Topic: The Tea Party Nation's Sellout

[jpatrickham]

Wednesday, 26 October 2011 05:37 Nelson Hultberg

   
"On February 19, 2009, CNBC commentator Rick Santelli put forth a marvelous patriotic rant for several minutes declaring that Americans should stand up and protest the Obama administration's outrageous socialist policies. And he promised to organize a Chicago Tea Party to help publicize the cause later in July.


Little did he know at the time what he had wrought. He was cheered vehemently by millions of libertarians, conservatives and independents throughout America. By April 15th "tea parties" in more than 750 cities held demonstrations. The fervor for revitalizing Samuel Adams' 1773 Boston Tea Party rebellion against the oppressive English spread in waves across modern America. The call went out to stand against Washington's domination of our lives just as the patriots of our founding era had done. And it was met magnificently. The protests swelled into July and culminated in a massive "taxpayers march on DC" on September 12, 2009 that numbered several hundred thousand marchers.  

Out of this, many of us in the libertarian and conservative movements developed high hopes that the history of Lexington and Concord could be repeated – not violently, but intellectually and democratically. Could we not spawn a new Sons of Liberty for the modern day that would do as Sam Adams' boys had done in the beginning? The original Sons of Liberty in 1773 became the hub of a profound wheel that fanned out across the colonies with intrepid spokes of brilliance to galvanize Americans against the tyranny of King George. The combination of their provocative protests with the philosophical thought of the likes of Locke and Jefferson brought us the Declaration of Independence, the Revolution and the birth of the world's first free nation at Philadelphia's Independence Hall in 1787. Out of such kernels of intrepidity usher forth all the giant societal changes in mankind's fortunes. When heroic men and women of integrity become acquainted with great philosophical truth, they become willing to stand against the tides of corruption and conformity inherent in all statist establishments. To such revolutionary paragons we owe much.                                                                                                                          

It was a heady time to be alive in September of 2009. The contemptible Marxist-Keynesian political control over Americans – orchestrated by professorial cheerleaders in the universities and enabled so shamefully by a lapdog media – would surely now be brought to account. The dreadful decadence and destruction of our country that had been slithering over us for the past 50 years would be exposed. Americans would rally to drive out the Demopublican usurpers of our rights and liberties. New leaders would be brought to the helm of the Republican Party to challenge the vice grip that the neocon pundits, the corporatists and the elite bankers held over the party's policy directives. The vision of Jefferson would be restored to Washington. Heady times, indeed."

Einstein's Definition of Insanity


http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011102614811/us/politics-and-economics/the-tea-party-nations-sellout.html?

[Pandora]

Depressing, jpat.

[AmericanPatriot]

Depressing, jpat.

Unfortunately, true

Even though I am a Glen Beck fan, he's has helped this, too

[jpatrickham]

Depressing, jpat.

Yes it is!

An Uneasy America in 2011

Wednesday, 26 October 2011 05:30 Frosty Wooldridge
  
Have you noticed the gridlock in our U.S. Congress?  They can’t get anything done that benefits the citizens of our country.  

"Notice the tens of thousands marching in the cities to “Occupy Wall Street.”One look across the American landscape finds our country in trouble.  Every crisis facing us in 2011 found its origins within our United States Congress and presidents that led us into wars.  While we may be departing Iraq within months, we have left a trail of devastation to them and ourselves that will be told in the history books: ruined lives, amputated bodies horrible trauma and deadly financial consequences.

  
Those men and women, with their hands on the power levers, jacked this country into horrendous debt, endless war and denigration of our culture, language and national cohesiveness.

They bulldozed us into Vietnam, orchestrated Desert Storm and manipulated the Iraq War by deceit, deception and treachery.

Led by the late Senator Teddy Kennedy, they added 100 million people to our country in the last 40 years with prospects for adding another 100 million in the next 25 years.  Human and environmental consequences accelerate by the day!

When historians tabulate the final toll—our politicians perpetrating the war in Iraq can be analogous to poking your hand into a pot of boiling soup.  While you keep it in the soup, it scalds your hand, and, when you finally withdraw it, nothing has changed as the soup continues boiling, but your hand ultimately falls off from destructive damage to its ability to function."

http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011102614809/editorial/us-opinion-and-editorial/an-uneasy-america-in-2011.html?

[Damn_Lucky]

I don't know but I voted too stop Obama at all cost!
As far as I'm concerned they are doing there job just fine for what we have to work with. IMHO

[John Florida]

I don't know but I voted too stop Obama at all cost!
As far as I'm concerned they are doing there job just fine for what we have to work with. IMHO

 ! They still piss me off.

[jpatrickham]

Real Conservatism didn't start until the Reagan Revolution. For the last 40 years, the Right has turned a blind eye to Democrats morphing into Communists. They now call them Progressives or Liberals. Like all good Communists, they are good at infiltration. We Conservatives are unfortunately up to our arm pits in them. They call them RINOs! In other words, we have a Hell of a lot of work to do!    

[Libertas]

You are giving me hope J-Pat!  If more people could just recognize the simple fact that if we cannot see the need to clean our own house adequately how in God's name are we expected to think we can take care of the democrats and their merry bands of liberals, progressives, socialists and communists?!  Going into battle half-assed and ill-prepared makes no damn sense!

[jpatrickham]

You are giving me hope J-Pat!  If more people could just recognize the simple fact that if we cannot see the need to clean our own house adequately how in God's name are we expected to think we can take care of the democrats and their merry bands of liberals, progressives, socialists and communists?!  Going into battle half-assed and ill-prepared makes no damn sense!

Yes but, how much fun watching them fall?

[Libertas]

I like watching them all fall, theirs and ours!

 

[AlanS]

I refuse to give up hope, but stand prepared if Plan A fails.

[BigAlSouth]

I'll take gridlock over Socialism any day of the week.