Tea Party-bashers gone wild
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Tea Party-bashers gone wild
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
The activist Left can’t stand competition. Last week in Long Island, NY, opponents of the Democrats’ government health care takeover legislation outnumbered Obama supporters ten to one. The Tea Party activists toted American flags and signs that read “WE CAN’T AFFORD FREE HEALTH CARE” – prompting one foe to stalk into the peaceful crowd, gesticulate wildly, and shout unintelligible threats at the top of his lungs.
The same Democrat Masters of Astroturf who encouraged their followers to use “in your face” tactics during the campaign season now balk at vocal opposition from their fiscally conservative neighbors and co-workers. Obama’s architects of Kabuki town halls have packed public forums with partisan plants. Now, they accuse opponents gathering at impromptu rallies against the massive health care takeover legislation (which no one has read) of orchestrating “manufactured anger.”
Unaccustomed to pushback, the wealthy, astro-turfed ground troops for Obamacare – underwritten by unions, liberal philanthropists, the AARP, ACORN, and your tax dollars — have resorted to projection. As I’ve reported previously, the single-payer lobby boasts a $40 million budget and a stable of seasoned political operatives based at 1825 K Street in Washington, D.C. Now, that cabal is accusing the broad coalition of taxpayer activists, libertarians, independents, talk radio loyalists, bloggers, and first-time protesters against socialized medicine of being, yes, wealthy and astroturfed.
In a comical missive issued Tuesday afternoon, Democratic National Committee spokesman Brad Woodhouse complained: “The Republicans and their allied groups — desperate after losing two consecutive elections and every major policy fight on Capitol Hill — are inciting angry mobs of a small number of rabid right wing extremists funded by K Street Lobbyists to disrupt thoughtful discussions about the future of health care in America taking place in Congressional Districts across the country.”
The DNC definition of “thoughtful:” Sitting silent about the lack of transparency, deliberation, truth in numbers, and reciprocity on the Obamacare plan. The DNC definition of incitement: Asking out loud, “How can you manage health care when you can’t manage Cash For Clunkers?”
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, apparently oblivious to the dozens of well-dressed and well-heeled former lobbyists and influence peddlers employed by his own boss, derided health care town hall protesters as the “Brooks Brothers brigade.” Brooks Brothers was also the president’s clothes designer of choice on Inauguration Day. He taunted: “I hope people will take a jaundiced eye to what is clearly the AstroTurf nature of so-called grass-roots lobbying.” Meanwhile, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dispatched a memo obtained by D.C.-based newspaper Human Events assuring Democrats of “close coordination” with faux grass-roots groups “including but not limited to HCAN, Families USA, AFSCME, SEIU, AARP, etc.”
But never mind all that.
Some panicked congressional targets of the Tea Party movement have responded by shutting their offices, closing their blinds, and shooing pesky constituents off public property. The White House health czar’s office is mustering up Internet snitches to report “inaccurate” blog posts and “casual conversations” from health care opponents. And liberal bloggers and cable yakkers are waging their own war on the Tea Party movement by redefining participatory democracy as “thuggery” and “hooliganism.”
Talking Points Memo blogger Josh Marshall bemoaned a fiscal conservative activist’s memo offering advice on how to “pack the hall..spread out” and challenge a politician early “to rattle him, get him off his prepared script and agenda.” Horrors! “This amounts to a sort of civic vigilanteism,” Marshall fretted.
No, showing up at a congressional town hall and booing a talking points-programmed political hack isn’t “civic vigilantism.” Throwing rocks, pouring cement on train tracks, blocking military shipments, smashing windows, hurling paint, slashing tires, vandalizing businesses, and throwing shoes are vigilante acts.
That is what the anti-war, anti-free trade, anti-Bush mobsters did over the last eight years – and there wasn’t a peep about those brute tactics from Obama’s blogging pals.
They sat quietly while Code Pink disrupted hearings on the Hill and harassed Marine recruiters.
