Your daily Letter to the Columnist — July 4, 2012
And now hear this from The Roanoke Tea Party
(Note from Dan: This is an email I received Tuesday from Leslie Tarbutton).
“The Roanoke Tea Party will be having a meeting, on July 5th, 2012. The meeting will begin at 6:30 P.M and will be held at the Holiday Inn Tanglewood.
The meeting’s theme is that “Submission is Not An Option.” We will be looking at the options available to fight the steadily increasing level of tyranny displayed by the Federal Government.
People are frustrated and angry because they continue to see the steady march to socialism moving forward unchecked. They are looking for answers. The answers are readily available to these questions.
- How can we hold a President accountable who constantly violates the Constitution?
- How do we stop Obamacare?
- How can Eric Holder be held accountable for his criminal behavior as the Attorney General?
- How can we protect the First Amendment in Roanoke, where the County Board of Supervisors is being coerced into removing the opening prayer from their Board Meetings?
We will be discussing the available options for all of these and soliciting assistance on key projects around some of these initiatives.
Chip Tarbutton, President of the Roanoke Tea Party, states that “we have to be the change we want to see in government.
“As long as we allow unprincipled people to hold sway over all levels of our political apparatus, we will continue to stumble along this pathway to disaster. We can make a difference NOW if enough people are ready to do the work necessary to save this Republic. While there is a number of ways to save the Republic one thing is clear; submission is not an option.”
One of these efforts in support of our Constitutional freedom will be encouraging our supporters to attend a press conference in support of Religious Freedom, also on July 5th. This press conference is being held across the street from our meeting just prior to our meeting at 6:00 PM.
This press conference will be held at the County Administration building. We are urging our supporters to attend that press conference and then join us in the air conditioned comfort of the Tanglewood Holiday Inn at 6:30 P.M. More on that 6:00 P.M. meeting can be found here.
There will be light refreshments and opportunities for those frustrated with current events to make a difference.
July 4, 2012 - 6:00 AM
Let’s all go.
Where were these concerned citizens when Bush was president?
Nothing to do with the letter, but I love that smell of apple wood and slow-cooking pork.
Speaking of Tea Partiers, Dan, after seeing today’s story that a judge ruled the Giles Co. 10 Commandments lawsuit is moot, I’m sure you’re just slapping yourself for not jumping ALL OVER suzie’s big tip about how this case was going to be a HUGE secret weapon for the Repubs in this fall’s election. I mean, what could be more controversial than two sides compromising to bring the situation back to what the courts consider constitutional.
Maybe you could put together a column about he horrendous damage painters tape does to marble.
Sorry, fellas, but I think America works better when we pull together, not when we make it “every man for himself.”
Obamacare is the law. It is here to stay.
15 % drop in gas prices since April 2012 and more than 6% drop in the last year. I guess, based upon Suzie Q’s, Bob’s, et.al.’s logic, we have to give Pres. Obama credit for that drop.
http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Gas-prices-fall-6-6-in-year-as-demand-declines-3682754.php
“As long as we allow unprincipled people to hold sway over all levels of our political apparatus, we will continue to stumble along this pathway to disaster. We can make a difference NOW if enough people are ready to do the work necessary to save this Republic. While there is a number of ways to save the Republic one thing is clear; submission is not an option.”
I guess that means Mr. Tarbutt & his fellow Tea Party members won’t be voting for Mitt & his Republican colleagues this fall.
Happy July 4th fellow bloggers!! May the power be with you!!
This press release could have said something like: “Come share your ideas with a cross section of America. The Tea Party is uniquely representative of all Americans.” But somehow, any reference to that was left out…
Shall we expect the Tea Party Smarties to insist that Congress also give up its’ own government run healthcare? Why wouldn’t they? Don’t they want their elected representatives to be free of “tyranny” by the federal government? If those on the TP rolls won’t insist that Bob Goodlatte and his fellow career politicians exist in the same healthcare world as their poorest constituents, their rhetoric will be exposed as not really about healthcare “freedom” at all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAAwXhBhU4Q
Sorry, fellas, but I think America works better when we pull together, not when we make it “every man for himself.”
Too bad you’re idea of “working together” means a third of the workforce doesn’t work and half don’t pay taxes.
I think what you mean is America works best when everyone has to contribute.
15 % drop in gas prices since April 2012 and more than 6% drop in the last year. I guess, based upon Suzie Q’s, Bob’s, et.al.’s logic, we have to give Pres. Obama credit for that drop.
