The Tea Party has reportedly held its first caucus. The three members failed to elect a chair however due to a tied vote 😉
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O’Donell Gives Coven Party’s Response to President’s SOTU Address?
The Huffington Post is reporting that former GOP Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell said she was “unimpressed” with President Obama’s State of the Union address, calling it “hypocritical” and accusing him of co-opting the Tea Party’s message of fiscal conservatism to push an agenda of bigger spending.
So, Christine, let me get this straight, you’re angry because the President is talking about cutting the deficit? And in so doing he is “co-opting the Tea Party’s message of fiscal conservatism”?
OK, well, for someone to “co-opt” your “message”, you have to have a message. Groups of angry, mostly old, white people screaming they want to “cut everything back to spending levels in 1789” isn’t much of a message.
Huffington reported that O’Donnell also said the speech was “hypocritical,” pointing to a number of the president’s goals, including his promise to eliminate wasteful programs while pushing for increased wireless internet access.
Interesting word choice of words for someone accused of illegally using campaign funds to buy dinner and pay rent. Hypocritical is probably not a word you should be using Christine, not unless you’re going to add, “And as someone who is a hypocrite, I know when I see someone else acting hypocritically”.
And how exactly is “pushing for increased wireless internet access” a “wasteful program”? I suppose you don’t have to worry about accessing the internet, but as the President outlined, there are thousands, if not tens of thousands, of rural Americans who do not have access, and by providing this service it will help farmers and ranchers access a previously untapped potential market. That’s what is known as “free enterprise”.
The Huffington article also related that O’Donnell seemed disappointed by the display of bipartisan unity shown by some members of Congress who decided to sit next to members of the other side of the aisle.
“I like when the Democrats sit on one side and the Republican sit on another,” O’Donnell said. “It’s supposed to be civil debate, you know, we’re not all supposed to braid each other’s hair and sing Kumbaya — not in Congress. Let’s have healthy debate and solve the country’s problems. I think something was missing last night with that whole prom date.”
Of course what she meant to say was, “Give me the good old days of Joe Wilson screaming angrily at the President, ‘YOU LIE!'”. Or, “I really like it when the members of the Congress beat each other up with canes and challenge each other to duels.”
Where have you been the past few weeks Christine? Was your coven on a retreat? Tucson? Congresswoman Giffords? Shooting? Sarah Palin’s lame excuse for why things like that happen?
What Ms. O’Donnell’s comments demonstrate is that like her mentor, Palin, she is uninformed, singularly obtuse in her opinions and not ready for the prime time.
Making a Difference in the Life of Our Nation?
“If you want to make a difference in the life of our nation; if you want to make a difference in the life of a child—become a teacher.” ~ President Barack Obama, State of the Union address 2011
OK, let’s get this out before Rush and the other conservative lemmings begin parroting each other like the sea gulls in “Finding Nemo”. When President Obama spoke last night during the State of the Union Address about people making a difference in the life of our nation by becoming teachers he wasn’t saying teachers should replace parents as the most important people in our children’s lives. And yes, I’m already hearing people “pointing out” how parents are more important, blaah, blaah, blaah …
First, some, it would seem, need to wake up to the fact that for far too many of our children in this country there are no adults who seem to give a flying fig what happens to them, and for many of them teachers fill that great big empty void.
And second, when was it ever bad for our children to have multiple good adult roll models in their lives?
1 in every 100 Americans Believes Violent Action Should be Taken Against Government?
A new poll by Public Policy Polling reports 13 percent of Tea Party members say that violence against the current American government is justifiable.
According to numerous sources (LA Times/CNN) there are approximately 22 million members of the Tea Party.
According to Nielsen ratings the daily viewing audience of FOX PAC is approximately 25 million viewers. Wow, who would have ever guessed those numbers would be so similar?
13% of 22 million is 2,860,000 right-wing crazies who think that violent action against our freely elected government is justifiable. Yeah, no big deal, only 3 million lunatics who want to fight a revolution against the government, probably all with high capacity – 31 round – magazines for their pistols; but it’s OK, don’t let the violent rhetoric worry you.
‎So, basically, 1 in every 100 people you see could be a potential right-wing extremist thinking – at any given moment – they should take violent action against the United States Government; but, like I said, no big deal.
