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Hope for change

Posted on October 11, 2009 | Comments Off on Hope for change

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Nice thing about the Tea Parties is their older, better-educated demonstrators know more about politics.

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More Tea Party D.C.

Posted on September 14, 2009 | Comments Off on More Tea Party D.C.

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A closer look at some of the crowd that Barry brought out.

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Tea Party D.C.

Posted on September 12, 2009 | Comments Off on Tea Party D.C.

Boy, that Barry can sure bring out a crowd. This one seems not to share his "spread the wealth" ideas, however.

UPDATE:  Apparently CNN is estimating two million folks. Other American Big Media is merely saying "thousands." Funny how, when they’re not sympathetic, they lose the ability to estimate. Fortunately, there is the foreign media. This time-lapse video shows the crowd form and flow to the Capitol.

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Lloyd Doggett gets the word(s)

Posted on August 2, 2009 | Comments Off on Lloyd Doggett gets the word(s)

"Just Say No," the Tea Party crowd chanted at him in South Austin yesterday. He’s a lot more used to chants of "No Justice, No Peace," which is his preferred kind of crowd. But he seemed to be a good sport about it. Not running away, not hiding in his car. I don’t agree with his politics–it’ll take a lot more than chanting to get him to vote against Obamacare, for instance–but I have to admit Lloyd’s a reasonably nice fellow.

UPDATE: Power Line’s headline "Blue Doggett Democrat" seems to be meant to be cute. Lloyd is super liberal, and no Blue Dog of any kind.

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Red meat: secession!

Posted on April 15, 2009 | Comments Off on Red meat: secession!

It’s understandable, what with the whopping deficit that Barry & the Dems are running up, that Texas Gov. Rick Perry would want to run for re-election against the federal government. Especially when his likely primary opponent is U.S. Senator Kay Baily Hutchinson.

So, on the occasion of the Tax Day Tea Party protest, Perry decided to throw Big Media and its liberal pals a little red meat about potential secession. Not that Texas would or could. Can’t keep our sales and property taxes relatively low (not to mention no income tax at all) without all those federal dollars. But it’s nice to see a independent action now and then from the Repubs.

UPDATE:  The Seablogger gives Rick more credit than I think he deserves, but he makes other, better points. Rick Perry for president in 2012? That would be interesting. I expect he’ll concentrate on getting re-elected governor, first.

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Of Liberty And Tyranny

Posted on April 14, 2009 | Comments Off on Of Liberty And Tyranny

Mr. B.’s grandma, a rare reader who joined us at the rancho for Easter weekend, asked me if I was reading the book "everyone is reading" (meaning conservatives like us) i.e. Mark Levin’s Liberty And Tyranny. I haven’t yet, and probably won’t, until and unless I see that it is actually changing anything. Which I doubt it could.

I’ve read too many similar political polemics already. In this case I have to think it’s like that science book of physicist Stephen Hawking’s, A Brief History of Time. Millions of people climbed on its bangwagon to get a copy, but how many actually read it, or understood it? Much less did anything about it? Different horses, of course, and maybe the Tea Party movement will elevate Levin’s work to practice. The TP has lately become a Left Wing media target of ridicule, which is a start of sorts.

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The revolution will not be televised

Posted on March 25, 2009 | Comments Off on The revolution will not be televised

Or widely printed, either, if Big Media has anything to say about it. No wonder they’re going bankrupt. Good riddance, toadies.

UPDATE:  No big loss, says Dustbury: "…since they’d screw up the story, inasmuch as it conflicts with the visions of sugarplums dancing in their heads."

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