They looked the other way when ACORN illegally broke into homes and stormed foreclosure auctions.
They gave their tacit approval to self-declared “bank terrorists” like Boston housing entitlement organizer Bruce Marks, who show up at the schools of bank executives’ children and bullies them because of their parents’ employment in the name of social justice.
Now, the taxpayers footing the bill for Obama’s redistribution of health and wealth are silent no more – and the unhinged Left is beside itself. The “thoughtful” left-wing response to the Tea Party counterinsurgency can best be summed up by hysterical Hollywood actress Janeane Garafolo, who railed last week: “F**ng redneck d**chebaggery. Unmitigated d**chebaggery.”
It’s not the town halls that have gone wild. It’s the Tea Party-bashers who can’t tolerate peaceful, open dissent.
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DBNinKY,
Excellent point. I still contend that there are a fair number of Independents that voted Democrat that may well never do so again since Obama has revealed the Democratic agenda. Couple with more people acknowledging their Conservative beliefs, in the arena of ideas people will be persuadable against Big Gov’t ideas. A future with no job and little prospects will do that to you. Pocket book talking time. Americans are competitive and want to work, not wait in line.
This is a bit off topic. I’m watching Obama giving a speech in Wakarusa, IN. He has flies buzzing and landing on his face. Hilarious! Yes, it’s God’s sign that Obama is full of &%$!
…or is it a sign he is the undead…?
da-da DUM
While this seems to be good news, I still see this as too little to late. This should have been done back in November when we had an ELECTION! Plus, out of 350 million people, how many are actively engaged? Not enough.
Elected officials still don’t get the message. We scream at them but they still intend to go back and vote in Gubmint Health Care. They must or Pelosi will ruin them.
How well is the internet being used for organizing and/or fund raising? Howard Dean and Obama used the internet to great effect. Republicans seem to be lagging a little bit on that front. I know our leadership (Steele, Powell? etc) are not doing it effectively. We are very close to being drowned out by the Obama response team.
There should be tea party groups in every zip code and money coming in by the handful to organize and get the word out. My closest one is 20 miles away. Can we attend Obama activist training to learn the tools and then use it against them?
TBone, remember that even at the beginning of this Country, 1/3 of Colonists were against King George, 1/3 were for keeping the status quo.
We are the side with ideas. The other side is into emotion. Humans shy away from negativity and that is all the present Administration is handing out. This is our opportunity. Yes, emotion ruled the day in November. That and a weak Candidate. We have to move on and look forward.
The guy running against Barbara Boxer, Chuck DeVore is leading the way locally, getting adds on Youtube and Facebook and Twitter. We have to pull the Republican Establishment along OR out by their roots and replace them with newer models.
I think it’s absolutely hysterical how the libs are calling us obamacare dissenters “the Brooks Brothers Brigade”. I guess they automatically assume protesters must look like they haven’t bathed in five months and should wear ratty-ass clothing.
What do you expect from the DNC other than a bucket load of donkey dung?
I am beyond disgusted with the demonization of tax-paying citizens who are being stonewalled at every turn, just because they want the people who were elected to represent them to actually do their job.
Getting Boxer out in 2010 is a must! She won by 20 points on 2004. Nice work there repubs.
My thinking is we must stop cap and tax and Govt run health care first and foremost. Then next summer, when the 2010 election campaigns start heating up, we must be ready with money, a coherent strategy, have laid the groundwork, recruited the proper candidates, and then fight strongly to oust the tax and spend incumbents. Republicans must win back the House or Senate in order to contain Obama for the following 3 years. If we didn’t have all that ready last November, what makes me think we will next summer? I can only hope for change.
Thanks to you all. I went to the website for kansascityteaparty. I will watch this site for more news.
