Tea Party’s War on America

New York Times ^ | Published: August 1, 2011

[Sub-Driver]

Tea Party’s War on America By JOE NOCERA

You know what they say: Never negotiate with terrorists. It only encourages them.

These last few months, much of the country has watched in horror as the Tea Party Republicans have waged jihad on the American people. Their intransigent demands for deep spending cuts, coupled with their almost gleeful willingness to destroy one of America’s most invaluable assets, its full faith and credit, were incredibly irresponsible. But they didn’t care. Their goal, they believed, was worth blowing up the country for, if that’s what it took.

Like ideologues everywhere, they scorned compromise. When John Boehner, the House speaker, tried to cut a deal with President Obama that included some modest revenue increases, they humiliated him. After this latest agreement was finally struck on Sunday night — amounting to a near-complete capitulation by Obama — Tea Party members went on Fox News to complain that it only called for $2.4 trillion in cuts, instead of $4 trillion. It was head-spinning.

All day Monday, the blogosphere and the talk shows mused about which party would come out ahead politically. Honestly, who cares? What ought to matter is not how these spending cuts will affect our politicians, but how they’ll affect the country. And I’m not even talking about the terrible toll $2.4 trillion in cuts will take on the poor and the middle class. I am talking about their effect on America’s still-ailing economy.

America’s real crisis is not a debt crisis. It’s an unemployment crisis. Yet this agreement not only doesn’t address unemployment, it’s guaranteed to make it worse.

[kcvl]

In the 1980s, Nocera was an editor at Newsweek

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June 14, 2011

For NYT's Joe Nocera, Congressional Oversight Equals Sexual Harassment

New York Times business columnist Joe Nocera, now a regular on the paper’s op-ed page, equated congressional oversight with Anthony Weiner’s sexual peccadillos in Saturday’s “Blocking Elizabeth Warren.” Warren, a Harvard law professor, bankruptcy “expert,” and liberal crusader, is special advisor to the White House and a favorite among liberals and the Times for pushing the creation of a federal agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

" It’s official: Elizabeth Warren will return to the torture chamber known as the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on July 14. Earlier this week, Darrell Issa, the California Republican who is chairman of the committee, tweeted the news. Apparently, Democrats aren’t the only ones who use Twitter to harass women."

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New York Times business columnist Joe Nocera's column last weekend excoriated H.P. and SAP, and presented Oracle in a positive light. One problem: Nocera's fiancee is the PR person for Oracle's lead attorney in its lawsuit against SAP. Woops.

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28 February 2011

NYT's Joe Nocera Defends Failure to Bring Wall Street Execs to Justice

Joe Nocera used his column this weekend to comment on the fact that none of the Wall Street honchos who got rich pushing bad loans are being prosecuted. Nocera notes that Angelo Mozila, the former CEO of Countrywide, the huge subprime lender, still thinks that he did a great thing by getting moderate income people into homes. He concludes that this would have made it difficult to prosecute Mozila since "delusion is an iron-clad defense."

[loveliberty2]

These so-called "progressives" are so deficient in knowledge and understanding of how America went from being a wilderness area, populated by individuals using only their intellect, passion for liberty, and crude tools to a highly prosperous free society who, by the 1770's, were praised by Edmund Burke in his "Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies" before the Parliament for its incomparable productivity and wealth, which he attributed to its "spirit of liberty."

A portion of that Speech from the Liberty Fund Library (libertyfund.org):

