Twenty-four percent (24%) of U.S. voters now say they consider themselves a part of the Tea Party movement, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. That’s an eight-point increase from 16% a month ago. link: 34% Say They Or Someone Close To Them Part of Tea Party Movement – Rasmussen Reports™ So, after [...]
Twenty-four percent (24%) of U.S. voters now say they consider themselves a part of the Tea Party movement, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. That’s an eight-point increase from 16% a month ago.
link: 34% Say They Or Someone Close To Them Part of Tea Party Movement – Rasmussen Reports™
So, after a month of bashing the grassroots movement known as the Tea Party, their numbers have jumped by 8 points. Keep up the good work, mainstream media!
It looks like Rush Limbaugh is ticked off at Glenn Beck’s CPAC speech. SLMNews first reported hearing this on the radio yesterday, but here is an excerpt from an article on the subject: The point at this stage is to support the conservatives in and outside public office. I certainly would not have ignored the [...]
It looks like Rush Limbaugh is ticked off at Glenn Beck’s CPAC speech. SLMNews first reported hearing this on the radio yesterday, but here is an excerpt from an article on the subject:
The point at this stage is to support the conservatives in and outside public office. I certainly would not have ignored the other team on the field, the Democrats. They’re the only reason we’re in this mess. The Democrat Party is the only reason we are threatened with the things we’re threatened with. The Democrat Party. Solely. They own it. [...]
link: Rush Limbaugh vs. Glenn Beck! – Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
Rush…. really? The Democrats alone are the reason we are in this mess? Tell me, what have the Republicans done lately, especially when they had the presidency and a majority in congress, about any of the following:
- Annihilating terrorists but avoiding nationbuilding
- Ending Medicare (socialized medicine)
- Ending the federal reserve (socialized money)
- Ending Social Security (socialized retirement)
- Ending Welfare
- Ending our global network of military installations
- Ending property tax
- Ending public schools (socialized education)
- Ending abortion
- Ending Fractional Reserve Banking (legalized counterfeiting)
- Ending the Community Reinvestment Act
- Ending Affirmative Action
… the list goes on
Even though he’s wrong about Debra Medina and Abraham Lincoln, I’ll side with this guy on this one:
From SLMNews: I was just listening to the blow-hard Rush Limbaugh while waiting for my class to begin. I do this from time to time to see what the Neo-cons and Republican Establishment are up to these days. Rush commented that any organisation which gives Ron Paul a victory on who should be the GOP’s [...]
From SLMNews:
I was just listening to the blow-hard Rush Limbaugh while waiting for my class to begin. I do this from time to time to see what the Neo-cons and Republican Establishment are up to these days. Rush commented that any organisation which gives Ron Paul a victory on who should be the GOP’s nominee for president is not conservative. Rush said that it was ‘haywire’ that Paul won and that CPAC is supposed to be conservative, not libertarian. He said that Paul’s CPAC victory ‘put the brakes’ on Republican progress. He said, ‘The Democrat Party is solely the reason we are in this mess.’
link: SLMNews Blog: Rush Limbaugh critical of Ron Paul’s CPAC victory
You know, I actually like Rush. He is extremely good at making fun of Democrats, and it is just nice to hear that since it is absolutely absent from any sort of mainstream outlet. However, Rush isn’t the best at proposing his own ideas. He aggrandizes about Reagan and the good ol’ days but he doesn’t really articulate sound economics or the protection of freedom from the all powerful government.
Rush would do well to take a step back from this and look at what is actually going on with the people of this country. We’re tired of the government and we’re not going to take it any more, and yes that means Republicans too. So if Republicans want to bring us their own flavor of big government, they’re going to get the same harsh treatment that Obama is now getting. If Rush doesn’t realize this, he’s going to alienate his viewers, and I’d hate to see that.
One “talking head” that I think has a pretty good grasp of what is going on is Judge Napolitano:
Mitt Romney lost the CPAC straw poll for the first time in 3 years this weekend, and guess who it was that dethroned him: CPAC Straw Poll Results: Ron Paul – 31% Mitt Romney – 22% Sarah Palin – 7% Tim Pawlenty 6% link: The Bastiat Society: And Now for Something Completely Different… Now, for [...]
Mitt Romney lost the CPAC straw poll for the first time in 3 years this weekend, and guess who it was that dethroned him:
CPAC Straw Poll Results:
Ron Paul – 31%
Mitt Romney – 22%
Sarah Palin – 7%
Tim Pawlenty 6%
link: The Bastiat Society: And Now for Something Completely Different…
Now, for anybody that’s been paying any attention to the vast number of protests and local activism that’s been going on around the country, the reason for this change is simple and evident; American Conservatives, the silent majority, are tired of putting up with lackluster politicians on both sides of the aisle, especially Republicans who offer no defense of liberty and are simply the “lesser of two evils.” They don’t want to have to compromise any more, they’re tired of Republicans who reach across the aisle so many times they forget what side they’re on, they want somebody to stand up and fight for freedom, not just pay it lip service. That person is Ron Paul, and hopefully there will be others who step up to the plate and follow in Paul’s footsteps. Gary Johnson is one such prospect.
