Posted on 06/25/2011 6:44:29 PM PDT by randita
Van Jones Is Creating the Milli Vanilli of Tea Parties
by Jeff Dunetz
Truther, Self-described communist, and former Obama Green Jobs Czar Van Jones has a new mission, to start a progressive version of the Tea Party movement. Just like the real tea party, the Van Jones creation is based on economics. There are major differences though, being a progressive movement its basic premise is a lie, and instead of being a bottom up grass roots organization like the tea party, the Van Jones version is top down similar to the progressive philosophy that everything must be run by a central government. The Van Jones “tea party” is called “The American Dream Movement.” Jones is says he is forming the movement because liberal activists expressed frustration that they lacked the political power or media focus given to the conservative tea-party movement. Does he really want the same media focus? That means his group will be known by some sort of sexual reference, slandered with untrue charges of racism or violence, and of course the official mainstream media attendance tally for any demonstration will equal one tenth of one percent of the real number. A big theme of the Van Jones effort is Americans are being lied to, the federal government is not running out of money.
“We are being lied to,” Jones said. “We are not broke. We’re the richest country in the history of the world.”
The “Rebuild the Dream” website once echoed the same meme. “MoveOn Civic Action; The Other 98% teamed up to keep the message going: We Are Being Lied To,” read the movement’s mission statement on rebuildthedream.com. “The country isn’t broke and the last thing we should be doing is gutting workers’ rights and cutting vital services American families depend on.”
Just like the guy whose checking account is over drawn but denies it because he still has blank checks left.
“We think we can do what the tea party did,” Jones said in an interview with The Fix. “They stepped forward under a common banner, and everybody took them seriously. Polls suggest there are more people out there who have a different view of the economy, but who have not stepped forward yet under a common banner.”
“There’s a lot of organizational muscle behind the initiative, and Van is one of the most inspiring figures in the progressive movement, so I’m looking forward to these efforts, and they certainly come at a time when Republican overreach has primed progressives to take action” said Markos Moulitas, the founder of the liberal blog network Daily Kos.
Jones launched his group last night with a one and a half hour long event live streamed from NY. He called the the fact that the US has a major debt and deficit problem “a dangerous lie” and led the crowd in chants of “America is not broke!”
Somebody should tell that to the CBO, who reported this week that our long term debt is going to doom the economy.
Without providing any facts, Jones compared fiscal conservatives to al Qaeda,
“Paul Ryan’s budget would knock out more critical American infrastructure than our sworn enemies ever dreamed of knocking out.
Most of his speech was the same old progressive schpeil, the rich don’t pay their fair share, unions built middle-class America, people do not make enough money, yada, yada, yada. He even used the SHMOTUS’ line about paying taxes being patriotic.
Jones’ project demonstrates how little the progressives learned from the tea party movement. The tea party movement is all about empowering the individual, it would not have had the same passion and staying power if the organization and the message came down from a central organization. To this day there is not one united tea party group and the national organizations that do exist are more bottom up than top down.
Part of the reason the tea party movement grew is that voters were sick and tired of being lied to by their representatives and other politicians. Starting with an obvious lie, that the US is not being strangled by its debt, will not win them many supporters.
Ray Nagan would consider this version of the tea party as;
Hot Cocoa !
A cupfull of brown stuff.
van jones, leader of communist tea baggers!!!!!!!!!
Think “Coffee Party”.
The rise of the German Labor Front.
The American Bowel Movement.
No. First they ignored the TEA Party. When ignoring the TEA Party failed, they mocked the TEA Party. When mocking the TEA Party failed, they attacked the TEA Party.
Now that they know that attacking the TEA Party doesn't work, they are trying to mimic the TEA Party.
I'm certain that this will also fail.
My Senator likes the Van Jones philosophy;
Senator Klobuchar (D-Mn) 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goTYOjh2q9M&feature=related
Klobuchar “As Van Jones has said, who is a guy who has written a book about the green collar economy, when you think about the green economy, don’t think about Buck Rogers; think about joe six-pack putting on a green hard hat. Think about Rosie the riveter manufacturing solar panels and wind turbines. This is President Obama’s plan — jobs, jobs, jobs.”
They could call it the “Let them Eat Cake’ party.
Funny, Michael Moore was saying the exact same thing in Wisconsin just a few weeks ago. This seems to be the hot new meme on the left these days -- that it's unfair for the government to be broke when there's massive wealth owned by individuals. What's really telling here is the use of the word "we". My new pet theory is that the lefties want a massive budget crisis in order to make the leap from the income tax to a tax on actual wealth.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” - Ghandi
Add in “Then they copy you” and it’s a direct hit.
I laugh every time I see something like this. Van Jones is not making a "copy" of the Taxed Enough Already party. He's making a "we want all YOUR shit" party. I notice time and time again no one is pointing this out on the "air waves". They just keep comparing his deal to the TEA party..what a farse.
And Trumpka has “pledged” 12 million union employees to this leftist “tea party”
Thank you, I wasn’t familiar with that one; but I must have heard it somewhere before in order to have the idea.
NOW I know what Van Jones' TEA Party is, Taking Everyone's Assests Party...
I should have known this.
Ya sure, Minnestoopid has two dimbulb senators, at least one of them thanks to a corrupt SecState and an equally corrupt AG. Which is why I refuse to consider them to be my senators.
As far as Van Jones counter to the Tea Party, as always professional agitators funded by useful idiots and the Spooky Dude, Georgy Schwartz. No real originality, just blind adherence to the talking points of the Collective.
Intelligence is irrelevant, reason is futile.
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