Health Care Law Repeal Taken Up in the House?
As the Boehner and his lackey, Cantor, already know it isn’t going to happen. Even if the House passes a bill to repeal the Health Care law, the Senate isn’t going too, and even if that happens, the President is going to veto it.
One thing’s for certain, this is a huge waste of time, and money. It’s all a show, and the GOP members of Congress all know it’s a show, and the talking heads at FOX PAC all know it’s a show. The only people who don’t seem to know it’s a show are their supporters/viewers. The Tea Party folks, and Limbaugh listening, Beck watching, mindless conservative rabble. The people who all complain about the government until their trailer court gets hit by a tornado, or is flooded out by a hurricane. The ones who declare you can have their guns when you pry them out of their cold dead fingers. And Rush, Hannity et. al., will sing their praises and claim the Dems are the party of No, and their listeners will nod vigorously, while forgetting blissfully how the GOP – 99% of the time as a block – voted against everything in the past two years.
The GOP members of Congress, in the mean time, will all thump their chests and say, “We put up a valiant fight to repeal the evil Obamacare, but those nasty Democrats wouldn’t allow us to, all they wanted to do was obstruct, obstruct, obstruct!”
Gee, I wonder who those mean old nasty Democrats might have learned that tactic from?
And here’s another thought, there’s nothing more important right now for the GOP Congress to tackle?
Like, oh I don’t know?
Passing a budget?
After all, it was one of those things the GOP was all upset about until it came into power. Now suddenly it’s, “Budget, smudget we’ll get around to it after we do all this really important stuff”.
And, what about passing the Defense Authorization Bill?
Gee, maybe the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan would like to know there’s money to support them?
I don’t know, maybe?
Words don’t matter
One day, when one of your children draws cross hairs over a brother or sister’s face in a picture; don’t worry, it doesn’t mean anything. It’s just a drawing.
If they scream at one of their siblings “I’m going to kill you!” Don’t be alarmed, it’s just words.
If they scream at you, “I hate you!” It’s nothing to be upset about. It’s OK, words don’t mean anything.
If the teacher says “I wish someone would punch another teacher in the face”, and some student does it, it’s not the teacher’s fault; it’s the fault of the student who throws the punch. If the same teacher says, “I wish someone would punch (put your kid’s name here) and your child gets beat up. Don’t blame the teacher. It’s not their fault. It’s those kids who beat up your kid.
Patrick Henry didn’t really mean to inspire anyone when he said “Give me liberty, or give me death!” They were just words.
“Common Sense” by Thomas Paine didn’t really hold any sway in the fight for Independence, it was just some words.
The Declaration of Independence doesn’t really mean anything. It’s just a bunch of words. You weren’t supposed to really believe that all men are endowed with anything …
“Love thy neighbor as thy self,” doesn’t really mean that. Words don’t have any consequences. They don’t mean anything. “I love you” doesn’t really mean that.
The Ten Commandments are just words, guidelines maybe, they can’t really mean anything.
Or is it just the violent words that don’t mean anything? The ones meant to whip up the base?
But they really can’t mobilize the base can they? I mean, they don’t have any meaning. Do they?
People Are Trying to Muzzle Descent With Shrill Cries of Imagined Insults?
So, Sarah speaks, and of course she blames everyone else for what happened, and called her and others words as simply being part of “vigorous debate” in America. She called those calling her and others out as starting a “blood libel”. Claiming people are trying to “muzzle her descent with shrill cries of imagined insults”.
“Republicans don’t retreat, they reload” or “I hope that’s not where we’re going, but, you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies and saying my goodness what can we do to turn this country around? I’ll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out,” are not “imagined” Ms. Palin.
Asking that you, and other so-called “patriots”, to not use violent rhetoric is not stifling you – or them – from exercising free speech or descent. Talking about “reloading” and “watering the tree of liberty” may be how people talk about politics in Wasilla, but most Americans try to leave the political speak of the 19th century where it belongs, in the the 19th century. You are not qualified to talk about “peacefully engaging” when you have time-after-time used discourse that is violent. Please do us all a favor and just fade away like all other failed vice-presidential candidates, your foot note is waiting.
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