Carville, of all people, gets it

I really do not like James Carville, but I have to give credit where its due.
I am going to make a minor correction in the quoted material, though. Just a small one, simce I was there and actully know how many people showed up.

Gene Healy: Talking with the Tea Partiers
By: Gene Healy
Examiner Columnist
October 20, 2009

When tens (hundreds) of thousands of Americans marched on Washington last month to protest President Obama's ongoing power grab, many liberals dismissed them as a horde of partisan, crypto-racist cranks.

But a new study from a prominent Democratic polling firm shows that the Tea Partiers are neither racist nor particularly partisan. What's more, they genuinely support smaller government -- and they're not going away anytime soon.

Last week, Democracy Corps, founded by Clinton vets James Carville and Stanley Greenberg, reported on a recent series of focus groups they held with GOP base voters and conservative-leaning independents.

Hard-core conservatives in the groups expressed an "apocalyptic" view of Obama's agenda not remotely shared by the swing voters. According to Carville/Greenberg, the Republican base stands "a world apart from the rest of America," and that will make it hard for the GOP leadership to appeal to mainstream voters.

A Black Minister Defends the Tea Party

"Do Unto Liberals as They Have Done...

and continue to do, to us"

LtCol Allen West USA
Combat Veteran
Congressional Candidate for FLA-22

Concerned American citizens are being called Nazi’s, evilmongers, racists, tea bagging rednecks, and right wing extremists. They have been accused of organized protest and even had an email set up, flag@whitehouse.gov, which enables their “fishy behavior” to be reported. And there have been Americans who received unsolicited emails from David Axelrod with the White House letterhead to their private email accounts. Three of my friends have received such.

We are witnessing something really disturbing in America. At issue is not the reaction of concerned American citizens but rather the response from the Democrats, liberal media, and the DNC. It seems they are resorting to their normal Saul Alinsky “Rules for Radicals” tactics; Rule #5, "Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon."

They are lowering themselves to calling American’s a mob and trying to depict concerned American’s as sore losers. What they fail to realize is that in America we live in a Republic where we respect the rule of law, not being ruled. We have a Constitution which affords its citizens rights such as free speech, freedom of expression, and freedom to petition the government.

It is amazing to me that when the opposition to President Obama’s questionable policies expresses their dissent they are demeaned. When I flip over to CNN and MSNBC, not often but to understand what the opposition thinks, I find that they don’t think. They only seek to create a racial confrontation by fomenting the belief that white American’s refuse to accept a black POTUS.

What the liberal socialists had best recognize is that their venom is no longer effective, we are anesthetized to their bite. Seems we found anti-venom and we all have been injected to produce anti-bodies. We are not going to back down.

As well, the DNCs running of insidious advertisements and the White House created “Great American Snitch” program only indicate desperation.

One must find it comical that the same folks who brought you the professional community organizer President are attacking citizens organizing. We have seen anti-war protests by Code Pink, PETA tossing blood on individuals, left wing enviro-terrorist groups attacking SUV dealerships, ACORN and SEIU protests, and even voter intimidation at polling stations (New Black Panther Party, Philadelphia). Yet, concerned American citizens are called extremists?

President George W Bush was constantly attacked from his inauguration in Jan 2001 to the day he departed office Jan 20, 2009. Dare you speak of the anointed one? You are a racist.

Left wing blogs attacked Governor Sarah Palin and made allegations that her young Son Trig is not hers. But when the opposition questions the birth certificate authenticity of President Obama they are referred to in derision as “birthers”.

Left wing news media attacked former First Lady Laura Bush reference a traffic accident when she was a teenager. No one is questioning the law license inactive status of First Lady Michele Obama. And what is up with (22) staffers for the First Lady Michelle? The Bush twins were regularly part of media attacks, dare no one speak of the Obama daughters who attend wonderful Sidwell Friends School. This is an exclusive school where it is not possible for other children in DC, who are just a little less fortunate but qualified, to attend thanks to their Dad’s decision.

