By Mr. Curmudgeon
“Great ideology creates great times,” said North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il. The Tea Partiers at convention in Nashville, Tennessee, would disagree. What Democrats and their coat holders among the Republican Party establishment and the mainstream media fail to recognize is that the Tea Party rejects gangster ideologies in favor of individual freedom. It refuses to sit still while the government uses its muscle to reward its few friends at the expense of its many victims. The Tea Party would restore the Constitutional shackles to government power the way federal prosecutors once restrained mafia kingpin John Gotti. It would bring government of the people in compliance with the law of the land. That is not an ideological expression of as much as it’s an act of self-preservation.
Speaking before the convention, Gov. Sarah Palin said, “The Tea Party movement is not a top down operation. It’s a ground up call to action that is forcing both parties to change the way they are doing business, and that’s beautiful…the soul of this movement is the people; everyday Americans who grow our food and run our small businesses, teach our kids and fight our wars. They’re folks in small towns and cities across this great nation who saw what was happening…and got involved.”
Palin simply and articulately made the economic and political argument against the freedom-killing agenda of Obama’s personality cult. “This week, they unveiled a record-busting, mind-boggling $3.8 trillion dollar federal budget…they keep making us take these steps towards insolvency. Now, what they are doing in proposing these big new programs with giant price tags, they’re sticking our kids with the bill, and that’s immoral, that’s generational theft. We’re stealing the opportunities from our children. And freedom-lovers around this country need to be aware that all of this makes us more beholden to other countries, it makes us less secure, it makes us less free and that should tick us off.”
In the absence of a functioning opposition party to Obama’s personality cult, Palin accurately described what the Tea Party has evolved into, “…When the work of Washington violates our conscience, and when the work and efforts in Washington, D.C. violate our Constitution, then we will stand up and we will be counted, because we are the loyal opposition. And we have a vision for the future of our country, too. And it is a vision anchored in time-tested truths – that the government that governs least, governs best. And that the Constitution provides the best road map towards a more perfect union.”
The Tea Party rejects Obama’s ideologues and their intellectually and morally spent abettors across the aisle who mistakenly think it is the inescapable evolution of the state to grow in power while eclipsing the sovereignty of We the People. Obama would have us believe that Tea Party anger is residual resentment at George W. Bush. The media would have us believe the Tea Party is made up of right-wing Republican crazies. In reality, the Tea Party fits neither description. They reject gangster government and will play big government functionaries against one another until Constitutional order is restored in America. The Tea Party knows what most establishment Republicans forgot long ago, “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” —Thomas Paine
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