BY FRANK SALVATO – Just when you thought the Progressive Movement could be more deeply invested in denial, now comes the absurd notion that somehow, the TEA Party Movement – whose pinnacle tenet is fiscal responsibility; which has devoutly insisted that the federal government cease the practice of spending beyond the tax revenue it gleans from taxpayers – it somehow responsible for the downgrade in the US credit rating by S&P. These critics have not put any responsibility on the glad-handing spendthrifts of the big government, nanny state Progressive Movement.
“Bottom up, top down…inside out.”
Shameless partisan, Chicago Progressive operative and former senior advisor to Pres. Barack Obama, David “Say Anything, Lie, Cheat and Steal to Win” Axelrod is quoted as saying, “The fact of the matter is that this is essentially a Tea Party downgrade.”
U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), who, it was revealed during the 2004 General Election, was fast and loose with the truth about his service in Vietnam, parroted Axelrod’s talking point, saying, Standard & Poor’s decision was “without question the Tea Party downgrade” because Tea Partiers held bipartisan lawmakers back from a bigger deal. This, even though the facts bear out that it was in fact Democrats who refused the deal, demanding almost a half trillion dollars in additional tax revenue be added to the mix.
And Howard Dean, Progressive ideologue extraordinaire, who has devolved into irrelevance since losing both his ill-fated presidential bid and the leadership post of the DNC, said, “I think they’re totally unreasonable and doctrinaire and not founded in reality. I think they’ve been smoking some of that tea, not just drinking it.”
One has to be impressed with the coordination it must take to ensure that all the political operatives in the Progressive Movement are using the exact same talking points during each and every interview almost at exactly at the same time. If one were of a curious mind the question of who is at the helm of the USS Propaganda would come to the forefront. Of course, we shouldn’t expect to find inquisitive minds of this nature within what used to be referred to as the mainstream media…they get their Cliff Notes from the same source.
Only from the minds of the Progressive Movement can we find a converse-reality in thinking so striking, so absurd, that it would condemn as being the cause of repercussions for fiscal irresponsibility those who are demanding that deficit spending come to a halt; that those who are demanding fiscal responsibility are responsible for fiscal irresponsibility.
Night is day and day is a tree.
Yet, even as the cancer of disingenuous, partisan, Progressive ideological madness comes “fast and furious” to the American people via the usual suspects in the alphabet media, it would appear that, increasingly, the American people are beginning to see through the political propaganda of the Far-Left.
A new Gallup poll – and we point out that Gallup leans Left – has concluded:
“Americans’ political ideology at the midyear point of 2011 looks similar to 2009 and 2010, with 41 percent self-identifying as conservative, 36 percent as moderate, and 21 percent as liberal.
“If this pattern continues, 2011 will be the third straight year that conservatives significantly outnumber moderates — the next largest ideological bloc. Liberalism has been holding steady for the past six years, averaging either 21 percent or 22 percent…”
“Among Republicans, conservatives currently outnumber moderates by nearly 3 to 1, 72 percent vs. 24 percent, while very few are liberal (4 percent)…
“Conservatism among independents increased fairly sharply in 2009, from 30 percent to 35 percent, largely explaining the expansion of conservatism nationally at that time, and it has held at that level since then.”
Meanwhile, a new Rasmussen Reports poll indicates that:
“…just 17 percent of likely US voters think the federal government today has the consent of the governed. 69 percent believe the government does not have that consent. 14 percent are undecided.
“The number of voters who feel the government has the consent of the governed — a foundational principle, contained in the Declaration of Independence — is down from 23 percent in early May and has fallen to its lowest level measured yet.
“Perhaps it’s no surprise voters feel this way since only 8 percent believe the average member of Congress listens to his or her constituents more than to their party leaders. That, too, is the lowest level measured to date. 84 percent think the average congressman listens to party leaders more than the voters they represent.”
So, with the Progressives and Democrats holding the Executive Branch, half of the Legislative Branch and just under half of the Judicial Branch (which, in and of itself has become increasingly useless in the eyes of the electorate), and with the overwhelming majority of American voters believing that the federal government does not have the consent of the governed, and with a mass movement of independents toward the Conservative political line of thinking – not to mention a move within the Democrat Party away from their fringe Progressive Left – is it a wise political move to continue jamming the disingenuous stick of non-factual propaganda into the political hornets’ nest that is the TEA Party Movement?
