Fox Nation Still Promoting Tea Parties... Are You?
June 03, 2009 4:47 pm ET by Media Matters staff
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no..really..i am looking for a good plumber
Better yet: Joe the Plumber is obsolete...Are you?
Shouldn't we be calling him "Joe the Tool"?
Who do you like?
Huck, Palin, Romney Lead 2012 Primary
I'll take lead.
In a form they did. I personnally protested the Iraq war. I wanted to get Osama. Not many on the right were criticising W. at that time. I think the first serious conservative uprising aginst W. was due to his support for immigration reform featuring amnesty for illegal aliens. The last straw for W. was his bailing out of the auto industry. There is a pretty solid conservative concensus that GM and Chrysler would be much better off now if they had just gone into bankruptcy then instead of taking bailout money.
In that way, conservative opposition to big government spending has been building for quite some time. It just took us a while to organize and name it historically inaccuratly. Although high taxes may soon be a big part of it.
Simple. Because they're really not protesting government spending - they're protesting President Obama.
1) That Tiller's death was only one more late term abortion, and that pro-lifers that mourn for his family are tools who forgot how liberals poked fun at Tony Snow's death. Also if you are against late term abortions, why worry about a family who made millions off them.
2) That conservatives shouldn't whine about the lack of coverage about the tea parties, since they were no more than a picnic in the park. Conservatives should learn from the hippies in the 60's who burned their draft cards and have a protest where they burn 1040 tax forms, or do like Rev. Sharpton and Rev Jackson and have a tea party in the middle of a major freeway during rush hour or chain themselves to (or block the enterances of) places like the IRS or ACORN.
I'm a conservative person and am embarrassed by the weakness of the so called protest of the tea parties. I think it is kind of cowardly to promote a "protest" and censor those of us that have opinions about that. I did not advocate violence in any way. I just believe that if you truly believe in a cause, you do like Ghandi and Martin Luther King, and use nonviolent civil disobedience.
The Fox Nation is just a stupid waste of time for conservatives and libertarians who want to be heard.
We don't need refreshing and informative. I already know what I'm upset about. Republicans and Democrats being no different, both are for big government. Even Ronald Reagan, who tried to keep taxes in check, allowed government to grow.
I am willing to go to any protest to protect my civil liberties, which are becoming less and less every day, but I don't see it to be a time to "party" as I lose my freedom.
George W. Bush spent more money than his dad and Clinton combined (that's not counting Iraq and Afganstan), now those same people gripe about Obama's spending?
Let's all be honest and admit all this spending is wrong regardless of who spends it. All we are doing is stealing our kid's future for our own selfish needs.
All of my posts on this subject stress the fact that W. started this round of massive government spending that smacked of facism. Don't forget Reagan was quite the big spender as well. Any how, Your last paragraph is spot on. Conservatism '10 &'12!
You really should try a tea-party. The name may be a little historically inaccurate but the message is good.