What is happening is that some of us read the book “Rules for Radicals” and we are turning the table on the liberals. Here are some examples;

Rule 1: “Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have”
In other words "Power Perceived is Power Achieved"

Rule 3: “Wherever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat”

Rule 4: “Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules. You can kill them with this……”

Rule 8: “Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions……”

Rule 9: “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself”

Rule 11: “If you push a negative hard enough and deep enough it will break through into its counterside”

Rule 13: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it”

It seems to me that the liberals are great at dishing it out but intolerant of taking a punch.

As for me, well, I am above the name calling. I would never say President Barack Hussein Obama is a thin skinned, inept, malignant narcissist. It is beneath me to call Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid a weak spineless wimp. It is unconscionable to refer to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi as a maniacal pathological liar.

However, my opponent Congressman Ron Klein, well, does remind me of the Cowardly Lion from Wizard of Oz….before the Wizard gave him courage.

As a 22 year US Army combat Veteran I can smell fear, and the left wing liberals are showing it.

My admonition, be like a shark which senses blood in the water and attack. The left truly felt that since they won, we would lie down and not fight back against their dangerous agenda, wrong!

I will say what may not be politically correct but the future and legacy of our Country is at stake. Get out there and live by the new Golden Rule, “Do Unto Liberals as they Have Done to You”….and watch them crack.

Steadfast and Loyal!

Hallelujah!

and AMEN!

h/t Below the Beltway

Town Hall Protests finally become violent. Guess who is to blame.

Congress was ordered to pass the ObamaCare bill before they went home. Obama did not want the representatives to hear what their constituents had to say. They knew that most Americans don't want the government to control their health care. Medicare/Medicaid are accepted as necessary evils, but, no one wants to rely on them. And nobody likes HMOs, another government scheme, invented by Senator Kennedy. Remember, HMOs were the first attempt to "control health care costs." And how do they do it? Restrictions and rationing. But, at least they aren't the government.

And how did our esteemed Congressmen and Senators react? By locking out constituents from the meetings. By calling voters Nazis and mobs. By provoking fights with their constituents as a Carnahan staffer did. By packing the meetings with SEIU union supporters that are exempt by law, from the details in HR3200. They have hypocritically called protesters paid servants for special interests and astroturf. Hmmm, that sounds like the SEIU, the GOVERNMENT WORKER'S union. Who is paying them to show up? Our tax money?

Btw, the SEIU are supporters of HCAN, the lobbying group for Obama care. Here is the steering committee. I don't see too many medical groups or non-partisan groups. It looks like pay back for campaign workers:

Our Steering Committee includes: ACORN, AFL-CIO, AFSCME, AFT, Americans United for Change, Campaign for America’s Future, Center for American Progress Action Fund, Campaign for Community Change, Children’s Defense Fund Action Council, Communications Workers of America, International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW), MoveOn.org, NAACP, National Council of La Raza, National Education Association, National Women’s Law Center, SEIU, UFCW, USAction, Women's Voices, Women's Vote and Working America.

The media is rife with stories about "scary mobs" and "violent citizens egged on by talk radio" and "intimidation." The same representatives that lock out voters and import union thugs lies the next day about just wanting a dialogue with voters. Google Carnahan, union thugs, townhall.

Well, the violence has started. The anger and hatred were finally released. A mob attacked an innocent man.

August 7, 2009

Dear Mr. Hennessy:

I am Kenneth Gladney’s attorney. Kenneth was attacked on the evening of August 6, 2009 at Rep. Russ Carnahan’s town hall meeting in South St. Louis County. I was at the town hall meeting as well and witnessed the events leading up to the attack of Kenneth. Kenneth was approached by an SEIU representative as Kenneth was handing out “Don’t Tread on Me” flags to other conservatives. The SEIU representative demanded to know why a black man was handing out these flags. The SEIU member used a racial slur against Kenneth, then punched him in the face. Kenneth fell to the ground. Another SEIU member yelled racial epithets at Kenneth as he kicked him in the head and back. Kenneth was also brutally attacked by one other male SEIU member and an unidentified woman. The three men were clearly SEIU members, as they were wearing T-shirts with the SEIU logo.

Kenneth was beaten badly. One assailant fled on foot; three others were arrested. Kenneth was admitted to St. John’s Mercy Medical Center emergency room, where he was treated for his numerous injuries. Kenneth was merely expressing his freedom of speech by handing out the flags. In fact, he merely asked people as they exited the town hall meeting whether they would like a flag. He in no way provoked any argument or altercation, as evidenced by the fact that three assailants were arrested.

