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The Tea Party vs. the Flea Party

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As the great unwashed masses take to the streets to loudly lament the fact they are facing the consequences of their coddling and therefore bad choices and demanding that others fix it for them, we throught we’d compare their…errr…whatever with what the now-fawning, slavering lamestream media has barely covered and only then with great derision:  the Tea Party.

There are certainly more examples than this and, knowing the progressive liberal mindset, more to come.  But here is a start.

The Tea Party

The Flea Party
Is paid to work Is paid to protest
Has sex in the bedroom Has sex in the street
Uses a bathroom as intended Eliminates wherever; including on cars and in the street
Pays taxes Lives off taxes
Expects to earn a promotion by working hard Expects to start at the top
Gives to charity Lives off charity
Takes out only a mortgage they can repay Defaults on a mortgage above their ability to repay
Pays off credit debt Declares bankruptcy to avoid paying credit debt
Protects the unborn Protects convicted child rapists and murderers
Considers having a cell phone a nicety Considers having a cell phone a right
Respects government property Defaces government property
Obtains permits for public protests Demands taxpayer resources for protests
Protests on public property Trespasses to protest on private property
Proudly displays the American flag Burns the flag and/or demands it be removed from display
Heroes include Washington, Jefferson, Franklin Heroes include Mao, Guevara, and the Communist Party
Supports the 1st Amendment Exercises 1st Amendment right to make a fool out of themselves in public
Supports the 2nd Amendment Demands death for those with whom they disagree
Believes in small, limited government Believes government knows best
Knows history Repeats history

Spinning RINOs

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While I sit in awe at the super-sized egomaniacal ignorance being displayed by Democrats, His Transparency in particular, trying desperately to justify their kamikaze crash-and-burn midterm election failures by actually saying out loud that Americans simply weren’t “pursuaded” enough by misunderstood “arguments” for the thinly-disguised slavery this administration and Democrat-majority Congress forced onto them, my other half is fascinated with the post-election spinning that because Angle lost in Nevada and O’Donnell lost in Delaware and Miller may have lost in Alaska the Tea Party is some sort of “failure”.

My reply is that this is little more than the smoke & mirrors of RINO guilt attempting to distract anyone with even one brain cell firing on 1/2 a cylinder that the reason Angle and O’Donnell and Miller lost is because the GOP refused to acknowledge that we, the people, had made our choice of GOP candidates and therefore refused to provide them with any real support. A guilty distraction that is, of course, glommed onto with great glee by the smacked-down Democrats to salve their soundly-whipped little egos.

Rush had it right on his radio show yesterday. Just where was the RNC while these so- called “Tea Party” candidates gave career politicians a real run for their money? Did, for examply, Democrat-lite RINO Lindsay Graham lift a finger to help what the people had said were now effectively his party? Nope. Nothing but the sound of crickets.  Because of the GOP’s failure to honor the will of the people, they must now attempt to marginalize and criticize so as to not lose their precious lobbyist support (read:  get rich off your tax dollars) and self-perceived importance in the old boy’s club; even threatening Senator Jim DeMint with a “co-opting” of his conservative freshmen.

Obama and Pelosi and Reid apparently demoralized the Democrat base so much that many of them didn’t even bother to vote. (Though based on CNN’s exit polls that show Democrat voters think Congress’ highest priority should be on even more spending instead of reducing the deficit and cutting taxes it’s perhaps a good thing they found other things to do.)  But on the flip side, Graham and his ilk are the reason many voted for the GOP while holding their noses. Snake-oil salesmen soil seats on both sides of the aisle in Washington but I have two words for them:

November 2012

The RINO Message: “We want your votes but not your candidates”

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In an email today from Jim DeMint:

As you know, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski lost the Republican primary to her conservative challenger, Joe Miller, in a fair fight. But instead of graciously conceding and endorsing the Republican nominee, Murkowski announced that she will continue her campaign as an independent write-in candidate.

Senate Republicans held a closed-door meeting yesterday afternoon to elect someone to replace Senator Murkowski as the top Republican on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Or so we thought.

