Another Republican booed by Tea Party protesters
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I reported in my column this week the news the Tea Party-bashing MSM doesn’t want to report: Republicans who supported the bailouts, the stimulus, and tax increases are in just as much hot water as Democrats. I told you that California GOP chairman Ron Nehring and GOP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger were booed in Sacramento and GOP Gov. Jon Huntsman was booed in Utah.
Now, see this.
At the Greenville SC Tea Party last night, via Palmetto Scoop, an estimated 3,000 people booed and heckled GOP Rep. Gresham Barrett, who supported both the trillion-dollar TARP and now supports the trillion-dollar porkulus package. The crowd blew air horns as he tried to speak. Do you think the politicians are getting the message yet? And do you think someone in the MSM might grow up, stop wallowing in sexual teabagging jokes, and report these newsworthy developments? The anger at reckless spenders in Washington is palpable, deep-seated, bipartisan, nationwide, and not going away:
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Update: From reader Michelle C.:
Hey Michelle,
I’m a big fan of your site. I noticed that your article about the Greenville tea party states that there were 3000 people there. I live in Greenville, and last night on the 6:00 news, when the party had just begun, WYFF stated that the crowd was around 5000 people. On the 11:00 news, WYFF stated that the police count was around 10,000 people for the tea party. I thought you might enjoy hearing how large the crowd really was.
Also, here’s the funny thing– the state Democratic Party decided to hold a “Save Our Schools” rally at the same time (6:00 – 7:30) on the OTHER SIDE of the Bi-lo Center. The rally was to protest Mark Sanford for not taking the stimulus money for schools. According to WYFF 11:00 news, around 100 people showed up. According to the Democratic Party, around 200 people showed up (see Greenvilleonline.com).
The stark contrast in crowds, when shown on TV last night, was hilarious.
Keep up the good work.
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I’m not arguing that. Government is the very anti-thesis of society. But there is an efficient frontier where one side gives up in markets and in politics. Politician are currently owned bought by the monopolistic capitalists who are financing the whole process. They are finding it not only prohibitively expensive to “buy” a democracy, but they are failing even when there are only a minority of us gumming up their plans (I’m a stockbroker by the way). Now they have met up with powerful political forces and find themselves (deservedly) labeled as pirates. The market forces will prevail.
It all boils down that it will be much more efficient to return to popular representative government where potentially catastrophic problems can be avoided via deliberation. It is more efficient. But first, the fascist establishment who, seeing the clock running out, are making a last desperate push to “close the deal”.
The Wall Street channels are chock full of people like me who believe in efficient regulation. The best are fleeing to Europe at the moment.
We are all living in the harsh reality of government failure. The politics is now catching up. Victory is closer than you think. We can’t go wobbly now.
Let me quote one of my favorite lines in all of movie history: “What are you prepared to do about it”?
Cause I can tell you right now, voting…going to a rally…writing on a blog thread…
won’t get it.
We have to step outside the “norm”, and take the action that will make a difference.
We have to starve the beast, and THEN we have to insist on a Constitutional renaissance.
Most of us here are true conservatives, and believe, and have believed in the values that have made America the envy of the world. We must not for a second, believe that any elected official, in either party, has suddenly seen the light.
I know it must sound cynical, but really, how many second chances do these “players” need to get “it” right?
Beware, and view with skepticism anybody using certain catch phrases. You’ll know them when you hear them. With few exceptions, everyone representing in Congress needs to be voted out of office, and strict term limit laws need to be enacted. The latter will not happen until the primary is accomplished.
Our forefathers had vision, and tried to prevent what has come to pass through voter neglect and ignorance, and populist propaganda. It has come to this…It is us against them.
Let’s recover what has been lost; pride, dignity, and the American way.
DesertLover,
I know you weren’t pointing to anyone in particular, it’s just that is who it brought to mind.
I just think it’s high time we put a citizen politician in the WH. And if you see all the attacks the left has, and continues to level at Palin- that proves how utterly terrified they are of her.
She has had a real job be it governor of Alaska or commercial fishing with her husband. And my little saying has always been that I want someone in the White House who has actually gone and bought a gallon of milk at Wal-Mart in the past month.
That is why she resonates so strongly with the American people.
She may not be in the broadest terms the most qualified, but she is one of us, and one of us being in the White House scares the pants off people like Garafolo- That alone is worth the price of admission.
It occurs to me that Barrett missed a golden opportunity. If he hadn’t been SO set on saying what he had written, he could have stopped and asked the crowd for real input. He should have found out why they were booing him (since he must be clueless) and he could have learned alot. Plus, it would have boosted his credibility if he went back to Washington and voted against any and all Porkuluses.
Instead he just kept talking.
Or he could have said that he knows why they are booing, said I’m sorry, I made a terrible mistake in voting for that and I deeply apologize.
Might not have saved his seat but would have gone some way to smoothing things over.
rags: What specifically are you suggesting? We shut down all communications twice during the scamnesty debacle, wrecked the GOP in the last two elections and the RNC simply cannot raise money anymore. All we have to do is keep doing what we are doing and let it grow like grassfire. Eventually, either the GOP dumps its leaders or we start voting for another party.
