San Diego Tea Party – Tax Revolt II: Tone Wars
March 4, 2009 – 5:57 pmDear Friends: I wanted to let you know I was working with the Tax Revolt Leader in San Diego today. The meeting, which included our active and energized resident artist Lipstick Underground, was very engaging. We have scheduled the next “Tax Revolt“, which is the term we will probably be using from now on, for April 11 (Saturday) at 11 am; it is near the beautiful San Diego Harbor again. More details to follow!
One of my concerns about the Conservative Movement is the fact many of us have been “preaching to the choir”, so-to-speak. We mainly listen to talk radio and stay focused on our favorite blogs or magazines. Therefore, there is no OUTPUT from us to others – centrists, moderates, libeals, etc.; nor is there INPUT on aspects of the tax revolt we should perhaps consider. Therefore, I have entitled this post – Tone Wars, as I want to remind my conservative friends that a dollar bill does not know if it belongs to a Republican, Democtrat…or even a Constitution Party member. The current economic crisis impacts, and unites, us all.
Let me start by directing everyone to another wonderful, enterprise-promoting, rant against the Obama budget plans – CNBC’s “Mad Money” stock promoter, Jim Cramer. The money quote from Cramer is priceless: “This is the greatest wealth destruction I’ve seen by a president.”
It must be understood that Cramer is not a glassy-eyed, ditto-head, neocon. Courtesy of the Charlie Foxtrot blogspot, compare and contrast, noting that Cramer was probably an Obama voter this November:
THEN: Oct ’08: “And while any president will be an improvement over the current one, there is a growing belief on Wall Street that Barack Obama has the capacity to lead us out of this wilderness while John McCain does not. I’ll go a step further: Obama is a recession. McCain is a depression.”
NOW: Mar ’09: “‘Hey, it’s amateur hour at our darkest moment.’ It’s the feeling of capitalism vanishing, businesses capsizing under their own weight – thanks to an administration that doesn’t seem to know or maybe doesn’t care.” and “This is the most, greatest wealth destruction I’ve seen by a president.”
Now, to my point about tone: We need to make this a learning opportunity, not a scolding/lecturing/mocking one. Many people relish going onto blog sites, chat rooms, and forums to zing away with one liners and profanity. However, NOW, many others are looking for serious answers to troubling questions. While Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter are gifted in their own way, and can rally the base, I think it would be best if our capitalist-minded online community practiced a little courtesy and circumspection. It would be best if we presented sound information on the benefits of free enterprise, or the consequences of tax hikes, then a pithy insult.
And I say this as a fan of pithy insults!
Granted, it will be hard for some of us. While that cute-one liner may seem satisfying, the potential for the Internet sites and their comment sections to inform is diminished when it becomes a free-for-all. Many Obama-voters are becoming angry and agitated as they see their own portfolio diminish — damn, even the New York Time’s Maureen Dowd is pissed about Obama’s breaking a campaign pledge about earmarks!
You see, my friends, we need the angry Democrats now — they are the only ones that can help us block Obama’s socialist vision at least until reinforcements arrive until 2010! For example, Politico reports that centrist Democrats are not quite comfortable with Obama’s grand vision.
Moderate and conservative Democrats in the Senate are starting to choke over the massive spending and tax increases in President Barack Obama’s budget plans and have begun plotting to increase their influence over the agenda of a president who is turning out to be much more liberal than they are.
A group of 14 Senate Democrats and one independent huddled behind closed doors on Tuesday, discussing how centrists in that chamber can assert more leverage on the major policy debates that will dominate this Congress.
I met several Democrats, as well as Independents and Third Party supporters, at the Tea Party Tax Revolt last Friday. It is my hope more will be there next time. With this image in mind, I suspect there will be:
Right now, we have to promote economic freedom for everyone. I think there is a real opportunity to get people motivated enough to stop the tax hikes, deduction eliminations, and other business-impeding ideas of the current administration. We have to be persuasive, not nasty.