Rather than taking away Murkowski’s leadership position on the committee, Senate Republicans decided to let her keep it. One senator after another stood up to argue in favor of protecting her place on the committee — a position she will no doubt use in her campaign against Joe Miller, the conservative Republican nominee.

It was bad enough to watch my colleagues work to support her in the primary after she had built a record of betraying conservatives principles. But watching them back her after she left the party and launched a campaign against the Republican nominee was more than I could bear.

I spoke out against the motion and I voted against it. But the good ol’ boys Senate club, which always protects its own, prevailed. The motion was adopted by secret ballot and the final tally was not disclosed.

More from Marc Thiessen:

In an interview, [Joe] Miller told me he is confident that he can win with Murkowski in the race: “She was given her job and now she thinks she deserves it. She has disrespected the will of the Alaskan voter. We had the largest turnout of any Republican primary in the history of the state of Alaska. The race was won fair and square. And then in the wake of that, she claims that the election was ‘hijacked’ and that it was a group of ‘extremists’ that voted for me. It gets down to the fact that she perceives herself as entitled, and she can’t let go of the power she’s held for the last eight years.”

In that sense of entitlement, Murkowski is not alone. All last week, we heard the GOP establishment complain how the Tea Party is threatening Republican unity by pursuing “ideological purity” at the expense of a “big tent” party. But Tea Party-endorsed candidates are the ones who have stayed within the GOP tent. Rather than launching destructive third-party bids, fiscally conservative insurgents have contested GOP primaries — and when they have lost, they have endorsed their establishment opponents virtually without fail.

Contrast that with the record of the establishment candidates. When it became clear Charlie Crist would lose to Marco Rubio in Florida’s Senate race, Crist bolted the GOP and decided to run as an independent. When Arlen Specter saw he would lose to Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania’s Senate race, he became a Democrat. And, after losing the GOP nomination in Alaska, Murkowski is running as an independent write-in candidate. And yet, we are told that it is the Tea Party that is dividing the GOP and threatening party unity. For establishment candidates, unity seems to be a one-way street. The message to Tea Party activists across the country is:  We want your votes but not your candidates.

Read that last sentence again:  We want your votes but not your candidates.  That, dear readers, is the root of all angst (or should I say “disgust”) now being demonstrated by the average American voter.  The average American voter who, when push comes to shove, is conservative and pragmatic, common sense and bottom line.  Sure, a majority of these folks voted for “hope” and “change” but paying for other people’s mortgages, abortions, and business miscalculations (not to mention padding the personal bank accounts of unrepresenting representatives a la Rangel, Dodd et al) wasn’t exactly how they defined it and the sea change being demonstrated by RINO and progressive liberal losses to “nobody” conservative candidates is the manifestation of their buyer’s remorse. 

We have plenty of politicians in Washington.  What we want and what we need are representatives of we, the people.  Despite those claims of honor among thieves it is apparently asking too much of either the GOP or the DNC to face the firing squad squarely; it appears they’ll wake up November 3rd looking like proverbial deer in the headlights.  Doesn’t say much for their claims of being the “best and brightest”, does it?  Particularly when the warnings signs are clear.  A friend of mine recently received a solicitation from the Republican National Committee and sent it back; in the space for an “other” donation amount they noted they had made a nice-sized donation directly to Sharron Angle’s Senate campaign in Nevada.  Other shots like this are being sent across the bow every day; I told my local GOP House candidate just last week that if, when he gets to Washington, he becomes what we’ve come to expect as a stereotypical politician I would personally kick his butt.  But therein lies the task that faces us:  we must become personally involved in governing this great Republic and we must remain personally involved.  It is complacency that is the biggest reason America now faces such an uncertain future, therefore it is a return to vigilence that is our personal and individual responsibility if we wish to bequeath something better than federal slavery to our children.

New Jersey & Virgina See Red

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Yesterday marked the first major election since last year’s presidential election and proved that not only do Americans want change in how the federal government operates, but that both public and Ivy League educations ain’t all they’re cracked up to be.

