The Tea Party Movement bubbled up in the United States of America as a result of the fear we felt that when we thought we had lost what we deemed most precious to us – our freedom and liberty. Just nine months ago, many of us were concerned that we had waited too long to get involved in the body politic of the United States. Nevertheless, some of us decided to stand by no more, regardless of how hopeless the task seemed to be as we saw the first few months of the Obama Administration unfold. Be honest, we thought it was over, didn’t we?
But we went to work, when all seemed lost. Now, let’s awaken today knowing that it is not lost. We must double our efforts. More importantly, we must expand the movement using our early success as a recruiting tool, showing our friends and neighbors that they too can make a difference. That is the message today.
I am convinced that if we hadn’t stood up when we did, we might have nowhere to stand. McCain’s loss motivated us. His loss was a seminal moment in our history, because his win would not have stopped the socialist movement, it just would have been slower, like under Bush, and more unrecognizable, hurting chances to enlist citizens for change.
I am also convinced that God intervened to assist us. The cooling climate is a major gift from God. The cooling undercut greatly the leftist religion of environmentalism and global warming, no small matter in assisting us in exposing the media conspiracy behind it, a key component to our success.
Finally, there is no doubt that we were presented with the gift of arrogance, hubris, and miscalculation by the Obama Administration and the Democrats in Congress who misread the country’s mood. The socialists, for years working to keep under the radar, believed that they had won, and their excessive pride led them to “come out of the closet”. More Americans than ever could see, easily, for themselves, without fear of being called a “conspiracy kook” exactly what the socialists, or statists, had been working for years to accomplish in the United States, a complete abrogation of the Constitution of the United States of America led by the Van Jones’, the Mao worshippers, the gay and lesbian promoters, and the ACORNistas.
So, I write this as a pep talk, a locker room speech, a recognition that our team has improved faster than anyone could have expected. It is important to remind ourselves of our victories, so that we know we are not just whistling past the graveyard or tilting at windmills We have won a game or two, a matter of fact that we never could have predicted just some months ago. We have been heavy underdogs, but we are narrowing the odds. We must use our victories to recruit more to our view, our view that we must bring back the Constitutional principles of the United States of America. We can now show progress. We must embolden ourselves. We must reapply ourselves and double of efforts. We can shape this country and take it back. We know we can win if we apply ourselves and commit ourselves to reshaping America so our children and grandchildren will be able to experience the country we once knew.
Our biggest win, so far, is the fight against the religion of global warming or climate change or whatever they will call it next. Let’s appreciate how far we have come and the battles we have won. First, the Senate put off the bill. Second, the Environmental and Energy Czar, Carole Browner, announced that no legislation would go forth this year. Third, the President of the United States, willing to go to Europe to lobby for the Olympics, was not willing to go to Europe to lobby for an international climate change treaty. Finally, the United Nations declared the December Copenhagen conference on climate change a bust – no treaty would result.
Second, look at the public opinion polls, they are reflecting a changing belief system in our electorate. Big government is down. Freedom and liberty are up. Conservatism is up. Liberalism is down.
Third, look at the collapse of the “statist” media. Newspapers are collapsing. Conservative television and radio is on the rise. Americans are starting to find alternative sources for information.
Fourth, look at how political races and perceptions of political parties are changing. In the special election in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, the Conservative Party Candidate is leading a Republican and a Democrat. We’ll see what the outcome is next week, but that is hopeful news. The Republican Party hierarchy is being exposed as supporting moderate to liberal candidates, even in primaries. The Florida and California Republican Party primary races for the U.S. Senate may lead to candidates winning who are running against the moderate to liberal D.C.-based Republican interests. There is an awakening amongst many of us that it has been both parties have been leading us to the same place, more big government. It has been both parties that are stealing our children’s future. It has been both parties growing the Federal debt. It has been both parties bailing out Wall Street. It has been both parties that are moving us further away from the spiritual principles that underlie our Constitution. Though there may be more than a “dime’s worth of difference” between the two parties, there is surely not a dollar’s worth. “Throw them all out” is the rallying cry that we hear more and more.
So, fear not. Just keep working. We need to organize better. We need to recruit more to our ranks. But, make no mistake, we are winning. Let’s rededicate ourselves. There is no matter more important to us, our children and their children than a fundamental change of direction in this country, back to the principles upon which we were founded.
Paul Porter
Paul Porter is the host of The Paul Porter Show on WFOY AM 1240 (3 – 5 pm) in St. Augustine, Florida, a show that hopes to Bring Back America One Day at a Time by educating the audience about the spiritual principles that underlie the US Constitution.
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Just when you didn’t think that the politicians could find a way to steal more from my generation to give to my grandparents’ generation, President Obama announces a $250 payment to all Social Security beneficiaries next year to make up for no cost-of-living adjustment (COLA). Why is there no cost-of-living adjustment, because there wasn’t any inflation, the requirement for COLA. Moreover, I didn’t get a pay raise at my job, and I work weekly.