12 Responses to “San Diego Tea Party – Tax Revolt II: Tone Wars”
Your Dow graph gave me an idea, create a t-shirt with that image. Ask your favorite moderate or liberal while wearing the shirt what they now think about the president that was supposed to lead us out of the wilderness.
By Sally Morem on Mar 4, 2009
As always, fantastic writing and so true! You rock and I hope this wake us all up to the possibilities when we all, as Americans ,have the same goals.
This is not a “political party” issue this is a family issue. Our families are being attacked at the heart of our homes -our bottom line.
Sunshine dollars do not go very far anymore!
By Dawn on Mar 5, 2009
You might want to consider the national tax day tea party on April 15th:
http://www.gopusa.com/theloft/?p=1054
http://taxdayteaparty.com/
By Tom on Mar 9, 2009
This is encouraging. Has anyone attempted to communicate with the Greens and Libertarians organizing protests on the 11th? I know we have differences about many issues, but seem to be united on this one, and if we can all get together, our united voice will be heard when the numbers are larger.
By christy on Mar 12, 2009
Every time i come here I am not dissapointed, nice post
By Write on Mar 24, 2009
I wanted to comment and thank the author, good stuff
By Youth Baseball on Mar 25, 2009
Even staunch liberal democratic experts like pollster Pat Caddell are starting to show up on television with a new tone and set of words to describe the first few months of the Obama Administration.
In a cable news interview yesterday, Caddell admitted that he did not understand where the Obama administration was going, with the common consensus among experts being that this guy who ran for president as a sort of unifying centrist Democrat, has come out of the box like a One-World-Government radical bent on undermining the United States.
High on everyone’s list of shocking developments are the way the administration is jamming through the most enomous government spending packages in the history of the planet with no real guarantee that any of it will work to restore the freaking economy, let alone the infrastructure.
Experts are actually using the word scary as someone did from the Brookings Institution again on cable news, when he described the whole Gitmo shutdown and manipulation of the language to act as if terroirsts aren’t really our enemy. You have to wonder what’s going on here? Why is this guy moving so fast to change and undo so many things related to terrorism and our enemies, and why is he spending such an incredible amount of money at a time when everyone agrees we don’t have much.
Extremely reputable journalists, former politicians and political advisors are using the word dictatorial about many of the early moves of the Obama Administration.
You might use an even stronger word if you’re a smoker, as I’m sure you noticed a governmental cash grab that went into place silently over the weekend, where cigarettes have suddenly gone up a dollar a pack because Obama needs more money to give to people who, you know, don’t really earn, work for or deserve it. Just grabbed a dollar a pack right out of the wallet of every smoker in America. Maybe next the police will come around and take your gun. Or your crucifix, if you have one hanging on the wall, you know, because an atheist might see it. Or because Bill Maher doesn’t think religion is cool.
Of course today Obama took over General Motors.
Right now I know only two things for sure. 1) It was incredibly stupid that we elected a guy President of the United States who went to a church where the preacher screamed “Goddamn America”…over and over again. 2) We better not make the same mistake twice.
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By Mike on Mar 30, 2009
LAST COMMENT IS RIGHT ON!!! SO WHEN IS AMERICA (THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA)GOING TO WAKE UP FROM PERSUING THEIR OWN PERSONAL COMFORT??? WHEN THE KNOCK ON THEIR DOOR COMES FOR THEM???? REMEMBER NAZI GERMANY PEOPLE??? REMEMBER HISTORY NOT TOO LONG AGO?????
By DEE on Apr 8, 2009
April 11 Tax Revolt pics here:
http://wcvarones.blogspot.com/2009/04/san-diego-tea-party-pics.html
By W.C. Varones on Apr 11, 2009
More good photos from April 11th here:
http://www.pbase.com/schutze/san_diego_tea_party_protest
By Nice Guy on Apr 14, 2009
Hahahaha.
CPT reply on April 15th, 2009 1:31 pm:
We were sure to approve this to illustrate the rational debating skills of typical collectivist sheople
By mike on Apr 15, 2009