I am definitely going to the Sept 5 tea party. I will try to find Cleaver’s town hall meeting in Lees Summit on Aug 8. I really want to go to a McCaskill meeting (without the witch of course) and will locate Oak Grove. What a marxist – if not for the ‘Superman will walk again’ propaganda – she would not have won.
But the very best news: I have located the tar for the tar and feathers. The street department is oiling the side street by me and will soon apply the tar. So, tar is not that hard to find. Now to locate the feathers.
That chicken McCaskill should be able to supply the feathers. Hopefully, she will lay an egg also.
The dems are just annoyed that the people composing these “mobs” aren’t working to provide more taxes. We’re supposed to shut up and work hard just like the horse in Animal Farm who didn’t question the policies and worked himself to death.
This is why the more numbers we have at the march on 9/12 in DC, the better. They are trying to dismiss us as small fringe groups. We need to show them that they are the small fringe group.
BTW, Brooks Brothers is having a 60% off summer clearance sale on their latest “mob ware”.
I kinda like the Hudson Linen trousers, (hmmm, maybe in “Summer Sky”?), for when I go to a town hall meeting to discuss things with John Tierney…. what’s that? …. he’s not?….JOHN TIERNEY IS NOT EVEN HAVING A SINGLE MEETING DURING THIS RECESS?????
Chuck DeVore (Boxer’s opponent) mentioned last evening that come next Summer the unemployment rate in this neck of California officially may be 14.5%; include the people who are underemployed and stopped looking and the number will be closer to 20%. The last 3 elections she’s had a good to great economy in Calif. NOT this time. And what has she done? Why she’s asked the Military not to call her Ma’am (a sign of respect any but her would know) and to call her “Senator.” Chuck’s peep’s went and talked to the Black Chamber of Commerce’s Leader, Mr. Alfred(?)…..soon to be seen in a Youtube video. Can’t wait! One weasely Democrat at a time….. (I) have a cunning plan, said Black Adder….
MoGal, Oak Grove is located about 35 miles east of KC on I-70. You’ll go south through town about two miles and the library is on the right (west) side of the road.
It’s the economy stupid!
MoGal, what is that website for the KC tea party?
Brooks Brothers could make a small fortune off “Proud Member – Brooks Brothers Brigade” T-shirts.
What do these Lefties think we will do if Obamacare manages to pass? Do they think we will meekly submit? If so then they are mistaken. A lot of Conservatives (Constitutionalists) are really mad about the massive expansion of government and just can’t take it any more. I think a serious 10th Amendment and maybe even secessionist movement will grow. If the Leftists want to live in a totalitarian, top-down, nanny state I say let them. Just don’t try to force me to live in it or pay for it.
What are you trying to do, stimulate the economy?
My socialist representative Mike Michaud has decided instead of facing his constituency like a man, to slink off to his brand new house in the Bahamas.
Ever notice how we’ve never seen OSama and OBama in the same room together???
Just sayin’…
Could it be that the latter works for the former???
He’s certainly leading the US in the same direction: Destruction.
I’ve said it twice on this board but heard no comments yea or nea. To kill the giant you have to strike him in the brain or the heart. The next Tea Party HAS to be at the FRONT DOORS of the State Run Media…Their offices….In mass. Enough so they will not be able to deny our existence. Otherwise it is all for naught as they have control of the sheep. I run into too many people who don’t have a clue. The lgm’s of this world are just to stupid and blind to get it but when you give uninformed yet normal people the facts, their eyes are opened. Someone please get a hold of this. The Tea Parties were everywhere, but if they were at every local paper’s office, every news station office, we could NOT be denied. “I’d rather be a Right Wing Redneck Extremist with common sense than a Harvard grad with none.”
Cowboy: The website is
kansascityteaparty.wordpress.com
Thanks for the directions for Oak Grove.
WHERE can I get my “I’m with the MOB” t-shirt? Do I have to make my own or is the CafePress person still posting?
Another spit in the face of the maggotry…the MOB…us.
The Political Class drips with contempt for us.
