Posts Tagged ‘stimulus’

The news of the week suggests that liberals now want to drink from the same vat of Kool-Aid. A slew of interest groups have spent 2010 lining up for the chance to punch the President; pass my greatest legislative fantasy, or I will declare you a failure, or a coward, or a charlatan, and send you back to the wilderness. Please note also that every liberal dream is always the most important liberal dream. Environmental liberals, LGBT activists, anti-poverty advocates, the Darfur crowd, union protectionists...no more are they forced to argue over who has a seat at the head of the table. If the President is unable to make all of their wishes come true (within one 22 month period), then the lobbies vast will tear out his throat and leave him to [Read the rest of this article...]

The American Tea Party is mad as hell, and they aren't going to take it anymore! I get that; rage I understand. What I am left to figure out is what in the hell they are mad about? Were these folks angry in 2005, 2006, 2007, or 2008? Have they just reached their boiling points now? Or is the President doing something to our nation that forms a legitimate gripe? The secret to the answer to that question, in my humble opinion, lies in the timing of the Tea Party outrage. [Read the rest of this article...]