Have you noticed what superb writers we have on the Tea Party side of the aisle?

The invasion of Smooth
Crabgrass (Digitaria
ischaemum) amidst the
carefully-laid bricks of the
terrace metaphorically evokes the part of human nature that lurks in the
darkness beyond the Shining City Upon a Hill. Ben
Franklin's attributed
answer to a query as he left Independence Hall on the final day of
deliberation comes to mind: "A
Republic,
if you can keep it."

By Sissy Willis of sisu

"Britain's Home Secretary has decided Islamic terrorism should be renamed 'anti-Islamic
activity,'" reports Dale Hurd of CBN News from London. Twitter
friend The Right Scoop of Right Scoop TV calls it "your wakeup
call America!":

CBN News is
really doing great reporting these
days. In this report, CBN News details how political correctness and
multiculturalism run amuck are allowing Islam to take over Britain to the
detriment of those who are living there. It is very eye opening.

Listen to the full, hair-raising CBN report here.
Meanwhile stateside the NAACP is trying to rename peaceful Tea-Party dissent
"violent racism." Fortunately, on this side of the pond "we're mad as hell, and we're not going to take this
anymore!" Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft, blogging about the St.
Louis Tea Party's nipping the toxic racist weed in the bud, speaks for
us all in a rousing Tea Party Moment:

We will not be silenced.

We shocked the elites. We shocked
the radicals and extremists. They knew they had to react and they lashed
out at us. They called us mobsters, Nazis, radicals, and racists. They
wanted us to pipe down; to be good little drones as they continued to
wreak havoc across this
great nation with their radical agenda. But, we gathered on street
corners and met them at town halls.

We will not be silenced.In January
they rammed through their nationalized health care plan. They lied to
us. They said it would save us money. It won’t. They said it would not
cover abortion. It did. They said your insurance plan won’t change. It
will. We met them in Washington. And their state-run media lied about us
and made up stories that we were racists. Despite the proof they
continue this lie still today. But …

We will not be silenced.

Today they
reach a new low. They publicly ridicule us as racists at their far left
NAACP annual convention. We are hurt. We are angry. We are upset with
this horrible lie.

We will not be silenced.

"The Tea Party's principles are simple and clear,
explains Bill Hennessy, co-founder — along with our own intrepid Dana Loesch — of the St. Louis Tea Party:

Smaller
federal government
Lower taxes
Fiscal responsibility
National
defense
Federalism

Those are precisely the tools to
lift all Americans out of poverty. They’ve worked every time they’ve
been tried. In America, we just haven’t tried them in awhile, due in
large part to the NAACP’s advancement of socialism.

Each of these First Principles
protects the rights of every American—the rights inherent in our
humanity, not phony “rights” invented by a bureaucrat. We stand for
rights given by God that no man, no government, can justifiably deny or
diminish. Our principles are the very same principles that the NAACP
stood for in 1909 but has wandered away from since the 1970s.

Have you noticed what superb writers — and thinkers! — we have on the
Tea Party side of
the aisle? Compare the heartfelt, luminous prose exerpted above with
the false narrative approach of "One Nation," the left's latest lame
attempt to mount a top-down challenge to the bottom-up tsunami that is
the Tea Party. The WaPo reports:

"They promise to "counter the tea party narrative"
and help the progressive movement find its voice again after 18 months
of
floundering …

"The
groups involved represent the core of the first-time voters who backed
President Obama — including the National Council of La Raza, NAACP,
AFL-CIO, SEIU and the United States Student Association. (The
effort is separate from the Democratic
Party's plan to spend $50 million trying to reach those same
voters.

Good luck. In high school English back in the good old days, we were
taught that muddy writing reflects muddy thinking, and to become a good
writer you studied good writing. Must be all
that Glenn Beck Book Club stuff, from Adam Smith and the
Founding Fathers to Friedrich Hayek and Lucianne Goldberg's boy Jonah. Eat
your heart out, Oprah!

Crossposted
at sisu
and Liberty Pundits.

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