Have Some Tea With Robin Smith

11 Responses to “Have Some Tea With Robin Smith”

1. Aunt B. writes
   February 25th, 2009 2:24 pm

   You know we’d still be British subjects if the original Boston Tea Party had consisted of a series of self-congratulatory speeches and horn-honking. Can’t they at least do something appropriately symbolic, like throwing people who’ve defaulted on their mortgages into the river?

2. Reality writes
   February 25th, 2009 2:28 pm

   Actually it will be the Legislative Plaza fountain.

   Are you volunteering?

3. Sean Braisted writes
   February 25th, 2009 2:46 pm

   Maybe they can be baptized in the waters of conservatism and rise again, newly born, as responsible Republicans who’d never bite off more than they could chew…like, say, an unnecessary war in the Middle East, or something like that.

4. Reality writes
   February 25th, 2009 3:29 pm

   And wear bowties.

   I wonder if Freeman will come and give a donation.

5. Sean Braisted writes
   February 25th, 2009 3:32 pm

   Given that his business is Real Estate, I somehow doubt he supports letting the housing market further collapse as you guys apparently do.

6. Reality writes
   February 25th, 2009 3:38 pm

   So we found an issue he believes in?

   Will wonders never cease.

7. Donna Locke writes
   February 25th, 2009 5:13 pm

   Only one-third of American colonists initially supported the American Revolution. The rest were silent cowards or thought the original one-third were crazy.

8. spaz writes
   February 26th, 2009 12:27 am

   There it is, Donna.

   You’ve just taken the first step in rationalizing what could become a very dark and dangerous path for movement conservatives.

   You should be careful on how you proceed. The public is against conservative ideas, conservative policies, and conservative politicians pretty much everywhere outside the South. Actually, the rural South.

   So before you try to start trying to convince yourself that you and your wingnut brethren are somehow more patriotic than the other two-thirds of the country, know this. All it takes is one or two major incidents perpetrated by right-wing radicals to make all conservatives suspect. Things like say, a church shooting in Knoxville or abortion clinic bombings. These are politically motivated acts that might easily be categorized as “terrorism”.

   So I’d say it’s ok… now… for you and the Dominionists and the Ron Paul crowd to use your “revolution” and “Tea Party” language and pretend that you’re all Paul Reveres and Jeffersons instead of the selfish, Tory elitists that you really are.

   But this ain’t the Bush Administration. And nobody’s buying your bullshit anymore. So tread lightly and try not to go too far off the rails with your “New American Tea Party” nonsense. If you really want to be a “patriot”, try pitching in and helping out instead of whining because you keep losing.

9. Donna Locke writes
   February 26th, 2009 12:40 am

   Spaz, I don’t know what you mean by “right-wing radicals.” I’m part of a national, very diverse network of people whose numbers are a lot bigger, a hell of a lot bigger, than I knew they were years ago — before the expansion of the Internet and Web. Many, the majority, of these people are quiet; you’d never know they are there; they are just good, regular ole Americans minding their own business and getting on with their lives. But they are there, and they are not pleased.

10. spaz writes
    February 26th, 2009 11:11 am

    What is your “very diverse” network “not pleased” with, Donna?

    The tax cut they’re going to get from the Obama Administration?

    A war that your side lied to get and then lost, while taking down the economy with it?

    Or is it that y’all aren’t “pleased” with a black man in the White House? A progressive one, nonetheless.

    One of those has to be the reason because I don’t remember a damn one of you complaining about “big government” and “fiscal responsibility” while your team was spending like drunken sailors with money we didn’t have.

    Your whole argument is a bunch of nonsense. Let’s call this for what it is. A bunch of whiny losers who refuse to accept personal responsibility for their morally bankrupt ideology want to go honk their horns in front of the capital to bring back “the good old days” when people cared what you had to say.

    Patriots? I say you’re all traitors to the country. The best thing that could happen at your Tea Party would be see the whole lot of you thrown in jail.

11. Marcy writes
    February 27th, 2009 9:27 pm

    Spaz must be Zeros mouth of the south .
    Yes we know what we are doing.
    Unlike :That One” that Knows nothing except how to ruin America .
    You Demorats make me sick. You can`t see evil when it is right befor your eyes.