By FITSNews || Democrats have formed a new political action committee aimed at keeping Tea Party candidates from being elected in 2010.
What’s it called? The “Patriot Majority PAC,” ironically.
“We are asking all Americans to join us and oppose the extreme tactics of the tea party and the dangerous ideas behind them,” said longtime Democratic political operative Paul Varoga, who is heading up the PAC.
Wait … dangerous ideas? Isn’t the Tea Party fighting for pretty much the same ideas the country was founded on (i.e. life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, etc.)? Since when did those ideas become dangerous? And since when did it become “patriotic” to oppose them?
Anyway, according to Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post, the new “Patriot Majority” PAC will funnel money into 12-15 different races – including a contentious GOP Senate primary in Kentucky, where tea party favorite Rand Paul is running against an establishment Republican named Trey Grayson. Paul is the son of Texas Congressman Ron Paul.
By Recovering Lobbyist March 29, 2010 at 9:42 am
Republicans are criticizing Tea Party candidates for running because they might “take their votes” and cost Republicans the election. I for one think the Tea Party movement is healthy. I also think the current Democrat majority is healthy.
The Tea Party is representing the views of the base of the Republican Party, which the RINOs have neglected. The Democrats are showing America what happens when we follow MSNBC when we vote. It may be rough for a while, but I think the country will be better for this political period of time.
By spinnikerca March 29, 2010 at 10:05 am
” Anyway, according to Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post, the new “Patriot Majority” PAC will funnel money into 12-15 different races – including a contentious GOP Senate primary in Kentucky, where tea party favorite Rand Paul is running against an establishment Republican named Trey Grayson. Paul is the son of Texas Congressman Ron Paul.”
So, this anti-tea party pac is joining with Cheney against Rand Paul?
And WHO are we saying is behind this new group that wants people to give it money?
By Liberty For Me March 29, 2010 at 10:06 am
A committee against Liberty…Nice..
How much longer can these people keep the facade that they are not pro-communists ?..Although they have done such a good job of dumbing down of Americans,it is probably not an issue anymore…SAD.
Hopefully the collapse of our economy under all this socialism will wake people up to reality
By Jim McClarin March 29, 2010 at 10:24 am
So are these Democrats proposing to support Trey Grayson in Kentucky’s Republican primary for US Senate? What would that say about Grayson? Either the Dem’s think he would be the weaker nominee, thus improving the chance of Democratic victory, or they see an ideological ally in Grayson, a former Bill Clinton supporting Democrat.
By OhNoNotAgain March 29, 2010 at 10:40 am
Why shouldn’t Demos form “A committee against Liberty” and call it American?
The Tea Party is against democracy, yet they choose to drape themselves in the founding fathers.
The majority of Americans voted for generally what this Congress and President are doing.
That’s the nastiness of what is going on in America these days. Both sides think they are the “real” Americans and for anyone to have a contrary view means they are un-American.
I think the conservative side has a big head start with this kind of tactic, but both are now doing it.
By Rufus Pinochle March 29, 2010 at 10:52 am
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness have been considered dangerous things from the very beginning of the “Republic” — at least by some. Remember, Alexander Hamilton wanted to adopt virtually the entire British system of government. When he spoke to that effect at the Philadelphia convention, he was respectfully ignored. Case closed, right? Eh, no. Because, as fate would have it, Hamilton remained the most trusted advisor of….wait for it….George Washington. It was Hamilton who urged Washington to saddle up and threaten the Whiskey rebels with the full force of the federal army (one of the most fateful precedents in American history, in my opinion). “How dare you not think of paying your taxes, you backwoods hicks!” was the message. Unlike Jefferson, who seems to have genuinely believed in popular sovereignty, men like Hamilton and his disciples have always viewed a strong, centralized government as the ultimate good. They were (are) willing to let the hoi polloi believe they had a republic, as long as the backwoods hicks didn’t go and get get all uppity and start acting like free men. Be quiet and pay your taxes, so the smart people can figure everything out. That’s the essence of the royalist (later the federalist, progressive, “liberal”, etc.) argument.
By beetrave March 29, 2010 at 11:11 am
I remember walking by the big stimulus rally held by the non-union teachers’ union here in Columbia last spring. The counter-demonstrators, many of whom probably were also big tea party supporters, looked like a bunch of whack-jobs, calling for an end to everything from public schools to water fluoridation, and acting like those who work to provide basic services are all, each & every one, a bunch of parasites. (I always love to see someone who works in child protective services or home health for indigents get called a “government bureaucrat” who “needs to find a real job.” Their jobs are more real than most of us could ever handle.)
The tea party needs to get these fools out from in front of the spotlight if they want their message of fiscal responsibility and personal freedom to be taken seriously. It’s no different from the anarchist punks who made protesters against the Iraq invasion look like a bunch of police-hating ninnies. Otherwise, I think the demos would be wise to give money directly to tea party candidates in the primaries, and then demolish them in the general election.
By silentboom March 29, 2010 at 12:16 pm
War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength; Democrats = The Patriot Majority.
