Coffee, Tea....or ME???

This post came into being simply because I clicked on a news link of the local edition of my homepage. This is what came up: http://www.cbs7kosa.com/news/details.asp?ID=19009


That's right. It states that Texas Governor, Rick Perry, is "telling tea party organizers across Texas to watch their backs for liberals who wish to do them harm.

In an invitation-only conference call, Perry urged those participating in Thursday's tax day rallies to 'continue looking over your shoulder.'

Perry was following up on warnings from activist Michael Quinn Sullivan that 'some liberals are going to try to infiltrate tea parties with racist signs.'

Perry says he's expecting 'every dirty trick is going to get played on tea parties.'"


Nice! Our Governor Goodhair has taken it upon himself to "warn" the Tea Partiers about the crazy liberals...because we are such a violent bunch! If that is not a fine example of an inflammatory statement, I don't know what is!

Then it dawned on me that I really had no idea what this "Tea Party", "Tea Baggers", "Tea Party Patriots" shtick is all about. I needed to learn more about them. Who are they? What do they want? How can we reach a reasonable compromise? And in my opinion...when it doubt, Google it! And here is what I found: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dhsxmzm7_19fcdzskg5


The Mission Statement and core values for the Tea Party Patriots is:

The impetuses for the Tea Party movement are excessive government spending and taxation. Our mission is to attract, educate, organize, and mobilize our fellow citizens to secure public policy consistent with our three core values of Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government and Free Markets.


What does that mean??? They want to return America to post-revolutionary war times? Really?!?! The Constitutionally Limited Government worked very well for the first one hundred years of the "start-up" country that we were back then. How on EARTH, can we return to that?

What I recall, from my American History classes, is that the Boston Tea party was nothing but a bunch of fat, white, wealthy land owners that didn't want to pay their taxes. Oh sure, they wanted the protection and backing of Mother England, but without paying the piper to have it! So they came up with the taxation without representation thing. Those fat, wealthy, land owners built this country on the backs of slaves and claimed the work to be their own! In some respects, I'm ashamed to be an American and for this very reason. The Europeans tortured and killed the indigenous people of this land when they arrived. Those that they didn't kill with their bare hands or weapons, they killed with disease. And lest we not forget the millions of Africans that were plucked from their homes and families to be sold into a life of submission and servitude!

Flash forward one hundred years. Now it's time for the American Civil War. Why did that war happen? Because, a bunch of fat, white, wealthy land owners didn't want to have to actually pay the people that provided their livelihood from blood, sweat and tears! Those people that truly built this country and to this day are fighting for an equality that they should have had simply because they are human.

Oversimplification? Not in my eyes. To me...this is what the Tea Party Bagger Patriots want...to return our country to a bunch of fat, white, wealthy land owners that will force the lesser monied people into submission of their will. NOT GONNA HAPPEN! (Is monied a real word? I like it if it's not...so just roll with it)

Because, I'm an intelligent, somewhat educated, extremely liberal democrat, I decided that I would not only learn about the Tea Party, but about the people that it is consisting of. I wandered over to the Glenn Beck fan page on Facebook. One of the comments made by a fan on that page was "I would like to know who in here still thinks that they will not be charged a dime more in taxes under the Obama regime. I hate to burst your bubble, because Obama Bin Lyin'." So, I asked "What was the lie that Obama told?". The response I got was AMAZING!!! Immediately, I was called a troll. If you are not familiar with the new definition of that term it is: someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community. I'm sorry I must have missed the part where I was inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic. The really shocking thing was that instead of addressing my genuine question, the entire room turned to mob-rule and my private parts were discussed as diseased. Upon returning to that page today...silently too, I might add...I realized that it is the same people spouting their falsities and half-truths to anyone who will listen and also that the post where my private parts are put up for discussion has been deleted. They say they want an intelligent conversation about the issues...problem is that they don't want to have it with anyone who thinks differently than they do. To me, it only says that these "Beckies" have no original thought, education, or purpose in their lives. That talking only amongst themselves can be fulfilling because a differing opinion would throw a wrench in their horribly closeted lives. And just so you know the real answer the the question this "Beckie" poses...here's the answer: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/promise/515/no-family-making-less-250000-will-see-any-form-tax/

The other person I researched was Ann Coulter. How do these people make it to where they are in life? Here we have two people, Beck and Coulter, who are the biggest "shock-jocks" I have ever come across. Beck and Coulter use their idiot rhetoric to compel uneducated, politically unaware people to become inflammatory conversationalists and possess extraneous ideas. So uneducated that they learn a new term and can't even use it properly. I watched enough news clips of the two of them to know exactly what I speak of. And the "Beckies" on Becks fan page prove my theory. Check it out for yourself. These people do not care about the truth. These people care about discrediting the President with lies. Did the Democrats do this when the Court-Appointed Idiot President took office? No, we just gave him enough rope so that he'd hang himself...and I really think he did.

Case in point: "Obama should not have won the Nobel Peace Prize". I had many conversations with people about the President winning the Nobel Prize. They said "he hasn't done anything" and "he doesn't deserve it". My question to them was: then who did deserve it? Not only did they not know who else had been nominated, but they couldn't name one winner or nominee within the last ten years. So it seems to me that they are just complaining because it's Obama. Just like the majority of Republicans are just trying to hold up the progress that Obama stands for, just because he's Obama. I'm really tired of it myself.

Is this really what America needs to be returned to? I certainly hope not. This is all way out of hand. This country elected Barack Obama. The people spoke. We will speak again in November. To quote Bill Mahr (my hero) "I'll show you Obama's Birth Certificate, when you show me Sarah Palin's High School Diploma".

Back to my original question...how do we reach a reasonable compromise? We take the hate-mongering off the table. Personally, I would like Fox News banned from this country, just like it's banned in other countries. We will never solve any problems while people are hurling insults about (someone with a brain's) private parts. But most of all, we discredit and retire the inflammatory commentators that are plugging up the American broadcast waves. Because until this type of behavior is off the table, no reasonable conversations will be had.

I really don't care if you are a Republican, or a Democrat. We have to work together as a COUNTRY to make this COUNTRY work. We are all responsible for the management of our lives and how we live them. Why is it not important to some people to act like grown ups during a conversation about the future of this nation? As long as the "Beckies" and "Coulties" are listening to their shock Gods we are a nation in trouble. Until they acknowledge what the real issues are and stop fixating on half-truths and political spins, we are headed down the drain.

I'm not a politician or an economist. This is all my humble opinion and it counts for just that...my opinion. So rip me up if you feel it's necessary...you only prove my point that much more. At any rate, I won't respond. I'll just know that you're a troll!

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Good night and good luck out there with the Tea! We have our work cut out for us.