Tea Party Fraud

From the many signs which adorned Tea Parties across the country, I think my favorite is the one which read, “Down with sodomy! Up with teabagging!“  While the young man holding up that sign might have been aware of the true meaning of teabagging, I have no doubt that the vast majority of those who attended these Parties and who have been throwing the term around in the last month are clueless.  And I do mean clueless.  Clueless about Obama, clueless about his policies and clueless about the true state of the country they profess to love.

From all indications, the vast majority of those attending these rallies were conservative/republicans.  The same group who voted for George Bush in 2000 and then again in 2004.  The George Bush who increased the national debt from just under 6 trillion to almost 11 trillion in a mere eight years.  Why weren’t these people screaming from the mountain tops last year?  Or the year before that?  Why were they not concerned then about the welfare of their children and the burden of debt being passed on to them by a Republican administration out of control?

We know why.  It’s because these so-called grass roots protests were a fraud.  They were a calculated attempt by conservatives and republicans to rebuild a desperate party whose agenda has been rejected by Americans.  At a time when fewer people identify themselves with the Republican party than at any other in recent history, this leaderless party is foolishly pegging its future on Obama-bashing.  Devoid of ideas of their own, they are praying that Obama fails in his recovery plan and that the country does indeed fail.  How else does one explain a bunch of people supposedly complaining about taxes when there is a president in office who plans on cutting taxes for 95% of the population?

It’s all so transparent.

The LIE:    FoxForum

“The attention being given the national tea party movement is nothing short of remarkable.  Organized by a few people using new social media tools like Twitter and Facebook, it has blossomed into a genuine social movement composed of Republicans, Libertarians, Independents and even a few Democrats, all of whom feel as though they are being taken for granted by their elected leaders in Washington.”

The TRUTH:   Salon.com

“Organizers said the day drew people out to more than 700 sites nationwide. Fox News was practically a co-sponsor; the network broadcast live from San Antonio, with Glenn Beck; Sacramento, with Neil Cavuto; and Atlanta, with Sean Hannity. There was no official count of total national attendance, but estimates ranged from 4,000 in Lansing, Mich., to a few hundred in Boston, home of the Revolutionary War-era tea party that inspired the general motif. But whatever the size of the crowds, from Washington to San Francisco the rallies were pretty much a right-wing thing. They drew a mixture of the conservative base, Ron Paul zealots, libertarians and assorted others who are dead certain that Obama’s administration is taking the country into socialism — or worse.”

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