The Tea Party Jumps the Shark

The Bucks County Courier Times ^ | June 5, 2014 | Mardi Harrison, Community Blogger

[L,TOWM]

Just what Frederic Bastiat stated so long ago -- it remains true even in our "enlightened age".

“Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.” ― Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

[GeronL]

Yes she is, I still want to find those economic ideas she says would have saved the economy if it weren’t for those meddling TEA Party kids....

[Billthedrill]

It is a fundamental truth in debate that if you cannot express your opponents' arguments in terms with which they would agree, you do not understand the issue. This individual is a perfect example. I doubt that she actually knows any "Tea Party" members, by which one must understand members in a largely mythical projection to begin with. Clearly, however, she is a big believer in governments doing things for people, ignoring the case that governments actually do things to people and that sometimes even those things approved of by the experts of the moment are not only destructive but cannot be recovered from. If she does not appreciate this, and I get the sense that she does not, then she cannot possibly understand that political viewpoint she categorizes as "Tea Party".

This is not to be dismissed as a child's tantrum as she does. It is not to be marginalized as an incoherent expression of frustration at a world we do not understand. We understand it all too well.

[GeronL]

bump

[TADSLOS]

She needs a cheese burger and a double order of fries. That’ll settle her down. It works for the wookie.

[L,TOWM]

Ohh, c’mon — the nation’s police forces are doing a fine job in removing dogs from the public streets, the backyards of homes, driveways, public parks, and any other location the police might happen to be in proximity to a barking or growling dog, whether leashed or not...

[2ndDivisionVet]

Mardi Harrison, esquire, 66 years old (photo from 2011 when she was 63)

[bray]

And they are poo poo heads and I hate them!

Pray America wakes up

[Smokin' Joe]

There’s nothing wrong with potatoes – I like potatoes, but studies demonstrate that most women and children already consume plenty of potatoes – what they need is incentive to purchase more fruits and vegetables.

Excuse me, but I thought Potatoes fell into the "fruits and vegetables" category.

This is why the nonpartisan, scientific Institute of Medicine, which advises on WIC standards, has cautioned that white potatoes should not be included in the WIC program.

Even the "scientific" Institute of Medicine should know the above.

Let's put it this way. Every year, medical "misfortune" kills over 100,000 people in a country believed to have one of the best systems of medical care in the world.

How many children have died of 'Big Mac poisoning", have been 'supersized' to death, ate too many cupcakes and succumbed? Even the annual candy orgies of Halloween and Easter fail to flood emergency rooms with critical care patients OD'd on sugary orange pumpkins or jelly beans and chocolate bunnies.

It turns out that people, given choices, will eat what they crave. For some, that will be sugar, for others red meat, for others yet a variety of vegetables, and for many, some combination, often balanced by what tastes good.

Just as not two people are exactly alike, their nutritional requirements will vary, from month to month, even day to day, depending on a number of factors from age, activity level, climate, genetics, and pregnancy, to name a few.

The idea that someone, somewhere else, who knows neither me nor my life, can somehow concoct a set regime of nutritional requirements which will keep me healthy in all circumstances, with no knowledge of the individual requirements of my physiology is patently insane.

The idea of such a regimen being imposed by fiat or law is repugnant at best, and deserving of outright defiance as a matter of principle.

[Grams A]

Turned on the local news tonight for just a few minutes. After one minute it was time for a commercial break - 7 commercials as a matter of fact. Four of them centered around exercise and what to eat - including a plate of vegetables. It’s just non-stop on all the cooking programs, everywhere. This is getting worse than the non-stop campaign commercials we were getting two weeks ago.

Couldn’t even stand to leave it on long enough to catch the weather. Enough already!

[reasonisfaith]

As always, confusion rules the left.

What’s good to eat is one question.

Who can tell you what to eat is an entirely different question.

Learn the difference and try to keep more alert, Mardi.

[RginTN]

Lefties hate that Obama critics looked at the menu of Sidwell Friends and then questioned Michelle O’s healthy meal menu for everyone in public school.

This op-ed is par for the course in idiot Lefty rhetoric.

[Gaffer]

She’s a simplistic moron

[okie01]

Somehow, I don’t think she was referring to local government performing animal control...

[Paulie]

**But for me, the Tea Party has absolutely jumped the shark...**

Let me clue you into something, Mardi. No one cares what you think.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Obama Girls Enjoy ‘Best School Lunch in America;’ Public Schoolers Lament ‘Let’s Move’ Meals
http://cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/barbara-boland/obama-girls-enjoy-best-school-lunch-america-public-schoolers-lament-lets

[1010RD]

There’s always something standing between socialists and utopia. In Illinois a century of Democratic control has failed to give us a land of milk and honey. Who is to blame?

People who refuse to pay more in taxes, rich people, productive people, Washington DC, other states with lower taxes and lower regulations, etc.

[Smokin' Joe]

Michelle is pushing all of this whole grain stuff which will only make us fatter.

Grain was for fattening the livestock (who had the teeth for it), so they were more tender for humans to eat (who really didn't have the grinders for a continual diet of whole grain).

Of course, it dawns on me that only potatoes of color qualify for WIC, just not the white ones.

Hmmmmm.

[KarlInOhio]

In another column I listed just some of the initiatives that could have had our economy singing

I think we've heard that song before:

United forever in friendship and labour,
Our mighty republics will ever endure.
The Great Soviet Union will live through the ages.
The dream of a people their fortress secure.

Or maybe some medieval dirges or something foreboding like Carmina Burana.

[bigmak007]

She has an Obama dildo, she won at her kid’s HS raffle.