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1. Pajamas Media » Help End David Axelrod’s Bewilderment:

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Apr 20, 2009 - 8:59 am 2. Daniel MacGregor:

You may recall the movie version of “The Untouchables.” In one scene, Eliot Ness and the RCMP cooperate to stop one of Al Capone’s shipments into the US.

At the end of it, the RCMP commander tells Ness “I do not approve of your methods!” to which Ness replies “Yeah? Well, you’re not from Chicago!”

I am. So is Axelrod. So is Rahm Emanuel.

What you must realize about this city is that it’s been a one-party (Democratic) state since 1932.

As the grandchild of two Polish immigrants, I wondered, growing up, what it was like for whatever family is left over there to live in a one-party state. Then one day, a voice in the back of my mind said “You idiot! You’re living in one!”

The Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain fell, but Chicago’s Democratic machine is still going strong.

So, under the circumstances, Axelrod’s comments aren’t surprising, at least not to me.

Apr 20, 2009 - 9:17 am 3. LeighB:

Ah, David Axelrod, our very own minister of propaganda. Yes, indeedy, here’s hoping the element of disaffection mutates into something that’s unhealthy for his candidate. I’m hoping for a real change on 01.21.13.

Apr 20, 2009 - 9:28 am 4. Janet:

One way to make Axelrod understand is to start using Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” as our playbook.

One of Alinsky’s tactics was Rule #4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If a corporation promised to answer each and every letter written to it, was to swamp the corporation with letters – thousands of them. There would be no way the company could keep its promise.

Obama has promised Transparency. We need to swamp him with requests for same. There will be no way he can keep his promise…oh, wait…he’s already broken that one, hasn’t he?

Here are the book’s opening lines: “There’s another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevski said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. To bring on this reformation requires that the organizer work inside the system, among not only the middle class but the 40 per cent of American families – more than seventy million people – whose income range from $5,000 to $10,000 a year (in 1971 – probably up to that $250,000 level by now). They cannot be dismissed by labeling them blue collar or hard hat. They will not continue to be relatively passive and slightly challenging. If we fail to communicate with them, if we don’t encourage them to form alliances with us, they will move to the right. Maybe they will anyway, but let’s not let it happen by default.”

What Axelrod doesn’t understand, I don’t think, is that those working class (”blue collar, hard hats”) did not form alliances with the community workers.

What Axelrod doesn’t understand is that he, and Obama, have failed to communicate with them (us).

What Axelrod doesn’t understand is that we have not, and will not, form alliances with him, or Obama.

What Axelrod really doesn’t understand is WHY.

He doesn’t understand that “grassroots” grow on both sides of the fence. He thought community organization was proprietary to the Left. What Axelrod doesn’t understand is that we get what he is trying to do.

What he doesn’t understand is WHY.

Why are we not thankful and appreciative of all that he, and Obama, are trying to do for us? Why do we refuse to believe their falsehoods, repeated ad infinitum, until we think they must be true? Why won’t we fall in lockstep with their “programs” for harmony (unthinking capitulatition) and unity (obedient acquiesence)?

Why? Because, unlike what community organizers like Obama and Alinsky failed to take into account, is that the community they are trying to organize is made up of individuals. Individuals who know how to think for themselves.

Alinsky also states: “What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.”

What do we, as individuals, believe our world should be? Should it be one where ivory-tower “intellectuals” believe they know what is best for us, and try to force us to adhere to their vision?

Or do we believe that is one in which each and every individual is FREE to chart his or her own course in life?

Rule #8 in “Rules for Radicals” is: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Probably the most important one for anyone who knows where this country is headed under Obama’s rule.

Sun Tzu said “Know your enemy.” Each and every reader of Roger Kimball’s post should familiarize themselves with Alinsky’s book. No need to buy it; there are several online sites where you can read portions of it for free. The rules can be read here: http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/8925/alinsky.htm

Forewarned is forearmed.

