Posted on 04/17/2009 8:57:08 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
The left most certainly didn't like the spectacle of the tea parties and FairTax rallies on tax day. Liberals would much prefer that you just file your tax return and shut the hell up. After all .. this protesting government thing is something that rightwing extremists do, right? I think that we all knew that the left would try to find ways to denigrate the protests ... and here you go.
Princess Nancy has come forward with her own theory as to how these rightwing extremists came to be protesting our government spending habits and our tax code. You'll love this. Nancy Pelosi actually believes that these tea parties are supported by ... ready for the class-warfare card? ... "the high-end." That's just another way of saying the evil, filthy, disgusting rich. Here's her quote:
"This initiative is funded by the high-end. We call it 'astroturf'; it's not really a grassroots movement. It's astroturfed by some of the wealthiest people in America to keep the focus on tax cuts for the rich instead of for the great middle class."
So there you have it, folks. Rich people were behind this. They're somehow using the masses to protest taxes so that the evil rich won't have to pay their "fair share" of taxes.
Why is it only the "great" middle class that is deserving of a tax cut? Is Princess Nancy implying that the evil rich don't actually work to earn any of that money? Hmmmm. You know, of course, that she actually does believe that. Oh .. by the way, Nancy and her husband are worth in the tens of millions.
Why the "Astroturf" word? Well ... and let's see if we can follow this: The tea party movement is not true grassroots. It's fake. Fake because it's promoted and financed by some rich people .. and Fox News, of course. Fake grass = Astroturf. Get it? Unusually clever for liberals, I'd say.
Oh and by the way, guess who happens to be known as the master of "astroturfing" in Washington? Obama's chief strategist David Axelrod. Basically what it happens is a corporation or political party creates the impression of something being caused by spontaneous "grassroots" behavior .. when in fact it is very much manufactured. So this is what Nancy Pelosi believes the tea party movement to be all about. And therefore, your anger and your frustration is not worthy of her time because it is coming from an artificial source.
I don't think there was anything false or manufactured about what happened on April 15th. Do you? But that's how the Democrats are going to get around this ... by pretending that your actions aren't fueled by genuine concern for your children's future.
Wouldn't you like to see Pelosi just reduced to another one of the 435 members of the House of Representatives? What a day that would be ... and that day only comes around when the actual productive people get off their duffs and actually vote when the next election comes around.
Everyone should send a blank 1040 form to “tax cheat” Geithner asking him use his Turbo tax program to do all of our taxes. What a pile of mail...
That’s just wrong.
Put astroturf under Nancy’s pillory on the National Mall when the Revolution starts...
Hey, you are a winner. Thanks great Idea. lol
Surely there must be a record of all the buses rented to bring protesters in. There must be lots of evidence of mass produced signs etc.
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Uh huh, they tried this same bullclinton when we were protesting during Gore’s attempt to steal the 2000 election.
They don't have to "prove" anything to you; someone who is obviously a right wing extremist. Anyway, even if Dame Nancy's statement is proven false by facts, it is accurate enough to be repeated through the media.
Why would Democrats fund conservative political activities?
BTW, Astro was a cool dog!
I remember something to the effect that B J Clinton had Astroturf in the BED of his EL CAMINO. Wasn’t Chelsea’s nickname Astroturf? Wasn’t Astroturf installed in BJ’s Oval/Oral Office for Monica? Were some of Her Thighness’s pant suits made of this material?
Instead of buying a jacket made of grass, why don’t we all send Princess Pelosi a couple of blades of grass to prove we actually live in the real world.
Bookmark
Don’t bother sending organic material through the mail, after Sept 11th all that stuff is just thrown out.
"A REPUBLIC,
IF YOU CAN
KEEP IT."
B. Franklin
Of my three signs, that was the one people wanted pictures of.
greeaaatttt sign!
I chose Jeffersons
“A democracy will cease to exist when you would take from those who are willing to work, and give to those who would not”
One of the funniest signs I saw was a reproduction of a portrait of George Washington with a big “WTF!!” coming out of his mouth...
At some stores that sell rugs, you can get a small swatch of the material the rug is made from.
I say, we all go to Home Depot, or Lowes, or some other store that sells astroturf and pick up a small square.
THEN we all mail it to Nancy Pelosi.
In fact, some of the Groups can pool their money and buy a small rug of astroturf and then cut up little four inch squares and give them away to be sent to Mizzzzzzz Nancy “We Won” Pelosi. With a nice note that you and your friends are sending her a rug . . . but she’ll have to sew it together.
hehehehe, that was my evil twin who came up with that idea.
As a VERY middle class citizen I am against tax increases for anyone in any income bracket. If our government can’t get by on the enormous amount of taxes they already take from us then our money is clearly being misused.
Oh, and at the Savannah, GA Tea Party, the audience was most assuredly a broad cross section of income levels. If the poor don’t think higher taxes on the middle class and “rich” aren’t going to affect them then they are in for a very rude awakening.
Those of a seared conscience...
This might just work. According to Geithner, the tax cheat and his lackey Bernanke the soon to be replaced by Larry Summers Fed chairman, we can just borrow all of the money we need from the Chinese and cut taxes to zero. Our taxes now only cover 23% of federal spending anyway!!!
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