April 15th is Patriot Day
According to Paul Begala. Remember this piece of work? He is a Democrat political consultant and was a counselor to Bill Clinton during that spot of bother over Clinton's perjury over his sad little affair with Monica Lewinsky.
On the CNN website, Mr. Begala intones, "Happy Patriots' Day. April 15 is the one day a year when our country asks something of us." Begala is of course upset at the Tea Parties that are going on. To him money that we earn, that we work for, and that we have plans for, is not our money--our money is what tax lice like him let us keep, and he is personally offended that we believe in private property. Well, he is a Democrat political consultant, which tells us all we need to know. Which is that what isn't nailed down is his, and if he can get it, it wasn't nailed down.
Begala offers us
So why are a bunch of Fox News clowns and right-wing cranks hosting "tea parties" all over the country? The Boston Tea Party, in case the clods at Fox didn't know it, protested "taxation without representation." Note the second word: without. The goofballs tossing tea bags today have representation. They voted in the election; they lost.Under this analysis, 50.01% of the electorate could vote to kill the rest of the electorate. By the twisted logic of Begala, any majority has the right to do anything to any minority. Does this mean that a woman in a drunken frat house, outvoted 30 to 1 on whether she will have sex, has nothing to complain about when she's forced to? Of course not.
April 15 is the day when the IRS, under menaces of prison terms, extorts whatever money it can from us. The protesters at the Tea Parties are protesting against the actions of their government, actions that not even all the Democrats approve of. There are valid moral and ethical reasons to dislike this largest-ever barrel of pork--from it being a payoff to Democrat constituencies, to the fact that some people do not want to indebt their children and grandchildren for decades. And Begala says that those who object to fiscal rapine are being selfish cranks and it matters not that the government has gone mad spending other people's money. I believe that it is only ethical that you do make a principled stance against any evil, no matter how it came about.
By Begala's logic there should never have been a protest against George W. Bush, who did win two elections. The sneerocracy on CNN should have kept mum, and Keith Olberman ought to have been put on an Ativan drip instead of allowed to twitch in front of a camera. Because, after all, they lost in 2000 and 2004.
This egestion from Begala is not surprising. I recall the sunset years of the final Clinton administration with much distaste, owing mostly to the parade of fixers and bullies that Clinton surrounded himself with. James Carville, whose only weapon is intimidation by shouting; Harold Ickes, the meanest man I've ever seen; John Podesta, first just another Chicago type, then Clinton's fixer for the bimbo eruptions, and later Chief of Staff; and primus inter pares of the ruffians, the thug Paul Begala who sophistry doesn't even rise above the level of the basest of hypocrisy.
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You're utterly right that the Congress in 2001 to 2008 went on a spending spree. But there is little comparison between drugs for the elderly and these payoffs to core Democrat constituencies. And please remember that under the Constitution all spending bill originate in the House. Which was Democratically run since 2006.
It is rubbish to maintain that W. was responsible for the stock-market decline and inaccurate to claim 6000 points for him even if he were. The loss is more like 2200. If you persist in this metaphor, the DJIA rose 4100 when Bush was president and Republicans controlled Congress. For the House originates spending bills.
But the decline in the stock market is owing more to Obama than to anyone else.
Obama, hired by Madeline Talbot, trained ACORN in Chicago, who pressured banks to make bad loans. By threatening bankers' families, camping on their lawns, breaking into private property. These toxic loans were then sold on and they are what is poisoning the world's financial market. When the Republicans wondered, and I wish they had wondered harder, about these bad loans, Chris Dodd and Barney Frank screeched and insisted that the loans were just fine. But one of the main people doing this, under a Carter law enforced under Clinton in 1993 et seq, was His O'liness, Barack Hussein Obama.
Bush had nothing to do with that. NOTHING.
In addition, what would it serve to have a Tea Party outside the house of a man not in power?
And, despite the expenditures of the Bush years, there was nothing like this omnibus pork bill. There has been nothing like this bill in the history of the world.
Nothing. Nowhere. At no time. European socialists are beginning to call us the USSA.
The reason for the Tea Parties was not some leftist revenge against a hated president out of power, but an attempt to make people in power now act responsibly.