Great – and these are the same people who are destroying the jobs of private jet maufacturers, mechanics and pilots, et al with their continued harping that business executives shouldn’t be allowed to have their private jets – jets that are as often as not used to fly everyone but the CEO, people like engineers who need to get to five different plants in one day (show me the airline that can accomplish that).
Obviously they don’t play by the same rules.
HT: Redstate
The DNC is going to send its own
mobs“concerned citizens” to GOP townhalls.LOVE IT! Like we (Conservatives)wouldn’t THINK to show up at our Congress Critters offices and do the same thing. What Morons! To think this will even out the backlash of the American people right now….the Universe these people comprehend is so small. Guess it’s their small minds.
Here in NH my senator, Jean Shaheen, is having a “telephone townhall” meeting on the phone tonight, and a friend of mine in Columbus, OH told me her rep. is doing the same thing. I’m on her call list (got a computer call yesterday informing me this would start at 6:10 p.m. tonight for an hour – I must be on her call list because I’ve written her so often!) Guess they’re too afraid to meet us face to face. Anyone else having this type of townhall? I haven’t had a chance to read through all the other posts here.
Doesn’t every Public Servant have a house in the Bahamas?
This way, she can be in Paris and still be in touch…
Lanny Davis’ email.. Wants tea partiers photoed and investigated..
ldavis@orrick.com
Been at work – - running a bit late today. Has anyone suggested costumes at these events, so we won’t be over dressed? My husband has a clown suit and I am a Native American princess, complete with fringed boots!
This is a last minute Protest Alert
Nancy Pelosi, Jared Polis and Diana DeGette will be at Denver’s Stout Street Clinic Tomorrow.
When: August 6, 2009
Time: 2:00 PM
Where:
Stout Street Clinic
2100 Broadway
Denver, CO
Front Range & Broomfield 912 Groups will be attending. Spread the word, any 912 or Tea Party support will be appreciated!
Stout Street Clinic Map
Stout Street Clinic
2100 Broadway
Denver, CO 80205-2526
(303) 293-2220
I would like to see any comments on #123, yea or nea. I don’t understand why no thoughts on this and I really think we need to hit the media with the next Tea Party. I know it could be a permit problem and I will check with the people here in Texas but what are your thoughts regulars???
saw the head of the aarp lobbying group last evening on beck, and he flatly denied that aarp was selling out the oldsters for the democrat party, yet in a poll today seniors are the most adament not to change the health care system. 2 to 1 say don’t change amongst 65 + citizens. either that bozo is as out of touch with his constituents as most congresscritters, or he is simply lying. aarp needs to figure out if it is an advocacy group for seniors, or a democrat propoganda and financing tool.
NH Patriot: Yes, my Rep here in San Jose, Mike Honda is doing the same thing. I listened in on one that Tom McClintock (R-Sacramento Area) had done some time ago about a different subject since I was a $$ supporter. Have a question ready; be polite and go for it.
I verify Insurance and get HMO Auth’s for a living. I want to know why substituting Insurance Company Clerk’s that practice medicine without a License and make medical decisions should be replaced with Gov’t Clerk’s. I want to know what is the Appeal Process? 2nd Opinion Process? And how is Obama going to have the time to Practice Medicine without a License? Will he take time away from Basketball Games (cuz his desk is always empty) and his Public Speeches (getting accolades) to do Peer to Peer Reviews with our Primary Care Physicians and our Specialists of Choice? And why will our Specialists of Choice be dinged financially when they decide to give good pt care instead of Medicine by Formulary???
Inquiring Minds Want to Know… There are some questions NHP, go for it.
Democratic herds are typically steered for rallies / protests by their elite leaders. The foot soldiers are mostly the brainless zombies. They can’t think for themselves, let alone for their communities.
It is a difficult concept for them to understand that the average hard working American can fight back, when their liberties are at stake. For the fools on the LEFT, it is just another political game.