Apr 20, 2009 - 10:01 am 5. steveg:

Obama has found a way to calm down the rebellious. He has vowed to cut $100,000,000. out of a $3,555,000,000,000 budget. Perhaps we should call it the chump change cut.

Apr 20, 2009 - 10:14 am 6. Renee:

Axelrod is clueless on the Tea Parties.

In the world of Axelrod’s DSA and CPUSA, it is the politicians who should dictate the minds and thoughts of their subjects. Not the other way around.

Seeing the people are actually thinking independently and acting independently on their own volition IS SOMETHING THAT AXELROD WILL NEVER COMPREHEND.

Apr 20, 2009 - 10:45 am 7. Will:

They “doth protest too much, methinks.” Not the tea party protesters, but those, like Axelrod, who protest the tea party protesters. Axelrod and the protesters of the protesters fear something in a big way, although what it is I can only speculate. Fortunately, the more the protestors of the protests protest the stronger the tea party movement becomes. I just hope they keep up the good work.

Apr 20, 2009 - 10:46 am 8. PM:

Again, the problem with “a tax cut for 95% of Americans” is that the populist notion of “soaking the rich” doesn’t work. Econ 101.

I reject the whole idea that we can use the ballot box to punish a small group through mob rule.

Flat Tax. 15%. No exemptions. No excuses. No socialist tyrants.

And by the way, somebody drop a copy of our Constitution off at 1600 Pennsylvania so that Mr. Axelrod and his friends can see their job description. They seem confused as well as bewildered.

Apr 20, 2009 - 11:04 am 9. KC in AZ:

It is too bad that David Axelrod has such tunnel vision that he can’t see that this represents the best of this country…the ability to disagree using free speech.

I guess that is all you have to offer when your sole existence is for the purpose of maintaining power at all costs.

I was there! These people we quite, hard working people who know that the 95% tax break dogma is a lie when compared to what is coming (increased taxes to pay for runaway spending, increased printing of money we don’t have, and increased inflation that will come). Too bad, these individuals aren’t looking out for the American workers future but are simply content to regurgitate irrelevant dogma.

Apr 20, 2009 - 11:22 am 10. Rockman:

Poor Mr. Axlerod. Apparently he can’t see the trees becasue of the forfest or is it can’t see the forrest bacause of the trees.

It really doesn’t take an Einstein to understand what the “Tea Parties” are all about. But, apparently like so many of those in important places or the MSM they must have been asleep during Civics class, if it even taught any more?, and failed to read or read and comprehend the 1st. amendment.

As a refresher, The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights that expressly prohibits the United States Congress from making laws “respecting an establishment of religion” or that prohibit the free exercise of religion, infringe the freedom of speech, infringe the freedom of the press, limit the right to peaceably assemble, or limit the right to petition the government for a restore of grievances.
Not to hard to understand “cannot limit the right to peaceably assemble, or limit the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances” is it? Redress means to “ adjust, make amends to, to correct, remedy as a fault” et cetera.

Not hard is it? We the people don’t like the debt that OB and group including Axlerod are forcing upon us by their programs. Thus, in the tradition of our forefathers at the Boston Tea Party, numerous people have assembled and are petitioning the government for a restore of grievances. Seems a lot more healthy to me than borrowing trillions that our children and grandchildren will have to repay or am I missing something?

Of course when its criticism to one self it is many times hard to understand that many simply don’t like what its being proposed. Maybe Mr. Axlerod and OB had better self examine the status of their ego’s and pull their heads out of where the sun doesn’t shine and take a look around. Might be surprising?

Apr 20, 2009 - 11:23 am 11. Alana:

“Seeing the people are actually thinking independently and acting independently on their own volition IS SOMETHING THAT AXELROD WILL NEVER COMPREHEND.”

Or countenance.

Apr 20, 2009 - 11:33 am 12. seven:

He looks like Adolf H.

Apr 20, 2009 - 11:51 am 13. Delia:

7. Will,

Excellent post and quite a tongue twister to boot!
~

8. PM,

I’m with you on the flat tax but I have strong doubts our bloated, bloviating government would agree to such a thing since most of the ‘fat cats’ are living large and in charge.

