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To: Sully- who wrote (79102)	4/20/2010 4:02:19 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

[B]eing Left never means having to deal with ideas or issues (just control the language). Sedition! By Darleen Click Protein Wisdom The TEA parties reached their one year mark this year and simply because they haven’t gone away, nor have they been the scene of any generated violence on their part, nor property damage — indeed, this time around TEA Party participants were on high alert to Leftist infiltrators at what are/were completely open assemblies — the Left is scared. With a Federal government now run almost exclusively by Democrats (and now at it’s lowest Trust Point in 50 years), the party that brought us “Dissent is Patriotic” is running off the rails in sheer terror at any opposition. Indeed, Bill Clinton doubled down on his SHUT UP!! rhetoric in a self-serving bit of “commentary” in trying to connect the OK bombing with today’s opposition to Obama’s statist policies. <<< We are again dealing with difficulties in a contentious, partisan time. We are more connected than ever before, more able to spread our ideas and beliefs, our anger and fears. As we exercise the right to advocate our views, and as we animate our supporters, we must all assume responsibility for our words and actions before they enter a vast echo chamber and reach those both serious and delirious, connected and unhinged. [...] Fifteen years ago, the line was crossed in Oklahoma City. In the current climate, with so many threats against the president, members of Congress and other public servants, we owe it to the victims of Oklahoma City, and those who survived and responded so bravely, not to cross it again. >>> Of course, while Billy Jeff is busy spreading responsibility to everyone else for McVeigh’s horrendous act of evil, he never spreads it to himself even though McVeigh’s own statements indicated he was motivated by Clinton/Reno’s bungling of Waco. Slick. The public posturing by such Leftists to sweep up all dissent and shove it in barrel labeled “sedition” is more than just self-serving, it is flatly dishonest. It is easy to note that these shriekers never allow themselves to be questioned or debated in any setting or forum outside their own protected Leftist enclaves like MSNBC. And they never take on directly any dissent from the all the other non-leftist writers or commentators outside their cartoon caricatures of a few high profile people where they can twist out-of-context, or dowdified, clips. Certainly this by George Will falls into Billy Jeff’s “unacceptable” column. <<< Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration — which understands that, for liberalism, worse is better – has deliberately aggravated the fiscal shambles that the Great Recession accelerated. During the downturn, federal revenues plunged and spending soared. And, as will happen for two decades, every day 10,000 more baby boomers are joining the ranks of recipients of Medicare and Social Security, two programs with unfunded liabilities of nearly $107 trillion. In the context of this concatenation of troubles, the administration’s highest priority was to put an enormous new health care entitlement on the welfare state’s rickety scaffolding. Why? Because the liberals’ lunge to maximize government’s growth depends on quickly creating a crisis that can be called a threat to the entitlement menu, and to the currency as a store of value. Then the public can be panicked into accepting the addition of a VAT to the existing menu of taxes. >>> ZOMG!!!!!! The bow-tied one is demonizing Obama and ilk over taking advantage of the recession!!1! What an ANTI-government zealot!1!! BURN HIM! Thomas Sowell <<< Ironically, the United States is moving in the direction of the kind of economy that China has been forced to move away from. China once had complete government control of medical care, but eventually gave it up as the disaster that it was. The current leadership in Washington operates as if they can just set arbitrary goals, whether “affordable housing” or “universal health care” or anything else — and not concern themselves with the repercussions — since they have the power to simply force individuals, businesses, doctors or anyone else to knuckle under and follow their dictates. >>> Sowell is equating statist China and Obama’s policies??? SEDITIOUS!! RACE-TRAITOR!!1!1! See, being Left never means having to deal with ideas or issues (just control the language). TEA Party members are for limited government? Pfffft, just label ‘em “anti-Government” along with a few slurs and be done with it. That’s the ticket. .