Posted on 05/07/2010 9:42:42 AM PDT by Lucky9teen
Farewell to the Tea Party. It was fun while it lasted. It certainly got a lot of undue media attention. But it died a premature, yet welcome, death.
Ironically, what killed the Tea Party was not opposition from either the Republican or Democratic Party. The Tea Party committed suicide, rendered irrelevant by a succession of current events.
The central premise of Tea Party loyalists, after all, was that they were anti-government. You know the drill: All government is bad. Taxes are bad. Government bureaucrats are bad. Then, unfortunately for them, just as they were gaining traction, tea baggers ran into the reality of tornadoes, disastrous floods, an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and a terrorist attack in Times Square. In each of those cases, whom did people turn to for help? The government. And the future of the Tea Party was suddenly kaput: as dead as John Edwards’ political career.
Take the Times Square bomber. He was identified, tracked down, and apprehended exactly 53 hours and 17 minutes from the time he parked his lethal van at 45th and 7th Avenue. How? Through excellent police work by the New York City Police Department, the FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security.
Proud tea partiers, note: All of those police officers work for the government. All of them are paid by our tax dollars. They did an incredible job. Thanks to them, one more terrorist is behind bars. Let those who “hate” government explain why they hate law enforcement officials who are keeping us all safe.
Take the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Yes, according to law, BP is responsible for conducting and paying for the cleanup. But who were the first ones on the scene? The Coast Guard. Who’s overseeing the work of BP and other contractors to make sure they are doing everything possible to stop the leak, minimize onshore damage, and reimburse watermen for lost wages? The Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Department of the Interior.
Again, they are all federal employees, paid by our tax dollars — and they were the agencies all five Republican governors of the Gulf States turned to for help on April 22, when BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and burned.
Take the recent series of storms and tornadoes that recently hit the South, causing so much death and destruction. When tornadoes swept across Mississippi and Alabama, and when severe flooding struck Nashville, the pattern was the same. Local officials, unable to cope alone, called for help. FEMA officials arrived on the scene. Soon thereafter, President Obama declared the most severely impacted areas of those states as federal disaster areas, making residents eligible for grants for temporary housing and home repairs and low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses.
Governors in those states did not reject the federal government’s help. They actually requested it, and thanked Obama for it. “On behalf of all Alabamians, I thank President Obama for his response to this terrible storm that has affected so many people,” said Governor Bob Riley. “The president’s actions will help those communities recover more quickly.”
One final example. In no state have government-hating Tea Partiers been louder or more active than in Virginia. Conservative Republican Governor Bob McDonnell was elected last year partly on an anti-big government platform. Yet no state profits more from federal largesse.
As reported by The Washington Post, ten cents of every federal procurement dollar spent anywhere on earth is spent in Virginia. More than 15,000 Virginia companies hold federal contracts. … Total federal spending in the state has more than doubled, to $118 billion, since 2000. By 2008, it accounted for a stunning 30 percent of Virginia’s entire economy. And so far, McDonnell has not refused one penny of it. Don’t expect him to any time in the future, either.
All of which makes a mockery of the entire Tea Party movement. When trouble comes, those who complain the loudest about big government are the first ones with their hands out for federal help. Until tea partiers are willing to tear up their Social Security cards and Medicare cards, and reject all help from the FBI, Coast Guard, EPA, FEMA, or any other federal agency, they’re nothing but a bunch of phonies.
Because Socialist governments serve The Party and not the People. See my last post for an example.
Certainly not OBAMABI, he twiddled his thumbs. President Obama doesn't care about American people.
You have it mostly right.
Liberalism is an *infantile* mental disorder.
And when investigators DID go follow the breadcrumbs, they got the names but not the details.
Inside Edition went by the foreclosed home, dug through his garbage and found all sorts of this overlooked by investigators that was headed to the town dump. His 1998 travel visa and other papers.
FAIL!
Bill Press: Town Meeting Protestors ‘Taking a Page Right Out of a Nazi Playbook’
NewsBusters ^ | August 7, 2009 | P.J. Gladnick
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2310515/posts
I thought that the media concluded it was “wrong” to hurl around insults like “Nazi” at rallies and in idiotorials.
Another whopper.
Mr Press appears to be a classic example of how psychologically crippled liberals really are.....
Here we see classic dysfunction that is tied to a severe need to believe a lie....and that Lie is why liberals fail in so many endeavors.
The definition of crazy is so true, they try again and again to rationalize their distorted world views and keep failing time after time.
Lucky, I only read the first two or three paragraphs and gave up. You expressed my sentiments exactly.
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The Left has been spewing this crap since the tax day protests.
“You don’t like taxes? What paid for those roads that you got here on?”
Gasoline taxes and licensing costs. City streets don’t come from the federal government and my state has no income tax.
Ok. I’m going to comment before reading the other posts.
There is a BIG difference between a teabagger and an ANTARCHIST.
Ok. Now to read.....
“Bill Press, the evil twin of Keith Olbermann. He is the only guy I know that makes Keith Olbermann look sane by comparison.”
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I agree. When this idiot did his commentaries on KABC in Los Angeles back in the ‘80s, I’d swear I saw this idiot drool once he got fired up. It was embarrassing to watch. He’s a self-parody; there is no liberal commentator I loathe more than Bill Press.
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“All government is bad.”
No — but those who govern the least govern the best.
There!
Snicker! So the terrorist attacks on our population and the uncontrolled oil spill (after weeks) is good news for the libs and hurts the Tea Party movement. Makes sense /sarc.
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LOL
Bill Press is liberal pressed ham. He is a slobbering loser. The old fart neeeds to expire.
Actually....I think God's intervention had a lot more to do with the bombing failure than the terrorist. But that's just me (smile).
Press daydreaming again.
From the article: All of those police officers work for the government. All of them are paid by our tax dollars. They did an incredible job. Thanks to them, one more terrorist is behind bars...
Well, Bill .. if Shahzad hadn’t been taken off the watch list by the Obama Administration, maybe there wouldn’t have been a Times Square bomb scare.
The tea partiers are not so much anti-government, as anti-government-controlling-every-aspect-of-our-lives. Ever think about that, Bill? Just a thought.
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