Let Them See Tea Parties!!!

We think the Senate’s rebuff yesterday of the cap-and-trade abomination (the subject of a Wall Street Journal editorial here) is another dot in a series of dots that the drive-by won’t connect but we will. We started with the essay titled, "There's Something Happening Here..." —but let’s expand.

Cap-and-trade is part of the radical left agenda that in no way, shape or form was endorsed or approved by the American people in November 2008. But Obama and the Pravda press, speaking with one voice as never before in American history (the subject of another Brushfires essay, here) , seek to mesmerize the country into believing this agenda IS what the people want, and to move it madly and speedily in that direction before the people notice. But it is NOT want the people want; every element of the budget blueprint, including the size of it, is anathema to the American ideal of individual freedom and responsibility under God. And the people are waking up and noticing.

Remember, the vast majority of Americans did not vote for Obama. That’s not a typo. Combine votes for McCain and number of eligible voters who didn’t vote at all, and you have a very large majority of the American people. One can speculate forever about what the non-voters support, but we think the most unreasonable speculation is that they supported an agenda that wasn’t on the ballot and wasn’t even discussed in the campaign. We frankly believe Reid and Pelosi already know the tide has turned in the nation, which is why they went into overdrive to get budget resolutions passed by both houses of Congress before April 15, and set the ‘done deal’ narrative for Pravda to run with.

But wait, you say, isn’t the reconciliation effort just a few weeks of paper-shuffling before it really is a done deal? Maybe. But between now and then, there are going to be tea parties across America on April 15. We think they are going to be bigger and in more locations than anyone currently believes; we think they are going to be orders of magnitude larger than any citizen protest in the history of the country, including the Vietnam War protests so romanticized by the left. They won’t be violent protests, because these will be attended by ‘heart and soul of America’ type people. But they will be deeply passionate, and one big day of protest—if it does not change things in Washington—will not be the end of this.

We know the Pravda media will contort themselves every which way to avoid reporting on the tea parties or to minimize them, but that’s the beauty of the internet (which was the foundation of our essay titled "The Case for Optimism" ). And here’s something else that’s beautiful—we think the politicians are going to notice because, for once, the ubiquity of twenty-somethings comprising most Congressional staffs will be a positive--they will know what’s happening through the web.

We know the cynic will say we’re reaching awfully far to find a sliver of optimism. But we don’t think so. We think what’s really ‘awfully far’ is the size of the gap or disconnect between Obama/Pravda and the American people. It really is as if they are living in separate worlds. The tea parties will bridge that gap in ways that aren’t currently foreseen. They will involve real people appearing publicly, not anonymous, ‘sampled’ respondents to a contrived Pravda poll. It’s possible, of course, that the rabid moveon.org crowd will still intimidate Harry Reid more than the appearance of huge crowds of real, heart and soul Americans, but we think Harry Reid is uniquely weak. Other Senators and Representatives will feel which way the wind is blowing, and it won’t be blowing to the left.

If we didn’t think there was such a thing as truth, and if we didn’t think truth is at the core of the American founding, we’d think the cause of freedom for America and the world is lost. But there is such a thing as truth, and it does constitute the foundation of America. It is also written on the hearts of every man and woman. It may be obscured or buried in some hearts through a variety of ignorance and false teaching, but it’s there nevertheless. Once fully awakened, the godless agenda of the left will be rejected by the people and collapse. Not because of brilliant political strategies and tactics or even the tea parties, but because of the power of truth.

ATTEND A TEA PARTY ON APRIL 15; ENCOURAGE EVERY ONE OF YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO DO SO; AND MAKE YOURSELVES SEEN AND HEARD!!!

Paul Gable

Posted April 3, 2009