
•Zero transparency and accountability for the billions already doled out – where has it gone?
•Rising unemployment
•Trillions of dollars of debt for us and our children and grandchildren
•Infringement of freedoms guaranteed in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, including free speech, gun ownership, freedom of religion, et al.
•Obsequious overtures to the world’s biggest despots, all of them America’s sworn enemies.
•Passage of H.R. 1388, or the “domestic security force” that eerily mimics Hitler’s brown shirts, or, as Obama stated: “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
•Aggressive moves to nationalize the press, resurrect the “Fairness Doctrine,” and give the president the legal authority to shut down the Internet in the “interest of national security.”
•A cap-and-trade tax that will effectively kill commerce
•Full-speed-ahead on destroying the coal industry
•Ceding the resolution of legal issues to the cesspool-of-corruption known as the United Nations and transnational courts
•Steps to obliterate the “conscience clause” that allows doctors, nurses and pharmacists the right not to participate in the infanticide procedure known as abortion
•Unforgiveable insults to our military by calling them potential “domestic terrorists.” Other “terrorists” listed in the Department of Homeland Security report were anyone opposed to abortion, anyone in favor of immigration enforcement, pro-Second-Amendment lobbies, and anyone protesting big government.
•A vile insult to Catholics when the White House insisted on having Christ’s name covered by black plywood when the president spoke at Georgetown U. – why was he invited?
•A despicable insult to Jews when career anti-Semite Charles Freeman – President of the MEPC Arab lobby and a board member of the American Iranian Council – was appointed head of the National Intelligence Council, but ultimately stepped down, confirming in his own words his animus toward Israel.
•Declaring carbon dioxide an environmental pollutant… another scheme to impose draconian and business-murdering taxes on Americans, while at the same time refusing to drill for oil and build nuclear facilities, all in the name of the colossal hoax known as man-made global warming. Let’s hear it for windmills!
•The coming manipulation of the U.S. census by community-organizers from ACORN – under investigation in more than 12 states for voter-registration fraud – which received $5-billion of tax-payer’s money in Obama’s “stimulus” package
•An utter failure to intercede in a timely fashion to save Captain Richard Phillips from the Muslim Somali terrorists in the Maersk Alabama incident.
As I’ve often said about what appears to be President Obama’s Marxist agenda…this is the short list! The longer list includes cabinet members and advisors who would have been instantly rejected by your friendly deli owner or housewife, so steeped have they been in tax cheating, conflicts-of-interest, and criminal investigations.
I don’t what he’s smoking but the damage can’t be reversed.
explains why newspapers are imploding (Mr. Maher ain’t exactly Ernie Pyle....)
Consider the source. That’s all you have to do.
He is a true... to the bone hater of conservative issues, the second amendment, ridicules us for family values
He is the most liberal of liberals and is glad to kill people verbally and take no prisoners about it.
Stay away ... a death zone.
Apparently we made a big impression with them because they don’t seem to be able to get over them. Next time let’s make it twice the number in the streets!
I disagree. He's living in village of idiots and occasionally he outshines them. Like this one.
“It’s been a week now, and I still don’t know what those “tea bag” protests were about.”
As was said in “The Masque of Zorro”, “That’s because you are stupid.”
Mahr is an intellectual lightweight.
Yeah.
And how is the LA Slimes doing business wise these days?
I thought so.
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