O Joy & Merry Curmudgeon Season to Us

Response to Mackinac Center’s Jack McHugh in “A Tea Party Manifesto” Michigan View on Dec 16, 2010

Mc Hugh are you NUTS ?

To do what these new Teapartisans are going to foolishly and ill-advisedly do, attempt to steer wrestle the entire federal legislative process to the dirt, is a stupendous mistake. You take joy that Teapublicans will "scare the living daylights out of their own lawmakers" puts you in the four poster with Ebeneezer Scrooge.

You should be taking note that the public now has its lowest rating for Congress in history. The stoneheaded behavior indicated by the inciters (and mega-bucks backers) of teapartisnaship is civically evil and economically suicidal.

If you think their peacock brand of libertarianism (ala Ayn Rand, or Ron Paul) is what the Founders envisioned for America, then perhaps a return to American History 101 is in order! They are so far right they are meeting up with anarchists on the dark side of the moon!

These "movement" types-spurred on by a rising angst and concern in the country coming from the civically illiterate and more often the desperate families "underwater financially" will contort the next 2 years and cripple our national recovery via bitter vituperative partisanship and legislative games.

Fear, as used to provoke some to take form of "direct action," is not an idle danger.

Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul's rantings about a Marxist Culture having captured the nation is inflammatory and delusional. These ideologues glory in the distress of Americans and take rank political advantage, much as Mitch McConnell has set out to end the effectiveness of, and block the re-election of America's first black president by an uncompromising rebellion based on GOP SUPER "NO"ism.

The entire world is watching and what they are seeing is ugly!

Our President Barack Obama is charged overseeing the nation overloaded with 2 lengthy wars, and the Great G.W. Bush Recession/Depression.

If the teapartisans are to do everything they can to obstruct and undermine Obama's ability to bring the nation out, we are in deep trouble, bar none.

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A one nostril false grunt from Nolan: It’s not my pigs that stink

Response to Nolan Finley in “Oink, Oink” Detroit News Dec 15, 2010

Nolan may have had the chore of swilling the pigs back home years ago.

Now so dandy-like, in his 3 piece editorial suit, he takes a gloating parting shot over the relatively minor part that congressional earmarks play in the trade-off, oiled process of compromise and commerce as practiced for eons in the U.S. Congress.

This new stiff-necked pledging to a small-minded, small-soul-ed, pinch penny, that Dickensian Scrooge, Grover Norquist, who owns the BIG Promise Pledge book on all those signers who pledge to only, always say "NO!" to new taxes, is utter pigsty nonsense!

Norquist has lit a sour gas smoldering cinder in the coal-hearted misanthropes who are marching to Washington under the guise of a resurrected Tea Party, claming to be Founder-blessed "patriots."
Those Norquist-controlled Congress people have taken an impossible and absurd pledge, a pledge that their oath of office makes dishonest and unconstitutional.

The U.S. Congress has an obligation to raise the taxes and revenues to carry on our government. To refuse to raise any new taxes-when the economic ship of state is taking on water like the Titanic in its final 2 hours- is as nonsensical as some other "ideological nut" may attempt-getting willing pledgers-to likewise "never spend or allocate" new revenue, even if raised, refusing to meet the ongoing obligations and responsibilities of our federal government at home and abroad.

Pigs may wallow in gooey slime, but even they don't attempt to eat muck-out of pure instinct for survival.


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Quotes: "The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if..."

"The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt FDR