I hope you aren’t advocating armed revolt. I’ll admit that it could come to that (greatly doubt it) but let’s try using our constitutional rights of protesting first. It would be very profitable for the fourth estate to return to their constitutional role of providing a check on government power instead of being left-wing toadies.
31Bravo …
Understand … just didn’t want anyone to think my post was to promote anyone in particular …
I agree that Palin scares the Libs and Dems in general to death … I believe that if she had been at the top of the ticket she might have won … but not behind McCain … although until the economy tanked he was ahead by several percentage points according to most of the polls at the time … When he stopped campaigning to go to DC he blew it … not because he went … because he didn’t take a stand against the Bush TARP I … had he done that he would have won the election …
If she wants to make a serious run in 2012 she needs to do a good job as governor, get up to speed on foreign affairs issues, and come up with some logical and measurable programs to get the country back on track …
Still a long way off … time will tell …
This is my point! They don’t need input. They don’t need to know why people boo them (if they don’t know, they are truly stupid, not clueless).
They have nothing to learn, except actions have consequences. Would apologies make a difference to you? Not me. They voted using their own rationale, and not by using constituent input. After all, they know better than us.
We are the ones who are clueless to think these traitors to common sense are capable of rehabilitation. Can you name just one elected to federal office who believes We The People come first, not in their own future or welfare?
Someone please, elucidate me (with proof.)
I think Phil’s statement illuminates a few misconception that many have about the press:
1) The Print and/or Electronic Media have no more rights or responsibilities than anyone else under the Constitution. We are all responsible for keeping a check on the government.
2) No organization has any special claim to the title, or rights of the name “Press”. We all can at any time start to “print” our thoughts and ideas (an electronic example of the “Press” as envisioned in the Constitution is this very website ran by our lovely hostess, MM).
3) None of us should have a problem with there being “left-wing”, or even “right-wing”, “toadies” in the press. The problem arises when they refuse to admit their biases. The Founding Fathers would probably being rolling on the floor laughing every time they heard somebody at FoxNews say “Fair and Balanced”. The “Press” during their time was anything but “Fair and Balanced”. The Papers and pamphleteers took sides and I doubt anybody had any trouble figuring out who’s side who was on.
post post correction…..Please remove the “ing” where it doesn’t belong in my previos post! Sorry
MacEamonn: my point was that it has been the traditional role of newspapers and more recently, other mass media to serve as a check against government corruption. You and I, as individual citizens cannot do it merely using our freedom of speech. That is not a misconception on my part.
I agree with your points but in a target-rich environment where brazen corruption runs rampant and where the government is waging open war against voters, don’t you think it says something that newspapers are going out of business? I would definitely subscribe to the LA Times again if they were to hit the pavement and start doing their jobs again.
Just as LBJ lost Vietnam when Cronkite turned against him, so could our cause be won were the NYT, for one, accurately report our cause out of a need to survive.
We are that close to victory. Could happen.
PP,
take a minute and tell me how this victory comes. What mechanism brings it to us?
You answer my question first: what specifically are you suggesting we do that we are not doing? Riot? Start shooting? Give up?
Well, I take your answer as slightly chicken…
but, none of the above.
I suggest that the next ACTION…as opposed to talking, or demonstrating…
has to be non-violent…
effective…
and outside the box.
Your turn.
Depriving anyone of speech by any means is odious.
The people who did this should be ashamed of themselves. Conservatives ought to be upholding the Constitution, not shredding it.
If you don’t like what someone has to say, leave. Or rebut them in a civil fashion. This sort of juvenile behavior has been roundly condemned countless times over the years when it has been engaged in by Leftist idiots disrupting Conservative speakers.
This was a mean-spirited and vile moment for Conservatives.
Geez, Six…
lighten up a bit. We have a right to speech, but not a right to an audience.
The folks in the audience have a right to THEIR speech, too.
I don’t approve of the air horns, either, but a turned back says volumes…so do boos.
This video is freeee-kin’ awesome.
And to the guy who kept yelling “Go Home!”….I love you.
God bless you, Michelle for posting this.
The Congressman’s speech reminded me of a scene from some fantasy/sci-fi movie where the inept sorcerer believes that if he can just repeat the right incantation enough times all will be well and the world will be saved. The fact that he knows he isn’t really a sorcerer and the words mean nothing is immaterial. He’ll keep repeating them because that’s all he knows how to do.
John McCain. Bleggh! That poser… Apparently he’s ashamed of Sarah Palin – won’t mention her name… well, I’ve got news for you, you conservative poser – SHE was the only reason I even voted for your stupid ticket.
Why don’t you take a hike in the Arizona desert in Indian country and stay there for awhile? You big fraud!
SARAH PALIN 2012!!!
“SHE was the only reason I even voted for your stupid ticket.”
