Slouching Toward DC, Trailing Bags of Tea (Grab a bucket!)

Monthly Review Magazine ^ | December 25, 2009 | Al Sandine

[2ndDivisionVet]

Won't they be surprised when the SHTF?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Grab a bucket? To brew some kick-@$$ tea in?

[jessduntno]

“Grab a bucket? To brew some kick-@$$ tea in?”

According to the 2010 calendar, the House and Senate are both in session the week of April 15th....

Be a shame if they couldn’t get anything done with about 5 million confused taxpayers wanting to speak to them...day after day, clogging up the streets and cramming the halls...

[pillut48]

Let me guess the by-line author after all the liberal references: Janene Garafolo?

Boy, are THEY in for a big surprise come election day 2010 and 2012!!! :-)

[TheThinker]

Amid these anti-reform messages, the racism of the "birther" tendency is barely disguised: "The Zoo Has an African Lion and the White House Has a Lyin' African" and "'Cap' Congress and 'Trade' Obama Back to Kenya."

I see no racism in these statements. It's more about nationality or lack thereof.

[benewton]

Why do you think that there’ll be an honest election?

“We Came Unarmed (This Time)” works better for me.

[pillut48]

Because I believe that many MANY formerly complacent COMMONSENSE CONSERVATIVE Americans who haven’t voted in *years* will come out in droves and vastly outnumber all those ACORN/dead/felons/ReVoters in the elections!

“If God is with us, who can be against us??”

[right way right]

alsandine@aol.com

http://alsandine.blogspot.com/

Someone who needs dealt with.

[Darkwolf377]

In sum, the tea-bagger crowds represent a break with the usual antithesis of organized people versus organized money. They serve the interests of powerful others. Medical insurers, carbon polluters, and other representatives of corporate America must be cheering, though perhaps not openly. Crowds of evangelicals had already ended what had been, for years, a left monopoly on mass protests. Remember Terri Schiavo and her controversial feeding tubes? As for the electronically-mediated demagoguery of Fox News hosts, that goes back at least as far as Father Coughlin, the Nazi-sympathizing "radio priest" of the 1930s.

That's a great summation of the lefty point of view on this.

What's interesting to me is that as i read up to this point, I replaced all the "healthcare" references with "war," and the R's with D's and vice versa. For some reason, I don't seem to recall similar lefty stooges criticizing those who "speak truth to power" for the left.

Of course i wouldn't expect them to attack those who support their politics, but my point is, they don't seem to see how hypocritical they are--why is it wrong for people such as the teapartiers to take part in their own nation's actions? Why are they to be mocked for being (shocking!) white in a majority-white nation, when they had NO problem when most anti-Vietnam (or Iraq) protesters were also white.

This is not genuine, honest discussion. They simply smear those who oppose them, in ways they would never attack white, middle-class or whatever people who supported them. Was this writer writing similar snarky lines about Cindy Sheehan?

[ToTheMax]

Monthly Review is a marxist publication and is open about it.

This article is pure marxist BS. The writer has no idea what they are writing about. Same old crap without an imaginative observation in all of it.

No wonder the Tea Parties have infuriated them. They got caught off guard and don’t know what to do about it.

I covered anti-Vietnam protests in the 70’s and there was a lot of violence in them. I even saw the Chief of Police of DC get his head whacked by a large stone thrown by a Maoist group. They also hit me with a richoceting large rock.

Today it is the Black/Red Bloc of marxists/anarchists who are doing most of the violence from Seattle/WTO to DC. Seattle’s violence was planned by a Filippino red named Walden Bello who teaches there and in Thailand.
He is a master of planning disruptive demonstrations all over the world.

So the next time you see something from Monthly Review, International Socialist magazine, or The Nation, just remember to color them “RED”.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

“In sum, the tea-bagger crowds”

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Only gay liberals say “tea-bagger”.

They know what it means, because it’s a weird homosexual thing which ... (wait for it) ... LIBERALS do.

One can only presume, the writer is gay.

[Republic_of_Secession.]

This is just typical of those who are afraid that the average American is starting to assert their rights.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Didn’t know this was a Marxist publication - except from this one article alone - I could guess that.

Thanks for the added info.

The reds fear the Tea Party movement, don’t they?

I’m so sorry..../not!

