Posted on 04/08/2011 3:40:22 PM PDT by Crush
If you listen to Sen. Harry Reid (Nev.) and Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), you’d think they don’t sound like friends of any Tea Party group. In fact, they are.
USA Today quoted Reid: "[N]ow the Tea Party among others, they are the biggest push, is trying to push its extreme social agenda, issues that have nothing to do with funding the bill."
Schumer has called Tea Partiers “the extreme element of his [House Speaker John Boehner's] party.”
Schumer was also caught with his political pants down when he explained Democrats should paint Tea Partiers as “extremists” and a phone mic was left open. I think Schumer could care less—he’s had traditional media in his hand for a long time. Otherwise he’d have been figuratively tarred and feathered when he cost all those IndyMac employees their jobs after he leaked a letter about the bank’s financials. Schumer is a veteran leaker.
Aside from those two socialist-progressive titans, many others have attacked Tea Party supporters. I routinely delete comments containing juvenile profanity about these grassroots groups seriously underestimated by Democrats.
A recent Rasmussen survey produced interesting results: “48% of Likely U.S. Voters say when it comes to the major issues facing the country, their views are closer to the average Tea Party member as opposed to the average member of Congress. Just 22% say their views are closest to those of the average congressman. Even more (30%) aren’t sure.”
A few months ago I was out and about and an executive who is a very smart, accomplished man asked me, “Are you a member of a Tea Party group?”
I told him I wasn’t but I sympathized with a lot of their grassroots views on how our country is run. “Are you a member of one?” I asked.
He surprised me with...
(Excerpt) Read more at theusreport.com ...
Glad to have you aboard! Great article!
The one thing I don’t understand about this is whether Schumer, Reid, et al. really don’t understand the distinction between the Tea Party movement, which is entirely engaged in fiscal and constitutional issues, and social conservatism, or whether this is an intentional, disingenuous smear tactic.
The first one was about... Planned Parenthood!
Others included ending the opportunity scholarships in D.C. schools and closing Yucca Mountain.
These, two miserable, aging, political hacks do damage to the country every time they open their lying mouths.
Schmucky Chucky never gets embarrassed about getting caught with his pants down because his anal orifice is prominently displayed right under his massive nose.
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