Comments on: Houston Tea Party Wrap-up

By: (More) Fauxgressive Hyocrisy « Electric Blues

(More) Fauxgressive Hyocrisy « Electric Blues — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:40:39 +0000

[...] is what Jane Hamsher had to say about the protesters: …they swell with teabaggy pride at the thought that they’ve demonstrated their awesome “power” to cowering [...]

By: hms nerd

hms nerd — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:33:14 +0000

Has media coverage of the tea party protests been unfair? I found this video today that shows how various news outlets are reporting the story. It’s interesting to see the difference in perspectives:

http://www.newsy.com/videos/media_tea_party_brew/

By: Buckeye

Buckeye — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:06:51 +0000

Marc Mooore wrote: “Now the left is the establishment and they fear the very tactics they used to force their agenda on a silent majority . . .” As you imply, two powerful psychological forces driving large segments of the “progressive” left-wing for upwards of 50+ years have been PROJECTION and outright MALICE. It does not surprise me that they would look out across a crowd of angry but level-headed, hardworking families, empty nesters, business people, veterans, ambitious twentysomethings, etc. and see instead an unhinged mob ready to usurp the democratic process. Naturally, they would assume that the events must have been chorographed by a poltical vanguard. Of course, they would ascribe all sorts of duplitious motives to its participants. They are describing the world as they know it.

A good example of this phenomenon is the way they tried to belittle Tea Party participants by calling them “teabaggers.” I’m guessing that 90% of the folks who came out to Tea Parties yesterday did not get the joke, and that’s yet another reason for me to say, “God bless them.” The metro “progressives” assumed that everyone is familiar with the same gutter terminology.

Hey, “progressives”: when you find yourself making jokes about 70 year old grandmothers and 10 year old girls, using a slang term that has its roots in prison psychoses, you might want to take a look in the mirror. But, then, self-evaluation has never been your thing.

By: (More) Fauxgressive Hypocrisy « The Widdershins

(More) Fauxgressive Hypocrisy « The Widdershins — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:08:01 +0000

[...] is what Jane Hamsher had to say about the protesters: …they swell with teabaggy pride at the thought that they’ve demonstrated their awesome “power” to cowering [...]

By: c3

c3 — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:45:43 +0000

Garland;
“It’s up to the truly principled of the movement to reject manipulative and political animals like Glenn Reynolds and other obsessed anti-democrat entities.”

In other words this movement must be “pure” to be legitimate. And how often does that happen on either side of the political spectrum?

Following this logic, the anti-war protests were illegitimate because MoveOn was involved along with other politically-motivated persons and groups.

By: Tax Day Tea Party Roundup (With Links, and Rove!) : The Sundries Shack

Tax Day Tea Party Roundup (With Links, and Rove!) : The Sundries Shack — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:39:36 +0000

[...] Point of a Gun – Richmond, VA Donald Douglas – Orange County, CA Midnight Blue – Harrisburg, PA Marc Moore – Houston, TX Andrew Riley – Phoenix, AZ Duane Lester – Kansas City, MO Stacy McCain – Hoover, AL; [...]

By: NayNay

NayNay — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:15:22 +0000

The official count sheets say that 8532 people were there. As an Architect, I caclulated that there was about 5000 people inside the venue and about 1500 to 2000 that on the sidewalk surrounding the venue. The police shut down the entrance to Jones Park at around 6:00pm, when there was room for about 500 more people on the upper deck in the back where I was standing! The police said that when the maximum crowd allowed in the Jones Plaza proper was 5000 and for safety reasons, had to close the entrances and let in more people as others left. So about 10,000 Houstonians attended the rally last night!! What a day!! I was so proud. As I was leaving at 7:00 pm more people were streaming in. It was great. My mother went to the Baton Rouge rally and there were at least 10,000 people on the state capitol steps. I love this.

By: Patti Long

Patti Long — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:28:05 +0000

Thanks for reporting on the Houston event! Your insight is on target, and it’s refreshing to get the REAL story. Hopefully the PEOPLE will be heard and NOT biased media like CNN !

By: Jim Culpepper

Jim Culpepper — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:07:20 +0000

My wife and I attended the event. Having been married for 44 years, it was the first time we felt totally compelled to take a stand against what the majority of elected representatives and senators are doing to our country. Most of them have never worked in the private sector. Once elected to public office, they remain on the doles of the tax payers until they finally retire from office or are replaced. While “serving” the people, they are paid at least twice what the average wage earner makes, they have tremendous benefits, free perks such as trips, special parking at airports and they are treated like royalty. There most compelling drive is to make certain they get re-eleced to office. In the past eight years, they have passed spending programs and budgets that will result in my three grandchildren and hundreds of thousands of other grandchildren being burdened with taxes that they simply can’t afford to pay. Our nation has become government dependent. The mind set is taking care of people from the cradle to the grave. Capitalism is out and socialism is in. God has been replaced in the classrooms with secularism. Common decency and respect for people with faith have been replaced with stereotying and insults. The media in general is now controlled by individuals that have a liberal agenda. If you doubt this in any way, just see how the three major networks and the Houston Chronicle covered the TEA parties yesterday. Just view the way the reporter from CNN questioned the father at one of the TEA events. America better wake up and turn this country around before it is too late.

By: Fraidykatt

Fraidykatt — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:02:54 +0000

Been to 2 parties now. Will go to more scheduled in the future. Sorry Michael didnt think to get pictures but will do so in future parties.

My take.

I met democrats, republicans and libertarians there and even a few people who said they were just there for the free beer…..didnt see any free beer but then I wasnt looking.

Everyone had a common denominator. They are angry with huge deficits and know that we are all going to pay more taxes. A LOT MORE TAXES. Obama is just simply hiding the fact with smoke and mirrors.

TV showed up. Local. Took some pictures and left. Radio was there with some local Talk show hosts doing live broadcasts. In fact it was interesting to watch one radio show having a stand off between a rightie and leftie as if the parties were all about them.

The parties are not. Everyone I talked too or heard talking to others shared the same theme. Taxes are not necessarily high now but they are going to be. The democrats are going to tax corporations who will rise their prices which will then make US Americans pay more so its the same thing as being taxed.

Trillions of deficits are going to mean more tax with a democrat in control of all 3 houses.

Very little animosity towards each other. Lots of anger toward 8 years plus of government run amuck.

Conclusion………..its not about a party even though the gop is trying to latch on to it. Its about common everyday people who are mad as hell at a government that just keeps on being irresponsible.

End of story. Or maybe the beginning????