Comments on: Tea Party Pushback: Now I’m a Traitor, Racist, Communist, and Nazi

By: nfdunne

nfdunne — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:45:54 +0000

Thanks for the hilarious read. It’s needed as we approach doomsday on Nov. 2.

By: Drinking Government Kool-Aid Along with the Tea

Drinking Government Kool-Aid Along with the Tea — Mon, 03 May 2010 06:43:38 +0000

[...] Tea Partier comments at the Yahoo News posting of Bovard’s piece referred to Bovard—to Bovard!—using such words as “far LEFT,” “a truly socialist article,” “liberal,” “HOW VERY COMMUNIST OF YOU,” “your beloved Obama,” “The Demacrats, Liberal Demacrats, Progressives, Socialists, whatever you call yourselves,” “a pile of leftist BS,” etc. Not to mention some reaffirmations of wiretaps and waterboarding, and dismissals of anyone who objected to them as a “liberal idiot.” [...]

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Sat, 01 May 2010 03:15:07 +0000

Jim and Dirk:
It’s interesting how that whole Rorschach thing works with the Capitol buildings. Whenever I see those pics of the Capitol dome and the Washington Monument, I somehow can’t help but thinking that the dome looks like a giant pimple in need of popping, and perhaps the Washington Monument is the needle? After all, think about all of the pustulating critters oozing underneath. Who says we can’t paint a visual picture?
Best to you.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:13:57 +0000

I’ve never been called “Mr. hirsute smarty pants” before.

Dang, that one rocked me back on my heels.

Another way the Hooters analogy fits: most of the people on Capitol Hill are greaseballs, and Hooters serves the greasiest food imaginable.

By: Dirk W. Sabin

Dirk W. Sabin — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:08:51 +0000

Actually, you may have a point. Perhaps the best option would be to at least turn the Congress into a Hooters Restaurant .The building itself seems fittingly formed for it. All these years, we thought the dome form was a salute to antiquity and the history of Republics. Little did we know it simply provided the imagery of a gigantic mammary to attach one’s self to and commence to suckle.

But wait just a minute here buster, are you intimating that the former guvurnur of Alaska is a dim bulb? Wait just a doggone minute you Mr. hirsute smarty pants, she has glasses dontchaknow wink wink yak yak god help us can i blow my brains out .

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:55:11 +0000

Dirk, if we are doomed to have divas, can’t we at least get some that are brighter?

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:54:18 +0000

Good point. I was surprised that they were indignant that the Monitor was not a conservative publication….

By: Powell Gammill

Powell Gammill — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:38:50 +0000

The best part for me was that half the commenters clearly had never heard of “The Christian Science Monitor” before some blog obviously — and undoubtedly in outrage — directed them to your article there. Talk about uninformed.

By: Dirk W. Sabin

Dirk W. Sabin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:49:37 +0000

Personally, I had hopes for the Tea Party after seeing many of them out in the freezing cold over the winter, protesting big government and some of them protesting the Military Industrial Complex.
But then the Palin Media Sensation kicked in and all
bets were off. Most political efforts these days are like some kind of operatic farce ..jam packed with Divas and elaborate sets.

By: Viking

Viking — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:31:17 +0000

One of the problems I think we have is that there is essentially a dualistic view of the world that human beings are most comfortable with and Americans are no exception. Paleoconservatives, Libertarians, Left Libertarians, Christian Conservatives who are anti-war ect, don’t fit the narrative. Thus progressives see the word “conservative” and assume that TAC readers are on the same page as Sean Hannity and Karl Rove, Fox viewers see anything anti-empire, anti-war, anti-police state and assume its written by a “commie God hating Librul”.

Until we get some control of the narrative we’re going to be stuck here at TAC congratulating ourselves on being smarter than the rubes while they run conservatism into the ground.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:59:20 +0000

The military is a sacred cow to these people. Doesn’t matter who it is fighting, or why; or how we got to this point; or whether this foreign policy is making them more or less safe; or whether it is morally right; or how much it costs; or how much of the military budget is essentially largesse for government contractors and career officers. They do not ask any questions. They are true believers.

And don’t you love the mantra, regarding wiretapping: “If you’re not doing anything wrong, then you’ve got nothing to worry about.” This is truly an amazing sentiment. It embodies absolute trust in government.

Even worse is their support for torture and denial of due process, which they rationalize by declaring, once again, that “only terrorists have to be concerned.” They seem to have forgotten that the whole point of due process is to determine whether the person arrested has actually committed the crime of which he is being accused. But why bother? Governments never lie, or abuse their powers, or just plain get things wrong.

Of course, if the government were so virtuous and wise and competent as to deserve absolute, unquestioned power over matters of war, spying and detention, then it could surely be trusted to run the health care system and, indeed, the whole economy. This escapes the so-called conservatives.

Such childish, pie-in-the-sky trust for Big Daddy Government on the one hand, and, simultaneously, such hatred for Obama and his policies on the other, points to a serious psychological aberration.

These people are deranged.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:53:00 +0000

“Sam Adams” - As for the notion that I should make myself useful by running “for an office of some type” - That is even more confounding than your spacing and punctuation.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:49:46 +0000

Liberranter - I think you’re right - the NeoCons have co-opted much of the Tea Party. Perhaps there are some places in the country where that hasn’t happened - but…

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:48:23 +0000

Lawrence - I think you’re dead-on as far as the calculus that the war is worth it - especially when it is other people who will be doing the bleeding.

I have been surprised at the Tea Party comments that automatically accept that we must ‘fight the enemy’ - and then blindly defer to whoever politicians label as an enemy.

Sounds like y’all had a fine time in Germany! I hope the draft beer was at least as good as what you find in San Diego.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:46:19 +0000

Gus - thanks for the kind words and encouragement!