DemocRATs have made Health care into a PRESTIGE issue. Now they can not back track. They will commit a political suicide by passing some form of universal health care.
Just like 1994, the Socialists will be slaughtered in 2010 elections. There is not going to be much support from the fair minded INDEPENDENTS for Obama’s stupidity.
A comment on the Huffington Post suggested that the Dems holding the Town Hall meetings should bring a copy of the legislation and when someone makes a negative comment about something in the bill, the Sen/Rep should challenge them to actually find it in the bill. They are assuming that the folks protesting are being bussed in & paid to protest.
I can’t wait to see the video when the protester pulls out the exact page and reads it aloud in front of the red-faced Fed.
LOVE this….!!!!
This is how we beat them…the happy warrior.
“HAPPY” Ragspierre? Side-splitting funny. Reminds me of DeLay’s Mug shot: a HUGE grin. In yo’ face, Succah. Pardon my language, Miss Michelle.
My congress critter (Courtney D-CT 2) Just gave a a automated phone call inviting em to his tele-town hall. Coward.
Sarah Palin was right they just love to make stuff up.
http://www.villainouscompany.com/vcblog/archives/2009/08/birthers_plus_t.html
Birthers… Plus!!!! Trig Palin’s Real Mother, Revealed
The Editorial Staff are pained to admit that we really have not been following the Amazing Palin Impending Heartbreak Brouhaha. Mostly, this is because we would be hard-pressed to describe how deeply, emphatically, passionately we refuse to notice people who have no lives of their own. Who, to fill some sick void where their souls ought to be, occupy their waking hours (and rape the attention of all and sundry) by conducting marital health checks upon a woman who isn’t holding public office at present and (in a non-election year, no less) won’t be running for anything anytime soon.
I love Villainous Company.
And now, the “Hollywood Ma’am” weighs in on the “well-dressed Tea Party protesters out to hurt you president”.
Nervous breakdown. The walls are crumbling. They don’t even know who to attack.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/08/think_progress_msnbc_manufactu.asp
Welll…..helllll…
Instincts served me well.
The whole “rattle them” pile was just as suspected.
A fabulist lode of BS.
I have been emailing Sen. Martinez, no response, no big surprise there. I received a response from Sen. Nelson that was full of all the Dem. talking points. I am getting no where with my Senators
If you can’t win unless you stop the other guy from talking at all…you pretty much suck.
Yeah. If he want to keep his asp in that seat, he’d BETTER be reading the bill.
Take a minute and tell us EXACTLY what you mean.
http://vimeo.com/5702720
This is EXCELLENT. Wu meets Samuri Mom.
Protesters who are not even interested in asking questions or hearing answers, but who simply want to shout so long and loud that their political opposition can’t even state their position. It’s about cutting off debate and creating a disturbance so that it will be reported on television.
But then you already knew that so…
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/05/revealed-lefts-dishonesty-about-republican-mobs-somehow-even-worse-than-thought/
More on the FABULIST character of the MOB trope.
When did that happen?
Do you blame people who know they are being lied to voicing their outrage at the lies?
Moonbat:
After reading and following the links provided in #153…
how does it feel to be punk’d by your side?
lol yeah that site totally convinced me and the local news I saw last night here in my city town hall totally faked all the gross signs and screaming. And the reporters saying that many were not from this area were totally lying.
Put it up, Moonbat. Otherwise, I call BS on you.
You’re just as sad and pathetic as the rabid anti-Bush losers were and your fate will be the same. It’s all good.
As I suspected…
BS.
I live in the South. You have to be friggin kidding me if you find it hard to believe it was anything but respectful. Don’t worry, very few of us who saw it on the news was disturbed.
Name the city or town. I’ll help you out with the exposition of the bad, bad mob who shouted your poor representative down.