Great post, Mr. Kimball!

Apr 20, 2009 - 12:04 pm 14. CaliGal:

Axelrod is so blind. He and Obama, and all Obama’s followers just don’t get that the world isn’t made up of groups–it’s made up of individuals. It blows their minds that no certain “group” was responsible for tea parties, but a HUGE amount of individuals that are sick of being taken advantage of and ignored for the sake of their destructive schemes.

Obama, you need to quit listening to these talking-head representatives for special interest groups and start listening to the smallest minority in the world…the individual.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCPXFB1YdvE

Apr 20, 2009 - 12:17 pm 15. Sebastian Shaw:

David Axelrod just expresses the confusion of all Democrats because they do not comprehend it is a true grassroots movement; they find it to be a threat to their power & will attempt to destroy it or ignore it. I believe this will make the Tea Parties stronger.

Keep talking Teleprompter.

Apr 20, 2009 - 12:26 pm 16. Gaffe Prices:

I am half way through emailing senate and house congress.

In between tea party assemblies, we need to put pressure there, and make them terrified to spend.

The Left’s (media) response to tea party was panic-ed and feeble: they were trying to portray us (spin us) as protesting Paying taxes at all.

But, as Prof. Kimball demonstrates, it is about how our tax revenue is spent:

“David Axelrod may be bewildered about people who object to having their wealth expropriated and spread around.”

the process (in congress) is actually slowing down, a bit. Because they fear what their constituency (democrat and independent, repub too– families with household fonance budgets) will do with their (the congress peoples) spending record come re-election time, when they discover [to their Horror!! AAAAAH!!!] that we will have been keeping score, keeping an account of their profligacy. Ouch!
That’s gotta Hoit!

Apr 20, 2009 - 12:30 pm 17. karlstro1:

Obama and Congress just doesn’t get it. They have ALL failed to to do their job and that is to protect The Consitution, protect individual rights over special interest groups and above all protect America (illegal immigration-for one). God they are just that stupid.

Apr 20, 2009 - 12:37 pm 18. Howard Roark:

He’s not confused, he knows exactly what he’s doing. He and the rest of the Lying Dutchmen saw 600,000+ people hit the bricks on a single day, in pursuit of a very simple pair of concerns: taxation and federalism. Given the number of people that I talked to who didn’t hear about it, that number could have been several times greater if the major media did its job.
That sort of turnout, on issues that simple and general, gives political mechanics the cold sweats. He and Carville have to Disparage & Discredit the TDTP event, and break it apart if they can.
Note that he’s concerned enough not to be insulting with his criticisms. I didn’t read anything about ‘toothless hillbillies’ or “gun-toting militiabots’. I would expect to see efforts to tie the TDTP to other, more divisive issues. Immigration, 2nd-amendment, and marriage-definitions come to mind as easy cleavage planes. If the Lying Dutchmen can fracture the TDTP concensus along those planes, its potential effectiveness vanishes.
The more we can keep focused on those two core concerns of Economics and Federalism, the more persistent and potentially efective the concensus will be. The GOP, frankly, is not helping with its efforts to co-opt these concerns. Neither are people like Norquist and company.
Taxation, Economic serfdom, and the Tenth Amendment. Those are the core concerns, and if we can K.I.S.S., they’re extremely powerful.

Apr 20, 2009 - 12:38 pm 19. TOhio:

Axelrod understands very well what the Tea Parties are all about. What he doesn’t want is for the rest of Americans to understand and think about what they mean.

Axelrod’s goal is to keep people confused so that they don’t understand the radical leftist agenda that Obama is implementing to destroy U.S. capitalism and individual freedom.

The more that people are confused, the less likely they will fight.

Thus, confusion is part of the strategy. And Obama, Axelrod and the rest of the left are masters of confusion.

