Posted on 08/17/2011 10:12:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Wow!
Three big NY Times character assassination hit pieces in a row! (Outside of the usual Dowd/Friedman/Krugman drunken drivel)
Rick Perry, Darrell Issa, and now the whole “Tea Party.”
I truly believe that if people understood the real costs of government, they would be scandalized. If they understood how completely inefficient government is at doing anything.
It’s difficult to believe liberals have a home budget at all. After looking at where your personal money goes, and how careful most people have to be to plan for retirement, home purchase, and education, how they wouldn’t hold their public officials to the same standard.
Sadly, it takes that epiphany - That gut realization that something is deeply wrong that leads a person to seek out the Tea Party and other like-minded folks. God knows we’ll never get a fair shake in the media.
That said, as the misery index soars, I believe there will be more and more eyes opened and our numbers will only swell.
Robot brain dead NY Times readers have been given their marching orders as precisely what to believe.
This magazine should rename themselves "Crony Capitalist Insider" since their articles have the same transparently bigoted slant as the rest of the Junk media.
Apparently their whole reason this magazine exists is to keep the taxpayer funded gravy flowing out of the taxpayers pockets into theirs.
They just don't get it.
Remember that even the term “Tea Party” was first talked about by CNBC’s Santelli in the terms of FISCAL policy...not a thing about the Christian right. Certainly Christian conservatives have jumped on board; however, the people who turned up at the 9/12 event in Washington focused on returning to Constitutional government. FIrst, the left called us “racists” and “angry white men” until conservatives like Alan West and Michele Bachman put a lie to that. So they have to go to the next way to divide the movement. Attack the old standby “CHristian RIght” It’s pathetic!
Who Is Really Behind The Tea Party Movement?
that’s like asking who is behind the grains of sand on the beach
i am. we all are. Americans that actually work and pay for everything.
we’ve had enough
the TEA party is us saying ‘screw you, you’re all corrupt bastards lining your own pockets and i won’t be your betch any longer’
(or something to that effect)
All the Tea Party events and Tea Party Board meetings I’ve been to have concentrated on taxes, debt, Constitution, and national security. Nine will get you ten this guy’s never been to a meeting or event.
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...or a church. There are lots of liberals in some church congregations.
These critics really fear the TEA partiers, so have to develop a scenario where their fear is justified by our being BAD people.
Chris Matthews has already called Rick Perry “Bull Connor.” I think Matthews believes that every non-Democrat south of the Mason-Dixon Line is a potential Bull Connor. He is so bigoted and small-minded!
I don’t expect my vote to make me a better Christian but I do want it to beget a smaller and more constitutional government.
Any thinking person that is fiscally conservative is smart enough to realize that Christians are far less dangerous to our country than liberals.
Any thinking person that is fiscally conservative is smart enough to realize that Christians are far less dangerous to our country than liberals.
that should be ‘constitutionally adherent’ government.
Maybe — just maybe — Christian values teach you to live within your means and to not think that the world owes you a living. Maybe not having God in your life makes you more susceptible to Socialist thinking that saps your self will and makes you think its OK to sit on your ass with your hand out looking for the “rich” or “corporations” to support you. But I’m sure that doesn’t enter the MSM reporters’ heads. It has to be an evil plot.
It’s the old communist contempt for religion all over again.
Guess they didn't read about John Adams or any of the other founders and subsequent presidents and leaders who made it possible by their beliefs and actions for folks like them to have been born in a land of liberty in this 300th year of American independence.
"Ideas have consequences"(Weaver).
The ideas of 1776 came out of a set of ideas consistent with liberty.
We tend to forget, or have never considered, that other world views existed then, as now.
Unless today's citizens rediscover the ideas of liberty existing in what Jefferson called "the American mind" of 1776, we risk going back to the "Old World" ideas which preceded the "Miracle of America."
There are those who call themselves "progressives," when, in fact, their ideas are regressive and enslaving, and as old as the history of civilization.
Would suggest to any who wish an authentic history of the ideas underlying American's founding a visit to this web site, at which Richard Frothingham's outstanding 1872 "History of the Rise of the Republic of the United States" can be read on line.
This 600+-page history traces the ideas which gave birth to the American founding. Throughout, Richard Frothingham, the historian, develops the idea that it is "the Christian idea of man" which allowed the philosophy underlying the Declaration of Independence and Constitution to become a reality--an idea which recognizes the individual and the Source of his/her "Creator"-endowed life, liberty and law.
Is there any wonder that the enemies of freedom, the so-called "progressives," do not promote such authentic histories of America? Their philosophy puts something called "the state," or "global interests" as being superior to individuals and requires a political elitist group to decide what role individuals are to play.
In other words, they must turn the Founders' ideas upside-down in order to achieve a common mediocrity for individuals and power for themselves.
Perhaps writers such as these also might object to the following words from Judge Learned Hand on what he called, "The Spirit of Liberty":
"The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias; the spirit of liberty remembers that not even a sparrow falls to earth unheeded; the spirit of liberty is the spirit of Him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned, but has never quite forgotten; that there may be a kingdom where the least shall be heard and considered side by side with the greatest. And now in that spirit, that spirit of an America which has never been, and which may never be; nay, which never will be except as the conscience and courage of Americans create it; yet in the spirit of that America which lies hidden in some form in the aspirations of us all; in the spirit of that America for which our young men are at this moment fighting and dying; in that spirit of liberty and of America I ask you to rise and with me pledge our faith in the glorious destiny of our beloved country." - P. 190-191, The Spirit of Liberty (1944).
[ Any thinking person that is fiscally conservative is smart enough to realize that Christians are far less dangerous to our country than liberals. ]
So truthful it needed to be said twice and you did!
Someone should tell these “journalists” to study the difference between corelation and causation.
The desire to see more religious people in office can be easily explained by the fact that voters see them (as a group) as more honest, loyal, and trustworthy than non-religious people.
Oh my. They couldn’t be more wrong. LOL.
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