The rest is at St. Louis Tea Party. com.

I AM THE MOB.

Are you part of the MOB?

Let me introduce you the violent, scary mob that Pelosi says is being paid to intimidate your oh, so faithful, humble, sensitive representative.

Meet the MOB.

Like Truman said, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."

h/t Instapundit

My response to What IS Right for Virginia

Mr. JC White at What IS right for Virginia believes that Tea Party members have no place in HIS America: "The truth is, you are shills for your party, as well as the insurance and oil industries. Spent as much time studying the issues as you do screaming what you heard on television and you just might wise up.

Anarchists have no place in my America, the one I served in the military to protect. The reserve a special place in hell for you."

My response (also in his comments):

Anarchists? Tea Party members? Or protesters at the town hall meetings? They are not necessarily one and the same. But they are not anarchists. Screw the Republican Party and the Democrat Party. Vote them BOTH out. The GOP wishes they could get behind this.

What we are saying NO to is the unseemly haste that Congress is using to pass bills that are not finished and/or unread. We are saying NO to more interference by a gov't claiming to be able to bring down costs without hurting the quality of care, yet, can't pay for Medicare/Medicaid or the VA and can't run their own damn cafeteria at a profit. Heck, the Cash for Clunkers joke ran out of money in 4 days! The budget was for 4 months! Who knew people would want free money?

Because we say NO to further spending, that increased Bush's debt of 453 billion to Obama's 1.2 TRILLION, we're not patriots? Because we question our representatives actions, we're not patriots? We're not patriots because we don't want the government to destroy the American economy with Cap and Trade, based on false science of manmade global warming? Even T.Boone Pickens is losing money on his windmills and that's with gov't help.
Right now, there is no free market. The financial markets were screwed with since the 80's. Insurance companies are constantly being forced to accept mandates on coverage. Over regulation, high taxes, and a litigious business society drives business away.

Let me tell you, oh so high and mighty veteran, I'm a retired 25 year Navy vet, that has stood beside vets from WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War, and OEF/OIF at Tea Party rallies. Were you out counterprotesting the REAL anarchists of Code Pink and A.N.S.W.E.R.? Are you helping to track down the truth behind those false vet in the antiwar movement? How about the Earth First nuts that burn houses? Oil, coal, gas and nuclear power are the only realistic power supplies we have at the moment. Wind and solar are just supplements. NO other country is supplying their energy needs by Wind and Solar at realistic rates. Germany is backing away from it because its so expensive.

So maybe it's you that need to do some research. Why don't you attend one of the Tea Party rallies and see first hand who shows up and who is organizing it. Its the LEFT that has the paid protesters: Acorn, Answer, and their ilk. Have you objected to the tactics of the Left when they misbehave at the protest du jour?

Or is it that you only don't like dissidence and objections from real citizens?

The DNC slanders concerned voters. Including Democrats.

HEY! Guess I can find a job now. Who do I need to see about getting paid for this?

This is too funny. POT meet KETTLE. The makers of this video don't even see the irony about talking about paid protesters and astroturf. Does ACORN and A.N.S.W.E.R. come to mind? How about Code Pink? Apparently, the DNC is worried about the effect these concerned private citizens are having. So much that they are being defamed. And alot of these people are Democrats!

HEY DEMOCRATS! LEAVE A MESSAGE ABOUT HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT THE DNC SLANDERING YOU!

I really need to sign up to get me some that protest money!

Enemy Mine

We have met the enemy and we be dem, at least according to OhhDaddy and the eFFbEEeYE.

According to the Northeast Intelligence Network, FBI and DHS spied on and monitored the organizers of the 15 April Tea Parties beginning on or about 25 March 2009.

If you were one of the estimated 750,000 Americans who attended one of about 600 TEA parties last week, you might have seen media cameras covering the event. Media cameras, however, were not the only cameras taking video at these events, something that has at least one current FBI agent concerned over the future of America. According to this agent - the same agent who provided the Northeast Intelligence Network (NEIN) exclusively the unreleased photographs of the 11 missing Egyptian students who were the subject of a FBI BOLO in August 2006–placed his concerns for true patriots of the U.S. over his own career when he confided that covert surveillance was “planned and performed” at each of the TEA parties that took place last Tuesday.“Listen to what I am saying,” stated the source during an interview with Doug Hagmann, founder (NEIN).

