Tea Party organizations are being demonized as radical and extremists by the left and center or “moderate.” I say bunk! The Tea Party is made up of grass roots individuals, everyday people who stay out of the political process but have finally woken up to the fact that the United States is heading so far left that Marxism and totalitarian regimes could take over government. The Tea Party is made up of people who have received the wakeup call of big, unsustainable government, higher taxes, enormous entitlement spending, and loss of health care, loss of freedom, loss of liberty, loss of the United States of America as they know it.
Leftist former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton and current professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley has written an article in the Wall Street Journal titled, Why Business Should Fear the Tea Party – CEOs who complain about uncertainties caused by President Obama’s policies aren’t going to be happy about a new crop of congressman seeking to abolish the Fed.
In his article Robert Reich demonstrates not so much the fears of business but fears of the left and produces more fear mongering than substance and truth.
Reich argues the business leaders are relatively silent about the Tea Party and suggest they are only considered a “fringe” group that is “relatively harmless” but “should take a closer look.”
Reich believes there is more to the Tea Party movement than smaller government and lower taxes. To Reich and his Berkeley mindset it’s those “fringe” radical extremists who have put down their TV remotes and dropped their aprons to protest on the streets, march on Washington and create havoc from Coast to Coast and sea to shining sea. You know the type – the radical grandma’s and grandpa’s who have worked for 50+ years, struggled, raised families, fought in wars – you know, those extremists.
The real fear is the Tea Party will no longer on the fringe – OH MY, WORLD ENDS – they may be taking over the GOP and very soon! Reich warns:
Beyond fiscal rectitude and less spending, tea party candidates are targeting the central institutions of American government. The GOP Senate candidate from Kentucky, Rand Paul, is among several who want to abolish the Federal Reserve. They blame the Fed for creating the Great Recession and believe that the economy would be better off without a single institution in Washington setting monetary policy. Even Maine’s stolid Republican Party, now under tea party sway, has called for eliminating the Fed. In a Bloomberg poll a few weeks ago, 60% of tea party adherents wanted to overhaul or abolish the Fed (compared with 45% of all likely voters).
Another tea party target is the Internal Revenue Service. South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, who has emerged as the Senate’s leading tea party incumbent, says that his “main goal in the Senate will not only be to cut taxes, but to get rid of the IRS.” Mr. DeMint’s goal is echoed by many tea party candidates, including Arkansas Rep. John Boozman, now running for Senate.
Mr. Reich, a big, big, big government advocate shutters at the thought of eliminating the IRS and the Fed. What would Thomas Jefferson think?
The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the Principles and form of our Constitution. I am an Enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but Coin. If the American People allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the People of all their Property until their Children will wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered.
If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, and give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; And the sixteen being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they do now, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; But be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains around the necks of our fellow sufferers; And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on ’til the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering…and the forehorse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.
Do you agree with Mr. Reich or Thomas Jefferson? A former Clinton Cabinet hack and Berkeley professor or one of the most profound and intelligent of the Founding Father’s? Who knew better than or who knows better now?
In one instance Mr. Reich claims business is unhappy with Obama economic policy and unfriendly to business and includes General Electric’s CEO Jeff Immelt but later provides a quote that I find more to the truth but a threat to Mr. Reich.
Tom Borelli, director of the Free Enterprise Project of the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank and vocal supporter of the tea party movement, has demanded Mr. Immelt’s resignation, calling GE an:
“…opportunistic parasite feeding on the expansion of government.”
Among Mr. Immelt’s alleged sins: taking federal subsidies for clean energy. In a press release last week, the National Center for Public Policy Research stated clearly:
“Liberal CEOs are the next target for tea party activism.”
For Mr. Reich this talk is radical, extreme and very, very scary. Reich even reports from a Bloomberg News poll that those evil Tea Party folks don’t care about Alzheimer patients and want nothing to do with research or development to cure other disabling diseases. How awful, those extreme nasty Tea Partiers.
