Friday, February 26, 2010

Tea Party 101


Note To All Political Party Poopers, um, Members: You belittle, dismiss and mock the Tea Party Movement at your peril. I say this not as a member, but as a citizen who has been watching and listening (hint: listening = learning) as this organization continues to gain momentum and is fueling change within this country that most of us have never witnessed before in our lives. Well, witnessed sober. Hello, 1960s!

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger believes that the tea party movement is “not going anywhere.”

Really? I can see how he would think that as the Tea Party folk's ineffectual movement has yet to produce any tangible or overpowering results. ~coughSCOTTBROWNcoughcough~

Schwarzenegger, speaking Tuesday night with Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren, said the grass-roots movement is only “an expression of anger and disappointment.”

The same anger they're expressing in Austria and Italy and all over the world. So, I mean, they don't have tea parties per se, but they have also a lot of frustrated and angry people and disappointed people, and so on.”

Gotcha. If folks in other places around the globe express frustration and anger, yet do not organize a Tea Party per se, it doesn't take a moron to understand that the Tea Party movement must come to a logical end of waving angry old man fists and loud-talking. Oh wait, maybe it does.

“In the end, when the economy comes back, I think that the tea party will disappear again,” he said. “It will, you know, twinkle and disappear, and that will be it.”

Twinkle?

Damn, brother. Why you have to go and do that? How am I ever going to take you seriously in any action movie after that observation? Way to ruin it for me. Sheesh.

The Tea Party is filled with smart, well-informed, hard working, forced onto the political stage by the inept and dangerous policies of Barry and Crew, fighting for freedom patriots. Anyone who dismisses these folks as nutjobs, as mental lightweights, as right wing extremists, as just an astro-turfing angry mob, will continue to be schooled by the movement until they get it.

I have been in the midst of these electrified and focused folks and they mean what they say, unlike Washington. My money is on them, my money is on their brand of change, not on those whose only defense against them is to point and call names.

Twinkle?! Seriously....

3 comments:

LawHawkSF said...

Patti: I can tell you from personal observation that the only one who is going nowhere is Ahnuld. He couldn't be elected dog-catcher in Lodi at this point. Republicans despise him, and the Democrats he pandered to have nothing but contempt for him. If the Green Party can ever get more than .05% of the vote, he could run on their ticket some time in 2097. And who's going to go to see a movie starring Wrinkles and Gums Schwarzenegger? He'll now have to play second banana to Steven Seagal.

AndrewPrice said...

Schwarzenegger is a complete fool. He seriously should just call himself a far-left, big-government Democrat and end the charade.

patti said...

law: lol. man, not even a dog-catcher?! but if he did make a run for it, do you think he'd go on leno to announce?!

andrew: he may be the last to admit it. the lefties love to think that they're pulling one over on folks, when in fact they are the fools.