The American people have been awakened to the need to divine fact from fiction where the management of our country is concerned. This truth is self-evident in the results of the 2010 Mid Term Elections. That said, the only ones who seem to be in denial about the realities facing our country appear to be elected Progressive elitist politicians who would rather bankrupt the country while degrading its chances for recovery, all in the name of social engineering and social justice.
In times past, better men would have identified this behavior as treason. Perhaps it is time for those who identify with the principles of the TEA Party to “take the gloves off”; perhaps it is time for the American people to “downgrade” the Progressive Movement to its proper place…the rotting garbage heap of failed political ideology.
What do you think about that, Mr. Kerry? You had better go check with your puppet master for a response. Run along now.
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I disagree by refusing to negotiate the Tea Party is most responsible for the downgrade. Standards and Poor even said the reason why we were downgraded was because congress couldn’t agree. Everybody knows the majority of the dilemna with disagreement was because the Tea Party.
The Tea Party uses the guise of fiscal responsibility to try and push their agenda. What is their agenda? The same thing it’s alway been an American Plutocracy. Government run by the rich, for the rich. They have shown us the man behind the curtain and it is not a wizard but a wolf billionaire who cares only about making more money. They want to break the middle class. They want more for themselves, and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want. They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests.
This is not the fact. S&P alluded to gridlock but stated specifically that in order to avoid a downgrade debt cuts had to equal or exceed $4 trillion. The TEA Party plan would have achieved that.
Additionally, blaming the TEA Party for the downgrade is tantamount to blaming a firefighter for sounding a fire alarm when a building is on fire.
DEBT and SPENDING caused this downgrade and honest people understand that.
And I have to ask this, HOW in the name of G-d, is advocating for LIMITED GOVERNMENT and LIMITED SPENDING equated with “Government run by the rich, for the rich”??? That’s most rancid piece of non-critical thinking (i.e. lemming-esque propaganda) that has been printed anywhere on this subject…and with the NYT opining on the issue daily, that’s saying a lot!!
We could debate semantics all day long. It is one thing for a party to say we want limited government, it is quite another to actually execute it. If you follow the money you will see the Tea Party is funded by the Koch Brothers. One of the richest families in America. And yes they are trying to take over the country. Control it completely. They do not care about you. Your problem (as I see it anyway) is you believe the lies they are spinning about fiscal responsibility. This is a dog and pony show to distract you from the fact that they are stealing all the money. The 400 richest families in America own 50 percent of the wealth. What is wrong this picture? The rich get richer, that is the real Tea Party Agenda. And if you’re a good little congressman like Scott Walker, there will be a cushy office job waiting for you where you will get the same tax breaks that you helped perpetuate while in office. See how the system feeds itself?
And where are all jobs the Republicans promised when they took back the congress in 2010?
Well reasoned and written, Mr. Salvato. I commend your attempt to argue the facts in this forum with the those unable. Frustrating, isn’t it?
@Joseph: Yes, of course, the conspiracy is the Koch Bros. and each and every TEA Party member is connected to the evil orb they keep in their bunker…that’s why people like Rand Paul and Michele Bachmann want to take government’s ability to inject itself through regulation away, not extend it…oh, wait, someone who would want to be able to control the process of supply and demand, the flow of money, etc. would WANT that to happen. Joseph, really? Are you that intellectually challanged? Or are you simply a mindless Socialist.
@Palani: You said it, bother!…or sister, as the case may be.
To understand people like Joseph you only have to ask one question…
How much money are you getting from the government?
@gonegalt: Great point!
You haven’t answered any of my questions. Where are all these jobs? You gonna spout me some mindless trickle down economics theory that rich people make the jobs so they should be given tax breaks. How come luxury items are still selling? How come the top 400 families own fifty percent of the wealth but pay 18% of the taxes. Yes I’m intellectually challanged (you spelled challenged wrong) enough to follow the money, to know my history (in that this has happened before) and to figure out that most politicians lie. That goes for democrats as well as republicans. Again your problem is you actually believe that Michele Bachman and the Tea Party actually care about your financial well being. THEY DON’T.
@Joseph: You spelled Bachmann wrong…
Lastly, because you are a colossal waste of time for those of us who aren’t completely jaded and stunted in conspiracy, you believe what you want. Wear the chains of your limitations proudly, lemming Joseph.
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