By Liberty For Me March 29, 2010 at 12:50 pm
“beetrave”…why are you a “whack-job” if you oppose being robbed of your money to fund severely inadequate,bias and inefficient schools?..It does not take any depth of thought to figure this is a bad system.
Try looking outside of the box of what a great country we could have if we actually had a free republic instead of a tyrannical socialist agenda
By Checking in March 29, 2010 at 1:00 pm
Hey Liberty for me, I bet when you got up and made your coffee this AM, using the public power monopoly regulated by the US Dept of Energy, took a shower using your municipally controlled water facility, turned on Fox news on your FCC regulated TV, and ate your breakfast regulated by the USDA and FDA, you drove to work in NHSTA approved car on DOT roads, and then returned home to find your house not ablaze or collapsed due to government fire and building codes, you logged on to the internet, which was developed by Defense Advanced Projects Research Administration (not Al Gore) you surfed straight to Fox News to blog about government intervention and socialism, because you won’t government out of your life, all the while using it everyday.
You have been served.
By Liberty For Me March 29, 2010 at 1:19 pm
“checking in”
Actually…this morning I was awoken by my alarm clock built by the ingenuity of millions of individuals all working for their own gain, but whose efforts were coordinated by the prices for labor and materials and finished goods provided by the free market. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the shower head, pipes, and sanitation facilities whose construction also involved the efforts of thousands of people acting in their independent interest. After that, I turned on the TV to The Weather Channel, whose owners include one of the largest multi-national corporations and private equity companies, to see the week’s forecast presented in a clear, informative (and even entertaining) manner. I watched this while eating breakfast of General Mills’ inspected food and taking drugs whose strong brand name gives me confidence in its safety.
At the time which millions of people coordinate their activities to take advantage of each other’s knowledge and skills, I leave for work. I get into my Japanese-designed, Mexican-supplied, Michigan-assembled automobile and set out to work on the roads built by construction contracting companies and named after corrupt politicians, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel that was shipped from the Middle East by an oil company at a per gallon cost many times lower than the price of having a letter delivered across the street by the government monopoly that loses millions of dollars each year. To make the purchase there is no need to leave the pump; I am able to slide a piece of plastic into a small slot and get credit extended to me by a bank who has never met me in person. On the way out the door, I put out the Fed-Ex envelope containing the documents I need to arrive across the country tomorrow morning and drop the kids off at the public school which is attended by only the best students, thanks to the high home prices in the area.
After work, I drive my Japanese-Latino-Midwestern car back home, to a house which has not burned down in my absence because of materials developed in the research and development departments of hundreds of corporations and which has not been plundered of all is valuables thanks to the lock on the door and a sign advertising the security company whose services I employ. My piece of mind was not interrupted by the thought of these events anyway, as I have both fire and homeowners insurance through privately held insurance company.
I then log on to the internet to watch and listen to artists who don’t appeal to a broad enough audience to make it onto one of the few channels that a government monopoly allows to be broadcast. I then log onto the democraticunderground.com to post about how DEREGULATING the medical industry is BAD because low-cost, quality health care can never be provided by greedy, self-interested people.
I think anyone using a brain to get past the government brainwashing could figure this out.
WWMFD……(what would Milton Fiedman do?)
By lars March 29, 2010 at 3:05 pm
Obama supporters have a right to form a PAC…go for it!
I just hope the hatred from the Obama people doesn’t spill over into violence against Republicans. From cannibalizing a geriatric Obamacare protestor this past summer, to attempting to assassinate Congressman Cantor, Democrats have a problem controlling their rage.
Incidentally, the FBI arrested the liberal loon who attempted to kill Congressman Cantor. Contrary to the mainstream, liberal- media narrative, Tea Party members are typically law abiding. It’s the unhinged liberals who struggle with obeying the law…
By beetrave March 29, 2010 at 4:39 pm
@LFM: Although I don’t doubt the sincerity of your positions, I think it’s safe to say that people who call for an end to the public school system represent a fringe position in this country and in nearly all industrial and post-industrial countries on this planet. Too many people, including me, have benefited from public schools to take such arguments seriously. I agree that we have lots of problems in the public schools, but I think you need to offer a solution beyond the usual free-market pixie dust.
Vouchers? Maybe. Charter schools? You betcha. Freedom — or at least elbow room — for schools to decide how they divide up tasks and evaluate and compensate teachers and administrators? Absolutely.
Let’s have a real conversation.
By OhNoNotAgain March 29, 2010 at 4:46 pm
LibertyForMe, you couldn’t escape the government in your post as much as you tried.
Sure, some independent contractors build roads. But when was the last time a private company proposed the construction, from scratch, of an interstate highway and carried through?
If your area has such great schools because of the high property values of all the high achievers who live there, why hasn’t someone built a private school for all those wonderful parents who could probably afford it?
If educating our young is such a great opportunity for private enterprise, needing a diversion of our tax dollars through vouchers, why doesn’t the entrepreneurial set build more private schools?
