Richard Reeves
Posted on 10/18/2013 7:55:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Perhaps those tea party guys are smarter than they look. After all, these men and women in Congress came to Washington determined to cripple big government -- or even destroy it. They, 30 or 40 bent Republicans, were mad as hell at where the country is going and how it is governed. Now, with a minimum of sabotage, millions and millions of Americans, Republicans and Democrats alike, share their hatred of Washington.
It is discouraging for someone who writes about politics to see and hear the outrage and even hate that is voiced when anyone brings up the subject of the government shutdown, or Congress, or the White House or anybody or anything in the nation's capital. Isn't that what the tea party provocateurs want? They hate government, and they want you to hate it, too.
Anti-government populism has always been a thread in the fabric of American life. Until the tea party nihilists, the latest manifestation had been President Reagan's inaugural address, when he repeated his old line, "Government is not the solution; it's the problem."
Despite his rhetoric, Reagan never governed as if he believed that crap. He was a compromiser when he had to be, he understood what "loyal opposition" meant and, like most politicians, he was not really against the government or big government. He just wanted big government that did what he wanted it to do....
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He seems upset that there are people who do not worship government as he does.
What a boatload of propaganda. Since the runup to the shutdown began, I have learned several things from the Vichy Media and their minions in Congress and the White House.
1. I’m a secessionist
2. I’m a Confederate holdover (see #1)
3. I hate all government
4. I’m an anarchist
5. I’m a nihilist (pretty funny considering that Judeo-Christian ethics are the opposite of nihilism)
6. Don’t forget the racist stuff
All of which is wrong. Although the idea of secession is always a good Plan B.
As I said, what a complete boatload of crap.
Our fundamental problem... Washington has become a huge, loveless, self promoting prideful ego fest.
Reagan grasped this and herded the polecats as best he could without the ability to change out the polecats.
As for the Tea Party... yes I tend to agree. They raised a ruckus in Washington. About all they could do, but even a small smoke signal is better than no smoke signal.
Obamacare totally sucks.
One thing we have going for us. It belongs to Democrats.
When they are hunting Democrats with pitchforks for this disaster we can point and say “You own it, azzHoles.”
No point in wasting any more of my life dissecting his rank stupidity.
Maybe its all those Obama voter suckers who cant get into the broken Obama-care website who are suddenly mad at Washington.
Anyone who doesn’t hate Washington today is a f’n retard!
Seriously? This was posted on Yahoo News? Are there any real journalists left, anyone who can tell the difference between news and editorials?
He didn’t say they won the whole game. He said they won a victory of some kind. A skirmish.
Did you forget the barf alert?
Reeves is a liberal Democrat scumbag who has been writing this same tripe for decades. And decades.
What is this fossil, like, 90?
Truth, Justice, and The American Way will win.
I like the headline, even though he uses the article to bash us. Flail away, dimwit, I say.
Which is worse?
A media that is controlled by the state like Pravda was, or a media that is not controlled and provides substantially the same job by choice.
In the U.S.S.R., the populace knew they were being lied to. They didn’t believe most of it.
In the U.S. most folks think this is business as usual, just like it always has been and very healthy.
Richard Reeves
And liberal Democrat scumbags, when they complain, something was probably done right by the GOP. Not much, but something.
Let me give you a little secret.
EVIL IS A HOUSE OF CARDS
GOOD IS VASTLY MORE POWERFUL THAN EVIL
The Democrats WERE trembling. They showed their panic through their desperate guff.
THE PROBLEM FOLKS IS THAT SO CALLED CONSERVATIVES BUY THE GUFF... AND ACT LIKE THERE IS SOMEONE REASONABLE IN THERE. THERE IS NOT. THAT IS SATAN’S DOMAIN.
I seem to remember Reeves as being a liberal asshole from years back. So the Tea Party are nihilists? Believing in smaller government, less taxes, abiding by the Constitution and maintaining a strong defense is nihilism? Nihilism is the belief in nothing. Yeah, I see Reeves is the asshole he’s always been.
I did not have to get very far to realize that he has never been to the Reagan library or if he has, he breezed through with a jaded sneer on his face and failed to absorb any of essence of the man. Amazing how politically blind a person can be when they try.
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