We can do that, Ron. As long as you’re willing to give 0bama the blame for gas prices rising from $1.50 when he took office.
Ron: 15 % drop in gas prices since April 2012 and more than 6% drop in the last year. I guess, based upon Suzie Q’s, Bob’s, et.al.’s logic, we have to give Pres. Obama credit for that drop.
Suzie: We can do that, Ron. As long as you’re willing to give 0bama the blame for gas prices rising from $1.50 when he took office.
You would have to be a liar or insane to claim that gas prices were $1.50 in Janaury 2009.
gasoline prices dropped to $1.25 in roanoke november 2008
The teabaggers and Tarburton haven’t figured it out. They are part of the problem. Not part of the solution. Wake up and realize you are being stooges for the privileged few, the too big to fail Corporations, Billionaires, whose mission is an American Oligarch. Rule by the few and not the limited government you seek. Big difference. Only when said teabaggers, who are currently carrying the elites water, wake up to the game being played upon their simple souls, will true American Patriots sympathize with their cause. Walk into the light, it’s your only hope.
This day, President Obama is the best bet to right the American Dream, level the playing field, Move this country forward to a more just prosperity. The GOP hijacked by the teaparty? The party of NO? Voter suppression? Men who know whats best for women? The party of warmongers? profiteers, tax the poor and give the rich guy a cut? You who would shred the safety net this great country has built up over the past One Hundred years? The party of Mitt Romoney? Really? No, not really.
You guys (Teabaggers)are currently in tin foil land. Wake up, you’re dreaming and it’s giving us a nightmare, you freaking idiots. Until then, this Patriot will stand up to you simpletons at every opportunity and call you out for what you are. Baggage handlers for your monied masters. Thugs. Simpletons. Shills. Dangerous to the American way of life. Mr Tarburton, In my opinion, your call to action is sedition. Bordering on treason, and while you enjoy free speech, You are just a tool of those you serve. I despise your message and the fear you are spreading among the good people you may sway with your hate filled message.
“Submission is not an Options” You got that right. When American submits to your ideas the Republic is lost. Not this American Patriot. No way, No how.
Happy Birthday America! Wishing many more to come! Let Freedom Ring!
“gasoline prices dropped to $1.25 in roanoke november 2008″
Yeah? How many jobs were lost that month suz?
“Lost: 1.9 million jobs
The 2008 tally soars after payrolls shrink by 533,000 in November, the biggest one-month decline in nearly 34 years.”
http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/05/news/economy/jobs_november/index.htm
As a self professed engineer, I would think you would be familiar with cause and effect. No, wait, that’s a philosophical concept. Something not covered in Econ 50 I guess.
Coldnp @15. +1
#16 CnP,
She’s a Domestic Engineer; big dif. She was trained to install toilet paper so it rolls to the back, not to understand cause and effect.
As a self professed engineer, I would think you would be familiar with cause and effect.
I sure am. Democrat policies of insisting unqualified borrowrs get loans caused the collapse. Bush tried to warn them more than a dozen times, but they just wouldn’t listen.
She’s a Domestic Engineer
Steve’s 34th job back in ’08 was as a sanitation engineer. He got dismissed from that one because he ran the side loader into a parked car. It was a Monday, and well, you know…….
#14 Obama didn’t take office in November 2008.
“The trouble with socialism is eventually you run out of other people’s money” – Margaret Thatcher
Good look with your socialist utopian society. Don’t come looking for me when it starts to kick even you in the ass.
You moving to Canada, Bill Gregory?
I love people who drop random quotes like they matter. Who cares what Thatcher said.
yeah Roanoke Tea Party, a flash of freedom when we need it most.
“Lies, and the lying liars that tell them!” Suzie continues to pull it out her arse and smear it all over, but it is not the truth. Never has been.
Bill Gregory, do some research and stop embarrassing yourself, the largest wealth transfer in this nation is NOT from the rich to the poor. Look at the abyss in income and wealth and stop lying and whining! Bon voyage!
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3220
“I think what you mean is America works best when everyone has to contribute.”
Kind of like with the new healthcare. Oh wait, that’s right, you don’t believe in everyone contributing in that case.
