Troubling Times Ahead For The Right?

While I often post on my desire to see a candid and unafraid Right, I don't want to see a truly angry one. That's why the willful ignorance of the Speaker of the House in the face of the Tea Party protests is so troubling to me. The woman truly is petty and out of her depth when it comes to providing any kind of national leadership. 

The media bias is to be expected. And no one should expect anything more than stupidity from the Lefty blogs. But if allegedly serious politicians are going to ignore and even demean a large number of Americans like this, we may be headed for troubling times as it's bound to make people very angry. I hope that doesn't prove to be the case.

Comments

[Jane]

Wouldn't we be somewhat justified in our anger?

[Dan Riehl]

Yes, unfortunately. Basically, that's my point. If that's how supposedly serious leaders are going to respond, anger may be the only justifiable reaction, short of just giving up. And I don't advocate giving up at all.

[jaime]

How is it demeaning to note that these Tea Bagging parties were conceived and funded by big monied anti-tax think tanks, and advertised 24-7 (not covered, advertised) by the most watched cable news network in the country? That's the complete opposite of grassroots.

"and even demean a large number of Americans like this"

As opposed to what you called the millions upon millions of anti-war protesters? or pro-immigration protesters?

That rally was larger than the ENTIRETY of of the tax day teabaggers.

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/uploaded_images/Immigration%20rally-774894.jpg

[SacTownMan]

Only a loser like J-Me would use a term that describes his boyfriend's favorite sex act!

What a tasteless douchebag!

[southdakotaboy]

Well I for one wouldn't mind it if this country split up. We in the red states are sick of you far left libs. We would rather go it alone than with you.

[jaime]

Yes, only tasteless liberals would EVER DARE USE the term tea-bag in connection with their tea party "movement" as evidenced by:

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_hjxbJCi5EGw/ScJGy5cCX5I/AAAAAAAAGrg/ZcPV6HmnY04/2009-03-18-tea_bag_dems_thumb%5B12%5D.jpg

Oh, well, never mind.

Face it. You called YOURSELVES tea baggers until you caught on to why people like Rachel Maddow were sniggering at you. The teabagging moniker was YOUR faults.

Are you now going to blame disgusting liberals for cracking jokes regarding 2M4M, too?

Get a brain, MORANS!!!!!

[Paul A'Barge]

I was there in the march when we went to DC to protest segregation and for Civil Rights. I was there in the march when we walked past the Justice Department protesting the Vietnam War and we watched as the government stooges watched us from their windows.

Times change and now we're marching for economic Liberty. And the powers that be are trying hard not to listen.

Times change and then again times don't.

We don't need the current crop of totalitarians to listen to us. We need to throw them out of office and replace them with people who will listen.

[jaime]

If by "totalitarians, you mean democratically elected officials and by "throw them out of office" you mean elect better ones than you'd be correct.

[Rosie]

Nancy is certainly mean minded, but her behaviour and comments about the TeaParty events were not of ignorance. She simply does not care what citizens believe. Her entire being is oriented toward the exercise of power. The ONLY way she will be stopped is through ejecting enough Representatives to take away her majority. She does NOT care what citizens believe.

Oh - and neither does Obama. He and Nancy have at least one thing in common - the belief in the efficacy of brute politics and the exercise of authoritarian partisanship.

[jaime]

"ejecting enough Representatives to take away her majority"

Because the one thing the last 8 years of Republican rule has taught us is that Republicans are fiscally responsible.

[LOL]

u guys lost the election. get over it. The only campaign promises Obama has failed on have been ones that upset liberals. The stimulus, the tax cut, the marginal tax hike, more spending, and the proposals on the horizon--these are all things he campaigned on and won a majority of votes.

Instead of protesting against "authoritarian" government policies, why aren't you trying to build a winning coalition of voters?

[jaime]

If the teabaggers wanted to be taken seriously they would have

a) Not been stupid enough to call themselves tea baggers.

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_hjxbJCi5EGw/ScJGy5cCX5I/AAAAAAAAGrg/ZcPV6HmnY04/2009-03-18-tea_bag_dems_thumb%5B12%5D.jpg

and

b) had massive tea parties in 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, and 1981, when Republicans practiced "voodoo economics" and deficit spent like crazy.

Since that's impossible at least realize that to 65% of the American people you look like you're a bunch of election losing whiners who inauthentically found religion on an issue you didn't care about or were unwilling to stand up to your leaders 6 months ago.