If it’s such a great opportunity, if private enterprise should do it, there’s probably money to be made even educating the stupid kids?
By Kentuckytruth March 29, 2010 at 5:13 pm
I have never in my life ever seen a more myopic group of people in my life!You all will do yourselves in and how you can lie to one another and believe that drivel is beyond me.Teaboogers are what we call you..each and everyone of you are living on the Lunatic fringe.
By Liberty For Me March 29, 2010 at 5:31 pm
beetrave..not sure what you mean that you doubt my sicerity??..
Watch this video and then tell me how it makes sense to waste YOUR money on terrible school systems and why you would not want to have the say of who and how YOUR child is educated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzvKyfV3JtE
By Liberty For Me March 29, 2010 at 5:40 pm
OhNoNotAgain…really?? How old are you?..If you are more than 25 then you should be embarrassed.Maybe you should just give the government all your money and let them control 100% of your life.I am sure they will be glad to do that.Or you could move to China if you don’t want to wait a few years.
seriously..you cant expand your mind enough to understand responsibilty and liberty??..I feel sorry for you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTOQhPd2Xh4&feature=player_embedded
By Liberty For Me March 29, 2010 at 5:46 pm
beetrave ..sorry I misread as you doubt..
By LOL! March 29, 2010 at 6:43 pm
Typical deceptive tactic from Clinton, Soros and the chock full of nuts Coffee Party. LOL
By LOL! March 29, 2010 at 6:46 pm
We have seen the enemy and they are… IN THE WHITE HOUSE!
Now Obama is shoring up Zelaya!!!
If it walks like a duck….
Plus they are in our schools.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/03/socialists-in-ny-public-school.html
By WorkingTommyC March 29, 2010 at 10:38 pm
Yeah, I don’t get where going up against the Tea Party is a real winner position to take. This country was founded as a reaction to a police-state imposed on us by England.
But now, according to the Dems, it’s really “cool” to be an “anti-rebel” promoting the fascist police state of the Democrat controlled government???
And the worst thing about the Liberal Dem support of Grayson against Rand Paul is that they were not as quick as Lindsey Graham and John McCain to funnel corporate donations to Grayson:
http://www.countryfirstpac.com/candidate/default.aspx
By owen March 29, 2010 at 10:50 pm
sorry Libertyforme but you were ineed served. your counter arguments did not refute anything check in said. it is tough to be a cowboy living in manhattan, and i’m afraid you are stuck here on this planet with us other humans and you should learn to live with it.
By C. Wendt March 30, 2010 at 12:17 am
LibertyForMe: I adored the majority of your response to Checking in’s little spiel (in which he/she “illustrated” that our houses would imminently burn down and collapse were the government not there to teach us how to build them right, cereal would be inedible but for their watchful eye, etc.), but want to inquire; was the little bit at the end about not deregulating the health industry a touch of sarcasm or what-have-you? If so, I will feel a tad bit stupid for failing to clearly perceive it the first time, but alas, I did not and couldn’t resist asking, as sincerity in this position would put a damper on my enthusiasm for your otherwise-beautiful post.
OhNoNotAgain: I’d say you need to think outside the box a little more, here. Private schools are rare and expensive because their public competitors, though not better at actually providing education, have an obvious a priori privilege; they’re tax-funded recipients of government favor. It is the same with virtually all government social services.
Imagine playing a basketball game in which the players on the other team double as the referees and invariably rule in their own favor. Even if your team was much better at actually playing basketball (superior dribbling, passing, shooting, etc.), you would still almost certainly wind up losing the game, not because you were fairly beaten by someone who performed better than you, but because it was rigged, plain and simple. Now, in a basketball league operating under these conditions (one team effectively owns the league, makes the rules and referees its own games, such that they nigh-invariably “win” in spite of their own incompetence at basketball), how many opposing teams do you think would hang around and keep playing against them?
By Liberty For Me March 30, 2010 at 7:36 am
C. Wendt…yes sarcasm.Seems that because these shallow people live in so much socialism that they think it is the only way they can live.
We must have public water…why?…we must have public school..why??
Why is the cost of medicine so high?? All the answers are out there to make this country great again,but you have to get past these brainwashed communists.
The next step is for them to say it is crazy to think you could have a job on your own and not work for government.Then we have made the full transition.Its the only power the government does not have yet.
By DW March 30, 2010 at 10:11 am
“We are asking all Americans to join us and oppose the extreme tactics of the tea party and the dangerous ideas behind them,” said longtime Democratic political operative Paul Varoga, who is heading up the PAC.
So it it is a DANGEROUS idea to want smaller government,to keep more of our hard earned money,and oppose the socialism or redistribution of wealth?
If you think so,we are in big trouble.
By Liberty For Me March 30, 2010 at 11:08 am
This video explains it better than me….
How can you NOT grasp this.?It is so elementary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swl8frWSNEQ&NR=1
By Tea for Me August 20, 2010 at 10:50 am
To a communist, freedom is dangerous. Less gov’t is the scary tactic.
Bwahahhaahha.
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