Tea Parties: Next Steps

Obama and the Pravda media will be in various forms of hyper-denial about the significance of today’s tea parties. (We’ll lose track of the different spins that will be tried. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs tried two during one briefing—first, implying that the tea parties will be populated mostly by lowlife smokers who are reacting to new taxes on tobacco; and then suggesting that they’ll be populated by the evil ‘rich’ who make over “a quarter million” (his words and emphasis) and didn’t benefit under the Obama ‘tax cut’. The second spin is pretty much what we expected when we anticipated the ‘bourgeoisie temper tantrum’ spin, here. ) They’re going to hope desperately that this will be a one day event; that they can dismiss it along partisan lines and then march forward with their leftist revolution.

Won’t happen. The tea parties are a stirring of the American soul. Tea partiers aren’t acting along partisan lines; they are acting as Americans. Americans are in the process of taking their country back, and they are not going to be stopped.

The bedrock founding principle of America, which we at Brusfhires call individual freedom and responsibility under God, is under assault from within, like never before in all of American history. Americans sense this attack; they sense that it is fundamental to their freedom, health and well-being; they sense that the Beltway political class is utterly and completely out of touch and incapable of either seeing it or responding to it and defeating it. They have enough memory of high school civics class to recall that the US government springs from ‘we the people’, and they are ready to take back control.

So what will be the next steps?

• Kill the budget and start over

• Repeal the stimulus bill

• Demand Obama’s resignation

The prevailing elitist opinion will say these items are all preposterous; especially the last one. They will say the votes in Congress are what they are; that protests are fine for letting off steam, but power remains with Soros and Obama, and the radical left agenda will march on. Elitist opinion is wrong.

Kill the Budget. The people do not want the Obama multi-trillion dollar deficit budget. Period. There is not a shred of evidence from the 2008 campaign to suggest that even one voter believed such a budget would be on the table less than 100 days into the new President’s term. If anything, they heard McCain rail on about earmarks, and Obama act as a tax-cutter and a deficit scold. Now the people get from their government more earmarks, and deficits beyond anyone’s imagination even six months ago. The people have been lied to; they know it; and they are not going to sit back and take it.

Repeal the Stimulus. The stimulus bill was a disgrace, and everyone knows it. We know of people who are almost proudly apolitical who were absolutely offended by their government approving such spending in a bill that not one elected representative even read. Even the apolitical people know it was not about stimulus but about political payback; and the bill attempted major reworking of welfare and healthcare without anything remotely resembling democratic debate. It was an outrage to every serious person, regardless of political affiliation. It was not an outrage to the Beltway political class.

Demanding Obama’s Resignation. Obama in less than 100 days in office has paraded a radical leftist worldview that is totally at odds with the way he portrayed himself in the 2008 election. We’ve chronicled this deceit in multiple essays already; and as much as Obama officials don’t want to believe it, an enormous unspoken driver of the tea parties is the people’s realization that they were defrauded in the 2008 election. There’s no other kind way to put it. They’ve heard of the lies of Bernie Madoff and the losses that followed, and they now know the lies of Barack Obama, and they want to cut their losses now. To coin a phrase, the new President is not the Barack Obama they thought they knew.

Real power derives from truth; truth resides with America’s founding principles; and America’s founding principles derive from—yes, we’ll say it—God. There is a correlation between power, truth and God, and this correlation is not mocked.

The budget, the stimulus bill, and Obama himself represent a mockery of this correlation. To get the country back on track, the first two need to be repealed, and Obama needs to resign. These steps can happen. If the people demand them, they will happen.

Paul Gable

Posted April 15, 2009