[JustOneMan]

Well if I am a "tea bagger" the blind King Barry fans must be the "tea bagees"....

Rachel Madcow??? Is she still on TV?

[joyMc]

Millions come out not just to protest the coming overtaxation (how else will the federal government pay for its current squandering of money?) A national debt layed upon children not yet born, but also to protest the moving of this country toward socialism, the anticipated drop in the value of the American doller and the selling out of the American people to throngs from outside our borders likely to support whatever party will pay the most for their votes. And Obama knows nothing of it. Like he knew little of Bill Ayeres, Rev. Wright, and other associates real agendas. This comes under the heading of knew or should have known. I am getting really tired of Obama's poor observational skills. Concerning the recent rescue of our citizen from Samali pirates, I thanked God Obama just got out of the way and let those who knew what they were doing, do their jobs.

[jaime]

"Well if I am a "tea bagger" the blind King Barry fans must be the "tea bagees"....Rachel Madcow??? Is she still on TV?"

- Insult fail. You're about as funny as Fox's Red Eye. No wonder you didn't know why people were laughing at you for calling yourselves tea baggers.

[joyMc]

From where I come from I always had a feeling that "stay at homes" allowed the current administration and congress to materialize, not voters who actually went to the poles. America is paying right now for its traditionally low voter turnout. A nation gets the government its indifferent ass deserves. But I think some of the indifferent have awakened now. Hide and watch.

[jaime]

Forgive my editorializing, but it seems according to joyMc, the Teabagger message is:

- Our lowering taxes are too high (although Gallup recorded the lowest dissatisfaction with tax rates in its history of taking the poll)

- The national debt was too high starting Jan. 20, 2009.

- Obama is a commie as proven by his resisting bank nationalization.

- The potential imaginary drop in the value of the U.S. dollar is greather than the actual plummeting of the dollar the last few years.

- Mexicans are taking our lettuce picking jobs.

- Obama is a terrorist.

- Obama hates white people.

- Obama almost blew the rescuing of the kidnapped crew by pirates by giving the orders for the Navy to carry out the succesful rescuing of the crew.

That's 7 different grievances real and (mostly) imagined all with the message "It's all Obama's fault." And you wonder why most people don't see the tea bagging parties as anything but astroturfed partisan events.

[jaime]

"America is paying right now for its traditionally low voter turnout."

As evidenced by Obama winning a landslide victory in an election with the highest voter turnout percentage in 44 years.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781453.html

[Effra]

Obama did not win in a landslide. Only in your fantasies.

[EllisWyatt]

Let's take a look at the "big monied ... think tanks" who organized "the millions upon millions of anti-war protesters? or pro-immigration protesters?"

http://www.slate.com/id/2126913/

And now let's take a look at your claim this is an organized effort on behalf of Fox News, the GOP and others:

http://lizmair.com/blog.php?Index=452

And I love this liberal argument that conservatives and libertarians should shut the hell up because the GOP engaged in deficit spending too! I protested just as loudly about the Prescription Drug Giveaway and other "Compassionate Conservative" policies as I am protesting about Obama's policies!

[Lala]

What's this? I'm hearing that "teabagging" is a misogynist and homophobic slur. Is that true liberals?

[jaime]

"Obama did not win in a landslide. Only in your fantasies."

With the exception of 1984, Obama's margin of victory was larger than any election since 1972. You may argue semantics, but you can't argue the numbers.

"conservatives and libertarians should shut the hell up because the GOP engaged in deficit spending too"

- That's what I like to call a straw man. No one's saying you should shut up. We're just asking for some honesty, like noting that "deficits didn't matter" was fine and dandy as little as 4 months ago. If it wasn't fine and dandy, then you didn't have the integrity to protest the last 3 Republican presidents over the same issue.

[Lala]

Wow, Fox cable has some ratings

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ratings/the_scoreboard_wednesday_april_15_114271.asp

[Calypso Jones]

I don't ever recall hearing the term Teabagger since i dont really hang out (so to speak) with perverts. The ones who began using the term ON Allegedly serious political talk and news shows WERE>>>>>>LIBERALS, seeing that they know all these special little words for their perverted behaviors and jokes.

And what are leftists doing now that Obama has tripled and more the national debt?? All those years of screaming that national debt is bad and NOW IT"S OKAY??as you break thru the gold ceiling?

What do you think Obama is going to do for you.

[mark l.]

