NEWS: Medieval Tea Party

Conservatives don't want to be told how to run their own affairs, but will gladly take the money from Washington, DC, designed to allow them to do so. To me, that's complete childishness. I thought the whole point of maturity was the realization that you can't have your cake and eat it too.

The common opinion on these boards dismissed them as "Paultards".

I think not. The usual suspects flacking this astroturf since Obama got in (Fox News,Dick Armey's outfit, Hannity, Limbaugh, et al.) were not on the Ron Paul wagon. Those same usual suspects were the first to loudly shout down anyone interested in fiscal responsibility under the Bush years as "unpatriotic", or worse.

God you people weird.

Have a nice couple of months.

A lot of the people who started these protests were libertarians and supporters of Ron Paul. They never did support Bush and protested him throughout his 8 year reign of stupidity. The irony here is that Fox News was bashing these kind of people all throughout Bush's administration and especially during the Republican Primaries last year. I can't even remember how many times I heard all the Fox crew claim Ron Paul supported terrorism and tried to smear him every chance they got. Now they're all of a sudden trying to spin all this hype about things they were against for the past 8 years and these protests probably wouldn't have received anymore notice than a typical protest at something like a G summit but Fox News is now desperate to cling to whatever ratings they can get because now that Bush is out of office they can no longer win ratings by loyally pushing Bush's agenda. Personally I wish they wouldn't cover anything to do with libertarianism or Ron Paul because they're just going to drag it down. The libertarian movement was always a grassroots kind of thing and there's no need for mass media to try to corrupt it for their ratings.

Today's CE; so sadly predictable.

Historical inaccuracies aside, isn't it nice not to live in fourteenth-century Europe?

God I hope that means you're finally fucking off...

But . . . but . . .but . . .they all had SWORDS!!! And everybody ate turkey drumsticks and drank mead and went on hunts and talked in poetry!

Unless the Ren-faires lied to me

There's an analogy here to the American People as peasants, living in a feudal system. How is that not clear? Analogies, even if they're not great, don't have to be made by the media before a little guy makes them.

Ugh... could you keep your feud with FTR off of CE please? If you don't like his articles, you don't have to comment on them.

Try that one again.

It doesn't make sense to equate a modern tea party protestor to a feudal serf. When you do, it lends legitimacy to the argument that Americans, like serfs, aren't being appropriately represented by their government's spending, thus legitimizing the protestor's message (which was not FTR's aim).

Of course serfdom and contemporary American citizens don't have to be compared by Anderson Cooper before FTR can compare them, but it's absolutely unclear why such a comparison was made.

I prefer my Redcoat Tea Party analogy instead.

Yeah, that "outspending the past administration" bit? That was based on the fact that Bush lied about the amount of money he was actually spending. And the only alternative plan offered was said by the Citizens for Tax Justice to cost $300 billion more annually than Obama's budget.

Since most of the current budget is for projects that require short-term increases in spending (loans to the auto industry, improvements in our infrastructure, research and development of the high-speed rail system) that will either: a)be cut over time (Iraq for example), or b) pay back for themselves with greater commerce (loans being paid back, as another example), I would say Obama's budget, as it stands right now (I'm hopeful it will stay this way, but it's a cautious optimism), is akin to the saying "you've got to spend money to make money."

Probably the only legitimate criticism I've seen from this year's "tea party" is that the Fed should be more closely monitored. The rest of it has mostly been a bunch of hand-wringing from guys like Limbaugh, Hannity, and O'Reilly who are mad that, instead of spending trillions of dollars on mercenaries who kill with reckless abandon or useless defense projects like "missile defense shields," it's instead going to fixing schools and investing in new technologies.

Well, the analogy being made is that the protestors are protesting taxation of very rich people who have never done anything in particular to deserve said protestor's loyalties (if not actively fucked them over), taxation that will not fall on their shoulders, and in fact will in part be given to them. Not that the government is oppressing these people.

QFT, your trolling on his articles is comming off as petty and childish as FTR own tantrums.

They also sold leather mugs and erotic leather garb.