"The trade with America alone is now within less than 500,000l. of being equal to what this great commercial nation, England, carried on at the beginning of this century with the whole world! If I had taken the largest year of those on your table, it would rather have exceeded. But, it will be said, is not this American trade an unnatural protuberance, that has drawn the juices from the rest of the body? The reverse. It is the very food that has nourished every other part into its present magnitude. Our general trade has been greatly augmented; and augmented more or less in almost every part to which it ever extended; but with this material difference, that of the Six Millions which in the beginning of the century constituted the whole mass of our export commerce, the Colony trade was but one twelfth part; it is now (as a part of Sixteen Millions) considerably more than a third of the whole. This is the relative proportion of the importance of the Colonies at these two periods: and all reasoning concerning our mode of treating them must have this proportion as its basis; or it is a reasoning weak, rotten, and sophistical.
"1.3.25*37Mr. Speaker, I cannot prevail on myself to hurry over this great consideration. It is good for us to be here. We stand where we have an immense view of what is, and what is past. Clouds, indeed, and darkness rest upon the future. Let us, however, before we descend from this noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our national prosperity has happened [173] within the short period of the life of man. It has happened within Sixty-eight years. There are those alive whose memory might touch the two extremities. For instance, my Lord Bathurst might remember all the stages of the progress. He was in 1704 of an age at least to be made to comprehend such things. He was then old enough acta parentum jam legere, et quae sit potuit cognoscere virtus. Suppose, Sir, that the angel of this auspicious youth, foreseeing the many virtues, which made him one of the most amiable, as he is one of the most fortunate, men of his age, had opened to him in vision, that when, in the fourth generation the third Prince of the House of Brunswick had sat Twelve years on the throne of that nation, which (by the happy issue of moderate and healing counsels) was to be made Great Britain, he should see his son, Lord Chancellor of England, turn back the current of hereditary dignity to its fountain, and raise him to a higher rank of Peerage, whilst he enriched the family with a new one—if amidst these bright and happy scenes of domestic honour and prosperity, that angel should have drawn up the curtain, and unfolded the rising glories of his country, and, whilst he was gazing with admiration on the then commercial grandeur of England, the Genius should point out to him a little speck, scarcely visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle, rather than a formed body, and should tell him—"Young man, there is America—which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men, and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world. Whatever England has been growing to by a progressive increase of improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements in a series of Seventeen Hundred years, you shall see as much [174] added to her by America in the course of a single life!" If this state of his country had been foretold to him, would it not require all the sanguine credulity of youth, and all the fervid glow of enthusiasm, to make him believe it? Fortunate man, he has lived to see it! Fortunate indeed, if he lives to see nothing that shall vary the prospect, and cloud the setting of his day!"

Later, Burke observed:

"I pass therefore to the Colonies in another point of view, [175] their agriculture. This they have prosecuted with such a spirit, that, besides feeding plentifully their own growing multitude, their annual export of grain, comprehending rice, has some years ago exceeded a million in value. Of their last harvest, I am persuaded they will export much more. At the beginning of the century some of these colonies imported corn from the mother country. For some time past, the Old World has been fed from the New. The scarcity which you have felt would have been a desolating famine, if this child of your old age, with a true filial piety, with a Roman charity, had not put the full breast of its youthful exuberance to the mouth of its exhausted parent."

And, "When I contemplate these things; when I know that the Colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty."

In the Year 2012, it is the TEA partiers who most exhibit that great spirit of liberty first described in great detail in Burke's great Speech, delivered in the year prior to our own Declaration of Independence, which became a summary of principles underlying our Constitution. It can be read in its entirety here.

The so-called "progressives" who brought us to our current state of economic affairs now describe as "terrorists" their fellow Americans who have studied the ideas of liberty underlying their founding documents and who demand a return to those ideas in order for future generations to be free. The "progressive" vision is, in fact, "regressive," in that it would return America to Old World ideas.

[WashingtonSource]

Good golly, Miss Molly. Joe Nocera is actually loopier than Frank Rich — the moonbat he replaced.

[hosepipe]

Consider the source.. NO really!...

[crusader71]

NY Times columnists: tea partiers are terrorists

NY Times front page: the guy in Norway was a “Christian” terrorist

NY times on Major Hasan at Fort Hood: [crickets]

[kcvl]

Jack Shafer doesn’t think that the NYT’s Joe Nocera should avoid writing about companies just because his fiancee is the PR person for the company’s lawyer. Okay, fine. Just disclose it. Such a contrarian, Jack Shafer!

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– Joe Nocera devotes two columns to piling on Rupert Murdoch and his American media properties: ‘The Wall Street Journal has been Fox-ified.