As the disillusioned and the gullible have, along with those refused to drink the Kool-Aid, reaped the consequences of choosing a President with far less practical real-life experience than ego, the frightening chants of “Yes, We Can!” have changed to a decisive “No, You Don’t!” and the gloating “I won” has become a curse on those who would continue to follow the progressive path of destruction.

It’s not a stretch to see that the events of the past year have caused blood to shoot from the eyes of average Americans of all political stripes and in loud, decisive reaction, turned 2 blue states to red.  New Jersey, the tacky little sister of Illinois, that poster child of political corruption that spawned the current administration, kicked their incumbent Democratic governor to the curb, while Virginia gave the Oval Office a chilling assessment of its 2008 support by electing Republicans to its top three offices. 

No coincidence that in both states, President Obama used the hard-earned money of the American taxpayer to campaign for the Democrat candidates.

It’s heartening to see the American people waking up again.  Though Republicans are, in their own way, as wacked as the Democrats, this shift towards the right is at least a shift in the right direction.  Press Secretary Robert Gibbs dismissively called observations of the shift and its implications for the 2010 elections “navel gazing”, but it is clear to this writer that the administration is only gulping down water from the River DeNial in a desperate attempt to keep its bubble intact, for the truth is that any “gazing” was done by the American people.  We’ve had a whole year to watch the progressive lies unfold ever more blatantly, undermining the foundations upon which these United States was built.  The Tea Parties marked a return to the basics, of civic duty, and those who perhaps used to think their vote didn’t particularly matter are coming to the realization that if they don’t protect and defend the Constitution, no one else will.  Especially not those rats scuttling around the corridors in Washington.

Congratulations, New Jersey and Virginia.  Welcome back to the world of grown-ups.  It’s not easy being responsible for your own welfare, your own future, but your happiness is far more assured than by relying on some man-child and his handlers who would prefer you live bound by chains of dependency upon their egotistical and greedy whims.

Just A Little Trip To The Mall

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According to various estimates, at least a million Americans from every corner of the United States took a little trip to the Mall:

Sky-view of the 9/12/09 D.C. Tea Party (Mary Katharine Ham)

Sky-view of the 9/12/09 D.C. Tea Party (Mary Katharine Ham)

 

Here’s a great time-lapse view of the march (3-1/2 hours in 40 seconds):

 

 

C-SPAN coverage of the whole rally can be seen HERE.

Tens of thousands more around the country attended local rallies in support.
 
President Obama decided to spend today campaigning for socialized medicine in Minnesota.
 
Final Score:
United States Constitution – 1,000,000+
Obamacare – 15,000
(Hat tip to the two who pointed out the original photograph wasn’t correct.)

A Call To American Patriots

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If you believe in America, if you believe She is the greatest country in the world, it’s time to show your colors.  Tomorrow we celebrate 233 years of unheard-of independence.  But that independence and our freedoms are now under greater attack than at any other time in our history for the enemy we fight is not without, the enemy has taken root within.

Americans, WE NEED YOU TOMORROW.  It’s time reclaim America’s independence and what better way to do it than by gathering with those who believe in FREEDOM.

There are Tea Parties being held all over America tomorrow.  If your heart beats in the rhythms of a true, red-white-and-blue Patriot, I urge you to GO TO ONE OF THEM.  Take your friends, take your family, especially your children, and raise your voices in peaceful protest against those who now seek to undermine the Constitution.  (You can locate one near you by looking HERE.)

You don’t need any preparation.  You already have what you need.  Sure, signs with astute, pithy phrases are always good, but what is most important is YOU – your presence – to show all the unrepresenting representatives that we, the people, do NOT want them subverting our rights for the ill-gotten gains of a few who seek only corrupted, egotistical and tyrannical power.  What those few keep forgetting is that there is strength in numbers.  Strength in numbers by Constitutional design.  It is high time for an overwhelming majority outcry against the traitors in Washington and a siren call for the return to common sense and sanity.

