By Mickey Walker - March 14, 2010
Brilliant invention, the Tea Party movement just when there
is a lot of fuss of starting a third party movement in America. As cheerleaders for lower taxes right
after Obama took over suddenly now Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck are outraged at
government spending and high taxes. Well, maybe. They don’t
gripe as much if the government spending is for another 50,000 troops Obama is
sending to Afghanistan. That’s
God’s work they say, and borrowing and spending is A-okay when it comes to the
Lord. Wish they could get God to
pay the interest, though, don’t you?
The Tea Party movement seems to be a myriad of
cut-and-pasted ideas stretched and twisted to intoxicate and delude even the
most astute Americans. It’s a study in Burlesque to say the least. The Opera Buffo Glenn Beck is the
Falstaff of Fox News, the Dogberry of the Modern Dumbass movement in America. He
took the trophy away from Rush Limbaugh, thanks to Beck’s Tea Party tomfoolery
disguised as serious journalism. Thanks
to the investigative reporting of Michael Carmichael, distinguished writer for
and contributor to the Huffington Post and manager of the Planetary Movement, we
learn that the Tea Party movement is funded by the likes of Bill Koch, an
oil billionaire from Wichita, Kansas who happens to own Georgia Pacific and
other mega corporations as well. According to Carmichael, a personal
interview with a Wall Street Insider revealed that Koch funded a busload
of 2,000 low-income demonstrators from Pennsylvania to go to
Washington where Koch paid to put them up in motels for the big
demonstration that Glenn Beck said a million people (it was less than 10,000)
attended. Liar, Liar, pants on
fire, Glenn. You bucking to displace O’Reilly, or what? In
addition, it was learned that Koch also paid for low-income
Tea Partiers to go to Nashville to hear Sarah Palin address the National
Convention. Koch's income, reported to be 100 Million dollars a month,
apparently bought a lot of plane tickets and hotels for those poor
people who wanted to come to Nashville and protest the high taxes we
have to pay to our government. Real grass roots people on long green
steroids will move the patriot in you every time. But who cares, pass the caviar and champagne, dude.
Also, you got to assume that Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox
and the Wall Street Journal, approves of Glenn Beck's style of slapstick Neocon
antics, not to mention Beck’s fits of crying on camera. I mean
Rupert keeps Beck around even when many Hallmark sponsors, here and
overseas, rejected Beck for his slobiferous, tasteless comments
in his imitation of a carnival barker on uppers. Campaign to Pull
Glenn Beck Off the Air Gains Momentum, Here and Abroad
When you follow the money, it is easy to see what props up
the Tea Party movement, the hand that works the green glove puppet, and it is
anything but grass roots common Americans, tired of government, high taxes, and
the Federal Reserve. My view is that though some of the stated goals of
the Tea Partiers are similar to those of the John Birchers, Ron Paul, and
others, one would best not confuse the issues and mix them together like a fruit
salad of right wing nuts mixed and mashed with
unrecognizable ingredients. When originality and purity is
sacrificed, you usually get a mongrel ideology. And a fruit salad with
wing nuts instead of walnuts. And
when a government accepts such a twisted dogma, the country in question usually
goes to the dogs. Ron Paul and the John Birchers would do best to avoid
contact and association with such a throng of throwbacks as what the Tea
Partier Movement is morphing into. Until its newly-born, Frankenstein
anatomy evolves into something recognizable and discernable. We all need
to know what we are about to embrace before we get all teary-eyed and feeling
patriotic and agree to start chanting "War is Peace, and Freedom is
Slavery."
