Imagine if a Republican said this about a Democrat voting bloc, version 12,378.
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley added that he believed Republicans should compromise earlier to remove what he called their “Tea Party obstructionist stench.”
Tax cuts passed under President George W. Bush expire at the end of the year. Republicans want to extend all the cuts, while Democrats say they should be ended for high-income taxpayers. The deadline is a central part of the fiscal cliff—the fear that, if Congress fails to act by the end of the year, the U.S. will fall back into recession owing to higher tax rates and spending cuts scheduled to take effect.
Those stinky Tea Partiers are American taxpayers who are fed up with government growing bigger and spending more of their money every year.
Marty has aspirations on the White House. The fact that he’s an intolerant failure and an economic illiterate won’t hurt him a bit.
– can consume excrement and expire.
Otherwise known as “bumps in the road.” I guess those of us who still embrace what made America great are “not optimal.”
It’s also important to remember that Gov. O’Malley doesn’t much like any sort of opposition. He thinks that the referendum process in Maryland is too easy.
It doesn’t make sense does it? He won every single referendum on the ballot.
Just another step in the dehumanization of their opposition.
The “Other side” wins because people don’t feel the effects of the debt/economics issues that “our side” worries about daily. That’s because the effects are subtle and insidious. That’s why they can vote on social issues and soon to be bankrupt safety nets. They don’t feel it, they don’t think the problem is real. That’s how Marty keeps power. He governs a state that is made up of gov’t employees that, as Scarlett O’Hara would say, will “worry about that another day.”
Republican Party? That’s an endangered species in Maryland, thanks to Marty’s unusual map drawing skills: http://planning.maryland.gov/redistricting/2010/congDist.shtml
Marty can’t find any more trust funds to rob, taxes to raise, or casinos to build, so he’s going to whine about Tea Partiers.
There is no better proof of the effectiveness of the Tea Party than when Democrats act like this.
Excellent point, Frank. And no better proof of how vital the Tea Party is, now more than ever.
Better obstructionist stench than whoring out the government to whatever interest group wishes something from it.
Time to double down on the Tea!
Earlier today I saw where some letter writer compared the Tea Party to the Nazi Party. Hitler may have believed in many things, but a smaller, less centralized government was not one of them.
Had the tea party not sold out to the evangelical radicals and stuck with a platform of “a smaller, less centralized government” and fiscal responsibillity we’d be swearing in a republican president in January.
A lot of us “evangelical radicals” joined ranks with the tea party because we too believe in a “smaller, less centralized government” and fiscal responsibility. Those principles don’t come into conflict with evangelism. Are you saying you would rather not have our support?
The proposed Human Life Amendment is totally at variance with smaller, limited government.
Any time you add a new Amendment to the Constitution to authorize the Federal Government to enforce something it never enforced before at the Federal level, you’re expanding the Federal Government.
I really doubt that RebelGuy. If the D’s switched their social platform to suit evangelical needs, I believe you guys would switch parties unapologetic ally. I’ve always thought evangelicals a tenuous cohort.
Are you saying you would rather not have our support?
Exactly!
Far too many of the evangelical tea party folks need to do a study of how the republic came to be. They also need to study and understand the constitution they so often claim as their guiding principles. The constitution protects all citizens’ individual freedoms from the dictates of any particular religion values and beliefs. No states or federal government is granted by the constitution the dictate or otherwise disturb the individual freedoms from religion or of religion. Any attempt to exert any religious social values and beliefs using any government powers is unconstitutional. If your evangelical movement is upset with social values then your battle is with the churches and the government.
That said, I’ve long been disgusted with the failings of the churches and the decline of traditional religious social values. However, I spent three decades as a uniformed warrior sworn to defend this nations constitution and I continue to do so today when necessary. We are not a theocracy but rather, a democratic republic governed by an exceptional constitution granting individual freedoms and protections.
The TEA Party accepts anyone as long as ‘the basics’ are the core. I’ve met vitually all kinds at rallies with one thing being paramount: the Intense Desire to make Gov’t as small as possible and maximize freedom.
If Zeke up there [^^^^] thinks that some kind of ‘overiding religous lust,within the ranks’ drove anyone away, and made them sit this one out, then he’s met mighty few TEA-Pers, IMHO.
Never heard any preaching at a rally excepting a bendiction or 10. Never heard any exhortations “…to come to Jesus….” Met ‘mighty many’ who see and feel what I did and have for at least 20 years or so, and in effect, I found comrades in arms.
It beats all hell out of Libertarian Meetings where ‘purity’ was often the only topic and got circular in about 30 minutes.
It’s kinda tragic that ZEKE feels the way he does.But there is no speaking for self-exclaimed smarts, nor taste. He feels the need for a whipping boy of sorts, and he found his. Too bad ‘clueless’ is in there, right at the surface……….
With all due respect, I’ll try not to lower my conversation and reply to your level.
Of the many states which gained tea party power as a result of the 2010 election, there has never been anytime in this nations history that so many evangelical religious based legislative initiatives were brought forth to re-engineer social issues attempting to use the powers of government. The supporting data is very easily accessed. I’ll just leave it at that!
I remember Martin O’Malley when he was Baltimore Mayor.
Even by Bawlmer standards, “MOM” was a corrupt idiot.
You could by all the dope you wanted in the housing projects in Little Italy, about 2 miles or so from City Hall.
’nuff said.
Of course, with the housing voucher program, the Feds got rid of those “LBJ Memorial Vertical Ghettoes” and inflicted the residents thereof upon the citizens of oh-so-Liberal Columbia…and THOSE dummies trampled each other to vote for Obama and MOM again.
Can we please quit calling these tax rates the Bush tax rates. They were passed under the Obama administration two years ago. They are the Obama tax rates. Every time they are referenced, it brings up some peoples’ bad memories and arouses their ire at a particular president. Change the label, and change the rhetoric allowed. This is just common sense.
The House should pass a balanced budget, DAILY, and announce that there is no ‘cliff’, no shutting down of the government, if only the Senate and President would act. All such bills MUST come from the house, and it is the Senate and President that are obstructing. The House leadership should make it a point to point the finger the other way, and quick, or they will be the target ‘obstructionists’ once again. Quit giving in to the ‘rachet’ policy of “just a little bit more debt won’t hurt”, and “you are mean for cutting{Not INCREASING} this or that pet project”. Make clear we are headed for a different cliff, that of intense inflation if we don’t curb the spending.
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