Posted on 04/16/2009 11:58:07 AM PDT by lewisglad
If the Obama administration has taken flak for suggesting that conservative groups might be home to domestic terrorists, it looks like some House Democrat leaders are willing to go even further:
But in an interview on Fox TV in San Francisco, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) chalked up the GOP grass-roots effort as “AstroTurf.”
“This initiative is funded by the high end; we call it AstroTurf, it's not really a grass-roots movement. It's AstroTurf by some of the wealthiest people in America to keep the focus on tax cuts for the rich instead of for the great middle class,” Pelosi said.
Other House Democratic leaders took a different tack: One senior aide has been circulating a document to the media that debunks the effort as one driven by corporate lobbyists and attended by neo-Nazis...
In addition, the tea parties are “not really all about average citizens,” the document continues, saying neo-Nazis, militias, secessionists and racists are attending them. The tea parties are also not peaceful, since reporters in Cincinnati had to seek “police protection” during one of the events, it states.
The suggestions that these tea parties are driven by DC-based groups is laughable; Liz Mair takes a critical look and concludes the charge is baseless. Besides the points that Mair makes, it's worth noting that while there have been dozens of tea parties, few have featured conservative candidates or representatives of DC think tanks and lobbying groups.
As far as the charge that these rallies are composed of Nazis and terrorists, that's hard to reconcile with the pictures of participants. There are too many young children and grandparents. Further, even a strong Obama supporter like Susan Roesgen didn't turn up any violent types at the Chicago Tea Party, despite her best attempt to provoke a strong reaction.
There probably aren't many Democrats who genuinely believe the charges levied by their leadership. Nate Silver guesstimates that about 250,000 people have attended the tea parties - so far. Do Ms. Pelosi and other Democrat leaders think they're all neo-nazis?
If this is a conversation they want to have, however, perhaps Ms. Pelosi can explain the role of Marxists and North Korean sympathizers in the U.S. anti-war movement, or discuss how George Soros bought such influence in the Democratic party. It's not a debate that would help Democrats, since it's relatively easy to show the role of fringe extremists in the Democratic grassroots.
'Senior Democrats' ought to have the courage to publicly assert what they're whispering to the media. But if they're afraid to admit that they're slandering hundreds of thousands of grassroots organizers and activists, is it too much to hope that some reporter will share a copy of these secret talking points?
Written by David Axelrod, and distributed by Rahm Emanuel, no doubt.
Now as conservatives worried about being tagged as “racists” (gosh...is there ANYTHING worse?), we are supposed to bend over and point out all the black people that showed up at the Tea Parties.
Sorry, but if there was not one black face at any Tea Party, in the entire United States, that does not make us racists.
It is instead an indictment of American blacks, and their dependency mentality, and perhaps THEIR racism.
The left accuses us of everything they are and do.
The woman is a liar. She knows better.
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Since everything the libs disagree with is racist, this charge means nothing.
they are all living in lala land
“Wow. Guess the black people and Asians that showed up to our protest didn’t get the memo. /s”
Ditto here. In Virginia Beach, a small handful of blacks, Asians and Hispanics showed up. They were well-behaved and carrying/wearing anti-pork gear, so most likely they weren’t ACORN plants. The Tea Party movement is catching on across the board. That is the nasty, inconvenient little truth that so annoys the left.
Leftists all are a bunch of Che wannabes.
Never forget, they’d just love to put dissenters “to the wall”.
And the latest DHS memo is an enemies list.
Yes indeed they are.
“not really all about average citizens”
Here’s DUmocrats definition of their citizens being themselves (you’ll really enjoy the last one)...I’ll bet not one of these trash got a vist from the Secret Service or the FBI:
http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee193/trodas_cr/support_resistance_in_iraq.jpg
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2210202/replies?c=33
http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/files/Democrats_anti-war_rally_NY_Image2.jpg.jpeg
http://weblogs.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/politics/blog/palineffigy.jpg
http://chenzhen.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/flagburning.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BL-1IKSbhV4/RgGXCtUcfyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/_7m64k649xo/s320/effigy003.jpg
http://www.lileks.com/bleats/archive/04/0304/0304/i-love-newyork.jpg
In fact, it looks to me like that, underneath it all, the libs are truly dismayed at the tea parties and the fact that Conservatives are beginning to strike back, using the libs own tactics against them.
“Since everything the libs disagree with is racist, this charge means nothing.”
If anything, it’s a badge of honor. If it irritates the libtards, it’s a good thing.
throw in a bit of 10th amendment “stick it” talk, and their heads will explode.
Let’s show them in 2010 what the Tea Parties were really about.
Given that the Nazis were socialists, I would say this fails.
Yes.
Libs always accuse of doing EXACTLY what they do.
The liberals’ constant public whinings over the last 8 years were attended by students and out-of-work `community organizer’ types, masked or not, and assorted other human geeks & freaks and societal derelicts.
From the photos I’ve seen it was clear the people attending the tea parties were either taxpayers taking a day off work or retired people or good looking children—all normal Americans, attitude: “loaded for bear”.
The congressional politburo should be scared.....
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