---Why were you not complaining the past eight years when the debt doubled?? ANSWER???.. It appears you were just party blind for some irrational reason...
---The only GOP President to try to get the budget under control was Bush Sr. and then the ultra conservatives abandoned him and voted for Perot...which put Clinton into office. The GOP doesn't really want the budget under control it appears, they just want to complain.... and claim to be financial conservative when they really aren't.
Facts: not Rush propoganda statments--
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National Debt
0.9 trillion ----end of Carter --- (1980)
3.7 trillion -----end of Reagan -- (1988) --- 311% gain or 38.9% per year
4.9 trillion -----end of Bush Sr. - (1992) ---- 32% gain or 8.0 % per year
5.6 trillion -----end of Clinton --- (2000) ----- 14% gain or 1.8% per year
10.7 trillion ----- end of Bush Jr. --(2000) ----- 91% gain or 11.3 % per year
Hurts when you look at real stats and not just some crazy generalized statement.
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The Dow-- Dec 31 of those years
1,004 ---1980 end of Carter
1,988 ---1988 end of Reagan
3,168--- 1992 end of Bush Sr.
10,787 -- 2000 end of Clinton
8,777 --- 2008 end of Bush Jr. (ouch)
Hurts when you look at real stats and not just some crazy generalized statement.You tell me.
Again. The House of Representatives is the source of all money bills. ALL OF THEM. Check the constitution. It's in there. I promise you that it is.
You will not get me to defend the spending bills that W signed. They were abominable. In that I preferred Clinton but only in that. But again, they started in the House. And I have no love for the Republicans who did that. In, for the fourth time, the HOUSE.
The president does not lift his hands and decree that the Dow shall, lo and behold, move, as though he were directing an orchestra. The reason that the market has fallen so much during Bush's term is as I said above: toxic assets which were instigated entirely and completely under Democrat aegis and Obama is in it up to his elbows. Carter. Clinton. Achtenberg/Reno. Obama. Frank. Dodd.
Not a generalization.
Ronald Reagan made a determined effort trim the size of government but could not; he only slowed the rate of growth, which again, started in the HOUSE.
It appears you were just party blind for some irrational reason...
And you, dear sir, are not? Two sentences in your last comment indicate that for you there is only one truth, and it is according to you.
Your reflexive and deliberate misunderstanding of what the Tea Parties were all about and your desire to snarl around the Texas home of an out-of-power president labels you as a good deal more than a liberal: a vespertilio lunae, or moonbat.
As for Begala's remarks - why not say it - who cares? I'd have to agree with Theo that majority rule does not provide omnipotent powers to the majors, though it does seem well-suited for a political process.
Still - the recent tea party thangs just confused me; back in the day the colonists were truly angry over taxation - without representation. They even went so far as to dump the somewhat valuable tea (monetarily and socially, as we caffeine junkies are aware) into Boston harbor. If the tea parties last week really wanted to resurrect that historical event, shouldn't someone have driven their Lexus into the duck pond? Which, in a related note, would seem an appropriate display of disgust with MDC. (aren't they sales tax funded also? Or is that just the stadium?)
As for Begala's remarks - why not say it - who cares?I wouldn't except that this nut has been in very powerful positions. In 1974 I had an argument with a girl who said, "If you vote, you deserve what happens to you." Unutterably silly, and it is repeated by someone who helped Clinton. Who seems, by the way, to be a shining light compared to the 'Ollow President, but that's another story.
The Tea Parties did have some resonance though; more on that anon.
---If we are going to have Tea-parties" then the largest one should be at a residence in Highland Park, Dallas. When he took office the budget had been balanced for several (six?) years and there was a budget surplus much of the prior eight years, plus the national debt had increased by less then 2% per year (less than the interest rate).
--- After "HE" took office in Jan. 2001, the national debt has since doubled, because none of his budgets were balanced. Not only that in his final year the stock market dropped 5000 points before leaving office and we were bailing out banks etc. even prior to the fall elections. The economy is now a total mess with high unemployment and many have lost much of their savings and retirement assets. So much for the claim of being "conservative"!!
--- The current Person in office is at no way to blame for any of this.
--- Let us at least be honest and point at the person who led us into this financial mess (even though many locally want to stick their head into the sand and not see it)....