by F. Grey Parker
From a piece by Howard Fineman:
"We don't like the process that produced this," said Mark Meckler, a founder and leader of the Tea Party Patriot group. "It was put together in secret and in the dead of night, and the whole Tea Party movement is about trying to stop that kind of thing."
If by "in secret" they mean a meeting reported world-wide with continuous releases to the media and if by "in the dead of night" they mean during the afternoon, this may help illuminate why progressives and Tea Party types just can't see eye to eye.
Whatever one thinks of the deal, it would seem that the Tea Party genuinely has an issue with the concept of informed and qualified representative government doing it's job as proscribed in the constitution. I suppose I already knew that.
The Tea Party presumes who is deserving and who's undeserving of government social safety nets -- just them, with Medicare and Social Security -- definitely, none of those brown people. Tea partiers get earned assistance; the others get socialist welfare.
ReplyDeleteThey're also the same ones who are fearful of knowing their government's secrets; thus they hate WikiLeaks and yell for the legal or illegal ritual execution of one of its leaders. They are losers who know not who their enemies are, nor do they want to know.