News Review
Here is some local and national news that might shape our local Tea Party movement.
Old News: In Case you Missed it…
First no news….the McDonnell Administration has been completely mute about our governor’s role in Obama’s Council of Governors. Not a return call or email to be found from anyone that I know, other than to confirm he is participating. More on this issue here.
In case you missed it, a review of legislative successes in Richmond and our March Meeting is set for March 8.
New News
Looks like Pelosi/Reid/Obama Health Care Reform measures will be back up for a vote again soon. More information here. Get ready for action.
To McDonnel’s credit, he’s taking the difficult steps needed to reign in our budget. Tough decisions are absolutely going to have to be made.
However, this is a bad idea. This is touted as an “alternative to property tax increases.” If you believe that other taxes will be reduced if this goes through, you are a much more trusting soul then I.
And this is another bad idea. How about the governor get out of the way and not waste money on Obama inspired “jobs” legislation. Want to create jobs? Lower regulations and taxes and get the government out of the way.
Make sure you have these facts when your liberal friends try to link the idiot that flew his plane into the IRS building to the Tea Party movement.
Some information on the interesting race in the 5th Disctrict for their Congressional seat. Right now you have Tom Periello, who has voted in lock step with the Obama/Reid/Pelosi agenda and a dopey RINO named Robert Hurt. Virgil Goode….please come back!
Our role is to be a watchdog group for the principles that make the USA great. This article is exhibit one in why the GOP needs that oversight too. Hatch (and many other GOP members) just don’t get it.
As a follow up to John’s excellent post on Keith Olberman, here is more on MSNBC.
Lastly, if you don’t know Lisa Miller, she is the head of the DC Tea Party and an excellent advocate for our cause. She attended the Michael Steele Tea Party meeting and gave this excellent interview. She’s on Facebook and her posts are fantastic.
Take that, Keith Olbermann!
By now, you may have seen or heard MSNBC commentator Keith Olberman casting aspersions on the Tea Party movement. His comments on the 2/15 edition of the barely-watched Countdown with Keith Olbermann painted us as either flagrantly or incipiently racist because of the lack of black faces at Tea Party events.
From the transcript:
I’m now taking a lot of heat for emphasizing a particular phrase which originated at a freerepublic.com rally a year ago this month, originated with a Tea Partier. And I know phrases like “Tea Klux Klan” are incendiary, and I know I use them in part because I am angry that at so late a date, we still have to back back that racial uneasiness which has to envelop us all. And I know if I could only listen to Lincoln on this of all days about the better angels of our nature, I’d know that what we’re seeing at the Tea Parties is, at its base, people who are afraid – terribly, painfully, cripplingly, blindingly afraid.
Do you suppose they agree with you that they’ve just chosen to attend their own separate meetings, that they’re not at your Tea Party because they have a Tea Party of their own to go to? Are you thinking like my father did about Satchell Paige and the Black Yankees tht they want this? My father had an excuse for that: He was 12 years old; it was 1941. Are you of the Tea Party 12 years old? For you, is it 1941?
But let me ask all of you who attend these things: How many black faces do you see at these events? How many Hispanics, Asians, gays? Where are these people? Surely, there must be blacks who think they’re being bled by taxation. Surely there must be Hispanics who think the government should have let the auto industry fail. Surely there must be people of all colors and creeds who believe in cultural literacy tests and speaking English. Where are they? Where are they?
These remarks led Randy Haddock, a blogger living in Brooklyn, to create and post this video response.
Olbermann insults not only the hundreds of thousands of good American citizens who attend Tea Party events, but also black Americans in general by presuming that they couldn’t – or wouldn’t – be willing to stand with their fellow citizens against a too large and growing government that endangers our liberty.
To all Roanoke-area citizens without regard to race, color or national origin: You are all invited to be a part of The Roanoke Tea Party! Please attend one of our meetings to see if you would like to stand with us as well.
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