"With the exception of 1984, Obama's margin of victory was larger than any election since 1972."

a dem breaks 50% for the first time in 8 elections, and the world is new.

reagan, 50.7% and 58.8%
bush 41, 53.4%
bush 43, 50.7%.

that's five over the past eight elections for the gop.

I note that obama had a lower tally than elder bush, who was not reelected.

There's a certain long view of the inevitable. Dems choke.

[mark l.]

"Dems choke."
carbon tax, national healthcare.
pick your poison.

[mark l.]

a little more history:
when reagan won in 80, the gop followed up with a gain 12 senate seats, and the majority in 82.

learn from carter mistakes?
deficit spending, elevated unemployment are there...obama should avoid inflation like the plague, and yet his policies may very well exacerbate the problem.

there are two occurences of a dem monopoly-
76-80, and 92-94. 80 and 94...

when dems choke, they REALLY choke.

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[Bob]

It's great when a "classy" commentator like Riehl rips Pelosi for being "petty." Riehl, as I recall, was the one who, when Barack Obama took time off from his campaign to visit his dying grandmother in Hawaii, suggested that he had suffocated her with a pillow to pick up some sympathy votes. But all a Democrat like Pelosi has to do is use an unforgivable term like "astroturf" (hereafter known as "the 'A' word"), and Riehl is threatening about "angry" conservatives and "troubling times."

That's a large part of the sense of disgust that a lot of people feel over these protests: how clueless many of the protesters seem to be to their own hypocrisy and double-standards. The same people who ignored deficits, unconstitutional policies, law-breaking and gross ineptitude when their own party was in power (and of course, the tea baggers are almost uniformly Republicans and libertarians) are now threatening mayhem if someone suggests that they and their movement might be insincere. Of course it's also quite possible that they're knowingly trying to make up in fury and bluster what they know they lack in credibility. Yeah, that's probably a lot of it right there.

[Calypso Jones]

shut up bob. you're worried about this tea party phenomenon aren't you.

[PA]

"That rally was larger than the ENTIRETY of of the tax day teabaggers."

But how many there were American citizens?

Did you know the Mexican constitution allows their president absolute authority to expel any foreign national who tries to influence the internal politics of Mexico?

[unseen]

call it Nancy's "Let them eat cake" moment.

The fact that liberals are using locker room humor shows how immature they really are. The same people that were protesting Bush's spending over the last 8 years....moveon.org...are now ok with Obama spending 3 times more....and the liberals call us hpyrocites?

The fiscal conservatives bailed on Bush after 2004. You think he was at 29% approval rating for nothing? We kicked the GOP that spent too much out of office in 2006 and 2008. The dems ran for the last 4 years as fiscal conservatives...they ran on paygo budgeting and the first thing they do when they get power is spend 3 times as much as bush...the dems lied to the american people...we threw out the GOP when they failed in their duties of sheperding the national treasury and we will throw out the dems for their failure too. We are tired of the lies, of the false promises. We are tired of electing man and women that do not keep their word. We will take back our country. we will make 2010 a national election. We have all the firepower we need with the corruption tax evasion spending , earmarks of the dems in office. It will be the house bank all over again. All we are lacking is a leader one to take the mantle. Be it GOp or liberitian or some conservative dem. One spark and in sept,oct of 2009 and the rightous anger in this country will explode and kick out all the bums in nov of 2009.

[Telly]

Lmao! "Moran"....the ironic way of spelling "MORON".

[joyMc]

Reply to unseen: RIGHT ON. I think leaders will emerge. And now that the news media has tanked its own credibility, they will not be able to stop it.

[gary gulrud]

"While I often post on my desire to see a candid and unafraid Right, I don't want to see a truly angry one."

I don't know at this point that anger is avoidable, or that its avoidance is sensible. The GOP, in pandering for votes in tranny Donk-lite garb all painted and emotive got us here as certainly as anyone.

[mark l.]

"I don't know at this point that anger is avoidable, or that its avoidance is sensible."

c'mon, when dems gather in the street, it must be a sign of their emotionless rationale.

frustration produces two rxns, both emotional. fight or flight. I'd rather be defeated in the streets,than hide and cry under my bed. so long as anger is expressed in a legal manner, such as peaceful demonstrations- and ALL the tea parties were peaceful demonstrations-they serve the country.

I'd be preapred for future protests, the media and the libs will be the first to get frustrated, and they will be looking to illicit violent responses from those who gather, so that they can be martyred.

don't let them break us, and our honor.