Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
-Winston Churchill
Despite the rain, it looks like there was a pretty good turnout for the 1-year anniversary San Diego Tea Party rally.
Job obligations prevented us from attending but we want to extend our heart felt thanks to those who did make it out there yesterday.
A round-up of yesterday’s events:
B-Daddy here and here
W.C. Varones here
Temple of Mut here
(UPDATE #1): Sweet. Lefties have started up their alternative to the Tea Party movement and have named it, wait for it… the Coffee Party movement.
No real strong policy positions but we busted out our statist decoder ring and broke down the unspoken meaning behind the talking points:
“Cooperation” = Pass Democratic legislation
“We object to obstructionism” = Pass Democratic legislation
“reality-based” = Pass Democratic legislation
“fear-based tactics” = Pass Democratic legislation
“the system is broken” = Pass Democratice legislation
“Congress works for us not the corporations” = Pass Democratic legislation
“We need to get people out of the way” = Pass Democratic legislation
Nice little whiny strawman set up by the young lady that the media has portrayed the Tea Party movement as “representative of America”. Really?
Interesting bone-throw to the Tea Partiers, though, with respect to finding common ground on fiscal conservatism. Given what we saw in the video, however, we aren't buying the sincerity of the claim.
No matter. It’s pretty obvious these are net-rootsy types who find it incomprehensible that more than one year in, Hope and Change has been, for the time being, derailed.
But in the spirit of grass-roots democratic activism, we welcome the Coffee Party to the scene. Let’s get it on!
H/T: Hot Air
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2 comments:
Thank you for spreading the word. My favorite tea party, hands down.
I welcome the Coffee Party, but I don't believe the minds behind this are grass roots. The production quality of their initial videos are too high. It's always a give-away for their stuff (like the Born Again American scam). And I think the entire thrust for them is single payer health care and Progressivism in general. I also smell ACORN. In the same way we learned how to organize from the left, they are learning to build a leaderless structure from us. A lot of people are poo pooing them, but I suspect they may become a thorn in all our sides sooner than later.
'Straw man” I hate that favorite argument. Hardest argument for the reasonable to overcome. The left has to rethink the argument but the they are not willing. It's too easy to buy into the demonization.
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