[WOSG]

“Headed into a brutal 2012 election campaign, 0 has just completely demoralized his base.”

That is true.
But there is a big confusion... the ‘establishment’ Republicans call this a ‘win’ because it was a ‘political’ victory.

It’s also only a REAL win if Obama get un-elected. This exposed Obama in so many ways I’d say he is toast. It’s like the Hostage Crisis for Carter - it showed he comes up short. Politically, getting default off the table is good because the economy is shaky anyway and obama owns that.

The grassroots see how little was done, and note that as policy, it was far from what needs to be done. Indeed, it locks in Obamacare spending, trillion dollar deficits, and a host of other liberal agenda items.

Political win, policy draw (we did little good, but at least turned direction towards spending reduction).

[Patton@Bastogne]

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[dagogo redux]

Or, more symbolically, feed them to polar bears.

[mojito]

I agree with Nocera: his definition of “America” is a place of ever-expanding government and a crony socialism controlled by the left, an utter disregard for the Constitution, and contempt for private enterprise.

I'm at war with the leftist idea of America. I want to defeat it utterly, and step one is dismantling the welfare state, and the Democrat Party along with it.

[Bikkuri]

Actually, “The Hobbit” was a book before the continuation (”The Lord of the Rings”)..

I read “The Hobbit starting in the 3rd grade.. can’t even remember how I picked it up (found it).. I7ve read it at least 5 times... and starting in the 4th grade, I started reading “The Lord of the Rings”.. (reading it again now, as a matter of fact..) .. I’ve read TLOTR at least 30 times..

anyway :p

[Steel Wolf]

"That's Abu Steel Wolf to you, liberal crusader dog! Liberty akbar!"

[Venturer]

Did you ever notice that these liberal brain dead people all come up with the same BS ?

Someone calls the Tea party a terrorist group and all of a sudden they all say it.

I suppose the Tea Part does terrorise these idiots.

[Steel Wolf]

We have to listen to them very carefully - they are practically SCREAMING what they will do when they have the power (note to FReepers: “Having the power” does NOT mean “winning elections”).

You're exactly right, and this development is a wonderful thing. A vast number of people on the far left feel this way. Now that it's out in the open, it's legitimized to them. They can say, "See, even the Vice President, Congressmen and the New York Times agrees with me. The Tea Party is a terrorist group."

This isn't a popular view nation-wide, in fact, just the opposite. But it does help draw the battle lines, which the liberals want more than anyone. The scene that's being painted is that they are the Big Machine, and we are the Little Guy. That's an awful rhetorical mistake for them, to be painting themselves as the old establishment, fighting against you pesky kids trying to have passionate beliefs and fix problems. It puts them on the wrong side of the argument, and is exactly what Alinksy would have cautioned against.

In fact, the Tea Party / conservatives have turned Alinskyism on its head, and are progressing with an improved version of it. So, be glad that we're getting the mask to slip and get them on record with their real beliefs. It's a necessary step for the events to come.

[sickoflibs]

And libs like this thought it was great that a single party Democrats impose a new government run Health care system on the entire country including Republican states. No terrorism or dictatorship there, that was ‘Democracy’

[sergeantdave]

Just call these left-wingers Nazis. They hate being called Nazis. Their eyeballs explode. It’s fun to watch.

[Paladin2]

"These last few months, much of the country has watched in horror as the Tea Party Republicans have waged jihad on the American people. "

More like:

These last few months, much of the country has watched in horror as the Muslim Zer0 Hussein and his Marxist minions have waged jihad on the American people.

[okie01]

Someone calls the Tea party a terrorist group and all of a sudden they all say it.

It's called "talking points".

Every night, the DNC develops the libs' talking points for the day. These are then updated mid-day.

Twice daily, these talking points are faxed to every MSM outlet, then placed before the reporters, editors and anchors for study and repetition.

Not an exaggeration. It's the unvarnished truth.

This background readily explains why they all repeat the same words and clauses each day.

[Wuli]

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[stevie_d_64]

I have a fabulous grape kool-aid recipe...