29Mar/10Off
Roundup of Rage is Back
- You didn’t get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.
- You didn’t get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate energy policy.
- You didn’t get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.
- You didn’t get mad when the Patriot Act got passed.
- You didn’t get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.
- You didn’t get mad when we spent over 600 billion (and counting) on said illegal war.
- You didn’t get mad when over 10 billion dollars just disappeared in Iraq.
- You didn’t get mad when you found out we were torturing people.
- You didn’t get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.
- You didn’t get mad when we didn’t catch Bin Laden.
- You didn’t get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed.
- You didn’t get mad when we let a major US city, New Orleans, drown.
- You didn’t get mad when we gave a 900 billion tax break to the rich.
- You didn’t get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark.
- You finally got mad when the government decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick. Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, are all okay with you, but helping other Americans…oh hell no.
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March 29th, 2010 - 09:18
Right…and the rallying cry of these TEA partiers, is “Taxed Enough Already”, and “no to big government.”
They hypocrisy inherent in the protests is astounding. You could follow all of the “you didn’ts” with “and it forced a tax increase”.
The fact is, they want their country back. But they don’t know when they had it, or what it looked like.
March 29th, 2010 - 09:35
Although this will probably make you even madder, I think Frank Rich is onto something about why the Tea Party really angry at government:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03.....8rich.html
March 29th, 2010 - 09:42
Good link, Gen. Particularly chilling (and probably true):
“If Obama’s first legislative priority had been immigration or financial reform or climate change, we would have seen the same trajectory. The conjunction of a black president and a female speaker of the House — topped off by a wise Latina on the Supreme Court and a powerful gay Congressional committee chairman — would sow fears of disenfranchisement among a dwindling and threatened minority in the country no matter what policies were in play. It’s not happenstance that Frank, Lewis and Cleaver — none of them major Democratic players in the health care push — received a major share of last weekend’s abuse. When you hear demonstrators chant the slogan ‘Take our country back!,’ these are the people they want to take the country back from.”
March 29th, 2010 - 11:39
Exactly. When you hear of tea party protestors spitting on black Congressmen and calling Barney Frank a “faggot” – that’s not legitimate protest of policy. We’re in the midst of a culture war right now. These people are eventually going to lose, because there’s nothing they can do to stop from becoming the minority. But it’s going to be ugly ugly ugly.
March 29th, 2010 - 11:48
AAAHHH, I join you in your rage.
I’ve been trying to understand just why none of the things you listed resulted in cries of tyranny etc. for these teabaggers, and the only thing I can come up with is the delusional notion that all of the above (save for the money thing, kind of) was done under the pretense of “protecting America.” Of course, passing health care reform is REALLY about protecting Americans, but since it doesn’t involve pointing guns at a scary foreign enemy, it doesn’t count.
March 29th, 2010 - 13:11
Here here!
March 29th, 2010 - 18:23
Oh God. I’ve been dealing with a buffoon-the husband of a friend-a belligerent, loud, wealthy, arrogant, uninformed, Fox News luving SOB on Facebook for months now. Could I block him? Sure. But I would be missing my opportunity to both fine tune my diplomacy skills and say exactly what you just said. Of course I have to say it in a way he can understand, but I get the point across. We’ve ended pretty much every argument with a concession from him that his rage filled sound bytes are no match for my reason. He posted a blip the other night about the Senate failing to deny Viagra to “child rapists.” It was Friday night and I spent three hours researching my freaking essay I wrote back to him.
Was it worth it? Perhaps, if a few of the people who commented that they were horrified by the “news” he had shared got a chance to go beyond a 30 second political play and learn the truth, then perhaps.
I just wonder where were these guys before and why are they waking up now?
March 29th, 2010 - 19:00
Because FOX and Sarah Palin are telling them to. The boob tube and the boobs are the experts here, apparently.
Also, in case it wasn’t clear, I didn’t write those words — I saw them on Rosie’s blog.
March 29th, 2010 - 23:12
I used to work with a racist, right wing, homophobic manager. He was bad to sit in the next cubicle from, but later he was moved across the office.
But after we all got laid off, I went to a lunch with a few fellow layoffs, and he was there. In covnersation, he said, “You see what that Obama has done? He keeps spending billions of OUR dollars. And this morning, he cut education totally, is a disgrace.”
um…what?