Tea partiers aren’t just against R&D subsidies. Almost two-thirds of tea partiers in the Bloomberg poll said they’d be willing to reduce research funds for Alzheimer’s and other diseases to narrow the deficit; a similar proportion would consider cutting spending on roads and bridges.
Oh yes, Alzheimer’s than roads and bridges. We’d have to remove all those great Reinvestment Act signs off the highways where now road and bridge improvement is occurring.
Oh my, the Tea Party folks would let failing banks fold up and die too. Nearly 70% of Tea Partiers said that they’re less likely to support a candidate who voted for the bank rescue. Those lousy extremists, what are they thinking about?
Mr. Reich doesn’t stop at polls. He invokes conspiracy theories as the root of the problem.
Underlying all of this is a deep tea party suspicion that big government is in cahoots with big business and Wall Street, against the rest of America. This has been the conventional view among leftist conspiracy theorists for years but it’s now emerging full-throttle on the right.
And that evil extremist for Minnesota – not Al Franken but Rep. Michele Bachmann, leader of the House tea party caucus who called the G-20 Summit “one short step” away from “one world government,” and suggested America withdraw from international economic organizations. “I don’t want the U.S. to be in a global economy where our economic future is bound to that of Zimbabwe,” she told radio host Scott Hennan.
The way I see it Mr. Reich and Obama wouldn’t mind turning America into a third-world banana republic with big government growing into a dictatorship. But Mr. Reich has more choice words for the Tea Party:
History has shown that people threatened by losses of jobs, wages, homes and savings are easy prey for demagogues who turn those fears into anger at major institutions, as well as individuals and minorities who become easy scapegoats—immigrants, foreign traders, certain religious groups. Were it not for their economic stresses, Americans wouldn’t be receptive to abolishing the Fed and the IRS, or believe that government and big business were conspiring against them, or turn isolationist.
Mr. Reich should read the 706 reader comments (and counting) at his Wall Street Journal article. Unfortunately, he would call them conspiracy theorists, nut jobs, whackos, radicals and extremists. Why? Because the huge majority of the subscribers think Mr. Reich is the conspiracy theorist, disingenuous and favors the big government solves every problem for the people academics who has lost touch with reality.
The fact is, average people, the one’s who make up the Tea Party movement don’t want opportunist politicians redistributing wealth, dictating retirement, controlling education, telling people how to raise their children and stealing their retirement funds. The grassroots movement known at the Tea Party want’s elected officials to follow the Constitution and don’t see it as a living document to be changed by temporary public servants. Average people, Tea Party people, don’t want activist judges, and no nothing unelected officials with careers in government writing new rules and regulations without a vote in Congress or formal legislation passing before the eyes of the constituency.
What the Tea Party doesn’t want Mr. Reich is a Marxist regime working under majority rules. What the Tea Party movement wants is a return to the Constitutional Republic they expect, by the people and for the people.
Mr. Reich calls the Tea Party movement “dangerous idiocy.” His arrogance only proves that he and his ilk are the idiots and the people will decide. Indeed!
The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed and that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of press. ~ Thomas Jefferson
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Bill Clinton’s late intervention in the Florida Senate race almost certainly won’t deny Republican Marco Rubio a victory Tuesday. But this episode, now playing on your cable news television screens, does dramatize why Americans are turning against the political establishment.
Charlie Crist, meet the Clintons. The Florida Governor—a Republican who turned independent in April after he fell behind Marco Rubio in the GOP primary polls—and the dominant Democratic family are made for each other.
Slime ball gutter politics at its worst now in the Sunshine state. According to a story leaked five days before Election Day, Mr. Crist and the former President had struck a deal. If the Democratic nominee, Kendrick Meek, dropped out and threw his support behind the Governor, Mr. Crist promised to caucus with Senate Democrats, assuming he pulled out a victory.
From Florida, Matthew Kaminski of the Wall Street Journal editorial board has the latest on an effort to force Democrat Kendrick Meek out of the Senate race.