Apr 20, 2009 - 12:45 pm 20. srlucado:

Just so you all realize that their current bewilderment will soon morph into a conviction that the Tea Party attendees (and conservatives in general) are, in fact, mentally ill…and need to be institutionalized for their own good…before they all turn into terrorists. (Protesting taxes that don’t exist is delusional, dontcha know.)

Apr 20, 2009 - 1:17 pm 21. Professor Guvinoff:

The tea parties were not about playing ping-pong with slogans. David Axelrod and others of the same ilk have practiced the art of highly calculated messaging to the point of not recognizing straight talk when they hear it.

Mr Axelrod, don’t worry, more straight talk is coming, and clarification is on the way.

This citizen’s revolt does not need artificial rethoric, nor pitchforks, it has arguments that can be substanciated. Freedom is a principle, it cannot be traded for a “tax cut for 95% of the people”, or any other price.

The sacrifice or freedom for any excuse is not a principle. It is a cruel reality in most of the world today. The tea parties represent a refusal to join slavery in the name of “social justice” by those who value freedom instead of denying its extraordinary origins.

We know the socialist “ideal” has been tried in other places at various times, including nowadays in Venezuela, and we know it never did work, and never will.

Mr Axelrod, can you come up with 95 cents worth of a counter-argument?

Apr 20, 2009 - 1:46 pm 22. texastickled:

The teleprompter (david axelrod) is just jealous because, as the mastermind behind the Obama propaganda, he never could have organized anything as significant as the “Tea Party”. He doesn’t get it. He also doesn’t know how to act because this grassroots effort was not attended by paid activists (sheep) with preprinted signs organized by Soros and company.

The Tea Party movement is the real deal, sponsored by real Americans, with real complaints about how our Government is destroying America’s prosperity and freedom. They are also worried about our children’s & children’s children’s future.

But, Sebastian says it best…”Keep talking teleprompter”. This will all backfire on the Democrats come election time.

Apr 20, 2009 - 1:49 pm 23. uburoisc:

I went because the evidence is overwhelming that the financial sector of the US economy, along with active support from the political class, has used the United States Treasury as their own private backstop for the idiotic and indefensibly reckless lending practices that now threaten to bankrupt the United States (30 to 1 leverage in some cases!). I was there because I expect many elected officials, Republican and Democrat alike, to be under investigation, not pretending to investigate their own bad policies.

I was there because the banks that are insolvent need to go down, out of business, sold to the highest bidder, not receive and endless supply of tax dollars and keep hiding their Level 3 assets and play an endless assortment of creative accounting games and off-the-books balance sheets to hide what smart investors already suspect: they are toast.

I was at the protest because the corruption is completely out-of-control, and rather than show some guts, Obama is still kicking the can down the street, buying this odious political gang some time to avoid the full wrath of the US voter.

I was there because rather than buy a house I could not afford, I rented to save money so I would have a solid 20% down payment and a solid work history with tip-top credit when I did go to buy a house. The whole time I watched deadbeats and parasites game the system playing “hyperinflate the house” for big profit, and now these same criminals (lying on a federal loan is fraud and a felony) come playing the fool and asking for bailout money–my seed money that I intended to use for my own legitimately earned home, taxed or rendered worthless by printing money. A pox on the brokers, the loan agencies, the banks, the Feds, the ratings agencies, the underwriters, the mortgage companies, and the loser home buyers who created this disaster. I demand to see people going to jail for this, from Barney Frank to Angelo Mozilo to the guy who lied on his mortgage application–no exceptions.

Apr 20, 2009 - 1:54 pm 24. stuart Williamson:

David Axelrod is definitely NOT bewildered. He speaks only in Orwell.

Never lose sight of the truth that Axelrod is Obama’s Dr. Goebbels – the master propagandist, truth twister, and puppet-master. It was he who put together the brilliant marketing plan (it won the Campaign Award from Advertisng Age – the Oscar of Huckstering). He’s the one who Audaciously scammed the Democrats by hyping the Obama Brand – like STP, It: its the packaging that sells a worthless product. He’s the one who decides what words are going to go up on the teleprompter for the Fearless Reader tosoothe the restless serfs.