I have noted here before that the Tea Parties are amazing events.  If you’ve never “protested”, there is no reason to be shy.  To speak out in support of the Constitution is both your right and your duty.  In doing so beside hundreds or even thousands of ordinary folks – people just like you – you will find your weary heart filled with renewed hope and strength.  Along with voting, truly, this is one of the most important actions you will ever take in your lifetime.  Trust me when I say that you will be able to lay your head down tomorrow night with the honest comfort that you at least tried to do something to get America out from under the jackboots now stomping through Washington.

If there are those who wish to opine that the stars have somehow aligned, let them.  For they now align in favor of the Patriot.  The 4th of July, our most sacred celebration as a nation, falls on a Saturday.  What better day to pack up your family and your friends and honor our Founding Fathers than by standing up in support of and thanks for the ultimate blessings of the gifts they have given us?

I look forward to shaking your hand tomorrow, my friend.  May the spirit of the American Revolution live again.

Change To Keep

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I was there.  Were you?

Perusing the news outlets this morning was a sadly enlightening confirmation of what I’ve seen happening the last few years.  The mainstream media either ignored or, finally and with disgustingly crude profanity, derided it outright, but unlike the progressive liberals, those who actually support the United States – and their fellow Americans – by working and paying their taxes booked time off from their jobs or used their lunch hour to attend the first of the American Tea Parties.  Undaunted by the latest humdinger label of “right-wing extremist”, average citizens (including even union members who see the same waste in paying more and more taxes as they see paying union dues) gathered together and marched on state capitals and city halls from sea to shining sea in a demonstration of their anger at the fact that, best described by a bumper sticker being handed out at the one I attended, “Taxation WITH representation is tyranny”.

It was a lovely sight, that of thousands of my fellow Americans exercising their rights to peacefully assemble and speak freely.   All told, the count of participants  headed up towards a million people.  On a workday.  In the middle of the week. 

 That’s the kind of change we can keep.

Where Will You Be April 15th?

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The mainstream media is trying very hard to ignore it.  Some self-proclaimed pundits are calling it a fad without a cause.  Democrats are calling it a vain attempt by the Republican party to gain support.  Congress is, in a most rare demonstration of restraint, remaining most unusually silent.

Well, no matter what you want to call it and no matter if you choose to not see it, American disgust with our government is brewing like a kettle on a hot stove and April 15th is scheduled to be the first showing that tempers having reached the boiling point.

Unlike the first tea party, this one will be – by intention – bloodless.  And perhaps it is that seeming quietness that causes those who prefer raucous excitement, those armchair warriors who like to watch man’s inhumanity to man from the safety of their living rooms, to dismiss it as not being somehow “newsworthy”.

They couldn’t be more wrong.

This country is in serious trouble.  For almost 100 years we have been shepherded by those who use that tantalizing little word “progressive” to coerce ever-innovative and inventive, dreaming Americans to accept one loss of freedom after another.  To slyly encourage a collective disregard for the basic foundation of this country – the Constitution and the Bill of Rights – in favor of some false handout of a chicken in every pot, always hiding the fact that they have quietly been killing off the chicken farmers.

The end has come.  Those who would destroy America for their own nefarious purposes have finally been exposed for the hypocritical, dangerous traitors that they are.  Americans can clearly see those who, contrary to their mothers’  warnings, have gone out in public wearing dirty underwear.  And it ain’t a pretty sight.

So on April 15th Americans will gather together under the symbolism of the original Tea Party.  They will gather in protest of government grown beyond recognition, grown far, far beyond original intent.  They will gather to send a message that what we are for is the cessation of spending for entitlement and for a return of our basic rights.  They will gather whether or not the media chooses to report on it because the message is not for the media, it is for the behemoth that is become our government.

Where will you be on April 15th?  I would hope that you will spend an hour with those who share your anger and your fears for both your future and that of your children, that you will do the one thing that will get the attention of our myopic “unrepresenting representatives” – assemble peacefully in a great number.  They are not used to seeing our faces; we have become little more than numbers to be pursued for reelection to a cushy job.  But the truth is that they work for us and when they work against us – as is now the case – we must stand up and tell them NO. 

We, the people, have no more excuses.  It is time to take back control of OUR government.

See you at the party.