Bill Clinton’s political philosophy has always been, “You gotta do what you gotta do.” Nice try Crist and Clinton – Mr. Rubio, leads by 17 points in yesterday’s Mason-Dixon survey, Sunshine News Survey has Rubio a +20 as does the latest Rasmussen poll and the Real Clear Politics average at 14.3-percent for Marco Rubio.
Charlie Crist – Bill Clinton – Two slime balls and gutter politics, indeed!
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Bill Clinton is busy campaigning for erstwhile Democrats while Barack Hussein Obama presents himself to viewers of Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” a comedy show. Stewart was busy trying to bring out Obama’s humorous side but the Marxist-in-Chief may be realizing his status in America has dropped significantly despite holding the peoples top office. How quickly fame, hope and change vanish when you attempt to openly shred the US Constitution and refuse the will of the people.
Still Blaming Bush – Still Delusional
“You’re two years into your administration,” Stewart said in his opening volley, “and the question that arises in my mind is: ‘Are we the people we were waiting for, or does it turn out those people are still out there and we don’t have their number?’ How are you feeling about that?”
“I’m feeling great at where the American people are, considering what they’ve gone through,” said Obama, who wore a charcoal suit, steel-blue tie and stern look of concentration. “We’ve gone through two of the toughest years of any time since the Great Depression. And in light of that, the fact that people have been resilient, folks are still out there opening businesses. . . . There’s still a lot of good stuff happening. But people are frustrated and a lot of people are hurting still.”
Timid Healthcare
“You ran with such, if I may, audacity,” Stewart said. “Yet, legislatively, it has felt timid at times. I’m not sure, at times, what you want out of health care.”
Obama Plays Defense – More Lies
“Jon, I love your show, but this is something where, you know, I have a profound disagreement with you,” Obama said. “And I don’t want to lump you in with a lot of other pundits, but this notion that health care is timid . . . “
Obama went on to say that 30 million people are getting health insurance who didn’t have it previous to the bill, that young people who don’t have health insurance can stay on their parents’ until age 26, and that reform will cut the budget deficit by over a trillion dollars. He failed to mention the $500 billion cut in medicare and where that insurance is headed?
” ‘Yes we can,’ but it’s not gonna happen overnight,” Obama said.
A New Stand Up Routine – Not Comedy
Soon the Democrats will be replaced; we just don’t have the numbers yet. One thing is certain – there will be no Kennedy, David Obey (D-WI), Chris Dodd (D-CN), Robert Byrd (D-WV), or John Murtha (D-PA). Much of this attrition has come about by the natural processes of life and death, some by seeing the writing on the wall.
Enter the GOP Young Guns who profess to end Beltway business as usual. Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) say the country can expect to see two more years of “good old-fashioned gridlock.”
Gone will be the days of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid setting the congressional agenda. Without even gaveling into session, Congressional watchers say Day One of the 112th Congress will feature drastically smaller Democratic majorities and likely a Republican-led House. Both scenarios mean the death of a host of liberal base-pleasing initiatives that Obama has promised his backers for years, but will lack the political capital to make a reality.
Doomed Obama Initiatives
New Conservative Initiatives
Shelby Steele writes:
But there is a limit to bad faith as power, and Mr. Obama and the Democratic Party may have now reached that limit. The great weakness of bad faith is that it disallows American exceptionalism as a rationale for power. It puts Mr. Obama and the Democrats in the position of forever redeeming a fallen nation, rather than leading a great nation. They bet on America’s characterological evil and not on her sense of fairness, generosity or ingenuity.
I believe America has not lost its greatness it has only temporarily lost its way as a Constitutional Republic. If America has its say on November 2, 2010 and again in November 2012 and continues to pay attention to the officials they elect to high and powerful office America will regain its footing, regain its exceptionalism and demonstrate to the world that there is no room from a dictatorship, socialism or Marxism in the United States of America.
There is only room for the United States Constitution and its true meaning. Indeed!
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