Tea parties cause statists to pull the race card and therefore miss the boat

Conservatives took to the streets for tea parties in numerous American cities yesterday and now commenters and statist bloggers are crying racism. A typical response can be found on ‘Crooks and Liars’: “These "revolutionaries" are simply angry, frightened, white people highly frustrated because they have the word n****r on the tip of their racist tongues, but know they can't use it for it will expose the true meaning of their belligerence.” Many commenters agreed, taking the opportunity to bash white people, but it was another response that borders on the hilarious: “I'm less dismayed at the racism than I am at the bobblehead grasp of history these people show.”

Show me a statist who looks at history through an unbiased lens and I’ll show you a two-headed tomato. I’d suggest the hurler of the term ‘bobblehead’ read a little history and start with the insane measures Franklin D. Roosevelt took that burdened the middle and lower middle classes in a manner that until now was historic. Then segue to Jimmy Carter. And take a look at Bill Clinton’s econ team. And academics turned Roosevelt into a hero, even after he had livestock and crops destroyed as a large percentage of the populace almost starved. Go figure. History indeed.

Pop media was astounded, even perplexed, by the turnout. A CNN reporter flipped out and decided to debate with her interviewee rather than simply cover the event in Washington, D.C.

Steve Kira (left) and Will Pitts (right) at the Jacksonville Landing Tea Party. Kira is past Chairman of the St. Johns County Republican Executive Committee. Pitts is chair of the Republican Liberty Caucus, Florida. [Photo by John C. Stevens]
Anyone with even minimal understanding of a household budget is upset at the level of federal spending and concentration of unprecedented power in federal hands. Billions were just funneled into the GIVE Act, for the express purposes of uplifting the lower economic classes. The billions we have already poured into this effort have produced a rather remarkable static socialism in low income neighborhoods. Yet on that utter failure President Barack Obama and his cohorts in the Pelosi-Reid cartel want to build. If just one leader, even one, had the nerve to tell people if the government proposes to take care of you, be prepared for mediocrity, we might actually get somewhere. The government cannot even oversee its own budget.

Approximately 3 years ago, Democrats took Congress and now also control the White House. Now Obama repeatedly blames the Bush administration for all the economic woes. But where was Congress? Who was responsible for oversight these last 3 years? And Obama, despite a pledge to do something about earmarks, earmarked millions of dollars during his short US Senate term. Isn’t that rather hypocritical? Ironically, one CNN reporter said Obama has no earmarks in the current budget from his final Senate days. I’d respond he doubled up on them in his first session to avoid having them in the next.

The new administration seized an opportunity in chaos to set world records for growing government. Obama’s Homeland Security chief—‘Big Sis’—has produced a report that places almost every conservative in the nation in the realm of “extremism.” Soon, we are told, immigration will be tackled, but it’s not really immigration, it’s the matter of what to do with 12,000,000 people in this country without documentation. Those same people are eligible for medical care as charity cases if need be. Who knows how that population will affect voting districts—credentials are certainly easy to come by these days if media reports are to be believed. The matter of undocumented foreigners has to do with finance and national security.

With all the resources in the entertainment industry, with a grip on companies like Google and pop media, with multiple hedge fund backers, you’d think Democrats could be a whole lot more creative than to charge tea party goers with racism. The only thing tea party goers are guilty of is common sense.

Tea parties cause statists to pull the race card and therefore miss the boat by Kay B. Day