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Home Front: Politix
Tea Party faltering
2011-08-26
Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418

#9  Excellent, really!
The worse one can do is underestimate your enemy and leftard propagandists(lamestream media)are utterly unable to see anything else than themselves when they examine the Tea Party.
So, what they see is gutless corrupt crooks, the mirror image of themselves, like any sociopath will do.
Posted by: hotspur666   2011-08-26 22:31  

#8  Anonymoose "When you hire a ditch digger, you hand them a shovel and tell them to dig a ditch "there". You don't want to have to tell the *how* you want the ditch dug. Just start digging".

Major DITTO'S Moose you da man.

Posted by: Dale   2011-08-26 22:04  

#7  Karl Denninger has a good rant today on this topic: My property taxes have gone up while the value of my house (as measured by the market) has gone down. I'm not alone - this is true for most people. We get crap results and it can't be fixed by Leviathan. The correct solution is to end "free" public education and if the states wish, implement a voucher system that you can cash anywhere, or if you homeschool, keep - provided the kid learns. But that would eviscerate the teacher unions, and so we can't have that. We could have volunteer fire departments, but that would eviscerate the fire unions, so we can't have that. We could have private airline security that was accountable when they blew it, but that would eviscerate the TSA, so we can't have that. And we could have a Sheriff with citizen watches, an armed population that can carry concealed or openly as they wish without permits and yes, even posse when necessary but that would eviscerate the police unions, so we can't have that. We could bar price-fixing, reimportation bans and cost-shifting in medicine, but that would put a stop to all the outright scams in the medical industry, so we can't have that.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2011-08-26 19:16  

#6  I'll tell you one thing, if they put Sharron Angle in a leadership position I would have lots of problems with the Tea Party. They have to make sure they they oust the idiots and religious extremists from their leadership.

If they stay about debt reduction, fiscal responsibility, and a strong America I support them. Deviate far from that message and I can't
Posted by: Penguin   2011-08-26 16:43  

#5  An inherent problem with analyzing the Tea Party is that it does not have a hierarchy, so cannot be approached the way a typical organization is approached. Gathering statistics about it is pretty difficult.

Also figuring out its agenda is very hard, because it for the most part doesn't have targets, only broad goals. For example, it supports smaller government, but what does that mean?

That is, it is not a populist democratic movement. It is a populist republican movement. It wants elected officials to create a smaller government, not to be told how to do it.

When you hire a ditch digger, you hand them a shovel and tell them to dig a ditch "there". You don't want to have to tell the *how* you want the ditch dug. Just start digging.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-08-26 16:20  

#4  Patty is whistling in the graveyard. We'll see what happens in the voting booth come 2012.
Posted by: JohnQC   2011-08-26 16:13  

#3  Yep. We have totally abandoned our belief in free markets and free people. Oh, and please don't throw us in the briar patch!
Posted by: SteveS   2011-08-26 15:11  

#2  Yeah. Patty wishes...
Posted by: tu3031   2011-08-26 13:58  

#1  1773 Boston Tea Party
1775 Battle of Lexington & Concord

'Faltering' can mean different things.
Posted by: Glenmore   2011-08-26 13:57  

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