The Tea Party is the Bad Guy? . . . On Planet Socialism, Maybe

On August 21st, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-California, said publicly in a meeting in a church: "I’m not afraid of anybody. This is a tough game. You can’t be intimidated. You can’t be frightened. And as far as I’m concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to Hell."  After the wild cheering subsided, she concluded: "And I intend to help them get there."

And if that weren't nasty enough, another Dem congressional rep, from Florida, Frederica Wilson said on August 22nd, speaking at a 'jobs' town hall meeting sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus: "Let us all remember who the real enemy is. The real enemy is the Tea Party. The Tea Party holds the Congress hostage. They have one goal in mind, and that's to make President Obama a one-term president."

(By the way, isn't it the goal of any opposition party to make the sitting president a one-termer?) 

Now, back to those Tea Party villains.  Tea Party folks want to cut government spending.  We want the government to live within its means.  We want the federal government to be as insignificant in our lives as possible.  We want to make our own health care decisions, without government meddling.  We want our country to be energy independent.  We don't want to burden our children and grandchildren with insurmountable debt.  Yeah, we are the real enemy.  The real enemy of socialism, maybe.  Here's a video from Accuracy in Media that illustrates the absurdity of the Left's claim that the Tea Party is a bunch of terrorists:

There's something really wrong with America when elected officials can use the kind of inflammatory rhetoric the Left does and get away with it.  The fact that the old media (both dead-tree & tv news) condones this kind of talk (and in some cases, promotes it) is also troubling.  What happened to all the civility?  I remember a journalism class in college where we were taught that journalists were, above all, objective and didn't take sides in politics - but I digress.

In a country where only about half of the citizens pay any taxes it's easy to see that to get our fiscal house in order, something's got to give.  We can't continue borrowing from other countries to pay for our social programs.  John Edwards (former Dem presidential candidate) was right in a sense when he said "There are two Americas" - but in this case that means those who work for a living and those who expect a handout from the government.  My solution?  Everybody 18 and over must pay some taxes.  Everybody, including those getting welfare checks - a small percentage could be taken out of their checks.  As our illustrious leader said some months ago, "Everybody needs to have some skin in the game."  There should be a tax on all government handouts - SSI checks, food stamps, welfare, anything that can be considered income.  Abolish the Earned Income Tax Credit and set a minimum tax level that everyone would pay.  It would bring money into the Treasury, and it would make the half that doesn't pay any taxes feel more like they are involved in our economy.

Leftists like Maxine Waters and Frederica Wilson vilify the Tea Party because they are threatened by it.  They are worried that the gravy train of wealth redistribution may be slowing down.  They fear that unhappy constituents in their district might blame them for it and vote them out of a job.   Here's a news flash for Maxine and Frederica and their liberal/socialist brethren: Maybe you should start your job search now, because come November 6, 2012, you may very well be in the unemployment line.

As Rush Limbaugh and others have said, this is a center-right country.  There are far more conservatives than there are liberals, and the conservatives are not happy with what the Left has done to America, especially how this huge financial crisis has been handled the last few years.  The Dems came to power by a narrow margin (52%) in 2008 because some of the more moderate conservatives in this country mistakenly thought they'd end racism by electing Barack Obama.  When Attorney General Eric Holder refused to take the Black Panther voter intimidation case in 2009, the entire country saw the ugly truth: racism is alive and well in Liberal America.  I don't think those moderate conservatives will be fooled again.