I guess the politicians think that my grandparents are easy to bribe. They keep throwing more and more money at them. I guess my grandparents haven’t really thought about my future or what’s best for me because they keep taking the money and voting for the politicians that provide it for them. So what’s another $13-billion among friends? I suppose not much when you consider that my grandparents and their politicians have stuck me with over $38,778 of debt and I’m not even out of high school yet.
They talk about the “greatest generation” that sacrificed through the depression and in World War II to create this great country. I don’t get it. That generation has lived richer with more benefits and free time then any generation in the history of the world. It appears that my friends and I are picking up their tab; and they didn’t even leave the tip.
Even The Wall Street Journal and USA TODAY wrote opinion pieces today entitled “Cash for Oldsters” and “Pandering to Social Security Crowd Sacrifices Responsibility”, respectively. Everyone seems to notice that this is unjust and yet the politicians continue to dole out our money to our grandparents to “buy” their votes.
The tradition and greatness of America is that each generation left the country better for the next. Now, what has been called “the greatest generation” is leaving for my generation a cynical and bankrupted country. It makes you wonder who is calling them “the greatest generation” and how can we take anything they say seriously?
Elia Porter, 17, Senior Ponte Vedra High
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Last week Fineman of Newsweek and Cohen of the Washington Post voiced their concerns as to whether our President, Barack Hussein Obama, is behaving in a manner suited for the Office of the President of the United States. General McChrystal, the President’s choice, upsets the White House with his honest assessment of Afghanistan, implying that the White House is failing in their prosecution of President Obama’s “necessary war.” Then, insult upon injury, Saturday Night Live parodies the President’s inability to accomplish anything on his list of the issues that he campaigned to “Change”, a scathing criticism of the President, ending with the listing of President Obama’s two accomplishments: “Jack” and “Squat”.
When the grown-ups in the traditional, liberal media, particularly the likes of Fineman and Cohen, the general hand-picked by the President, and then comics of Saturday Night Live start to criticize and satirize the resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and his policies and failures, “times they are a’changing.”
Over the week end, Marty Peretz, Editor-in-Chief of the New Republic calls President Obama a “Clinical Narcissist”. George Will, on ABC News’ “This Week” highlights the extraordinary numbers of “me’s” and “I’s” used by the President and the First Lady in their pro-Chicago Olympics speeches in Copenhagen on Thursday. In www.newsbusters.org on Monday, Blogger P.J. Gladnick said: “If Obama is a “clinical narcissist” that would make the MSM his enablers since months before he was elected president, they were already portraying him in images and print as having a saintly halo image. “
So we’ve got a ‘Clinical Narcissist’ and his willing enablers in the press leading our country. What is the the result of the U.S. – a President who believes that he can say whatever he wants without any consequence of “fact-checking” by those that enable him, the old media. Consequently, his address on Saturday regarding the economy and the need for health care reform to solve our economic, read unemployment, problems goes unchallenged. This week end the President used his Saturday radio address to tout how health care reform will solve our growing unemployment problems and, hence, revive our floundering economy.
When President Obama blamed the lack of health care reform as the basis for the growing unemployment problem he knew that no one would suggest the obvious, because the old media has its head up Mr. Obama’s “pant crease”. Mr. Obama provided examples of businesses that can’t grow, can’t invest in R&D, can’t get started and can’t survive without this healthcare reform. Nowhere do we see anyone point out that our unemployment problem is here today, except maybe Limbaugh, suffocating us today, and your health care bill will only tax businesses between now and 2013, but no health care reform will be implemented prior to 2013. How does that solve today’s unemployment problems caused by financial stress on small business resulting from escalating health care premiums: taxes today but no reform for four years? This is the lie of the Obama Administration, the connection between the solution for today’s economic woes with his health care plan (a bigger lie is that there is an Obama health care plan, a plan that no one has ever seen, but that’s somewhat off the subject).
On Saturday, in his Saturday morning radio address, the President got away with maybe the most misleading policy address of his Administration, bigger than the myth of “millions of green jobs” and absurd claims – that a policy that won’t even begin until, at the earliest, 2013, except for the tax component of it, will somehow solve today’s unemployment problems. This folly would have had no enablers during the Bush years, but this narcissist President is emboldened to speak nonsense in a national address, knowing that his enablers in the old media will not check even the most absurd of his policy pronouncements.
Paul Porter
Paul Porter is the host of The Paul Porter Show on WFOY AM 1240 (3 – 5 pm) in St. Augustine, Florida, a show that hopes to Bring Back America One Day at a Time by educating the audience about the spiritual principles that underlie the US Constitution.
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