Adrian Murray, our fine friend from the Fort Worth 912 Project and NRN Capitol Rally, fires another well-aimed broadside. – Poor Richard
The TEA Party Effort One Year Along
By Adrian Murray
One year ago, on February 27, 2009, a few 1,000 people gathered outside the Cowtown Grill in Fort Worth. Some carried signs reading “Taxed Enough Already”. No one there knew each other, but all were there for a common purpose, even if we could not easily articulate it at the time. We knew it was something much deeper than taxes & spending.…
“While we have had hucksters in the White House before – Bill Clinton comes immediately to mind – we haven’t in the past been confronted with a huckster who fundamentally dislikes America.”
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April 12, 2010 at 7:04 am |
In the free marketplace of ideas, money can often win the argument. There has been a flood of it from bank bailouts, health insurance proceeds, wealthy ‘conservatives’, oil companies and other corporations. Lobbyists handle massive amounts. The Chamber of Commerce can funnel it to media to hide the actual source and a lot goes to Rupert Murdoch’s minions.
Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich are highly paid Fox News political analysts. So are Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity. These are the people that initiated and nurtured the tea party movement. Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox News, has all of them on his payroll.
Given Murdoch’s role, it is no surprise that the tea party message is corporate. Denying global warming is good for oil companies, opposing health care reform benefits insurance companies and pharma, blocking renewed regulation of the financial sector satisfies banks and sets the stage for another even worse collapse of the economy, privatization removes activities from public oversight, deficit mongering that leads to cuts in government spending could devastate the economy. (Economists like Joseph Stiglitz, Paul Krugman and James Galbraith opine that the stimulus was much too small and that, given the amount of joblessness, more is needed.) This is not time to balance the Federal Budget. If tea partiers have their way, we are in for much worse.
More at http://www.seconnecticut.com/TeaParty.htm