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Why the tea parties don't matter
The "Tea Party" movement is a symbolic failure.
The original tea partiers engaged in criminal acts and risked arrest and imprisonment to destroy product from a company being propped up by unfair reduced taxes by the government, at the expense of what, at the time, amounted to "small business:" the domestic importers of tea who competed with the East India Company.
The current teabaggers are buying tea and throwing it around. That's it. When the DC teabag crew showed up with a truckload of tea bags (yes, I'm serious) to dump in Lafayette Square (because dumping in the Potomac is illegal, can't do that, after all) they were informed that they didn't have the correct permits to dump their load.
So they took it away. They're a bunch of pussies. "Civil disobedience" and "protest" are just words to them. They'll always cave in to authority rather than take a risk for their alleged principles. Samuel Adams would have dumped the tea right then and there.
If they wanted a real symbolic connection with the original Boston Tea Party they would be stealing Chrysler and GM cars and trucks from distribution centers and dumping them in the drink.
But they're not.
Pussies.
The original tea partiers engaged in criminal acts and risked arrest and imprisonment to destroy product from a company being propped up by unfair reduced taxes by the government, at the expense of what, at the time, amounted to "small business:" the domestic importers of tea who competed with the East India Company.
The current teabaggers are buying tea and throwing it around. That's it. When the DC teabag crew showed up with a truckload of tea bags (yes, I'm serious) to dump in Lafayette Square (because dumping in the Potomac is illegal, can't do that, after all) they were informed that they didn't have the correct permits to dump their load.
So they took it away. They're a bunch of pussies. "Civil disobedience" and "protest" are just words to them. They'll always cave in to authority rather than take a risk for their alleged principles. Samuel Adams would have dumped the tea right then and there.
If they wanted a real symbolic connection with the original Boston Tea Party they would be stealing Chrysler and GM cars and trucks from distribution centers and dumping them in the drink.
But they're not.
Pussies.
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No, I'm not buying into the "tyranny or oppresion" stuff. I've not heard such claims being made from rational folk on the right. Claims coming from the irrational folk - be they on the right or the left - are generally pretty easy to both spot and to discount immediately.
I'm gauging Obama by his actions and the scale for that gauge is where his predecessors were at roughly the same time they'd been in office. By that guage and scale, Obama is charging hell for leather off the edge and he's driving the nation there ahead of him.
Obama is this century's first Carter and if you'll remember what Carter led to you to would share the outrage about him now.
Madoc
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I doubted it then, and I doubt it now. He's a canny Chicago politician with skills Carter wouldn't develop until long after his presidency. I expect that he's going to be the Democrats' Ronald Reagan instead, a charming teflon-coated pragmatist who will compromise when he must but hold to his ideals every time he can.
Obama = Carter
Obama a "canny Chicago politician with skills Carter wouldn't develop until long after his presidency?" Um, okay. So, uh, like, what are the super mad crazy skilz Obama has?
Let's see now, choosing nothing but tax cheats and lobbyists for all his cabinet? Groveling up to Putin by promising to can the European part of our BMD? A groveling that was both spurned by Comrade Czar and also pissed off the Czechs and Poles who went out on a limb for that defense? Oh yeah, that's some mad crazy skilz alright.
Oh, and let's not forget Barry showing what a true leader of free men he is by his rushing to mash his nose into the Saudi King's bejeweled sandals. Yeah, that was a proud moment for the Republic alright.
We'll have to see if Obama has any Teflon in him. He does have a well known skill for throwing folks "under the bus" when they become inconvenient for him. His white grandmother and his former pastor - the man who led him to Christ and was "the father he never had."
Yeah, that's some principles and ideals he's holding to.
You think this might explain why so many folk have such low confidence in his economic abilities that they'd take to the streets about it? But then, what's to worry here? Obama's got that Wall Street stooge and tax cheat, Geithner, in charge of the economic show.
Lotsa confidence there alright.
Isn't Geithner the same guy who made sure to negotiate and specify in the Bank Bailout the protections for all those executive bonuses? The bonuses which Obama now piously carries on about them being so wrong?
Teflon coated indeed. Yeah, we'll see how long that lasts.
Madoc