“The Department of Homeland Security Intelligence Assessment that is receiving so much attention is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, and the true patriotic citizens of this country are on the Titanic. This is what bothers me. But is goes far beyond that assessment. There have been very significant changes made over the last few years that redirect the focus and assets of the intelligence community internally. These changes have greatly accelerated under this administration, and the threats have been redefined to include those who used to be patriots. It’s not only chilling but absolutely insulting to God-fearing Americans.”

According to this unimpeachable source, a single-page confidential directive issued by the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC (FBIHQ) was sent to each of the 56 field offices located across the United States on or about March 23, 2009, instructing the Special Agents in Charge (SACs) of those offices to verify the date, time and location of each TEA Party within their region and supply that information to FBI headquarters in Washington. The source stated this correspondence termed the TEA parties “political demonstrations,” and added that the dissemination of the directive was very tightly controlled. “Not all agents were privy to this correspondence,” stated the source, who compared the dissemination to an older “Do Not File” classification.

In addition to obtaining or confirming the location and time of each “demonstration,” each field office was instructed to obtain or confirm the identity of the individual(s) involved in the actual planning and coordination of the event in each specific region, and include the local or regional Internet web site address, if any. The information collected by region was then reportedly sent to FBI Headquarters.The source alleges that a second directive was issued on or about April 6, 2009 that reportedly instructed each SAC to coordinate and conduct, either at the field office level and/or with the appropriate resident agency, covert video surveillance and data collection of the participants of the TEA parties. Surveillance was to be performed from “discreet fixed or mobile positions” and was to be performed “independently and outside of the purview of local law enforcement.”

Although the level of detail collected from each operation is unclear, the information was reportedly submitted to Washington, where, “at the level of the National Security Branch (NSB), this information was to “include the office of the Directorate of Intelligence (DI), and integrated with a restricted access database, one that reportedly is accessible to only two agencies” [of the 14 agencies that comprise the U.S. intelligence community, according to the source.“The implications to the citizens of the U.S. are ominous. It seems that there is a hostile political agenda coming from Washington that characterizes the supporters of our constitutional freedoms as threats to our domestic security, which is totally absurd. The redirection, the refocusing of domestic threats from al Qaeda cells to ‘flag waving right-wingers’ is something that has gone from a murmur a few years ago to a roar today.”

Training government-issued cameras on ordinary citizens, many of whom brought their children to an estimated 600 Tax Day TEA Parties is a page torn out of George Orwell’s 1984 and makes the term “God Bless America” more meaningful than ever.

The Northeast Intelligence Network and Canada Free Press expect the government’s denial of the surveillance of the TEA Parties to go viral as soon as this story is posted.

ACORN and Robo-Calls

Got word this morning that robo-calls are going out telling people the Tea Party time has been changed to 1200.

THIS IS NOT TRUE.

This is an attempt by extreme elements of the opposition to disrupt our activities. Ignore them and have a whistle handy when they call.

Congratulations to YankeeMom on her appointment to be division head of the Northern VA division of ACTIVE. Pat Dollard asked for her personally, but Carter had already picked her.

Americans Beware!!!

The New Intolerable Acts of the Obama Regime
by Edward Cline (March 9, 2009)

Whether or not the recent, numerous “tea parties” held across the country in protest against Obama’s and Congress’s plan to guile Americans into accepting slavery or servitude will have any lasting consequence or effect on Washington, remains to be seen. Whether or not the stock market continues to refuse to “rally” in response to Obama’s economic agenda, also remains to be seen. But the fact that they have occurred is evidence there are countless Americans who regard recent and proposed legislation as intolerable.

At the moment, it is hard to gauge if they possess the moral stamina required to consistently confront the behemoth of federal power. They will need intellectual guidance as well as courage.
They will need ideas to let them know they are right. They will need the philosophy of Ayn Rand.

It is not enough for Americans to merely sense that the only moral and practical “stimulus” to economic recovery is freedom. They must know it. Only philosophy can give them that certitude.

