Posted on 04/20/2009 10:34:33 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Like any good protest, last week’s complaints came in a variety of shapes and sizes and were expressed at varying levels of volume. At the center of it all, at the Tax Day protests, was the heart of not a political movement as had been advertised, but a political party.
Organizers of the Tea Bag protests were quick to point out that the protests themselves were spontaneous, non-partisan demonstrations of taxpayer anger over what they called excessive taxation and reckless government spending. Like all shots taken quickly, they missed, although that was almost certainly intentional. The protesters were almost universally Republicans and conservative.
It is a movement that simply refuses to accept the consequences of defeat. For 20 years, last week’s tea bag protesters have supported a Republican Party that appeared on the brink of turning the appearance of fresh, bold ideas into an unstoppable political juggernaut earlier this decade. When those fresh, bold ideas turned out to be old and flawed, the rest of the country abandoned them for a party that wasn’t preaching policies that everyone recognized had failed badly. This resulted in two straight campaign cycles of failure and defeat for the Republican Party.
It’s important, in terms of perspective, to remember that they weren’t the first for the modern Republican Party. Today’s GOP experienced its first widespread electoral rebuke back in 1998, during mid-term elections that came during the impeachment process for Bill Clinton. Then, as today, a conservative movement that is a great deal less conservative than it is Republican ridiculed polling that showed a great many Americans didn’t support removing a popular president during a time of peace and prosperity on ginned-up charges stemming from marital infidelity.
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I thought dissent was patriotic.
SnakeDoc
It is. This is what it must feel like to be in purgatory. Being surrounded by those who can’t hear what you are saying no matter how you say it.......Not sure how this will be fixed?
110%
Seriously, the MSM sickens me more and more everyday.
So when the Republicans were swept into office in 1994, it was "because America threw a temper tantrum" to paraphrase Peter Jennings. And now that the Democrats are swept into office and some people take to the streets to protest the rising tide of socialism, again "we threw a temper tantrum".
So win or lose, Republicans are ordered by the MSM to sit down and shut up and surrender to Socialists.
Pravda was more up front about its bias.
“Eric Baerren is a freelance writer, columnist and blogger who specializes in the environment and science-related issues.”
A blogger who specializes in science and environment is lecturing us on the economy and protest and politics. Isn’t that special?
Neither should we!
Obama promised a tax cut, Obama promised to cut wasteful spending, Obama did NOT run as a full blown Communist.
Obama IS a full blown Communist, and the idea that Communism “won” last November is absurd, since Obama did not tell the American people the truth, before the election.
No, only dissent against capitalism and conservative values is patriotic according to these idiots.
This is the poster boy for all the loser liberals who won’t grow up and get real jobs.
“It’s important, in terms of perspective, to remember that they weren’t the first for the modern Republican Party. Today’s GOP experienced its first widespread electoral rebuke back in 1998, during mid-term elections that came during the impeachment process for Bill Clinton” It was the waste of human flesh Trent Lott that would not run a proper Constitutional US Senate Trial that gave conservative the “rebuke”!
The author looks like a dongfondler
Spoken like a true tea-bagger.
Ridicule works best on these wayward children, since it's their favorite tool.
Not even 57%. Wasn’t it like 53%?
I dunno, I think he pretty much did.
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