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Reflections on a Tea Party

July 4th, Wheeling, WV

July 4^th, on a local TV news report, a gentleman expressed mild amusement with the large gathering of “Tea Party” goers (about 2,000 people) assembled on the grounds at Wheeling, WV’s Wesbanco Arena, there protesting, among other things, out-of-control government spending.

He thought “it was funny, because how many of them (here today) cashed their stimulus checks?”

Well, I can say, honestly and proudly, that I was there that day, and that yes; I cashed my stimulus check.

Why shouldn’t I? It’s my money, after all.

However, government taking my money, using it to bail out--and then annex--mortgage companies, banks, car companies and others who mismanaged their businesses, often to ridiculous, and even fatal, degrees, is wrong; not to mention unconstitutional. For some strange reason, however, no one in authority wants to look too deeply into this.

The amused gentleman in question, I‘d wager, most certainly returned his own check; unopened, surely.

The backroom, closed-door dealing--by “the most transparent administration in history”--and the pressures exerted on industry and business (especially the medical industry), by a government bent on Socialism, make the Mafia’s extortion and protection rackets look like a church bake sale.

Such dark machinations are the very same things of which the liberal left accused the Bush Administration, for eight long years of hateful, malicious harassment.

Yet, we’re to “give Obama a chance”; after all, he “inherited the mess left by Bush”.

Bush’s “mess” included 4.7% overall unemployment, the lowest since WW2, and a slowly--but steadily--growing economy, facts the liberal, Bush-hating media downplayed.

And, it seems his Iraq and Afghanistan policies were fairly productive, as well, since Obama’s administration has seen fit to quietly co-opt at least some of them. Albeit, without the Democrats humbly apologizing for their hurtful, divisive criticisms and bald-faced treasons.

Despite his misstep of last fall’s bailout, which liberals and true conservatives alike rightly decried, it wasn’t Bush who promised America that getting us a trillion dollars deeper in debt would patch it all up.

Everything after January 20^th, 2009 is on Obama, no matter how the liberals try to spin it, nor who they try to blame.

Unemployment’s higher now, and climbing; the market shows gains, but is still unstable. And yet, our Glorious Leader’s proposing another 2 trillion, saying that’s what’ll make it all better.

Liberals, somehow, seem pretty much okay with Obama’s pork-laden bailout packages, though. Odd, that, considering how they condemned Bush.

Ever seen “The Manchurian Candidate”? It’s plot, more or less, is being played out right now, in the Oval Office. The assassination target now, however, is the American Republic.

Here we have as President a man who, virtually from birth, has been indoctrinated with strong far-left, America-hating ideals, and whose adult years have been spent among like-minded associates, supporting and spreading those values.

We’re supposed to believe, however, that now that he’s President, that a lifetime of brainwashing is somehow meaningless, and negated.

I hope that the Tea Party Movement puts a little fear into our government, and gives them pause. Otherwise, I fear that future July 4^th celebrations will ring hollow and phony, since the America Obama and his leftist allies seek to fashion would bear little resemblance to the one created by our Founding Fathers.

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Nitro Cruiser

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The tea parties seem to be growing. Down here in Florida in my neck of the woods they had about 2,000 attend on the 4th as well which was alot higher than the first one they did. The people were actually amazed at how many came out.

Hopefully it's going to get to a point that the government is going to have to acknowledge this growing concern for our country instead of ignoring it like they're doing right now.

It's not that we don't want to pay taxes, it's we want accountability for the taxes we are paying. Instead trillions of our hard earned money is just blowing in the wind all over the place as they continuously throw it away in their mismanagement of it.

Reminds me of that commercial with the guy throwing his big bag of money into the trash truck to haul it away to the local dump. That's pretty much what our leaders are doing with our money.

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The liberal media seems to be trying to down play these now by not covering them. I guess they offended too many conservative Democrats and Independents with the racial overtones. The new tactic is ignore it and it will go away.

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What racial overtones? I organized a Tea Party myself, and it went pefectly; not one skinhead or hooded robe in sight. Same for the one referenced above.

I'd be willing to bet that the aforementioned "racial overtones" are a lot like the dying polar bears and the noble al-Qaeda "freedom fighters" in Iraq and Afghanistan: useful lies; propaganda. Manifestations of bias, dredged up from the minds of the liberal media who can't bring themselves to be objective.

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The liberal media seems to be trying to down play these now by not covering them

*Darth Vader theme - or - Borg collective voice* We will crush the conservative rebellion, resistance is futile. \tongue in cheek

Be well, ~Alderic

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Quoting AldericJourdain,

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The liberal media seems to be trying to down play these now by not covering them

*Darth Vader theme - or - Borg collective voice* We will crush the conservative rebellion, resistance is futile. \tongue in cheek

Be well, ~Alderic

Checkin' up on the Rightwing Extremist Domestic terrorists.

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Eh, It's an eyebrow raiser, but no different than other presidents looking at other terrorits - liberal or conservative. It's just a little more direct now a days.

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Quoting AldericJourdain,

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Heh...except for the fact that this may be truer than you think; the woman who organzied the Wheeling parties has had 8-10 hits on her website from (cue the "Imperial March" music) the Dept. of Homeland Security.

Checkin' up on the Rightwing Extremist Domestic terrorists.

Eh, It's an eyebrow raiser, but no different than other presidents looking at other terrorits - liberal or conservative. It's just a little more direct now a days.

I'd rather a president be looking for terrorists who actually killed, or would kill, people, rather than harrassing innocent American citizens perfectly within their Constitutional rights to protest and dissent. The other side sure did use theirs during the last 8 years.

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Holy God, I unequivocally agree with you for once. I don't think I've done that in the 4.5 - 5 years I've been here.

Be well, ~Alderic

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"Holy God, I unequivocally agree with you for once. I don't think I've done that in the 4.5 - 5 years I've been here.

Be well, ~Alderic"

Well, it was bound to happen sometime; maybe Obama really IS the "Great Unifier" after all?

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What racial overtones?

The media was laying on the racial overtones...not the tea parties themselves. Sorry, I re-read my post and it wasn't as clear as it should have been.

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Well, it was bound to happen sometime; maybe Obama really IS the "Great Unifier" after all?

Don't scare me like that man.

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