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Hopey-Changey or the Status quo. You choose.
Author: Raine
Date: 02/09/2010 23:42:04
Sarah Palin said the following at the TeaParty convention:
Let me get this right, they are against Hope and Change from the President, but they are for change in regards to how our government works? They hate the Obama idea of Hope and Change -- and yet, they want to change Government? To what? What do they want? How are these Tea Partiers different from the GOP? Seriously, let's take a quick look:
What do they REALLY want to change? They are for EVERY policy that the GOP has supported for years. Let me restate this: They are angry at the result of the policies that brought us to this point in history, and yet they are supporting those same policies that got us here.
By the way -- Where is the teabagger outrage at this comment? They cheered at that like it was HER idea, but they fail to understand that the President is trying to do EXACTLY that. So maybe, just maybe they are actually for some of his ideas?
Tea Party people think they are well-versed, but they are being played for fools. They are nothing more than an extension of the GOP, but are being used as pawns representing some false 'outsider status'. You can be against Hope and Change -- but unless you have a clear plan otherwise, your are nothing but for the same old same old. The tea party is not new and original - they are just loud and angry, and better funded, since the GOP is more than happy to feed fuel to the fire.
TeaPartiers: You really think this is going to make America better? REALLY? How? Give me some specifics, I dare you. I'm all for your changey stuff, if you give a reason for it that is any different from we have been doing for the past 25 years. You have shown me nothing different from your Republican overlords. Actually -- you are preaching the very same thing that they did. You even seem to be against hope, just like them.
And now a year later, I got to ask the supporters of all that, how is that hopey-changey stuff working out for you?
Let me get this right, they are against Hope and Change from the President, but they are for change in regards to how our government works? They hate the Obama idea of Hope and Change -- and yet, they want to change Government? To what? What do they want? How are these Tea Partiers different from the GOP? Seriously, let's take a quick look:
- Lower Taxes? GOP
- Constitutionalism?: GOP
- Anti-Big Government?: GOP
What do they REALLY want to change? They are for EVERY policy that the GOP has supported for years. Let me restate this: They are angry at the result of the policies that brought us to this point in history, and yet they are supporting those same policies that got us here.
By the way -- Where is the teabagger outrage at this comment?
We need a plan to turn that goal into a reality and that way we can pave the way for projects that will create jobs, those are real job-creators and deliver carbon-free energy.
Tea Party people think they are well-versed, but they are being played for fools. They are nothing more than an extension of the GOP, but are being used as pawns representing some false 'outsider status'. You can be against Hope and Change -- but unless you have a clear plan otherwise, your are nothing but for the same old same old. The tea party is not new and original - they are just loud and angry, and better funded, since the GOP is more than happy to feed fuel to the fire.
TeaPartiers: You really think this is going to make America better? REALLY? How? Give me some specifics, I dare you. I'm all for your changey stuff, if you give a reason for it that is any different from we have been doing for the past 25 years. You have shown me nothing different from your Republican overlords. Actually -- you are preaching the very same thing that they did. You even seem to be against hope, just like them.
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Comment by 
m-hadley on 02/09/2010 23:55:34
m-hadley on 02/09/2010 23:55:34
Bravo Raine,
I think that you are peeved at the same thing I was when I wrote "Platitudes 'R Us"
I double dog dare any tea-bagger to offer up one iota of a specific idea that is original or that may have a chance to actually change things. Let's hear it - I'm waiting, still waiting... still waiting... That's what I thought - They got nothing!
Cheers,
mfaye
I think that you are peeved at the same thing I was when I wrote "Platitudes 'R Us"
I double dog dare any tea-bagger to offer up one iota of a specific idea that is original or that may have a chance to actually change things. Let's hear it - I'm waiting, still waiting... still waiting... That's what I thought - They got nothing!
Cheers,
mfaye
Comment by 
Raine on 02/10/2010 00:42:48
Raine on 02/10/2010 00:42:48
I've found that my libertarian friends have become quite silent in the past week or so on Facebook -- and no, I am not talking about Tri -- I WISH libertarianism was what he believes.
Comment by 
TriSec on 02/10/2010 00:47:50
TriSec on 02/10/2010 00:47:50
This isn't what attracted my to the Libertarian party at all. I let my membership lapse in 2008 and have removed myself from all their mailing lists.
Go read some old Ron Paul columns at Lew Rockwell.com (circa 2000 or so). And check out some of Carla Howell's older stuff. Remember, I worked on her campaign against Mitt Romney.
I have been looking hard...I might have found something, but I'm keeping my mouth shut for now.
I NEVER was for the "drown government in a bathtub" aspect of the party...I was always at the "live and let live, do no harm" end of the tent.
Fiscal Conservative and Social Liberal should not be mutually exclusive, but the way the American political system is designed, they are. It's just a matter of finding which party sucks less, and you know where I stand on the issues that truly matter as far as justice is concerned.
Go read some old Ron Paul columns at Lew Rockwell.com (circa 2000 or so). And check out some of Carla Howell's older stuff. Remember, I worked on her campaign against Mitt Romney.
I have been looking hard...I might have found something, but I'm keeping my mouth shut for now.
I NEVER was for the "drown government in a bathtub" aspect of the party...I was always at the "live and let live, do no harm" end of the tent.
Fiscal Conservative and Social Liberal should not be mutually exclusive, but the way the American political system is designed, they are. It's just a matter of finding which party sucks less, and you know where I stand on the issues that truly matter as far as justice is concerned.
Comment by 
livingonli on 02/10/2010 02:41:48
livingonli on 02/10/2010 02:41:48
Who needs that hopey-changey stuff. Bush's policies were doing so well. 
Comment by TriSec on 02/10/2010 03:18:01
TriSec on 02/10/2010 03:18:01
Good night folks.
I did indeed have the sim running tonite...just a quickie from Hanscom to Stewart International. Overflew Raine's old stomping grounds on the Hudson.
Taking the train in tomorrow...I'll be up and out for the 7:10 inbound.
I did indeed have the sim running tonite...just a quickie from Hanscom to Stewart International. Overflew Raine's old stomping grounds on the Hudson.
Taking the train in tomorrow...I'll be up and out for the 7:10 inbound.