tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905181885778117365.post4888545388352559384..comments2023-09-30T09:41:52.224-07:00Comments on The Well Spoken Negro's Salon: On Tea and (Little) SympathyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905181885778117365.post-73219104329845211162009-04-21T19:59:00.000-07:002009-04-21T19:59:00.000-07:00Thank you so much for your point that there's only...Thank you so much for your point that there's only a problem on the Right when someone on the Left expands the government. Who created the DHS that's now looking so closely at conservative groups? Can we say irony?<br /><br />What many in these tea parties are expressing is a frustration with the two party system. A lot of the people you see there are not true Republicans, they have Conservative leanings, true, but are disenfranchised by the GOP. Let's wait and see if a third party can actually emerge from all this tumult and energy.<br /><br />As a Texan, I was pretty ticked at Gov. Perry bringing a topic into the debate that was settled very firmly 100+ years ago. Before he made his remark I'd thought only the ignorant had daydreams about secession. Our governor has national hopes, it seems, so brace yourselves for more of this silliness. Perry should have stuck with bragging about his part in where Texas has done it right: our fine economy, strong housing market, and low tax rates that have encouraged growth generating more tax income. Why no one (even Bush) ever wants to try that on the national scene is beyond me.Christiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11721427445157839191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905181885778117365.post-83135821950454248362009-04-20T00:17:00.000-07:002009-04-20T00:17:00.000-07:00Jeffrey, you make some thoughtful points, but I th...Jeffrey, you make some thoughtful points, but I think you are too worried about a fringe movement. Conservatives generally don't have the "protest" temperament so I understand that it is unusual to seem them in the street. I don't agree with the "Tea Party" protesters, but I also don't see the menace in them protesting. The left is full of protesters--I didn't see anyone forecasting the end of the Republic when the left is in the street conducting what are often violent protests. As long as people are peaceful, I'm OK with the Left or the Right airing their views in public. If they are violent, that's another story. Lock em up!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905181885778117365.post-49955372979338613732009-04-16T13:25:00.000-07:002009-04-16T13:25:00.000-07:00I'm kind of enjoying watching the Republicans flai...I'm kind of enjoying watching the Republicans flailing around trying to find something--ANYTHING--that anybody wants to listen too. <br /><br />The GOP has shrunk to the tiny base of its base, the hardcore right-wingnuts who believe that the solution to all our problems is to cut rich folk's taxes even more. And while we're at it we can ban abortion, bash gays, and arm everybody in the country with their own personal assault weapon.<br /><br />That seems to be the extent of their "new" ideas.<br /><br />Well guys, good luck with that.<br />Scott<br /><br />PS--I loved David Schuster's comment on MSNBC the other night, talking about an appearance by Dick Armey at a "teabagging".<br /><br />Schuster said, almost straight-faced, "Well, if you're going to have teabagging on a mass scale, you <I>need</I> a Dick Armey."<br />Hehe.Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905181885778117365.post-38433096361476861022009-04-15T10:36:00.000-07:002009-04-15T10:36:00.000-07:00I'll believe Gov. Perry feels that the federal gov...I'll believe Gov. Perry feels that the federal gov't is reaching too far into Texas when he gives back ALL of the federal funds Texas receives.<br /><br />That would be 30% of the state's funding.<br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/cldjf5BiblioDivahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15346410879625801516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905181885778117365.post-17087370476327885652009-04-15T07:36:00.000-07:002009-04-15T07:36:00.000-07:00I guess I'm of two minds.
On the one hand, I fin...I guess I'm of two minds. <br /><br />On the one hand, I find the rhetoric pretty scary. It *does* remind me of the "fire-eaters" and other extremists who advocated secession in the 1850s. <br /><br />On the other hand, I watched a video clip of a tea party on the jackandjill blog, and it seemed like there weren't very many people present. Today's images from the Huffington Post look the same - 40 or 50 people. And when 70% of people respond that they support the president, I start to think this is a tempest in a teapot. Hardy, har har. <br /><br />I think the President is setting a good example, too. Just ignore it, explain what you're doing and why you think it will work, and move forward. If you're right, time will tell. If not, the tea parties aren't the real problem.Fionahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13621216725935523487noreply@blogger.com