On 03-27-10, ROSS SAUER said to DAVE DRUM:


DD> Respondents without a college education are vastly more likely to
DD> believe such claims, while Americans with college degrees or better
DD> are less easily duped. ItÆs a reminder of what the 19th-century
DD> educator Horace Mann once too-loftily said: "Ignorance breeds monsters
DD> to fill up the vacancies  of the soul that are unoccupied by the
DD> verities of knowledge."


RS>I've seen this same poll a few days ago, it tells me just how far into
RS>the sewer the right-wing noise machine, led by talk radio and Faux
RS>"news" is going.


RS>Back in the 1990's I came up with an acronym, "HCAAC," Hate
Clinton At
RS>All Costs.


RS>These were the people who put out the drivel like that video "The
RS>Clinton Chronicles."


RS>Nowadays, there's the "Hate Obama At All Costs" groups.


RS>Birthers, teabaggers, crass political operatives, the works.


Don't look now......but there are a few Amendments in the Constitution that
guarantee people the right to gather peaceably, and speak their minds.



Funny......its the same Amendments that give leftwingers like you the right to
toss insults and off-the-wall labels at them.



Here's a little something for you to reflect on, insofar as you are capable of
thoughtful reflection.



Sunday, March 28, 2010


Demonizing Everyday Americans


by Ken Blackwell


Do you believe democrats subsidizing prescription strength sex-enhancement
drugs for child predators is wrong?

Yes


No


It is outrageous


Yes (44 %)

No (2 %)

It is outrageous (54 %)


Ken Klukoswki contributed to this report.


There appears to be a concerted effort among the political Left and many
mainstream media people to demonize and marginalize the expanding
citizen-based movement known as the tea party movement. This effort
flows from both a fear of what these tea parties represent and a contempt for
everyday Americans. But those ordinary citizens are poised to be the
ones laughing when it's all over, when democracy takes its course.


There seems to be a consensus now among the liberal elite when it comes
to the tea parties. Senior administration officials deride them, as do
liberal congressional Democrats. These elitists characterize the tea
partiers as extremists, some drawing analogies between these ordinary
citizens and right-wing militias, fanatics, and religious zealots. Some
members of Congress are even saying that these tea party people are
racist, which is pretty much the worst label that can be slapped on you
in modern politics.


And many leftist talking heads in the media parrot this message, with
their own biting editorial, adding that some in the tea party crowd are
dangerous. Some talking heads, including some Hollywood actors and
others who don't seem to have any credentials as policy analysts but are
nonetheless given air time, are really playing up the racism angle, and
even suggest that some tea party attendees may be domestic terrorists.


Try the decaf, people.


Agents of big government and their boosters in the mainstream media seem
determined to throw cold water on this growing grassroots movement that
is a reaction to the Obama administration's power grab of the growth and
expansion of this country’s central government.


There's a great deal of diversity among tea party people. Some just
want lower taxes, and some also want less regulation. Still others are pro-
life voters or Christian conservatives that also want fiscal responsibility.


Many others push for conservative judges, while still others hold up
signs calling for a restoration of American sovereignty, or protecting
America's borders, or defeating cap and trade or card check.


But they all have two things in common: They all want smaller
government, and oppose the trampling of the Constitution embodied in these
efforts to radically expand the size and scope of government. And as part of
that desire, they want this utterly-ludicrous spending binge to end before it
bankrupts all of us.


There's nothing extremist about that agenda, because common sense is
never extreme.


Are there some people attending tea party rallies who are intemperate in
their remarks? Sure. Whenever you get tens of thousands of regular folks
together, you'll always get a few who makes comments that they should
reconsider. Even then, nothing we've seen is worse than the truly
outrageous statements that we've heard from the Left in recent years
about President Bush or Republicans.


Having been engaged in many gatherings of the tea party crowd, it's
offensive that many in the mainstream media are engaging in a systematic
effort to marginalize American citizens who are simply trying to take a
stand for individual liberty, a stand in opposition to big-government
expansion. Also one of us speaking as an African-American (Blackwell),
it's especially insulting to suggest that these people's opposition
to President Obama is driven by racism.


America's history of grassroots activism goes back to the founding of
our republic. Government of the people, by the people, and for the people
includes as a necessary element those same average, ordinary people
being able to gather and speak out. This freedom to assemble was considered so
essential to a free nation that our Founders put it in the First
Amendment, right alongside the freedom of speech and freedom of
religion.


Ironically, these rights are set side-by-side with the freedom of the
press, as well. The leftists in the media would do well to remember that
their liberty to be a free press comes from the same constitutional
amendment as the tea party crowd's liberty to gather together.


And our elected leaders would do well to remember that the First
Amendment exists to protect average people from the government, not the other
way around.


Blackwell and Klukowski are the authors of the forthcoming book, The
Blueprint: Obama's Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an
Imperial Presidency, on sale April 27.

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Far more sensible people than you believe (as do I) that those who are
engaging in tea party gatherings, are well within their rights to do so. In
fact, if there were any in this county, I would be proud to attend one as an
American citizen who strongly objects to this president leading America down
the road to financial ruin.


None of this really affects you, as you will continue to get your health care,
your housing, and your food for free. Whether or not America is well or ill,
means nothing to you. You can only rail and rave at those who dare protest.


By the way........under this new health care system, someone in your
circumstances may not be getting any expensive care, like heart bypass's.


Fortunately for you, you've never had to have any. And since you do nothing
more strenuous than sit around surfing the InterNet all day, you probably
won't ever have to worry about it.






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