I live in the south also. I have worked in DC. Liberals think it is so cool to go protest anything of moral or of American values. It scares them when grandma and grandpa do it cause if you push grandma and grandpa they will hurt ya. You see grandma and grandpa lived through allot of scary crap. Cold War, Korean War, WW II , dust bowls, droughts, floods, and insect infestations. They never asked govt. for anything and they dame sure are not asking for this crap govt. is trying to ram down their throat now. If they think the few people who have showed up to these town hall meetings are a mob… they have not seem sh%t yet. I wonder if they realize that they showed up unarmed this time.
Rush played a quote this morning, or perhaps he just quoted the Pres…about “If you bring a knife to this fight, we’re going to bring a gun.”
Um. You know. Having the Leader of our Contry saying that they will bring a gun to this fight is as much as saying they will bring the power of the government (possibly including its military) against anybody who disagrees. I think he made a very, very poor choice of words. At least.
Nancy Pelosi demands that you put swastikas on this site!
Drudge has a ink to Nancy Pelosi claiming that people are wearing swastikas into the town hall meetings. Are we going to let that stand?
Crud, I wished I had proofread my message. The word is LINK!
Oh. I think I’ll show up at my next Tea Party with a big sign that says
ANGRY
MOB
…together with a plastic trident (pitchfork) and a plastic “torch”.
I’m not surprised liberals refer to people attending town meetings wearing freshly laundered khakis and polo shirts as members of the “Brooks Brothers Brigade.”
For most liberals, dressing up is wearing the tank top that was on top of the pile of dirty clothes in the corner of their room, pants with the ass ripped out, and 3 day old underwear turned inside out to avoid the usual skid marks and other assorted body dirt they don’t seem to mind when they’re going casual.
Drudge FLASH:
Please call your Senators and tell them that they cannot vote to confirm Sotomayor until they Support and Defend the Constitution of the United States and put to rest the doubts that the Supreme Court itself acknowledged exist about Obama’s Constitutional eligibility to hold the office of President!
LIE: If Barack Hussein Obama II was born in Hawaii, then he is undoubtedly a “natural born citizen” and Constitutionally eligible to hold the office of President and Commander in Chief.
TRUTH: The United States Supreme Court, in the 1885 case of Minor v Happersett made it clear that the 14th Amendment (by then part of the Constitution) defines citizenship and does not define “natural born citizen“-ship. The Supreme court had doubts that a person in Obama’s situation (born to a foreign father who was never a U.S. Citizen) could be considered a “natural born citizen”. Therefore they had doubts that a person in Obama’s situation could be Constitutionally eligible to be President and Commander in Chief.
It is now necessary to confirm the details of Obama’s birth and resolve these doubts.
To “support and defend the Constitution of the United States” and put this issue to rest, two very simple, very reasonable things need to happen:
1) Congress must personally inspect a certified copy of Obama’s original birth certificate, sent to them under seal directly from the State of Hawaii. (Just as was done with the certification of the Electoral College vote)
2) Congress must ask the Supreme Court to clarify the meaning of the Constitutional phrase “Natural Born Citizen”, so that it can be clearly seen whether or not Barack Hussein Obama II is Constitutionally eligible to hold the office of President and Commander-in-Chief of our Armed Forces.
Janeane Garafolo is a leftleaf liberal stooge loser actress who is only running her mouth to get headlines to stroke her own ego. Good grief, she was on some talk show in England telling the host that American media is dominated by right wing extremists and liberals cannot even get on the air. I mean, huh? Cut down on the crystal meth babe. It’s really frosting your brain.
According to 5 U.S.C. § 552a, United States agencies, including the Executive Office of the President shall, “maintain no record describing how any individual exercises rights guaranteed by the First Amendment unless expressly authorized by statute or by the individual about whom the record is maintained or unless pertinent to and within the scope of an authorized law enforcement activity.”
In addition to actually reading any bill they try to shove down our throats, perhaps the boys and girls in DC should try reading the Constitution as well.
This friendly civics reminder has been sent to the “snitch” email address.