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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After reading his bio, I concluded he has has ‘evolved’ from crapping in the woods to crapping in the Internet.
Gosh, the insight shown by this media outlet is just mind boggling. /s
Translated: Conservatives have no business speaking out without radical left wing anti-America politically driven Obama followers with 250DB blow horns joining in to drown out free speech.
This seems to be the talking point now.
What I find fascinating is that there are more comments to his observations here than there is on his own blog.
He has no audience. Ignore him.
William Ayers
Rev. Wright
Blago
Rezco
Obama promised a “tax cut” and promised NOT to raise taxes on anyone making less than $250K a year.
Obama promised to look at “every line” of Federal spending and cut waste.
NO, Obama hid his true agenda.
Obama DENIED that he wanted to teach Sex Ed to grade school kids. That was a lie, he most certainly DID want to do just that.
Obama has hid much of his radical agenda, to the point that those of us who brought it up looked dishonest or crazy.
Now, Obama will have a REAL record and he will not be able to run away from himself.
thats all you ever see them called in the MSM.
“Not even 57%. Wasn’t it like 53%?”
That’s just because Republicans corrupted the election process and of course all the racists who voted again Obama because he doesn’t look like the other presidents. Otherwise, it would have been 94%.
“I thought dissent was patriotic.”
Disssent is only patriotic if it is directed toward our troops or anyone conservative.
Why not? We have a former Vice-President masquerading as an environmentalist! And that seems to have worked for him so far - the idiot!
Yeah! Were ARE all those "Dissent Is Patriotic" bumperstickers from Hillary! ?
Pravda and msnbc
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