Sen. Rand Paul Speaks at Tea Party Patriots Rally

Looks like the crowd is made up of real patriots, not fake "conservative" ones - signs reading "End corporate welfare" and "Empire is not Constitutional" aren't what you'd expect if these people were as the phony "liberals" so often portray them (okay, it looks like it was just one guy using those messages, but hey, he captured the spirit of the event). Another sign reads: "Stop Obama's subversion...slash trillions, not billions (they got that one right - the cuts the Republirats are talking about don't amount to a hill of beans -get serious!) No more $s for anything not written in the constitution".

Extreme spending requires extreme cuts - you bet your life it does, considering this: March Madness: U.S. Gov't Spent More Than Eight Times Its Monthly Revenue

The Tea Party vs. Washington

Tea Party Vindicated?

By this I don’t mean that the Tea Partiers have been proven right on the great issues of the day, necessarily. Rather, I mean that their own self-understanding — as a movement aimed at pushing the Republican Party toward real fiscal austerity and greater skepticism of government power — has been at least partially vindicated in the votes that a Tea Partified G.O.P. has taken and the positions that its members have staked out.


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Again, it’s early. But these promises and votes and public stands suggest that many of the Tea Party’s doubters missed something essential about the way small-r republican politics often works. Yes, the typical Tea Party sympathizer probably voted for George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004 without thinking twice about the deficit or civil liberties, and (like most Americans) probably harbors entirely wrongheaded and naive ideas about how and where a would-be deficit hawk would need to cut. But while the essential character of the average Republican voter might have been unchanged from the Bush era to the Tea Party era, America isn’t governed by the essential character of the winning faction’s voters. It’s governed by politicians, and the kind of politicians that the average Republican supported in 2010 differed markedly from the kind of politicians he had voted for in, say, 2002. This was why the Tea Party mattered: Not because each and every Tea Partier held coherent views on entitlement reform or defense spending or civil liberties, but because the movement’s general emphasis on limited government purism led to a change in the particular kind of lawmaker who earned support from right-of-center voters — and, by extension, a change in the kind of pressure brought to bear on incumbent Republicans and G.O.P. leaders alike.-The (Partial) Vindication of the Tea Party

"Tea Party Review" - New Tea Party Magazine

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Tea Party Review


From the Tea Party Review Magazine website:

As we enter the next phase ­ the most critical phase of the Tea Party movement ­ there¹s one thing we need, more than anything else, to make our movement a permanent, powerful force in American politics.

We need a forum for Tea Partiers to come together, to trade ideas, to resolve disputes, to find out what other activists are doing and thinking, a place to develop plans for taking our country back from the elitist, arrogant, obnoxious, corrupt members of the Washington establishment and their friends in Hollywood, the news media, faculty lounges, and on Wall Street.

We need a journal that tells people what we stand for and what we won't stand for.

Iced Tea

The Tea Party movement, such as it is, is now no longer about real change in Washington, if it ever was. It has definitely now been co-opted for the purposes of the Republican Party establishment and the ruling class agenda (which can be found in both major political parties). Interesting that two supposed supporters of the Tea Party candidates, talk radio mavens Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, have both interviewed former Decider-in-Chief George W. Bush on their programs, about his new book. I caught part of Hannity yesterday, and he had nothing but softball questions and then endless praise for the man who rejected nearly everything that "conservatism" once represented. This is the true face of the Tea Party once the mask of small-government rhetoric is pulled off; to restore the same people to power that brought us the endless militarism and Pentagon spending, the bailouts of the banksters and Wall Street, and only talked about "getting government off our backs" while they grew the Federal monster ever and ever larger.

The Tea Party cannot, by it's very make-up, bring real reform. What passes for conservatism today among the rank and file is little more than liberal-lite, with a big dose of jingoism and worship of the military thrown into the mix. Plus, all the old folks who call themselves conservatives won't stand for any real change in Social Security or Medicare, the two programs that alone will bankrupt the Federal government. Oh, they'll demand tax cuts, of course, but not something that would really save the taxpayers money, such as bringing the troops home and ending wasteful military spending, or means-testing Social Security benefits so that well-off retirees don't receive monthly government checks paid for by the contributions of the working poor.

Yes, whatever heat the Tea Party had has gone cold, and as Butler Shaffer wrote: "Once again, the establishment owners co-opt and turn to their advantage even those energies and sentiments directed against their racket. This is why I have long used the word “anarchist” to express my own opinions: I would love to see the political power-structure try to associate itself with that!"

So, actually do something instead of just pretending to complain about it. Become an anarchist!

Brutality for Freedom?

Two of the men who assaulted a woman before a Rand Paul debate are no random bystanders who just wandered onto the scene and muddied the Tea with their violence. Both are active members in Rand Paul’s campaign. More details here.