[FrankR]

"I see no racism in these statements. It's more about nationality or lack thereof. "

I think one of the biggest mistakes that we - as white, conservative Americans - make, is to even attempt to answer these ridiculous charges of racism at every turn.

The accusers know there is no racism involved, and here's why: With all of the thousands of EEO laws, and rules, and lawyers, and a lot of people looking to win the "lawsuit lottery", IF there was real racism, there would be killings, arrests, or at the very least, highly publicized EEO lawsuits and Jesse Jackson extortion ploys going on everywhere.

Instead of the childish rebuttal of "I'm not a racist", we should be just saying, "Prove it...put up, or shuttup."

The tail has been wagging the dog so long in America, the dog has forgotten how to bark and bite. I have a small terrier, and if I let her outside and there are some neighborhood cats around, my dog will chase them wide open until they go up a tree or jump the fence. HOWEVER, she will NOT CHASE THE CATS THAT REFUSE TO RUN. If they turn around and confront her, she loses interest and comes back to the house.

I have a feeling that if we turned and confronted these mouthy race-baiters, they'd think twice. Oh, they might fluster and bluster for a while, and do some "billy badass" posturing on TV, but as soon as we stop "running", they'll stop chasing.

Then get a Congress in place to pass some "frivilous lawsuit" statutes, like "loser pays", and a lot of this crap will slowdown.

If SOMETHING is not done, it's only going to GET WORSE.

If asking obama for his birth certificate is "racist" to prove his eligibility for the presidency, then every school district in the USA is racist for asking minority students for their birth certificates.

Think about it.......................

[highlander_UW]

On April 15, thousands of angry Americans attended Tax Day "tea parties" at about 750 sites across the nation. In Lansing, Michigan, 3,000 to 4,000 people cheered Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, a.k.a. "Joe the Plumber."

So they reference a 3000 to 4000 crowd but fail to mention the over ONE MILLION in DC? Ironic that one of the premises of the piece is how the tea party movement is getting coverage when other protests don't. Just another liberal hypocrite...oh, sorry, guess that's redundant.

[maine yankee]

In the immortal words of Bob Dylan;

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There’s a battle outside
And it is ragin’.
It’ll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’

Can you imagine if a million honest citizens all decided to legally cross (at the crosswalk) every major street in the capital area ? Back and forth, back and forth. If the entrance to the senate and congress office buildings were so jammmed with visitors our elected officials and their staffs couldn’t get near the doors ? If cars stalled in the middle of every major street; only to start again when a cop and tow truck showed up ? If the metro was so jammed no beaurocrat could get near his office building ? And every fifteen minutes on the quarter hour everybody started reciting the pledge of allegance ?

Make your reservations early.

[stevie_d_64]

Nailed it!!!

The whole “Prove it...put up, or shutup.” can be aplied to just about every argumentative they (liberal statists) put out there as a speedbump to the movement...

I keep trying, and will continue to keep our side of the equation as pizzed off as I can for the next year...

Those that say they are angry and want to make a statement next November...Fine...Prove it!!! Do your homework, make sure as many conservatives make it through the primaries, stop screwing around with crossing over and trying to scrogg the liberal slate of candidates...

Now is not the time to be fiddle fartin’ around and waiting for something to happen in this election cycle...

Otherwise...hehehe, I don’t want to hear any more griping (and that is putting it nicely) after the Noivember elections...

I heard a number, and it may be off, but it sounded good to me...If we can turn over 40 seats in the house, and obviously only a few in the Senate, we can effectively neuter the next couple of years for this debacle of an administration, and set the pace for the 2012 showdown...

If anyone believes the opposition that voted for Obama is going to lay down and roll over, hehehe, I got some land in Louisiana I wanna sell ya...

[Condor51]

.... As one protestor's sign at the Tax Payers March warned, "We Came Unarmed (This Time)."

oh-oh Al Sandine seems scared.
I think he made poopy in his pants.

[wintertime]

As for the electronically-mediated demagoguery of Fox News hosts, that goes back at least as far as Father Coughlin, the Nazi-sympathizing "radio priest" of the 1930s.

Wow! No bias here! (/s)

[wintertime]

As for the president, one suspects that race has everything to do with tea-bagger willingness to view him as a flaming radical. Such labels can have little to do with his actual politics.

Yep! We're racists. ( yawn!)