Tea
Partiers pour it on: We'll start the war from right here!
The horned lizard popularly known as the horned toad [in beak of unidentified bird, left] has developed "an array of defense tactics depending upon each type of predator and whether that predator likes to swallow prey whole or chew it up." Our two favorite techniques are squirting blood from their eyelids and puffing themselves up with air to appear too big to eat. Too big to fail? "Your avatar of a bird about to have a toad for lunch = metaphor for twitterers speaking truth to power?" we twittered Rightone this morning. Or is it the other way around, the bird being the powers that be and we the lizard squirting blood from our eyelids?
By Sissy Willis of sisu
“We’ll start the war from right here!” Stacy McCain quotes Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. responding to conditions on the
sand at Omaha Utah
Beach [Thanks to Old Bull in the comments for the
correctionn] June 6, 1944, making the point that when you're fighting for your life, you don't start equivocating "when you land on the wrong beach." Stacy's talking about disarray amongst tea-party-affiliated losers in last week's Republican primaries. You can catch the details at The Other McCain, but here's the bottom line:
At the end of the day, making your voice heard in politics — in any really effective way – requires winning elections. Winning elections at the level of a U.S. Senate race isn’t easy and depends on a lot of details that have nothing to do with national trends, so that the success or failure of any one campaign cannot automatically be taken as
evidence of a trend.Neverthless, if Kinnison and others cannot accept the nomination of Angle as legitimate, that’s a real problem. And if the Tea Party movement ends up encouraging people to be soreheads when they lose a primary, that’s a real problem, too.
Predatory members of the legacy press like the WaPo's Amy
Gardner are trying to make out that "the [tea party] movement may be in danger of breaking apart before it ever really comes together," but we aren't buying. Inspired by that army of "articulate, brave and joyful conservative" women we toasted in our previous post, we're ready to start the war from right here! If you're with us, click here early and often to help Sharron Angle reap Harry Reid.
Update II: Interesting historical note from lonetown in the comments:
Shades of Col John
Parker: "Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a
war, let it begin here." – Captain John Parker, 1775
Crossposted at sisu and Liberty Pundits.
Palin may represent many things to right-wing women and the right in general but no one with a straight face can describe her as “articulate”.
And you are an idiot Janet.
Having said THAT. Let me add. Tea Partiers are done talking. We’re doing what we NEED to do and you can cut us down all you want. We’re still moving forward in spite of you–politicians, media and brain dead feminists like Janet.
Minor point of historical accuracy: Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt was the Assistant Division Commander of the 4th Infantry Division, which landed on Utah Beach, not Omaha Beach. The landings were indeed in the wrong place, and Gen. Roosevelt did indeed demonstrate the right spirit of leadership when he said, “We’ll start the war from right here.”
Brig. Gen. Obama would have blamed Herbert Hoover for the mix-up.
“Palin may represent many things to right-wing women and the right in general but no one with a straight face can describe her as “articulate”.”
We’re all well aware that she isn’t black, Janet.
I’m finding solace in the fact that Adam Kokesh was resoundingly defeated.
Shades of Col John Parker:
“Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.” — Captain John Parker, 1775
Thanks for the historical correction (I’ve noted it in an update), Old Bull, and thank you, lonetown, for putting it all into perspective. TR JR would no doubt have been familiar with the mythic John Parker quotation and drawn on the spirit of ’75 when he fought his own battles:
http://flic.kr/p/51D9ar
Historical note about T Roosevelt Jr:
1- He was denied permission by Ike to come ashore with the landing units due to his age.
2- Whilst on troop transport ship, he works his way down onto a landing craft (would you stop a Brig General)? haha
3- Yes, the landing craft went to wrong beach and yes, general Roosevelt said that BUT he also used his COMBAT EXPERIENCE and realised that where he had landed was far safer to land (meaning, that the boys were taking less flak than if they had landed in the orginial spot), that the general radioed back and advised other landing crafts to come ashore where he had done so…thereby saving many, many lives in the process.
4- General Roosevelt played an important role on the beaches that day….but on D+3 he has a heart attack and dies whilst in a command tent…
One has to wonder if his fate was ultimately tied in to saving the lives of many of the men who landed that day on that section of Utah Beach. Go figure that an EXPERIENCED guy can make such a command call (heh) and thereby influence how a good portion of the men coming ashore either ran into lighter fire than if they would have landed 100 yards further…..again, how many lives he saved cannot be known BUT we know that this did happen. It’s too bad that he couldn’t survive afterwards to be a part of the march to Berlin.
Dick Turpin: Thanks very much for historical note. I can never get enough!