My prediction: next year’s tea parties will be crushed by volunteer ‘students’ counter-protesting. For years colleges have had violent student groups attack unpopular speakers while authorities stood aside. Next year this behavior will move to the streets.

tehag

Anyway, you want some irony?

http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/04/obama_appeals_bagram_detainee_ruling.php

More?

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/03/13/video-signing-statements-then-and-now/

How about some “intimidation & bullying tactics”?

http://faustasblog.com/?p=10979

One last chart (couldn’t find the original on short notice, so scroll down this Hot Air post for it) of what people are upset about, primarily, that is…

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/15/tax-day-and-tea-parties-the-writing-on-the-wall/

Even better, let Stephen Green clarify it still further:

“A common theme amongst the editorial hand-wringers was the supposed irony of Americans protesting high taxes on a day when 95% of us would be receiving a tax break. Unless, of course, you’re one of the 15-20% of adult Americans who smoke. Or maybe one of that tiny little percentage of Americans who use any electricity after Washington imposes a cap-and-trade system of energy taxation. Or if you own (or own stock in) a business facing $353 billion in increased taxes over the next ten years. Or if printing dollars by the trillions results in inflation and you happen to be an American who uses … money. But let’s not let a perfectly good meme get in the way of ridiculing taxpaying Americans.”

Sorry to harsh your mellow and break the golden silence. Troll on!

Now I’m wondering, is it really possible that you two somehow managed to get the last word(s) on all this? I’m somewhat mystified by the absence of even a single rebuttal from any of the overbearing, teabag-waving blowhards that preceded the refreshing infusion of sense & logic you gents added to this discussion.

Silence truly can be golden.

Let’s cut the bloated military budget.

Uhhh. Obama did……..DOH!
You can go back to sleep now.

http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2009/04/economic-reality-minus-manipulation.html

An administration that uses intimidation & bullying tactics, ruthlessly pummeling anyone who questions the means used to further it’s extremely partisan agenda: Check

An administration displaying a growing sense of paranoia & secrecy, acting out on a mounting fear of having it’s true, ulterior motives discovered & exposed & basing it’s policies on the ideals of a small group of people, fully aware that whole nations will feel the effects when these policies are implemented: Check

An administration that knowingly releases false information & exagerrates excessively on national security issues to play upon the fears of American citizens & to clear the pathway for implementation of it’s self-serving agenda: Check

Protesters, dissenters, people who question or openly disagree with governmental policies, & even everyday citizens who choose to excercise their First Amendment rights experiencing open, unabashed persecution of a quasi-violent nature, while being labeled as “unpatriotic” by a public & a media that has been whipped into a frenzy by the administration’s propaganda: Check

An executive officer who has designs for furthering the power of the office, perhaps even aspiring to establish a permanent state of totalitarian rule, while simultaneously using the power & discretionary nature of the office to reap a financial harvest for himself & his inner circle of trusted, morally-bankrupt cronies: Check

A federal government that has ballooned into an all-encompassing entity and forced it’s way into everyday American’s lives, giving orders in lieu of choices, all the while meticulously stripping away the god-given & Constitutionally protected rights of the individual: Check

What it all adds up to is a massively dysfunctional & corrupt administration, bent on imposing it’s will on the nation & the world & polarizing all those in it’s wake for the benefit of a relative handful of rich & powerful individuals who possess the proper ties to the White House. All to the detriment of the middle & lower classes of society.

Given all this, it’s easy to understand the outrage currently being displayed across the nation, mostly by people of a conservative idealism.

Funny thing is, I was describing the administration that had previously occupied the White House for eight years, not the one that succeeded it. The descriptions outlined above echo the characteristics many conservatives are using to condemn the current administration. It must seem to these newly minted protesters of government that a vast amount of time has passed since the current President took office. Otherwise, how could the hypocrisy-drenched accusations & complaints they are making not leave them with the skull-crushing, unavoidable mountain of irony that their indignant whining has produced? What they all once defended so defiantly, they now condemn so righteously. It’s hypocrisy in it’s highest form, and it’s pathetic.

To each his own. Charles can write about whatever interests him, after all, and readers can take the same approach.