Well said, same here. I have no problem telling people that I figured McCain, given his age, would get through 4 years. And to be honest, that would not have bothered me at all.
make that “not” get. LOL
I hear ya, Bogtrotter – I figured the strain of the Presidency would assure a Palin presidency in a year or two…
Palin was the reason I voted for the Republican ticket last year and I confess to liking her a lot and that hasn’t changed. I do not understand why so many prominent or semi-prominent women of the right despise her. I can speculate, but I honestly do not know.
That being said I have increasing doubts that she will run in 2012. More to the point, I doubt she has any interest in doing so. She clearly is a cultural conservative, but of course so was George Bush. And we all know how that worked out. Nevertheless, while her positions on some issues are a source of dismay, perfection is not to be found anywhere so I think we would live with that.
I honestly believe she would be a good president. The problem is we need a great one. And without the intellectual interest (Ann Coulter for example has strongly suggested she study the Federalist Papers and the works of Thomas Sowell and Schafley among others, a recommendation I strongly agree with) and the relentless drive for the highest office, I don’t think President Palin is in the cards. Her focus is too much on her family and her state. Sowell himself tells the story in his autobiography of how he was advised regarding his own interest in running for office — he was told by a pro that unless you can view everything in your life as means to that end, including your family, don’t do it. He took the advise. I think Palin has made a similar decision and that Governor of Alaska is as far as she wants to go.
I hope my thoughts don’t upset anyone, but whether they do or not, barring a huge change in her circumstances, President Palin is not going to happen.
I’m not sure how this really relates to this article, but let’s keep Sarah Palin as far away from the 2012 ticket as we can. I expect the Obama administration to be a disaster, but I think running Palin against him in 2012 could be the way to get him another four years. Some of you liked her, but she hurt McCain overall. While coming out strong, her effect petered out over the long haul and turned to a negative by the end.
What’s needed is a strong economic conservative, and that needs to be the focus. The more of the social conservatism that’s part of the debate, the worse things are. If small government is the goal, then social conservatism is the antithesis of that goal. The party needs to do what it gets right, and that’s being economically responsible. When it strays from that and focuses on the social stuff, then it’s big government all over again. Republicans had 6 years of both Congress and the Presidency, and they spent it expanding government with social programs.
As far as booing a speaker, while it’s moderately hypocritical to applaud the people that did it here and condemn the leftist students when they do it, that fact is mitigated when it’s a rally like this one where the speaker is not the focus versus an invited speaker who is the center of attention. Disrupting the latter is much, much worse while disrupting the former is showing that the speaker doesn’t belong.
Sorry, I just can’t let this go…
Sarah Pallin = the only reason McCain had ANY juice in his campaign. Her selection was a stroke of genius.
Sarah Pallin’s “qualifications” = at least Bill Clinton’s “qualifications” in his first Presidency. She has, after all, had an 80% favorable rating in a VERY hard to please state. Clinton NEVER had that.
Sarah Pallin = MSM (which does NOT include Fox) homogenized hatred. An acid test that we are doing something right; see, “TEA parties”.
Social conservatism DOES NOT equal big government. What a bizarre assertion! Roe v. Wade was ANTI-federalism, anti-state’s rights, anti-Tenth Amendment….TO THE FOURTH FREAKING POWER!
Geezzzzz…!!!
Palin, per se, did not hurt the Republican ticket in ‘08. If anything, she helped it as an actual Conservative to bolster McCain’s RINO proclivities and bring in the votes that would have stayed home. By all rights, ‘08 should have been a landslide for the Dems – 8 years of left wing, ant-Bush propaganda should have done that. Palin’s presence held it to a 2% margin.
What screwed the Conservative movement over was the reaction that the RINO’s at the RNC gave when the left attacked Palin. Those idiots acted like they were apologizing for putting up Palin in the first place.
Palin won’t hurt the Republicans in 2012 and she would likely make a great President. What will hurt the GOP is their own weakness and unwilingness to stand up to principals and fight a campaign to win.
I’m thinking Ron Paul and Jeff Sessions might be trying to represent the people?
TARP/Stimulus supporter Kevin Brady was booed and heckled when he spoke at The Woodlands Texas (just north of Houston) Tea Party last Wednesday as well.
AuntiEm, Before you go and swallow that “taxpayer’s best friend” bullcrap that the Ron Paul supporters try to brainwash everyone with, you might want to do a little research….
His schtick is to put a buttload of earmarks into spending bills that he knows are going to pass and then votes against them. That way he gets his cake and eats it too. He points to a voting record against spending bills but still rakes in the earmarks.
Ron Paul is a known quantity here in Texas.
He is a “conservative” like soot is a bridal gown.
Like Hucksterbe and McAnus, he merely co-opted the title in order to run for President. He’s a known snake-oil peddler, but he does have some things to say that are of some value.
This is a good read:
http://townhall.com/columnists/MikeAdams/2009/04/20/anarchy_in_unc?page=2
Brady is my rep. I would like to do more than boo and heckle him.
I will work to see he’s returned to an honest line of work, come election time.