I happen to believe that government is way too big, and that
we spend more on government that is necessary. But I am not cut of the
same cloth as Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin. Who the heck is? Raise
your hand. Nobody? I thought so. I don't have to join a Glenn Beck/Sarah Palin ideogram,
"Cliff Notes" movement based upon a befuddled reasoning of who
is responsible for the 12 Trillion dollar National Debt that sucks all our
jobs, our homes, our dreams, our futures, and our money down the Dark Hole of
Greed. That would be the Darth Vader Duo, George W. Bush and
Dick Cheney who borrowed and spent the American people and all
generations to come, in the spirit of "Deficits Don't Matter" Ronald
Reagan, to the Andromeda Galaxy. The top of the list of such Oil Can
Harry types has to be Bill Koch, Rupert Murdoch and talk show stooge,
Glenn Beck, and the enigma from Alaska, Sarah Palin, who is a strong argument
that democracy and free elections are dangerous as shit. These people
don't want to destroy big government; they want to buy it, own
it, scrub it, dress it up, make it BIGGER NOT SMALLER and call
it their own on the way to melding it with corporations and establishing a
dictatorship of the corporate cronies. They hope, once the dust settles,
and they clamp down on the reins of power, that nobody will notice. After
all they are the masters of Spin and have taken Rumpelstillskin to new levels
of dark deviations of the human spirit. It's happened before. "Fool me once.................ycaintgetfooledagin"
Bush taught us a hard lesson at this very same rodeo. Remember Bush? Must we?
Will Americans follow the Tea Baggers around like a trail of
wingless, black termites on the wall after swarming? Probably. Humanity is famous for following someone or some principle in reaction
to oppression and other forms of human injustice. Consider when Fidel Castro fought for Cuban independence
back in the 1950s. He is a PHD,
and was out trying to help the people get out from the oppression of the
dictator Fulgencio Batista. Well,
Dr. Castro succeeded. America
loved Castro then. Until America
discovered that he was a Communist. We would quickly come to see him as a garbage man in green fatigues
instead of a bespectacled PHD. Castro has ruled as a black hat Communist in our eyes for the last 50
years. How wrong we were when we
supported his overthrow of Batista.
Then there was Hitler who rose to power by giving Germans
and Germany a new sense of pride and patriotism toward their country. Sound like Ronald Reagan who many
thought to be the best president to come along in ages? Of course. But both men managed to change the fabric of Germany and
America forever. And in each case,
the result of supporting either was an optic no one could have imagined. It seemed to be a good idea at the time
in each instance, but the result in the first case brought us to World War
II. And the Reaganomics
borrow-and-spend Laffer Curve, Voodoo Economics brought us to the brink of
bankruptcy which is where we teeter on the precipice today. Only shoe left to drop is for us to
default on our bonds and debt. Many learned economists say it will happen. When one does the numbers it’s a lead pipe lock cinch. But hey, that’s another tale for
another time, another audience. Me, I don’t know. I think
we have borrowed a lifetime more than would have been possible in the first
place, yet here we are, still borrowing, still with our hand out to other
nations to help us finance our form of gluttonous government that cannot pay as
we go with the revenues we take in from taxes. You got to keep on borrowing for
slavery to survive in America. The point is that we often follow someone down
the primrose path that sounds good and intoxicates our senses as somebody who
has the right stuff to help us. But too often we crash in the ditch with high hopes pinned to our
sleeves. We awaken and wonder
where we had gone wrong and what we could have been thinking.
So comes now the Tea Baggers who say taxes are too high and
want us to join them and trust them to do the right thing for grass roots
Americans everywhere, everyday Americans like you and me. But are they sincere? I don’t think they are. I think they are but another good story
that has nothing to do with making our lives better and seeing justice done on
our paying too much tax to a government who does not represent the people. Samuel Adams and Paul Revere were cool.
And real. Sarah Palin and Glenn
Beck are in it for the money and the power. And they and the Tea Party Movement is backed by the likes
of Koch and Murdoch and their hidden agenda to squeeze out the common man and
displace him forever. Sounds like
that means us, don’t it? Don’t
trust them or the Tea Baggers. They do not have America’s best interest at heart.
Want to know what these Tea Partier billionaire backers and
stooges have tattooed on their butt?
"Make the whole stock exchange your own;
If need be occupy a throne,
Where nobody can call you crone." Robert Frost,
"Provide, Provide"
Kind of cheeky stuff when you think about it.