“Kind of like with the new healthcare. Oh wait, that’s right, you don’t believe in everyone contributing in that case.”
scott, actually, they DO believe everyone should contribute. And, if a Republican president/Congress had enacted this plan, as Gingrich, the Heritage Foundation and other conservatives suggested as early as 1992, the RWers would be doing high-fives and shouting from the mountaintops that THEY brought universal coverage to this country. Mitt Romney would be lauded as “the father of universal health care,” because he got it through Massachusetts, when he was governor there, first.
What they CAN’T STAND, however, is that the bill was passed by a Democratic congress and signed by a Democratic president. This, and this alone, is the root of all the RWers angst regarding the Affordable Care Act (which they renamed “Obamacare” in the expectation that it would be overturned, oops!).
Ever since Bill Clinton did this to them on welfare reform in the 1990s, they have vowed to make sure no other Democrat in the White House can EVER get any credit for one of their ideas again.
It’s manifestly NOT about what is best for the country, or what is best for the uninsured. It’s ALL about who’s gonna get credit for it. And clumsily, they already have handed all of the credit to Obama by renaming the law after him.
So Dan,
Explain to me why Obama is not campaigning with this as the signature achievement of his administration in lieu of taking credit for things he didn’t even do (created 4.3 million jobs? he must have abolished 6.3 million themn because 2 more million are out of work now than when he took office).
Explain to me the transparency of this administration that was promised in the campaign and (not) demonstrated in Fast and Furious.
And tell me again that the private sector is doing fine….
“Too bad you’re idea of “working together” means a third of the workforce doesn’t work and half don’t pay taxes.”
How the frack do you know what I meant? Shut up and go get me a cold beer.
25. Dg – Let’s hope no one lights a match, whoosh!
Another branch of the Tea/Republican party heard from.
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/05/12583500-whites-only-christian-gathering-riles-some-alabama-neighbors?lite
@Suzie-
“Democrat policies of insisting unqualified borrowrs get loans caused the collapse. Bush tried to warn them more than a dozen times, but they just wouldn’t listen.”
Huh. Did he slip those warnings in between saying things like:
“Thanks to our policies, home ownership in America is at an all- time high.
Tonight we set a new goal: 7 million more affordable homes in the next 10 years, so more American families will be able to open the door and say, “Welcome to my home.”
…and from a White House fact sheet:
“In June 2002, President Bush issued America’s Homeownership Challenge to the real estate and mortgage finance industries to encourage them to join the effort to close the gap that exists between the homeownership rates of minorities and non-minorities. The President also announced the goal of increasing the number of minority homeowners by at least 5.5 million families before the end of the decade.”
Also, Al Hubbard, Bush’s chief economic adviser said, “There is no question we did not recognize the severity of the problems. Had we, we would have attacked them.”
Lawrence B. Lindsay, Bush’s first chief economic adviser: “No one wanted to stop that bubble. It would have conflicted with the president’s own policies.”
I’m sure I can dig up more quotes from Republicans in Bush’s administration or Bush himself, but you get the point. Well, Suzie won’t get the point, but….
GEORGE W. BUSH: “Tonight we set a new goal: 7 million more affordable homes in the next 10 years, so more American families will be able to open the door and say, “Welcome to my home.”
…and from a White House fact sheet:
“In June 2002, President Bush issued America’s Homeownership Challenge to the real estate and mortgage finance industries to encourage them to join the effort to close the gap that exists between the homeownership rates of minorities and non-minorities. The President also announced the goal of increasing the number of minority homeowners by at least 5.5 million families before the end of the decade.”
ALLAN B. HUBBARD, Bush’s chief economic adviser: “There is no question we did not recognize the severity of the problems. Had we, we would have attacked them.”
LAWRENCE B. LINDSEY, Bush’s first chief economic adviser: “No one wanted to stop that bubble. It would have conflicted with the president’s own policies.”
–Posted by Jason.
Jason, thanks for this enlightening post. I’m glad that somebody, in this case GWB, has finally accepted responsibility for the housing bubble and subsequent crisis. Now we need to pull together and help President Obama dig us out of the mess Bush created.
#33 And let’s not forget that Rethugs controlled Congress as well.
Sandi, I’ve already done my research. Thanks. People have woken up to what this President is. Took them long enough because there was a lot of confusion out there right before he became President and at least a year or longer after he was Pres. He’s a socialist. He surrounds himself with Communists/socialists. Obamacare is a good example of socialism verging on communism. Like I said, good luck with your socialist/communist utopia start up! Communism is cool, boys and girls!