And it is hard to judge if Obama, Congress and the collectivists will have the malice and vengeful bottom to call for their own Coercive Acts in answer to such resistance. Having come so close to conquering America, they may be tempted to try it. Just as the Crown, long before the Stamp Act was even enacted, was contemplating turning the American colonies into one huge camp of indentured servants, the “progressives” in this country have for decades plotted and drooled over the chance to achieve the same end.

Americans, beware! Obama, Congress and the collectivists are not the rattlesnakes that appeared on American militia flags, but together one stalking monitor lizard that bites its prey, poisons it with the venom of altruism, and waits for it to die of it before feeding on the carcass.

Long live Lady Liberty!

Let's Have a PARTY!

All of you are hereby invited to a party.

Bring your own tea.

Here is a schedule of Tea Parties near you.

This is the one most of us will be interested in....

Feb. 27

Washington DC Tea Party - 12:00pm - 2:00 pm- Washington Monument Info

Sponsors: Americans for Prosperity Americans for Tax Reform Young Conservatives Coalition The Heartland Institute

Updated via Instapundit:

SOME ADVICE ON FUTURE “TEA PARTY” PROTESTS, from a media producer who attended the Overland Park affair:

I attended the invigorating protest outside Congressman Dennis Moore’s Overland Park, Kansas office yesterday.

I hoped 10-15 souls might show up. I was thrilled to see hundreds. Here are some suggestions. I don’t really want my name used. Sadly, it could really hurt my business, which is already hurting.

As a professional media producer, here are my concerns:

1. Incoherent message - the signs were all over the place. There were lots of agendas. That’s fine. The color and signage look good on TV.

But, when it came to the microphone - the overall message was tepid and unsure.

2. Create a theme - like “We want Senator So-and-So to resign for voting for this bill.” Or, “We want the Stimulus Repealed!” “Start Over.” Have a definitive purpose to your Assembly. A central theme will also help public speakers to focus. And don’t be afraid to personalize this. Put it on your Senators, Congress people, and the President. That’s what they are doing to anyone who objects.

3. Speakers not prepared for the media - the organizer was asked to name some specific objectionable items in the stimulus. She couldn’t do it. I doubt many of us could.

If you are an organizer, or the “face” of the event - take an hour to prepare. You don’t need to know everything about the stimulus. Just find 2 or 3 things - hard facts - you can point to and credibly say - these are wrong, wasteful spending items. Or, these items grow government, not the economy. It is critical.

4. Pass out talking points, just in case Joe or Jane Protestor gets buttonholed by a reporter.

5. This is all about image. If we don’t present the media with a professional, organized and, unfortunately, scripted image, they are going to make their own, and it won’t be favorable.

6. Recruit some help to pack the area around people being interviewed for background. God love the guy in the crazy Uncle Sam suit, and we certainly need the Minute Men, but these folks will quickly become THE story because they are colorful or controversial i.e., Good TV. Welcome their support. Maybe give them a minute on the mic. But I recommend trying to pack in mainstream, boring looking, and diverse Americans around the camera. No offense to anyone. Anytime a TV camera comes out, a certain number and type of attention seeker will flock to it. Now is the time for Grandma and Grandpa, the Plumber, the Young Executive, and the Homeschooling Mom to flock to the camera as background. Don’t be shy. Remember, how do you want your cause to be presented by the media? As crazies? Or as Concerned Neighbors?

7. Have an Agenda and a Time. We’re going to Assemble at this Time. We’re going to have a Sign-In Table. We’re going to have a Sign-Making Area. We’re going to have speakers at 10:30. We’re going to March to the Senator’s Office at this time and demand she resign. We’re going to end with Chants, and a Call-to-Action for the next Protest. That, and Protesters want to know what’s going on. If they become unsure, they leave. Organization wins, and it also intimidates the opposition. And the opposition is going to start showing up.

8. Share the Day’s Agenda with the Media. You have to create your own press. The event in Overland Park was HUGE, but only one news station came out to cover it, and there’s not even a photo in today’s Sunday paper. Sell it to them. They love good stories.

That’s it. I hope this helpful. These things are only going to get bigger, and people need to realize that a great responsibility comes with this wonderful opportunity. Get a Message. And Get It Out.