Letter: Tea party, GOP misguided (Thinks Alan Grayson "tells you like it is")

The Leesburg Daily Commercial ^ | October 12, 2010 | Al Dandeneau, Mount Dora

[2ndDivisionVet]

I'm a retiree and resident of Mount Dora. I do have representation. Too many "angry" tea-partiers are not aware of what the Boston Tea Party was all about. Some may be sincere, but are being duped by rich Republicans. They seem to only spew and not attempt to resolve. What are solutions that the filthy rich and Bush administration left the current administration with? I'd Like to ask a Palin, O'Donnel, Angle or Bockman. They come up empty or run from a press conference. They appear on Fox with ready questions and bash jargon. Never a solution to resolve. They blame media for "cornering" their ignorance and what the real home and abroad problems are. Sunday talk shows would be their demise and they know it. Hmm, they do know something.

Meanwhile, back in the real world of trying to get things done, Alan Grayson tells you like it is and it steams the non-investors for the future generation. The party of no only wants the rich get richer, as an innocent middle-class continues to dissolve. Are the tea ranks full of rich folk which all the no represents? Taxes are necessary and they are of less collection because of current times. Some call themselves "patriots," but are only for self. We are only one as a conglomerate nation.

Ask a Tea question like: What about our crumbling infrastructure? or, why didn't Bush have a war tax on his two unnecessary wars that cost trillions?

Alan Grayson looks you in the eye and answers questions. He's a watchdog and investor, cares beyond self and that businesses send jobs overseas. The future generation needs us now. It would not be fair to do nothing in the name of sound-good politics. We're falling apart at the seams and it did not start 21 months ago.

I'll drink my coffee with Alan Grayson. Tea sounds too much of where our jobs are going. Invest here at home and help our future generations, now! Tax me if you must. I'm a patriot.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Have you ever seen the English language mangled that badly by someone who is supposedly a retired American "patriot?" Are the Dems outsourcing their "Letter-to-the-Editor" campaigns to Bangladesh?

[Leisler]

[VeniVidiVici]

Someone should ask Al if he votes absentee ballot back in Wisconsin while living in Florida.

May have to give the Supervisor of Elections in Lake County a call.

[2ndDivisionVet]

You know this guy? LOL

[Cheburashka]

Grayson holds a gun to his grandmother's head and forces her to write a letter to the editor. Here is the result.

[philman_36]

Too many "angry" tea-partiers are not aware of what the Boston Tea Party was all about.
I'm so bummed out. I was expecting an illustration or elucidation from his own personal experience through conversations he had to bring his point home.
I guess I'll just have to be content with dejection.

[EverOnward]

Did this 17 year old impostor miss any empty-headed liberal cliches?

[freebilly]

Great letter from a functional illiterate in support of Alan Grayson. With friends like that who needs enemas...?

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Did this 17 year old impostor miss any empty-headed liberal cliches?”

It’s probably Graysons volunteer campaign aide who wrote it.

[screaminsunshine]

Senile Citizen with retired brain?

[econjack]

I'm a patriot.

No, you're an idiot.

[240B]

What are solutions that the filthy rich and Bush administration left the current administration with?

I am always amused when the Left talks about the 'filthy rich'. THE LEFT IS THE 'FILTHY RICH'.

How much is Soros worth? billions of dollars. He is a billionair. How much is Pelosi or Michael Moore worth? Both are multimillionaires.

This fighting the 'filthy rich' thing is beyond stupid.

[cripplecreek]

What about our crumbling infrastructure? or, why didn't Bush have a war tax on his two unnecessary wars that cost trillions?

So that's what the Boston Tea party was about?

Idiot.

[leprechaun9]

Tax me if you must. I'm a patriot.

This boob doesn't know that he can send in all his money to the U.S. Treasury, HE DOESN'T HAVE TO WAIT TO TAXED!

Let's measure his patriotism by how much of HIS money HE voluntarily sends in (if that is his measure of patriotism)!

[Opinionated Blowhard]

What this letter shows is that there are a lot of people in this country who respond to appeals to class warfare rhetoric. Never underestimate it. They’d be happy if all the property of “the rich” was confiscated and dolled out to Dem supporters. Anything to keep the “free stuff” gravy train going.

[cripplecreek]

I think its kind of funny that this clown says tea partiers don’t know what the Boston Tea party was about but doesn’t bother to educate us.

He or she either doesn’t know, or does know and realizes that it won’t help their case.

My explanation is simplified but the Tea act of 1773 was just the final insult in a long line of insults. It actually lowered taxes on tea in an attempt to flood the market with “approved” British imports and stem the smuggling of tea that was a major source of funding for a growing rebellion. It allowed the British to enter and seize warehouses and their contents only to slap a stamp on them and sell the seized goods with the British tax.

All in all, the tea partiers of today seem to have a pretty fair understanding of the right and wrong of the Boston tea party if not the intricacies surrounding it.

[philman_36]

A good article spelling out the particulars...
How the Boston Tea Party Began

[cripplecreek]

Thanks. Its a far more complicated issue than the standard “The colonists didn’t want to be taxed” explanation.

[samtheman]

good link, thanks

[240B]

Good gracious, your post is so normal and real.

If these multimillionaire, billionaires, people are so excited, so willing, so anxious, to give all their money to the government, then why don't they just do it?

Exacty right.