What the Tea Parties represent is serious enough for him to come out from behind the OZ curtain to lead the counter-attack. His theme, already given out by other storm-troopers. is: Why would any patriotic citizen attack our Hero before he’s had a chance to prove the magic effectiveness of his brilliant plan to bring back prosperity by going into debt on a scale beyond anything n the history of mankind?”

His “bewilderment” is proof positive that the back-lash he knew was sure to come has arrived a lot sooner, and a lot stronger, than he had calculated. He is going to make sure it is going to be hammered and dirtied.

To the barricades, mon enfants!

Apr 20, 2009 - 2:11 pm 25. Tonya:

I sent this speech to my Representative, but I know I did not need to send it to him, because he is one of only 17 Congressman that has voted against the budget. He keeps voting no. I sent it to him with a ‘Thank You’ for fighting the good fight for his constituents.

This is a speech by David Stern Crockett, and it is simply humble without arrogance or deception. The Republican Party back then when he was serving as Congressman of Tennessee was called Anti -Jacksonian.

I’m proud of our Governor Rick Perry for his speech during the Austin TEA Party. Texas state pride runs deeper than any other state in the Union, because Texas was once a Nation, and when you push us, we push back harder. We will push you down to the ground, and that is my state pride showing again, and again.

“Not Yours To Give” by David Stern Crockett

http://www.fee.org/pdf/books/Not%20Yours%20to%20Give.pdf

This is what the TEA Parties mean to me, it is “Not Yours To Give”, and if we wish to hand out charity, we will do it ourselves. During his last race in 1835 Colonel David Crockett said “I told the people of my district that I would serve them as faithfully as I had done; but if not … you may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas.” Following his defeat, he did just that. He lost by a narrow margin, and he went on to fight at the Battle Of The Alamo and he lost his life in the Republic of Texas.

I fell in love with his speech he made as Representative of Tennessee on the house floor, because as I read it I think of people who buy houses they cannot afford, and I think of Corporations and Banks that want the hard working people in America to bail them out.

Apr 20, 2009 - 2:11 pm 26. Robert Hurley:

Go tea baggers! While you are dithering Obama is governing

Apr 20, 2009 - 2:15 pm 27. PM:

Delia,

Another set of groups that will resist a flat tax are the lawyers and accountants. Imagine the number of unemployed profesionals when we all file is a single form and 1 calculation…

Apr 20, 2009 - 2:24 pm 28. The Historian:

TAX PROTESTS AND CIVIL DISSENT UNHEALTHY?
Only if you are David Axelrod.

http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2009/04/team-obama-rock-stars-are-not-leaders.html

Apr 20, 2009 - 2:33 pm 29. The UnPatriot:

I’ve taken to sending the colorful tea box tops along to 1600.

My favorite is an herbal purgative.

Need to address one personally to Axelrod.

–The UnPatriot.

Apr 20, 2009 - 2:35 pm 30. Class Clown:

Is it completely lost on these people that some Americans are still committed to this country for something more than what it will give us?

Even if the administration were completely honest about what they are doing, that doesn’t mean we should quietly collect our tax cuts and aid grants and be compliantly quiet.

Apr 20, 2009 - 2:51 pm 31. Effingham:

Roger,
You would have been proud of Central Illinois. A tea party of more than 400 protesters held an evening event on the shores of Lake Sara. The lake provided a beautiful backdrop, while the setting sun illuminated the speakers for the event.
Great piece. Thanks for your continual great work.

Bob

Apr 20, 2009 - 3:04 pm 32. stuart Williamson:

oops: Make that “mes enfants”.

Apr 20, 2009 - 3:09 pm 33. SCOTT:

“rich people” (i.e., the middle class) will see their taxes rise and rise and rise.

Mr Kimball, just my humble opinion, I would have sovietized the language with the term “rich Kulaks”.

Apr 20, 2009 - 3:12 pm 34. JCL:

Hail, King David.

Apr 20, 2009 - 3:46 pm 35. Andrew_M_Garland:

From: Ruling Class
To : Public
Re : We must tax and spend now, or we are all going to DIE!

