Well, tomorrow’s the big day. The Tea Party Tax Protest will be going down at 11 A.M. at Spanish Landing Park on N. Harbor Drive. We’ve been warned of infiltrators from HuffPo and of a rival lefty Astroturf group called A New Way Forward. It appears those folks will be protesting at the same time, downtown, though. (Their aim is to break up the banks. We need to do our homework but for some odd reason we are not as reflexively opposed to that as we thought we would be given the source. Please feel free to share your thoughts on this matter in the comments.)
We’ve been cruising some lefty/Dem sites to see what their reaction to these protests are. Mocking and ridiculing the protestors and/or “Republicans” is the order of the day but nothing substantive to the nature of the protest, itself. One, then can only assume they have no problem with saddling future generations with mountains of debt and the breath-taking over-reach of government we have seen in the last two…. check that…. 9 months now (see, we’re being post-partisan). It would be a purely hypothetical exercise, of course, but we’re curious as to what the reaction of these folks would be if it were President Bush that essentially fired the CEO of GM?
Besides, we have personal knowledge of a handful of people who are protestors that voted for Obama. We spoke to one at length about it (happens to be a good friend) and he said he has no regrets about voting for Obama but wanted to send a message that enough is enough.
This is an important point because we don’t view these protests as being explicitly anti-Obama, anti-Congress or, heavens, pro-Republican as many in the media or the opposite side of the aisle wish to see it and are portraying it as (Michael Steele, chairman of the GOP, was denied a speaking spot at the Chicago party. Good.) These protests are a backlash against the concept that we are going to borrow and spend far beyond our means to dig ourselves out of a hole that was caused by borrowing and spending far beyond our means. And while we’re at it, we’ll throw in a little, “is there anything left in our society the Government does not want to micro-manage?” Average, ordinary, pragmatic Americans grasp these concepts… it’s not really rocket science.
We’ll take some pictures and share our observations (hopefully) later in the day tomorrow.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Looking forward to Better Saturday
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Off point... Since "socialism" is a BwD buggaboo, I thought the following might be of interest:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/weekend-opinionator-a-different-sort-of-red-america/
- Mongo Will Also Search For a Copy of Karl's Little Red Book for the Pleasure of The BwD Reading Audience
Mongo, sometimes you are a gift from heaven. Some day people are going to wonder if you are not indeed a plant.
Thanks for that article. We'll try to do something with it later out on the front porch of the blog because the article touches on the the subject of shifting terminology and calling everything the Democrats do "socialism"
Here's what one stand-alone right-wing blog had to say about "socialism":
"Finally, a few words regarding terminology. We’ve seen the term “socialism” thrown around quite a bit with respect to this bailout, particularly by those opposed to the bailout. We’ve steered clear of the term, not because we do or don’t believe this bailout will put us on the “slippery slope” to the same, its because its irrelevant as far as we’re concerned. If an idea sucks, then the idea sucks. One does not have to dress-up this bailout in any finery and throw it out there as red meat to us ravenous capitalist pigs for us to hate the idea.
We understand the horribleness of the bailout - don't waste any ammo. Like “family values” which we’re all for and “socialism” which we’re all against, we still cringe whenever we here pols use these terms. They’ve lost their meaning and have become hackneyed and tired words for people who can’t articulate their positions."
There, that felt so much better.
We were thinking the same exact thing at the protest today.
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