Teeing Off on Tea Parties: "This Has to Be the Worst Reenactment of a Historical Event Ever"
Yesterday, as you know if you watch lots of cable news, believe that the recently-passed budget puts us on the precipice of Mao's China/Stalin's USSR/Mussolini's Italy, and/or walked by Westlake Center at about 5 PM, was Tea Party Day. Braden Van Dragt put together a terrific slideshow of the Westlake event and Don Ward provided coverage of the Olympia version.
Braden Van Dragt
Meanwhile, at the P-I, David Horsey inveighs in a lengthy blog post against the illogic of the protests, which in turn spurs a bevy of angry comments. But for my money, the best Tea Party takedown is this Taibbi-styled entry from my friend Nirav. Sayeth he,
[T]his has to be the worst reenactment of a historical event ever. These dipshits are purchasing tea from their local stores (on which they will pay all applicable taxes) with their own money and then proceeding to throw away their property in order to protest the acts of their duly elected representative legislature and executive, which has recently lowered taxes for the majority of the protestors. You showed us!
2 comment(s)
Jewell says:
All of these people are dipshits. To be clear the point of the Boston Tea Party was to protest taxation with our representation - i.e. the colonists believed it was violating their constitutional right to only be taxed by there elected representatives. The people today are being taxed by their elected representatives so their going against the very act they are "remembering".
Posted On: Thursday, Apr. 16 2009 @ 8:56AM
Bacon says:
Hey Jewell.
Before you call someone a dipshit, maybe you should know what the issues at hand are first.
Stop regurgitating what you heard on MSNBC, it makes you sound like one of the sheeple.
You are clueless as to the details and machinations of these protests, as is evidenced in your ignorant statement.
This isn't about just Obama. This isn't just about Bush. This isn't about Conservatives vs Liberals, Republicans vs Democrats etc.
I know that many would like to think that, but you are kidding yourselves. Trust me.
This is about the System of Government. The whole system. Its broken and it needs to be fixed and in order to fix it our elected Representatives in Congress must be held accountable and forced to follow the Constitution. It was written for a reason and today it is being trampled on by LEFT, RIGHT, and CENTER!
America got into this problem by too much spending. Spending on Warfare, Spending on Welfare,Spending on everything under the sun. How do you fix a problem caused by too much spending..........by spending some more? Because that is the answer that both the democrats and republicans have given us, with out any debate.
and the people are getting sick and tired of it.
Here's a revolutionary idea for ya all? What if the United States of America ACTUALLY saved money for a change?!?!?!
Posted On: Thursday, Apr. 16 2009 @ 6:19PM