Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 09/15/2010 6:01:28 PM PDT by Kaslin
Election 2010: Another Tea Party candidate has dispatched another incumbent, riding a tidal wave of voter anger. The "angry mobs" that thronged town hall meetings were laughed at. No one's laughing anymore.
When the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill passed the House with the help of eight Republicans, Rep. Mike Castle, one of the eight and Delaware's at-large congressman, offered an explanation right off of President Obama's teleprompter.
He cited Spain, which studies show has lost 2.2 jobs for every "green" job created with huge subsidies, and John Podesta's liberal Center for American Progress as approving the mandate-heavy Waxman-Markey bill as a "market-driven solution."
This is just one of the reasons Castle's opponent, marketing consultant Christine O'Donnell, labeled him an "Obama Republican."
Legislative atrocities such as Waxman-Markey and later Obama-Care are examples of what many voters see as out-of-touch politicians trying to micromanage every aspect of their lives when all they want are jobs, the right to keep what they earn, and a future that doesn't bankrupt their children.
Americans don't want Castle's and Obama's cap-and-trade, and now Delaware voters have rejected Castle himself in a year when being a former governor and nine-term congressman isn't an advantage but an albatross.
As last year's town hall meetings showed, Americans want to be listened to, not lectured at. The "angry mobs" that were laughed at are now voting in unprecedented numbers, a very ironic form of community organizing that has become the Tea Party movement.
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Perfectly said.
Your comment bears repeating - again and again -
“They don’t get it. It isn’t a party. It is a state of mind - the same mind that fought the Revolution and ratified the Constitution, the American belief in individual effort, initiative and autonomy; the sovereignty of the individual.”
The Second American Revolution is getting stronger.
Yeah, toilets that work like crap and light bulbs that hurt my eyes. Where in the Constitution does it say they have power over our lives like that?
Think (for example) "spontaneous" protests by groups of people all waving the same signs and wearing SEIU shirts.
Cheers!
Instead of the Tea Party being a real "grass roots" movement the Dems declared it "astro-turfed" as in fake grass.
The Dems themselves do this quite a bit. They use the term among themselves, for example, to describe when they bus in hundreds of union workers ordered to go to give a political show for a liberal cause, a fake grass roots gathering.
Ping.
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