The Left Sneers at the Tea Parties

The jackasses on the left made a quite predictable reaction to the teaparties many of us attended yesterday. And who can blame them? I mean, why shouldn't we be happy about losing our freedom and our livelihoods, when we can go along with them and curry the favor of our Betters in the government elite? Who knows, they might even throw us a few crumbs!

Joe Conason, a lackey of the Clintons, who believes that leftwing governments should never be criticized, gave us these words of insight:

If conservative leaders no longer even try to offer serious solutions to national problems, nobody should underestimate their capacity or their will to mobilize angry Americans. Behind the April 15 "tea parties" rallying against President Barack Obama's economic program -- promoted as a new phenomenon by Fox News Channel and right-wing bloggers -- stands a phalanx of Republicans whose ideology is all too familiar.
At the apex of the tea-party movement, aside from such Fox revolutionaries as Rupert Murdoch, there is a well-funded organization known as FreedomWorks, headed by a former politician named Dick Armey. His past career should be instructive to any starry-eyed citizens who believe that they have at last found the true right-wing revolutionary path.

In reality, neither Fox News nor FreedomWorks (which I had never heard of before this article) had anything to do with organizing the tea parties. The tea parties were inspired by comments made by Rick Santelli on CNBC (that awful rightwing NBC). The tea party I attended in Oklahoma City was organized by a young man named Alan Webb. Likewise, the tea parties across the country appear to be all grass-roots movements.

Then Conason proceeds to lie about Armey's record when he was House Majority Leader:

As anyone with a functioning memory should know, the Republicans under the leadership of Armey and his cronies Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay proceeded to rack up excesses in spending and boodling that made the old Democratic Congressional leaders look quite stingy.

Joe, it is clear that you lack a functioning memory. When Armey, Gingrich, and Delay were running the House, that was the first time that the US federal government balanced its budget in decades. Of course, when that happened. Clinton stole the credit for it. Even though if Clinton's plan to nationalize the health care industry (revived recently by 0bama) had passed, it would have added hundreds of billions to the federal government deficit.