Posted on 05/04/2010 8:26:16 AM PDT by kristinn
Obama is an idiot.
well, that may be true. But I don’t think you would seriously claim that if Bush had served a 3rd term or if McCain had won that we’d be seeing anything like the current Tea Party movement, even if their policies had remained roughly similar.
Lying PUNK!
McCain had little support in 2008 from Conservatives. Some came on board when Sarah Palin was named VP but too many sat the election out altogether which is why Obama won.
Doesn’t hold that “they wouldn’t have voiced opposition”. They did and America lost.
You're 'revising' history there, fip.
She was a Supreme Court Justice nominee. Never said she WAS a justice.
And I want the GOP to vote NO on any Obama SC nominee who is to the Left of Meirs. It wouldn’t be “partisan”, it would be CONSISTENCY with GOP stance on the SC.
“Tea Party” by name perhaps but millions of people in a backlash for sure.
Any comparison of what Bush did, even exaggerated, and what Obama began doing the moment he took office, is foolish.
We complain about bad government, the left immediately thinks of pornography.
A clear demarcation of ideologies.
Dear Mr. President, is Larry Sinclair a “tea-bagger?”
They sure inject their faith into the public square a lot.
You're falsely comparing frustration with spending and fierce anger with someone who is doing his best to destroy the country deliberately.
The Tea Party movement began with Obama. Some Bush haters have joined it, but they are in the minority.
And if it is taken over by Bush haters, it will become as impotent as they are politically.
FOCUS.
He (0bama) is a vile human being.
I don’t lump all conservative rallies/protests into this “back history” (as in “helped create”) and as evidence I offer up the 2000 recount (it was important protest/counter protest but it took the debate to the streets as the Democrats tried to manufacture enough votes to take the White House as Al Franken would later take a Senate seat).
These uprising can be found going back to the way the Clintons tried to ram through Hillarycare in the 1993 in closed-door sessions. (largely the same legislation we know as Obamacare)
Peter Jennings said in 1994 that “America threw a temper tantrum” in giving the GOP a majority in both the House and Senate.
Eventually the public grew to dislike the Republican Congress as well.
These backlashes against the government are not so much “support for a piece of legislation” as they are an opposition to proposed changes and spending.
Obamacare was passed through purchased votes, no bipartisan support, no public support through debate. Pork. Nothing but set asides to get enough Democrats in Congress to support it.
Americans opposed immigration reform in 2006 and continue to oppose all of this talk of “amnesty” for 20 million people in 2010.
In California Democrats and Republican voters voted in support of Prop 8 to prevent the redefining of marriage.
These are BIPARTISAN (or non-partisan) voters standing up to “change”.
Republicans and Democrats opposes Bush policy on a number of matters, but finding where they are in AGREEMENT for why they oppose a stance (like the Dubai ports deal) are a trait shared with the “tea party”.
People HAVE taken to the streets.
The movement does not exist without the “silent majority” conservatives calling Washington DC and holding rallies (but they are not the only ones speaking up). It is for this that I point them out and past occasions they also rose up. Obama is claiming “they are newly created” (as a respone to The One). He isn’t that big. Kerry or Edwards or Kennedy would have faced similar opposition.
It seems some animals are more equal than others...
It's like the pot calling the kettle "black" with him.
Can I say that ?
For one who disparages "incivility", he sure spreads a lot of it around himself.
(Not sure how Miers fits into this history, though, which was the point I was objecting to in your first post).
Thanks for the post, though. Others may not understand what the Tea Party movement is about, and sans the stuff in your first post, what you have written is accurate.
btw, aside from doing something extremely important, it is FUN to be protesting alongside fellow conservative patriots, isn’t it?
I may have not put it into the best of terms. Yes this is different and more pronounced, but when Obama claims “nothing” like it before, he’s a little short sighted (or dishonest since EVERYTHING is always about him).
The public has HELD these views, the progressives pushing this agenda rarely move towards it so directly and forcefully.
He claims to be a moderate and THAT is what causes the backlash to his policies, Americans are not THAT dumb when push comes to shove.
An honest media would bring this debate out into the open (and actually undercut the activism of some in the tea party in doing so).
Obama To Supporters: "Argue With Friend and Neighbors Get In Their Face!"
Obama Mocks Republican 'Armageddon' Rhetoric (Again)
Obama: Police Acted 'stupidly' in Scholar Arrest
Obama On GOP Running On Repeal: 'Go For It'
NRA: Barack Obama - "bitter gun owners"
A President who mocks and taunts Americans, who incites his followers to be confrontational, is troublesome.
One lone voice crying out the truth in a slobbering media environment might have saved this country from this disastrous administration.
But you're right. An honest media, reporting the truth about the administration, would negate some of the need we now have to stand in the streets to try to save the country we love.
But instead, they are calling us dirty names, lying and saying we're violent, calling us racists and making us even angrier and more determined to fight the radicalism and Marxism of Obama.
They aren't going to win this. Truth is on our side. This regime will fall, and the slobbering media will come crashing down with it.
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