For a little bit of perspective, take a look at Ron Paul’s speech at CPAC:
Now, as a Conservative who values liberty, small government, individual rights, and freedom I can’t find anything wrong with that speech and in fact it gets me fired up that we might actually have a chance of saving this country.
Unfortunately for the Republican Party, it seems like they feel the exact opposite. On Republican websites and message boards the commentary seems to be: “the Ron Paul cultists stuffed the ballot box, that loon ruined CPAC.” Mike Huckabee even said: “CPAC has becoming increasingly more libertarian and less Republican over the last years, one of the reasons I didn’t go this year.”
Well, I supposed if you’re a big government statist who wants to use the Republican party to further the agenda of “socialism-lite” then I guess a libertarian influence at CPAC would ruin it for you. If you actually believe in freedom then you would stop and think for a second that maybe Mitt Romney and other GOP heavyweights aren’t really all that great. It really disgusts me that the people who supposedly carry the torch of Republicanism are ignoring the facts of reality: Ron Paul represents what the masses of conservatives actually want, Mitt Romney represents the GOP of yester-year, promising to “reduce” the problems we have but not eliminate them.
Now, why is it that I have such a bad opinion of Romney? Well, first of all, Mitt Romney established Obamacare in Massachusetts before Barack Obama was even a candidate for president. During the campaign in 2008, Romney said the FairTax would “add 40% to the price of everything” (a blatantly false statement.) Everything in Romney’s past shows that he is a big government Republican, and therefore no better than a Democrat.
You might think I’m being to harsh, that maybe Romney has been paying attention over the past year and he’s learned what the people really want, maybe he’s changed… I wish it were so. All it takes to see that Romney is still stuck in pre-Tea Party Republican mode is a quick read of his speech. Here are some excerpts to illustrate my point:
They won, we lost. But you know, you learn a lot about people when you see how they react to losing. We didn’t serve up excuses or blame our fellow citizens. Instead, we listened to the American people, we sharpened our thinking and our arguments, we spoke with greater persuasiveness, we took our message to more journals and airwaves, and in the American tradition, some even brought attention to our cause with rallies and Tea parties.
What? When has Romney been in the news since 2008, except for when he strangled a guy on an airplane? What has Romney done since losing to John McCain? Nothing that I can remember. Right away in the first part of his speech, he dismisses the Tea Parties as a small event, with just “some” people in attendance. Talk about denial.
He began by claiming that he had not failed at all. Remember the B+ grade he gave himself for his first year? Tell that to the 4 million Americans who lost their jobs last year, and to the millions more who stopped looking. Explain that to the world’s financial markets who gaped at trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see. Square that with the absence of any meaningful sanctions against Iran even as it funds terror and races to become a nuclear nation. President Obama’s self-proclaimed B+ will go down in history as the biggest exaggeration since Al Gore’s invention of the internet!
Here we see a prevalent theme in Romney’s speech: Obama basing. Now while I’m the first to criticize Obama because he has done a horrible job, Romney spends an inordinate amount of time taking shots as Obama. Here in this paragraph he manages to mention a specific thing he would have done differently: sanctions on Iran. Now I don’t have time to fully explore this issue in this post, but sanctions are the morally worst thing America could possibly do to another country. They are a passive aggressive measure that simply turns more people into our enemies than anything else. When it comes to foreign policy, we need to get out of people’s back yards and we need to trade, trade, and trade some more. When we identify a proper enemy, we need to annihilate them and move on, not participate in nationbuilding, and definitely not pass sanctions to starve the people of the country.
Of course, the President accuses us of being the party of “no.” It’s as if he thinks that saying “no
Contrary to what you’re hearing on the news outlets and the late night comedy shows, Joe Stack was not a tea partier: Plane Crash Suspect’s Online Diatribe – February 18, 2010 A key quote was the last line of his letter: The capitalist creed: from each according to his gullability, to each according to his [...]
Contrary to what you’re hearing on the news outlets and the late night comedy shows, Joe Stack was not a tea partier:
Plane Crash Suspect’s Online Diatribe – February 18, 2010
A key quote was the last line of his letter:
The capitalist creed: from each according to his gullability, to each according to his greed.
The letter is full of conflicting viewpoints and nonsense, but it also contains some good examples of the evils of government power. Joe unfortunately wrongly attributes these to capitalism, but in fact they are examples of fascism. Specifically, he talks about a special tax rule for computer programmers that penalizes employers heavily if they are contract employees, but rewards employers if they are hired, full time employees. This might sound trivial, but it had a very adverse impact on guys like Joe, reducing his salary dramatically and taking away the autonomy and freedom of being contract rather than full time.
This is fascism. This is the government telling people what they can and can’t do with their property (money.) Joe was right, this is wrong and atrocious, but it’s not capitalism. In a capitalist system, the government wouldn’t have any involvement in such things.
For this and other reasons, it is clear that Joe was no tea partier. The Tea Party stands or free markets, individual liberty, less government, and low (or no) taxes. This is not what Joe was standing for. He was advocating a nihilistic anarchy which I can only assume he thought would end up in some sort of workers utopia. This is not at all a Tea Party stance, whatsoever.
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