We don’t want to tax and spend (cough), but we must react to the crisis that we have identified. We are going to borrow, spend, and tax reluctantly to support our actions. The alternative is DEATH. No one wants that.

So what if you are poor in the future? At least you will be alive, and we will continue to guide you through supportive government to help you out of poverty.

We have heard no reasonable argument or plan to do anything else. It is irresponsible for some people to say that there is no crisis, or that our spending will not solve the crisis. If you don’t have a plan, worked out in detail, ready to implement, with people in office who support you, then you have nothing to offer.

We Must Spend or We Are Going to DIE!

Apr 20, 2009 - 4:36 pm 36. seesalrun:

What he misses is that you don’t have to be paid to come out and voice your opinion.

Have you heard one word of violence, of a city having to pick up garbage?

America, the Land that I love, my plans are for July 4 in Washington. I don’t care if I have to pee in the grass, I am not with the current Admin’s program & will not go down without a fight.

Don’t ever forget we are the good guys.

Apr 20, 2009 - 4:43 pm 37. seesalrun:

Oh, and I busted my butt enroute to the airport to work to attend a Tea Party with wonderful normal people 1,000 strong in TRUSSVILLE AL.

We just have to do it people. Run these scoundrels out of Washington for our kids’ sake.

Apr 20, 2009 - 4:47 pm 38. WhyamInotsurprised?:

Folks, to those of you who think The Ax is really “baffled”, “confused,” or “missing” the point, do not be fooled. He knows exactly what he is doing, what is going on and how to fight back. He and BO, being from Chicago have brought the mobster mentality to the White House. They are playing for keeps. They will use any kind of force to stay in power. Even BO’s reaching out to the world’s tyrants is a Machiavellian play to “… keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.” But his motives are not to benefit American citizens or our country, it is about getting power and keeping it for his own glorification. While BO touts America’s arrogance, he is plotting world domination and projecting his own arrogance. These guys, the Rahm included, are truly of the Nazi persuasion. Just as history shows, some of the most criminal minds are also the most brilliant, just a little “twissssssted.” BO definitely has a Messianic complex. Mark my words! God bless America!

Apr 20, 2009 - 7:14 pm 39. Roy Lofquist:

I went to a tea party. Quite interesting.

There is another very recent development that many have missed. The tobacco tax. I live in a semi-rural area that is an interesting mixture of affluence and chicken coops. At my local gas station/convenience store about half the people buy smokes. They are pissed!! These are core Democrat voters. Ready, fire, aim. Ow, that hurts.

Delia, come with me to the Casbah.

Apr 20, 2009 - 7:26 pm 40. jw:

Axelrod’s claim that “element of disaffection that might mutate into something that’s unhealthy” is another version of Janet Napolitano’s report on “right-wing extremism” as “possibly leading to terrorism” – i.e. the effort of the Obama administration to prevent any criticism of its policies. These people are unaware of the First Amendment or of the value of freedom of speech.

Apr 20, 2009 - 8:54 pm 41. HawkWatcher:

Summation: You don’t need ten paragraphs for this…

Axelspeak: “The thing that bewilders me is that this president just cut taxes for 95 percent of the American people”.

Translation: We threw the bone, why are you vulgar proletarian dogs barking? You need to be quiet now, and go back into your doghouses.

We are being governed by lying supremacists.

Apr 20, 2009 - 11:40 pm 42. Dave Surls:

“Flat Tax. 15%. No exemptions. No excuses. No socialist tyrants.”

We should get rid of the income tax entirely, and we should never allow federal spending (or revenue gathering) to exceed 5% of GDP, unless we’re in some dire emergency (like our Civil War).

Apr 21, 2009 - 5:11 am 43. typos_R_us:

“Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”
- J. Adams

#42. YES. No income tax. Use a POS (point of sale) tax and use it arrears. The ENTIRE federal bufget for 2012 would be the total monies collected in 2011. NOT A PENNY MORE.
This would require an amendment to the Constitution. Another reason why the thrust of the tea parties should be a constitutional convention. The corruption in Washington is to deep to be affected by anything else.
The System isn’t going to change itself, nor will promoting any person in that system into power over the system create the changes that are needed.

