Straight from the files of the radical tea-party movement we get this story. In some places it appears that if you want to get a cup of coffee or a pizza, you might just have to deal with a gun-toting mob to do so. You see, a grassroots effort is underway to bring attention to open-carry gun laws and use them to bring about more concealed carry gun laws. However, this new movement may do more harm than good as it not only makes gun-control advocates very nervous, but it has started to expose some rifts among gun advocates.
Like me you are probably fed up with the hypocritical actions of the hypocritical tea-bagger movement. These folks will lovingly take advantage of government programs while denying others the same right, and hating their government. Now, there is an alternative that seeks to change our government while not hating it.
At the recent tea-bag convention Sarah Palin, whose main foreign policy experience seems to be the fact that she could see Russia from her home in Alaska, got a lot of things wrong in her speech. As the new darling of the greediest and least patriotic among us she was fast and loose with the facts. While the possible candidate for the GOP nomination passed out red-meat for the rabid masses, she seems to have left the facts somewhere frozen in the Alaskan tundra.
I have been pretty tough on President Obama. Anyone who has read my writing the last several months knows that. This is because I feel he has been taking baby-steps in fixing our nation's problems and has compromised way too much to people who need a good slap-down. I seems as if Obama is more worried about offending the lunatic right that will hate him no matter what than he is in delivering the "hope and change" that Progressives, and indeed the American electorate begged for in the last election.
The tea-party movement has morphed from a supposed "grassroots" movement to a huge money making scam for its organizers and for Conservatives such as Sarah Palin who are scamming the weakest-minded among us to the tune of millions of dollars. One need only look at the upcoming convention in Nashville to see just how bad these folks are robbing their "supporters".
You know the tea-baggers probably should change their names. The "taxed enough already" thing just does not fit. One of the main reasons it does not is that their taxes have not even been raised yet. Another reason is that they are being scammed by power-brokers in the Republican Party. I guess a more fitting name would be "sea-baggers" as they have been "scammed enough already".
I know that every American has the right to assemble and protest peaceably in this country. It is one of the things that makes this country so great. However, these "tea-baggers" are really starting to get pretty annoying. In all their self-righteous hypocrisy they seek to convince America to ignore the harsh truths they themselves have worked so hard to create.
Nothing Glenn Beck says surprises me anymore. It does not even surprising to me know that many hate-filled, ignorant souls believe his every word like gospel. What is really surprising is that while calling us the "Hate America" crowd he actually let it slip what country he really admires.
The opponents of Progress in our country are showing just what they are made of. There latest target is Tom Periello of Virgina. Think what you want of him but this guy has made some gutsy votes. On one important vote he has already taken a stand and sounded like a real Democrat in doing so. Now for his efforts it appears that the Chamber of Commerce may be running illegal ads against him and that the classy folks within the delusional "Tea-bagger" movement may burn him in effigy, of course right along with Nancy Pelosi.
Well, we have a healthcare bill passed in the House. While I have very mixed feelings on the bill, it is at least a step in the right direction, albeit a baby step. However, as while I wanted the bill to be stronger and fear it's fate in the "House of Lords" known as the U.S. Senate, I will not sit idly by as Conservative idiot "pundits" lie about the process which gave birth to this historical vote.
The right just loves to fear the dark. After falling for the propoganda of fear constantly pushed during the George W. Bush years, it seems as if they have a new leader to whip them it to paranodic frenzy. Yes Sarah Palin, the Queen of the foolish, and of right wing loons everywhere, has struck yet again.
Ah, the teabag movement has once again marshalled it's forces in Washington D.C. Ultra-Conservatives with selective memories and misplaced outrage are once again having public hissy-fits. Not that I do not think that is their right, I believe it is perfectly within their rights to gather in Washington and protest. It is certainly more polite than yelling in the ears of your neighbors and talking over them. And like those townhalls, it gives great perspective at where these folks are coming from and makes me so very glad to be on the other side.
Earlier I wrote this diary about Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh greatly exaggerating the numbers of folks that turned out at the D.C. Tea Party. Now it appears as if they are definately not alone. All across the Right-Wing Loon Machine, the two million exaggerations persisted:
Ah the "tea party" movement. A bunch of folks assembled to protest the economy they crashed. Banded together to show fear and anger at death panels, death books, illegal immigrants, poor folks without health insurance, Marxists, Facists, Nazis, Communists, and anything else they can dream is chasing them especially an ethnic President. They have much rage to display and many quetions to ask and aren't afraid of shouting them over fellow citizens heads, and in their ears. Of course, when you have a gloc 9 hidden in your waistband courage is easy to come by.
From the "Man, it sure took long enough" category, it appears as if maybe finally some Republicans are tiring of the looney-tune reactions of their own party. It took some guy making a fool of himself on national T.V. and in front of millions of people but the outburst by Joe Wilson during Obama's speech, when he of course shouted out a lie about Obama lying may have finally caused enough of a shudder up the spines of Republicans that some of them may say enough is enough.
You know, the hypocrisy of Repubicans has become quite astounding. They whine and moan about welfare but dole out hundreds of billions in Corporate Welfare. They talk about "capitalism", but fell in love with the no-bid contract. They talk about keeping us safe while incompetently allowing the worst attack ever on American soil. They rail against the Obama stimulus while they never mention the Bush banking bailout and his crashing of the economy. They rail against the inefficiency of government, government that they completely failed in running.
All over the country right-wing folks have made a special effort to make it to various townhalls to protest- and make sure that anyone with positive things to say about the healthcare bill do not get heard. These folks are angry about many things, from what they percieve as a "government take-over" of healthcare, to the debt and deficits they see as being caused by Barack Obama, and most ridiculously to their parents and grandparents being put before Obama's "death panels" whose sole purpose they believe is to murder the elderly and sick children who are not worth the cost to keep alive.
