Republicans and those who joined them made a very unfortunate choice in picking teabagging for their protests as it has another meaning they may find offensive. However, one can speculate (after you have looked it up on Urban Dictionary.
One could take this image far, which amuses me. The Republicans and Independents who are engaging in this protest, and figuratively trying to gain some sort of comfort through this process, can have little spirit of adventure or sense of humor, though offering a hearty laugh to looser minds.
The protesters are either incredibly naive or hopelessly frustrated and behaving like children having a temper tantrum. The term 'comfort food' usually refers to that taken by mouth but, in this instance, one wonders whether it is the object that implies receiver of comfort. I'm clearly the wrong gender to ever understand the answer to that question. Of course the real answer, as those of us who read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, learned is 42.
It occurs to me that protests are a subject that is very complex. They work if someone has the power to resist that which they are protesting. Protests were partly effective about the war in Viet Nam. Hunger strikes work only if it is important to keep the protester alive, as with Ghandi. As with the teabaggers, asking that they wanted things to remain the same and not change hardly moved the majority of the country who had voted for change equaling hope. The only thing proved to anyone by this protest was that a minority of the country are sore losers who cannot tolerate change, even when what they have is not working, or working to the detriment of the majority (which in this context includes the protesters).
Nevertheless, now that the media has decided it does not bring viewers as a matter of interest, we seem to no longer see if they are active. Without lots of profile for them, it seems they will just continue to be sore losers.
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
FOSTERING REVOLUTION: FOX NEWS?
Since I am neither a lawyer nor Constitutional scholar, I naively believed if you went public with pleas to start a revolution that it was considered tyranny and was not rewarded kindly. I guess I was wrong. Whatever happened to patriotism, supporting the President who has been duly elected, saluting the flag, standing up and holding your hand over your heart as the Star Spangled Banner is being played? When we forgot to pass out the Handbook for Illegal Aliens to Pretend to be American, we should have made more copies to go to all Republicans, as well. They seem to have forgotten about Unity, graciously losing, and patience. My guess is they are bored after the exciting last twelve years. With Clinton they had pornographic Congressional sessions. With Bush, eight years of trying to guess what the truth really was that they were expected to support in lock step.
While I am quick to criticize whatever I believe to be wrong, dangerous, and almost everything Bush 43's administration did, I never advocated Revolution. I just impatiently waited for the years to pass so that we could elect a President who was actually fit for the job. Now that we have one, too many people expect him to part the ocean of differences between political factions. While President Obama has made many efforts to pull Republicans with particular expertise into his Administration, too many have made themselves look politically rigid, like Judd Gregg did.
My fantasy is that there is a man behind the Republican curtain, acting like a Wizard of OZ, calling the Republican shots. Who might that be? Limbaugh, Gingrich?...probably not, because the curtain has not yet parted to reveal the 'Reverend Jones' who is busily mixing Republican Kool-Aid. There is absurdity in the tea-bagging, supposed purpose (too much taxation). Taxes have gone down for 95% of the country with representation. I also wonder if the people we see on camera are paid 'extras' as the ad makers against the changes in laws for same-sex marriage found.
L.A. Progressive believes it is Rush Limbaugh. Actually, the published comments are the most fun to read, as one wrote: "Flush Dimbulb and his sycophantic minions, are a scary group. He is a legend in his own mind, the Pied Piper of the bitter, and ignorant." It would appear the tea-baggers want the government overthrown. When last I looked, I thought plans to overthrow the government were rewarded with more than a slap on the wrist. I also wonder if we, the overtaxed citizens, are expected to clean up the mess from the million tea bags planned to be thrown in Washington? If so, I firmly object to their demonstration. We have freedom of speech, which dumping teabags does not represent. What do they not understand about the difference between speech and action?
While I am quick to criticize whatever I believe to be wrong, dangerous, and almost everything Bush 43's administration did, I never advocated Revolution. I just impatiently waited for the years to pass so that we could elect a President who was actually fit for the job. Now that we have one, too many people expect him to part the ocean of differences between political factions. While President Obama has made many efforts to pull Republicans with particular expertise into his Administration, too many have made themselves look politically rigid, like Judd Gregg did.
My fantasy is that there is a man behind the Republican curtain, acting like a Wizard of OZ, calling the Republican shots. Who might that be? Limbaugh, Gingrich?...probably not, because the curtain has not yet parted to reveal the 'Reverend Jones' who is busily mixing Republican Kool-Aid. There is absurdity in the tea-bagging, supposed purpose (too much taxation). Taxes have gone down for 95% of the country with representation. I also wonder if the people we see on camera are paid 'extras' as the ad makers against the changes in laws for same-sex marriage found.
L.A. Progressive believes it is Rush Limbaugh. Actually, the published comments are the most fun to read, as one wrote: "Flush Dimbulb and his sycophantic minions, are a scary group. He is a legend in his own mind, the Pied Piper of the bitter, and ignorant." It would appear the tea-baggers want the government overthrown. When last I looked, I thought plans to overthrow the government were rewarded with more than a slap on the wrist. I also wonder if we, the overtaxed citizens, are expected to clean up the mess from the million tea bags planned to be thrown in Washington? If so, I firmly object to their demonstration. We have freedom of speech, which dumping teabags does not represent. What do they not understand about the difference between speech and action?
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