A Scary Tea Party

by Jonathan Capehart, Washington Post (Good stuff. Some scary comments, though. Their hatred for Obama is obvious, and their propensity to violence comes through.)

Republicans looking to harness the grassroots energy of the Tea Party movement are playing with a raging fire. And after reading yesterday's exhaustive New York Times story on the "loose alliances of protesters" gathered under the Tea Party umbrella, I'm urging Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele and anyone else who claims leadership in the GOP to denounce the radical elements of the Tea Party movement. If not, they better be ready to explain their troubling embrace if (pray not when) these paranoid, self-appointed protectors of the constitution turn their considerable anger into deadly action.

We've been down this road before. In the 1990s, there was lots of talk about the excesses of government power, a U.N.-run New World Order and black helicopters on which the federal government would swoop in to take away Americans' freedom and money. Two deadly confrontations with federal authorities -- in Ruby Ridge, Idaho (1992) with white supremacist Randy Weaver and in Waco, Texas (1993) -- stoked the conspiracy theories that fueled the animus within the militia movement. The distrust and seething hatred of the federal government took murderous form on April 19, 1995, when Timothy McVeigh with an assist from Terry Nichols used the Waco anniversary to detonate a 4,800-pound truck bomb, destroying the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and killing 168 people and injuring 500 others.

That anger is back. . .

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/02/a_scary_tea_party.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

is that the tea party can only be a benefit to true liberals and progressives because they are truly insane and there aren't enough of them to make a difference.

Either they join with the Republicans and cause grief from within or they don't and compete for the same base.

However with that said these folks are nut cases and with folks like Beck, Limbaugh and O'Reilly stoking the fires it's inevitable that someone, somewhere will take up their unacknowledged call for violence at which point they'll all say something like "well I never encouraged actual violence".

An animal will simply behave as is their nature. It's not a cougars fault when it mauls some unsuspecting jogger. The fault lies with those responsible that knew the cougar was there but not only did nothing about it, actually encouraged the attack.

They bring signs that suggest violence against our President, small wonder that they are viewed as prime recruiting ground for Stormfront and other supremacist groups.

And I wasn't allowed to carry this to a Bush rally:



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that the homegrown terrorists are the base of the Republican party? File this one under "D" for "Duh!"

Full of hatred towards the President, Dems, and wants the Jim Crow laws to come back. Ignorant retards!