Apr 21, 2009 - 7:47 am 44. Paul -Indiana:

I wonder if Axelrod writes the text for Obambi’s teleprompter.

Apr 21, 2009 - 8:37 am 45. Sebastian Shaw:

Paul (#44), the answer is YES. David Axelrod is Obama’s Teleprompter! Who knew his teleprompter needs a bath daily & plenty of make-up?

Obama is a dumb as brick without Axelrod to tell him what to say.

Apr 21, 2009 - 2:06 pm 46. David P:

Axelrod’s a self-loathing ignorant pawn, another disgraceful misguided Obama apologist who’s already tuning his rhetoric to promote this administrations abandonment of Israel.

Apr 21, 2009 - 2:55 pm 47. Someone75:

I was actually pretty confused myself. I heard that they were libertarian in origin, but I also saw a lot of bigotry and racism. Perhaps they started out with good intentions, but the overwhelming message to those who did not attend was one of hate.

I surveyed everyone I knew (all political affiliations) and nobody could give me a straight answer. You guys did a terrible job agreeing on what the heck you were protesting.

Oh, and David P: calling Axelrod an idiot does not make it so. You need to provide some actual evidence. Otherwise you’re just a petty attack thug launching flaccid insults. Are you a flaccid kind of guy? I think maybe you are.

Apr 22, 2009 - 11:46 pm 48. tanstaafl:

I think Axelrod uttered the “unhealthy” statement in the same spirit as Napolitano’s DHS release the day before the tea parties.

In the spirit of Goebbel’s observation…

…the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State

These people are going to have a problem with the fact that many among the approximately 60 million Americans who did not vote for Obama aren’t the least bit susceptible to their pathetic spin.

Apr 23, 2009 - 8:58 am 49. typos_R_us:

“Go tea baggers! While you are dithering Obama is governing”

Is that what the socialists call it? It looks more like he is campaigning to me. There is a difference, you know.
Maybe Axelrod hasn’t figured out they won, the campaign is over.
Maybe he has and just wants to keep his alleged Hawaiian sock puppet away from the controls? Regardless, the Usurper now owns the economic crisis and all that falls from it. He will own the litle wars that his reduction of American military power will create. He will own the terrorist attacks that his relaxation of the counter-terrorism effort will produce.
He will get to explain his ownership in 2010, when the 20 or 30 million conservatives that stayed home in ‘08 because they didn’t have the stomach to vote for Big Mac show up and vote.
Axelrod’s policies will kill a lot of Americans, but they will be mostly Blue Staters. After all, when the Mad Dog Mullahs give a terrorist group a nuke to play with, it will be set off in a bi-coastal city, not in fly over America. Sort of a win-win for us Red Staters.

Apr 23, 2009 - 9:48 am 50. Steynian 349 « Free Canuckistan!:

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Apr 25, 2009 - 2:57 pm 51. Houdini:

Yes it was individuals that attended these parties, not only those employed but possibly also many of those like myself that are recently unemployed due to the awful economic climate we are currently going through. Hey yeah I am a smoker and so if I were to smoke one pack a day (I have cut back) I just got a tax increase of $233.60 per year enacted as one of the first things this administration did and I did make less than $250K.

I suspect as more people get layed off or lose their job or even take a cut in pay or hours more will become involved in this “grassroot” effort, especially when they realize that the 95 percent will not pay another single penny in higher taxes is the Farce that it is. It lost George Bush an election and I hope the same is true in this case.

Not to mention the completely unfair tax of inflation which is hidden but shows up in increased costs of everyday living. Also the so called “cap and trade” which is a tax on anything that produces carbon (which just about everything does). This is not necessarily a direct tax but the results are the same and worse than that they will be immediately apparent when you get you energy bill each month.

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