Smell The Freedom
Ah, gotta love those Constitutional conservatives. The Constitution says what they say it means and nothing else. I wonder which amendment talks about “decadence?”
It’s a new day in America, where the teahadist wing of the Republican Party has taken over the House of Representatives, so of course in the coming months we can expect a speedy return to “fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government and free markets,” right?
Not so fast:
The Tea Party Patriots, one of the the largest Tea Party umbrella organizations, with over 1,000 local chapters, hosted a press conference this morning to offer its reactions to last night’s elections and its vision going forward.
Co-founder Mark Meckler tried to pre-empt expectations among the faithful that Washington would shrink and the federal deficit would close overnight, instead alluding to a “forty-year plan” that the group was busy working out with its members. The plan, according to Meckler, was a highway with four lanes, only one of which was explicitly political. The other three were educational, judicial and cultural.
“All civilizations and empires have fallen because their cultures became decadent,” Meckler said. “We need to lift up conservative culture, family values and wholesome things by supporting conservative musicians, writers, artists and producers.”
The Tea Party’s biggest stars are Sarah Palin and Christine O’Donnell – just your regular run-of-the-mill culture warriors rebranded as “Constitutional conservatives.” The message hasn’t changed, only the name of the groups saying it.
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Their plan to shrink the deficit is along with repealing the amendments they don’t like. Once they repeal the 13th Amendment they can pay off the deficit by holding slave auctions and charging a poll tax.
I guess I’d better learn to pick cotton since they’ll probably bring slavery back.
A 40 year plan? Bet that includes reviving Leave it to Beaver
On election night Rachel Maddow argued with Tweety over the Tea Party. Her point was that they were all about cultural issues while Matthews kept spewing the fiscal conservative nonsense.
i hear burning books is a great way to get rid of unwanted culture.
A four lane highway? Sounds like an Autobahn.
so they want to…
lane one- elect politicians who will carry out their values
lane 2 – make sure there are judges who will rule in their favor
lane 3 – effect the culture to what they believe to be good
lane 4 – re-educate everyone into thinking like they do
JUST LIKE THE CONSTITUTION SAYS YOU SHOULD DO!
A 40-year plan?
GTF!
Everyone knows you can’t be serious unless you are demanding your change NOW! And with much stamping of feet and demonization of your only possible allies.
A 40-year plan, hah!
We need to lift up conservative culture, family values and wholesome things by supporting conservative musicians, writers, artists and producers.
Does this mean they’re going to make us listen to that conservative rapper dude and watch Kelsey Grammer movies?
Maybe they’ll make us listen to Ted Nugent music, my idea of Hell.
We need to lift up conservative culture, family values and wholesome things by supporting conservative musicians, writers, artists and producers.
I say let the free market decide.
paratrooper. You can’t be right… actually selling people has the merits of being a PLAN, and is therefore impossible to attribute to the TP.
My favorite question for “social conservatives” concerns abortion. Question: After the raped 16 year old gives herself an abortion with a knitting needle, will you be putting both her AND the knitting shop owner into jail?
Inquiring minds want to know.
“I say let the free market decide.”
careful anon…. that is a paradox. the conservatives LOVE the free market, but the free market LOVES debauchery.
This line that sums it up:
The message hasn’t changed, only the name of the groups saying it.
Yes, you are right. Go listen to (or read) the words of The Who’s Won’t Get Fooled Again. Maybe get a little intoxicated first, think back to high-school (if you are 35 or older) and crank the speakers, if you choose to listen to it (setting the atmosphere). 😀 In all seriousness, it’s really something to take those lyrics and apply it to this. Pretty close to perfect.
can we please start referring to them as the republican party again?
They are one in the same now and are hardly some grassroots 3rd party that they tried to play off on everyone.
that is all
I wonder how pissed the first 100 or so tea partiers are now that their “movement” bears no resemblance to what they started.
funny. i had a “movement” this morning that bears a LOT of resemblance to the tbaggers (i will use that word until they gas me for saying it)
DV: No we can’t. The republican party wants them out as well. After all they won the elections the DOA GOP couldnt win. They want Palin out, their bagger leader. The progressives must insist the teabaggers, extremist, racist within their party be expunged, not celebrated. The GOP wants us to “forget” who these people are, to permit them to meld into the fauxsoup of right wing extremism. We can’t give in to them.
no, no, no. we must encourage them to stick around! What better way to ensure an 8 year presidency for Obama than to remind everyone that the alternative is Tim Profitt style government? Keep them far away from Delaware of course, but i could honestly not care any less if there are teabaggers in teh senate as long as they are from the Confederacy and are in the minoraty.
A 40 year plan? The majority of the teabaggers will be dead in 20 (given their age). And the younger generations care not for the bigotry of their elders.
Further, the American electorate has no patience. That is one of the reasons the Democrats lost on Tuesday, because Obama did not snap his figures on January 20, 2009 and fix everything at once.
Yeah right DD. When they invent a rascal scooter with a 40 year battery life let me know.
I’ll know we’re in real trouble if the Tea Party ever goes after the “decadent” media corporation that provides the masses with The Simpsons, Family Guy, NFL and International Soccer.
Until then, teabaggers are just part of the curtain. As in, pay no attention to “The man” behind the curtain.
The other flaw in my thinking is that slavery would require them to provide healthcare to their slaves.
The challenge I have for all of the Democrats is that they must turn their attention to the healthcare fight.
The unemployed public serisouly cannot be for private insurance any longer.
The strategy always worked for Bush. Stand the ground and make the case.
Max Blumenthal connected the dots between evangelists and the Republican party last year at this time. Take 10 minutes and watch this interview. It’ll help you understand more of what we’ve been through with Christine this cycle.
http://bit.ly/2RArIQ at bluemassgroup
Was that a 40-year plan or a 40-year Reich?
What I don’t get about Evangelicals is that, okay, Christ is returning for a thousand year reign. Before, or after that, depending on your eschatology, there will be the battle of Armaggedon. Meanwhile, until that happens, every one who disagrees with you is either going to Hell or sleeping until Judgment Day, and then going to Hell.
Nobody is taking that away from you. Certainly, for you Presbyterians and other Calvinists, nobody can change the roster of the elect and the damned.
Is that not enough for you? While you are waiting, do you mind if we who are going to suffer eternal death, work out a way to take care of the sick, house the homeless, and feed the hungry, without having you bitch and moan and condemn the effort at every opportunity?