I hope that those of you who live in places where tea parties occurred yesterday had the chance to get out to your local event. I know that I am sort of a hypocrite though, since I didn't go to the one held here in Erie. :-\
What happened at these tea parties is so encouraging to me. It makes me excited about the movement that is arising within our country right now. This movement is being led by people who get up in the morning, go to work and work hard so they can provide for their family, and give half of their hard earned money to our irresponsible and careless government. It is being led by people like you and I who chose to WORK HARD FOR WHAT WE HAVE and WHAT WE WANT. My prayer is that this movement becomes so large and so loud that President Obama will be crushed in 2012, or better yet, will have to resign before his first term is up. THe tide is turning. His honeymoon is definitely over. Reality is kicking in hard and fast for our esteemed leader.
Of course, the liberal media in this country was up to their usual tricks last night. In fact, last place CNN decided to brush yesterday's nationwide protest off as a joke, and thus eroded the last remaining vestiges of their journalistic ability. Take a look at this, on AC360 last night, Anderson Cooper kept making inappropriate jokes about "teabagging" like a 6th grade uber-hormonal school kid:
Here's CNN Reporter Susan Roesgen being a complete donkey to one of the protestors yesterday. She kept cutting him off and finally just completely lost it and signed off the air in disgust:
Here is more analysis of the CNN debacle from yesterday.
What happened at these tea parties is so encouraging to me. It makes me excited about the movement that is arising within our country right now. This movement is being led by people who get up in the morning, go to work and work hard so they can provide for their family, and give half of their hard earned money to our irresponsible and careless government. It is being led by people like you and I who chose to WORK HARD FOR WHAT WE HAVE and WHAT WE WANT. My prayer is that this movement becomes so large and so loud that President Obama will be crushed in 2012, or better yet, will have to resign before his first term is up. THe tide is turning. His honeymoon is definitely over. Reality is kicking in hard and fast for our esteemed leader.
Of course, the liberal media in this country was up to their usual tricks last night. In fact, last place CNN decided to brush yesterday's nationwide protest off as a joke, and thus eroded the last remaining vestiges of their journalistic ability. Take a look at this, on AC360 last night, Anderson Cooper kept making inappropriate jokes about "teabagging" like a 6th grade uber-hormonal school kid:
Here's CNN Reporter Susan Roesgen being a complete donkey to one of the protestors yesterday. She kept cutting him off and finally just completely lost it and signed off the air in disgust:
Here is more analysis of the CNN debacle from yesterday.
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Yeah, so, why weren't you all up in arms when our federal deficit more than DOUBLED under George Bush? When he never vetoed a spending bill (when Republicans controlled both houses for most of his presidency, too)? What do you expect will happen to taxes after the previous president did that?
George Bush did something akin to dumping a gallon of milk on a hotel room carpet before checking out. No one realizes until after he's gone, he's still responsible, but someone else is going to be cleaning it up.
The problem with this event is that was a right-wing rally, not a "grassroots" uprising as the biased media portrayed it to be.
One look at the signs at our local rally told me that everyone there was "protesting" different things. Obama, socialism, bailouts, taxes, pork, peace, constitution protection, big government (the people with the last three signs were a year too late). You name the right-wing buzz word, and there was a sign for it.
Maybe next year Fox news can do a better job of promoting the rally so everyone is on the same page.
The rallies were a simple extension of the failed McCain/Palin presidential run. It was the same people, the same hatred, the same complaints. As Ron suggested, the things these people are complaining about are things that Bush brought upon us.
It is not a grassroots, widespread movement. Look at the pictures - from Fox News if you like. This is a small group of very white, angry people. Nothing close to a cross section of the country.
By the way, more people were at the anti-war rally in NYC in 2003 than were in all of these events combined, even after all of the press given to them by Fox. (Don't even need to call it free advertising - call it journalism if you want - there was *a lot* of coverage on Fox)
i was at one of these tea parties and i have to say that it was both encouraging and discouraging.
encouraging from the stand point that people are waking up to what is happening in the united states and how the government is (and has been) moving into a role they can not play. it is not the governemnt's job to take care of everyone. it is not their job to provide for everyone, no matter if they are in a spell of 'bad luck' or lazy. the government does not sustain us, God does.
i was discouraged though because like the first anon said, it didn't seem very unified on the ridiculousness of the current tax system. the tax system needs a total makeover and for those who haven't read about the fair tax, please read the book by neal boortz and john linder. the goverment needs to figure out how to do what it is designed to do (provide national DEFENSE, infrastructure, etc) on what the people can give it. no more.
if i ran my finances like the governemnt, i'd be thrown in jail. at least i think i would...printing my own money is still illegal, isn't it?
we need to learn to take care of ourselves and each other. we need to be responsible. we need to be more generous. hopefully the Church will wake up and share Life with all who need it and work with God to restore His creation.
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