Dan, Sorry. I’ll be staying in the good old USA…I mean what is quickly becoming the USSA. I’ll oppose socialism/communism in any form it rears its ugly head in this Country. And, believe me, I’m already doing plenty of ‘opposing’ the past few years. Good luck with your ‘John Lennon Imagine’ utopian experiment, Liberals. Karma’s likely coming for you in the end analysis. ‘Imagine’ a conservative who talks about Karma……
Cold n P, Thanks for your words of wisdom and inspiration! I know I am touched by your comments/statements. Here you go:
Statement: “The teabaggers and Tarburton haven’t figured it out. They are part of the problem. Not part of the solution. Wake up and realize you are being stooges for the privileged few, the too big to fail Corporations, Billionaires, whose mission is an American Oligarch. Rule by the few and not the limited government you seek. Big difference.”
Response: Nobody is pulling the Roanoke Tea Party’s strings. Corporations, Billionaires, etc have nothing to do with the Roanoke Tea Party. Sorry, but it doesn’t float.
Statement: “when said teabaggers, who are currently carrying the elites water, wake up to the game being played upon their simple souls, will true American Patriots sympathize with their cause. Walk into the light, it’s your only hope.”
Response: The Roanoke Tea Party holds no elite’s water. We are independent of what you you appear to be attempting to nail us to. Is this light you speak of something that is on a track, makes a lot of noise and is barreling towards us at a high rate of speed? That’s what I thought. I don’t think we are going to walk towards it! Its the sound of soft tyranny coming at the citizens of this Country. Run from that light as fast as you can!
Statement: “This day, President Obama is the best bet to right the American Dream, level the playing field, Move this country forward to a more just prosperity.”
Reponse: Huh? Apparently one point of view’s dream is another point of view’s nightmare! The President is the best bet to move the Country towards Socialism/Communism. And, believe me, socialism/communism will definitely ‘level the playing field’ and so much more! I hope your socialist utopian experiment works out for all affected! But, if it fails miserably don’t come looking for any sympathy!
Statement: “You guys (Teabaggers)are currently in tin foil land. Wake up, you’re dreaming and it’s giving us a nightmare, you freaking idiots. ”
Response: Beg to differ. We’re not the ones dreaming of a utopian society. That sounds like the train wreck that is occurring as we speak with socialism being crammed down everyone’s throats. Obamacare is a prime example of much more likely to come to the masses.
Come on, Cold n P, is that all you’ve got?
“Obamacare is a good example of socialism verging on communism.”
Bill G, were the Heritage Foundation, Newt Gingrich, and Mitt Romney part of the socialist/communist conspiracy? Because, no matter how badly you want to pin that healthcare plan on Obama, you can’t sententiously deny the whole model for the ACA was built in a conservative think tank as a response to Clinton’s failed health care initiative. And that it was first enacted, to great acclaim from the Heritage Foundation, in Massachusetts under Romney.
33 & 34
Sorry, clowns but the mortgage crisis was exclusively a Democrat-caused problem. Only Republicans including Bush were warning of a coming crisis. Only Democrats were the ones thwarting the effort. Not only were they denying problems with Fannie and Freddie, Democrats were basically calling reformers “racists”.
These clips at a 2004 hearing were quite revealing and quite incriminating for Democrats. Watch and learn. Example after example of Republicans warning and Democrats obfuscating.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yga7TlsA-1A
Sorry the pesky facts interfere with your revisionism.
Bill Gregory,
You wouldn’t know a socialist if one ran up behind and kicked you in the butt;
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/06/what-socialism-looks-like/18675/
I chose this easy-to-comprehend pie chart graph for you since you are demonstrably a simple minded person. Note there are only two colors in the graph, a big blue area and a very narrow red section, representing the percentage of corporate and business assets nationalized by the socialist Obama administration. This red sliver makes up 1/5 of one %. The big blue area represents privately owned assets that will remain so during President Obama’s being second term.
Hope this is helpful. At the very least it should hopefully provide you the motivation to get you head out of the sand, stop being a slap-monkey for listening to what rush and fox news tells you and start “researching” objectively on your own like a big boy.
Dan’s ONLY defense of socialst 0bamacare is “Republicans came up with it first” even though the GOP’s small scale plan of 40 years ago bore absolutely no resemblance to the government takeover of today.
You wouldn’t think they could tell us why 0bamacare is better. They can’t. They already know it’s a giant tax on the middle-class, but to admit that is to admit their Boy Blunder is a total LIAR.