The Tea-Party System
Gandalf Grey
The Tea-Party System
By Stephen Fleischman
Created Nov 9 2009 - 11:09am
In the first Boston tea party, the colonists dumped the British tea into
Boston Harbor because of taxation without representation.
The tea-baggers, today, are making a fracas because they want corporation
representation without taxation.
Michelle Bachman, Congresswoman from Minnesota, also known as the "Crazy
Lady", is leading the tea-bag movement against the health care reform bill
right into the arms of the health insurance industry.
"It was Thomas Jefferson who said a revolution every now and then is a good
thing," she says, as she slams a two-foot stack of paper representing the
bill.
The main-stream media, as is its wont, is picking up the oligarchy's
propaganda beat. The issue they're beating around the bush about now is the
pubic option. Another issue is more de-troupes for Afghanistan.
The oligarchy is pushing the pundits, and the punditry is bringing out their
big guns--David Gergel and Wolf Donner Blitzen. They have panels, too, with
Leslie Stalled, Lucrezia Borgia and her sister Gloria, Keith Globerman and
Rachel Rachel. They can talk a hatful.
AC-DC 360, Gloria Vanderbilt's son, has a firm grip on the teats of the cash
cow at CNN. They know, over at Ted Turner's barnyard, that if you put an
hour's worth of programming together, you can snowball that into a 24-hour
news cycle on a cable-grable channel.
Over at 13th Century Fox, you've got Bill O'Piggy and his piglets, Insanity
Hannity, Glen Beckish and Crispy Wallace under the aegis of Rupert
In-The-Dock Murderock and Roger Beerandailes.
Now, Barney Obama, with his chief henchman, David Axelgrease, have an
important decision to make and they're not making it. Will they, won't they,
will they, won't they, will they send the troops?
You've got twenty four hours of prime time chawed right there. The military
pundits, chief among them Armchair General Barry McCaffrey, head of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff for NBC and MSNBC, are having their crack at it, too.
The profusion of talk about the pubic option coming up for a vote maybe next
week or maybe not, is almost as good as Michael Jackson dying but comes
nowhere close to the O.J. Simpson romp.
There were times when we used to have third parties kicking around; most
recently, Monkey Wrench, Ralph Nader and his raiders. He kept running for
president (of the United States, that is) and getting about 0.02% of the
vote, giving the Democrats the perfect excuse for losing the election.
We had Texas business man Ross Perot, candidate for president in 1992 and
1996, the second time under the banner of the Reform Party, which got him
absolutely nowhere, not even on the platform with the tea party candidates
in the presidential debates.
In 1955, the Communist Party (CPUSA) finally dissolved because its
membership consisted solely of FBI agents.
Ah, but there was a time when Third Parties struck!
Wikipedia says, "Labor Party was the name or partial name of a number of
United States [1] political parties [2] which were organized during the
1870s and 1880s.
The Social Democratic Workingmen's Party of North America was formed in
1874. By 1877 the party changed its name to the Socialist Labor Party of
North America [3], and continues under that name.
In 1877, the racist Workingman's Party [4] was formed in California [5], led
by Dennis Kearney [6]; by 1879 it was powerful enough to help re-write the
state constitution [7] of California [8], inserting provisions intended to
curb the powers of capital [9] and to abolish Chinese [10] contract labor
[11].
In 1878, the Greenback Party [12], under the influence of leaders of
organized labor, changed its name to the Greenback Labor Party, and
continued to operate in some states, electing a congressman as late as 1886;
but by 1888 had dissipated. In 1886, a United Labor Party was organized in
Chicago [13] under the leadership of that city's Central Labor Union; It
drew over 20,000 votes for its county ticket [14] in the fall of 1886, and
in the following spring elections garnered 28,000 votes for its candidate
for Mayor [15]; but by 1888 it had merged with the Democratic Party in that
city.
Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party split the Republican Party in 1912,
long before Sarah Palin got around to it.
So, you see, there is still hope for America!
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SEFleischman
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"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike,
that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans--born in
this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud
of our ancient heritage--and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing
of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to
which we are committed today at home and around the world.
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-John F. Kennedy, 1961
Werner
> Published on The Smirking Chimp (http://www.smirkingchimp.com)
>
> The Tea-Party System
>
> By Stephen Fleischman
>
> Created Nov 9 2009 - 11:09am
>
> In the first Boston tea party, the colonists dumped the British tea into
> Boston Harbor because of taxation without representation.
>
> The tea-baggers, today, are making a fracas because they want corporation
> representation without taxation.
>
> Michelle Bachman, Congresswoman from Minnesota, also known as the "Crazy
> Lady", is leading the tea-bag movement against the health care reform bill
> right into the arms of the health insurance industry.
>
> "It was Thomas Jefferson who said a revolution every now and then is a good
> thing," she says, as she slams a two-foot stack of paper representing the
> bill.
>
>
> So, you see, there is still hope for America!
>
Hope springs eternal. Wasn't America supposed to be about voluntary
agreement instead of
forced obedience?
http://www.ny.lp.org/choice
But will it stop the tragedy?
http://www.capitaldistrict-lp.org/how.shtml
Governing has become a way to get privileges for some at the expense
of others.
http://www.capitaldistrict-lp.org/what.shtml
http://www.investmentu.com/IUEL/2008/August/the-national-debt.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp8ZmQMCtqA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FSoXKapKQs&feature=related
W Spilman
"Werner" <whet...@mac.com> wrote in message
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On Nov 9, 1:14 pm, "Gandalf Grey" <valino...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Published on The Smirking Chimp (http://www.smirkingchimp.com)
>
> The Tea-Party System
>
> By Stephen Fleischman
>
> Created Nov 9 2009 - 11:09am
>
> In the first Boston tea party, the colonists dumped the British tea into
> Boston Harbor because of taxation without representation.
>
> The tea-baggers, today, are making a fracas because they want corporation
> representation without taxation.
>
> Michelle Bachman, Congresswoman from Minnesota, also known as the "Crazy
> Lady", is leading the tea-bag movement against the health care reform bill
> right into the arms of the health insurance industry.
>
> "It was Thomas Jefferson who said a revolution every now and then is a
> good
> thing," she says, as she slams a two-foot stack of paper representing the
> bill.
>
> ...
>
> So, you see, there is still hope for America!
>
>Hope springs eternal. Wasn't America supposed to be about voluntary
>agreement instead of ?forced obedience? ?http://www.ny.lp.org/choice
A society must have laws. Laws must be enforced. What's your
fucking problem, hippy?
WS