It’s only once in a while that a story this perfect comes around. It doesn’t surprise or shock me in the least, because I know this is the mentality of the hateful right and the Tea Party in particular. The hostility is palpable whenever those asshats are on camera. In fact, that’s probably why the cameras point at them so much. It’s a hell of a show.

I mean, honestly, a guy in a “We the People” baseball cap stomped on a young, defenseless woman being held down by another man. The same assholes who are online every day telling us the police are brutal Gestapo who abuse everyone are beating up women in real life in Rand Paul’s honor.

It’s things like this that illustrate so clearly that the problem we have today isn’t political or governmental, it’s human. These gutless bullies who pick on young women half their size and kick them while they’re down are trying to sell me on the idea that it’s the police who are brutal. Right...

The only thing more laughable than this notion is Rand Paul’s hairpiece.

A pic of Rand Paul posing with one of the assailants, Tim Profitt.

Classy Rand Paul Supporters

Beating up women... that's exactly what I expect from the Tea Party.



You can always count on a theocrat like Rand Paul to attract the misogynists.

✝ Party on Parade

As the elections draw near, the first crop of Tea Party candidates are shaping up to be… well… pretty much what every clear-thinking American knew they would be: stupid. What is so surprising is the full spectrum of ignorance that the Tea Party is working with.

Where to begin… well Christine O’Donnell is a good place to start. You know lovable Christine: she’s not a witch, she’s you… if you believe masturbation is adultery and should be illegal. Christine is just a good Christian girl who reads her Bible, and apparently nothing else.

When asked what Supreme Court cases she objects to, she had this to say:



Notice how her opponent takes pity on her and tries to break the dead air by giving her an underhanded lob for her to swing at. How sporting of him.

Of course, this is the official position of the Tea Party, as seen by the identical response from their figurehead, Sarah Palin:



Okay, Christine O’Donnell can’t be bothered to know about what’s actually going on in our country. She’s clearly very busy making sure Americans are not jerking off, which is a tiring job since the internet came to town. What about her knowledge of the First Amendment, a straightforward and foundational part of our democracy? She is apparently clueless.

Is this the knowledge base necessary for being a Tea Party candidate for US Senate?

Let’s leave the loveable Christine alone for now, and move on to Carl Paladino. If you thought Christine was baffling, wait until you delve into this guy’s psyche.

First off, I won’t inundate you with a bunch of video to watch of this guy, if only because he’s not so easy on the eyes. In fact, he’s downright creepy. I’m going to keep a picture of him to show my future children when I explain to them not to take rides from strangers.

 

*shivers*

Like any Tea Partier, Paladino is a good Christian. He hates all the right things, especially those gays. He thinks gay pride parades have to go because they send the wrong message to children. He doesn’t want kids to “be brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid or successful option.”

Remember kids: if you’re gay, you chose to be that way, it’s not a valid option, and as long as Carl Paladino has anything to say about it, you won’t be successful.

Paladino is especially critical of gay pride parades: “And I don’t know if you’ve ever been to one, but they wear these little Speedos and they grind against each other. And it’s just a terrible thing.”

Thank the Lord Baby Jesus Christ on a cracker that Paladino is out there with O’Donnell protecting our children from the gays.

The strange part is, Paladino sends emails that contain porn to fellow politicians, friends, advisors, and supporters. Well, I’m sure it’s totally acceptable straight porn, right? Women fucking bananas, breast milk being squirted onto a window, wait a second… lesbians eating each other out? That isn’t right… holy shit, a horse fucking a woman!? Well… at least there’s no dudes in Speedos, that would have totally killed my boner.

But these are two candidates that won’t get elected. By most polls, their opponents have double digit leads. I mean honestly, you might as well criticize Alvin Greene, who you may remember from his break-out role in “The Green Mile.”

Wait, that was Michael Clarke Duncan? Oh, whatever… he does have a graphic novel.

Sharron Angle, Tea Party Candidate in Nevada, has a legitimate chance of deposing Democrat Harry Reid. And why not? Who likes Harry Reid? The guy said Barrack Obama might have a shot at getting elected because he has no “negro accent” and is “light-skinned.” Plus, he’s Senate Majority leader for the Democrats, during a time when the Democrats held a majority and did… well… basically nothing.

So how is Sharron Angle bolstering her numbers? Recently, she told an Hispanic student group that they looked Asian to her.

Now, this is in the context of demonizing Hispanics, so she was trying to be nice by saying, “Hey, Hispanics are ruining our country, but you guys look Asian to me, wink wink.” What a politically savvy strategy.

However, Sharron Angle will likely still beat Harry Reid, because she has divine mandate. When God wants something done, it happens. Just look at the Iraq War.

It’s strange, really, all this talk of God in the Tea Party. It almost seems like… there’s some sort of test of faith in order to get elected as a Tea Partier. Where have I heard that before… oh right, Article VI of the US constitution:

… no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.

How can a political party claiming to be in favor of bringing this country back to its Constitutional roots be so bloody ignorant of the Constitution?

I guess through God, all things are possible…