Trejbal: Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
Sanity rally was about the people, not the show
Christian Trejbal
Trejbal is a Roanoke Times editorial writer. He is based in the New River Valley.
Last weekend, I joined more than 200,000 people on the National Mall in Washington. Many, perhaps most, could neither hear nor see the action on stage, but it did not matter. It turned out that the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear wound up having little to do with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, the hosts of Comedy Central’s “Daily Show” and “Colbert Report.”
After an outbreak of contagious insanity struck the nation on Tuesday, it might be easy to forget that only three days before, Americans dropped what they were doing to show up for a comedy show that many hoped might be something more.
November 7, 2010 - 9:51 AM
“After an outbreak of contagious insanity struck the nation on Tuesday” by C Trejbal
You guys will mask what really happened no matter what. Uh noooooo, it was SANITY breaking out finally, insanity is what you voted for and received November 2008!
1. It is so interesting that the GOP is so quickly disassociating itself from the Tea Party. Jim Demint being roasted on Meet the Press and followed up by Gov Christie saying Demint’s ideas can’t be done.
Morgan, the Tea Party’a votes for unrealistic platitudes that are totally impossible to achieve are indeed the perfect example of insanity.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch – Ben Franklin
I think the wolves won. . .
2 – “It is so interesting that the GOP is so quickly disassociating itself from the Tea Party”
…the GOP has always treated conservatives like that. Use them to get elected, dilute and debase the movement, and then leave them in the dust. The ol’ woo ‘em and screw ‘em.
I keep telling all y’all not to be concerned that the Tea Party – the true grassroots movement, not the ones usurped by the GOP – will influence policy. The GOP will continue, in governance, to be nearly indistinguishable from the Democratic Party.
@1…Morgan
If what got elected to office last week is the example of sanity…then I would hate like hell to see what the real example of insanity looks like.
Here in Alabama, it was virtually a complete Republican sweep. I’ve never seen a more unqualified group of candidate on BOTH sides running for office in my life. I felt like all we had to choose from was either Dumb or Dumber. We ended up with the “Dumbers” winning and now I’m afraid we’re all going to lose.
89Hoo, I beg to differ, I think there will be an absolute and quite compelling distinction between the governance of the Republicans and the governance of the Democrats. While they both lie, both spend too much money and neither seems to have a real clue how to do the job they lobbied so hard for, it is really easy to see what their underlying motivations are and the impact from them will be even more apparent in this economy. We will see as never before just who each party “works for” and “helps”.
When this nation can decree that a manual laborer who has toiled in a low paying job now has to work until age 69 (or higher) rather than take the cap off the SS tax or raise income taxes on only 2% of this nation’s taxpayers it is not a good sign for prosperity, equality or progress for anyone not wealthy or well positioned (which is in fact the majority of America’s workers).
Oh yeah, we will be able to tell easily. Sadly, some people will carry water till the well is dry and continue to blame people for not being able to dig out of the hole those same people worked so hard to make wider and deeper.
Unlike the Dems, who stupidly chose to move on and NOT “investigate” the Bush administration “crimes”, the Republicans are gearing up for massive hearings and investigations that will waste time and taxpayer money. They will continue to obstruct and repeal all measures aimed at helping people in need, further adding to the poverty ranks, creating an ironclad service worker underclass and making what used to be the middle class the new working class.
How anyone can be proud of what is about to happen in this nation makes you wonder how the hell they can ever argue against evolution! Just like “torture is legal”, their infliction of “pain will be necessary to fix America”, count on it!