First of all, let’s get one thing straight. Conservatives don’t know how to protest. It’s not in our DNA. Conservatives are usually busy working. We don’t have union bosses giving us a pass or groups like ACORN paying us to protest. It doesn’t work like that on the conservative side. We’re normally out there just working away. Since most of us don’t belive government can do much well anyway, we let a lot of stuff slide. But a line seems to have been crossed.
Yesterday, a reported two million people marched on Washington in a 9/12 TEA Party protest. Thinking back through my lifetime, I can’t really think of a similar movement on the conservative side.
This ain’t fake grass roots or “astroturf” as Nancy Pelosi likes to say. It’s real.
The pictures of Obama as Hitler or the socialism sign of Obama repainted as the Joker aren’t, in my opinion, productive. However, liberal opponents would have a hard time claiming clean hands based on what was said and done to him in the media and during protests during his 8 years in office. It’s bad on both sides.
There is a palpable sense out there the government via Obama, Reid and Pelosi is trying to go places it shouldn’t go (and no, I’m not talking about “death panels”). Except for fighting wars and generally keeping the peace at home, the laundry list of stuff that government does well is short. There was a fantastic quote this morning from a letter to the editor at the Clarion Ledger by William Jeanes, which reads in part . . .
the majority of Americans do not want counseling of any description from the U.S. government. The government, aided by both major parties, has effectively bankrupted Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and is well on its way to bankrupting itself.
I think that’s the crux of what has Conservatives so up in arms right now. Politicians from both parties should listen.
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