Third Pawlenty trailer praises tea party
Tuesday, March 01, 2011 at 11:39 am
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In his latest Hollywood-style, highly produced YouTube video, Tim Pawlenty attempts to court the tea party movement. The former governor, whose potential campaign for the GOP nomination in 2012 has remained in the single digits in polls of Republican voters, calls the tea party “A New Birth of Freedom.” The spot concludes with a clip from Pawlenty’s weekend speech to the tea party summit in Arizona. It’s the third such video to be released by his PAC, Freedom First.
That concluding segment — in which Pawlenty, waving a pocket-sized version of the Constitution, shouted, “This is our guide, this is our constitution. We the people of the United States will rise up again. We will take back our government!” — rankled The New Republic’s Jonathan Chait:
Why do I say this is inflammatory? Because conservatives are writing President Obama completely out of the American political tradition. Conservatives claim not only to have a superior vision for securing American prosperity, which is an understandable thing for a political movement to believe, but to represent the sole legitimate custodians of the Constitution. It follows from all this that Obama represents a unique threat to American freedom, and moreover — a point that is often made explicit — that the threat he poses requires a response that goes beyond normal politics. The whole metaphor of the Tea Party is to re-imagine conservatism as a proto-revolutionary guerrilla response to tyranny, rather than a movement that operates through normal political channels.
Watch it:
Pawlenty’s Arizona speech also grabbed the attention of The Guardian’s Michael Tomasky, who keyed in on the section where Pawlenty thanked the tea party for “standing up to the ruling class.” He writes:
We’ve really hit a bizarro historical point. When did 200, or even 2,000, years of agreed-upon reality get turned on its head so that now “the ruling class” is not the actual objective ruling class but a bunch of school teachers and child services workers in Wisconsin?
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Comment posted March 1, 2011 @ 11:46 am
Bush left the White House with $10 trillion in debt. The worst terrorist attack in history happened on his watch. The current financial crisis began on his watch…. Conservatives are good at marketing themselves but only fools will fall for it again.
Comment posted March 1, 2011 @ 12:11 pm
“Take back our government” from whom, exactly? The legitimate winners of a free and fair election?
Comment posted March 1, 2011 @ 12:11 pm
Obama unilaterally declared DOMA unconstitutional and his administraton will not defend it in court.
Sorry, but he is not a one-man supreme court. I wonder what would happen if President Palin unilaterally declared Obamacare or Roe v. Wade unconstitutional and would simply refuse to defend it in court?
Comment posted March 1, 2011 @ 12:14 pm
Piggies- The Beatles
Have you seen the little piggies
Crawling in the dirt
And for all the little piggies
Life is getting worse
Always having dirt to play around in.
Have you seen the bigger piggies
In their starched white shirts
You will find the bigger piggies
Stirring up the dirt
Always have clean shirts to play around in.
In their sties with all their backing
They don’t care what goes on around
In their eyes there’s something lacking
What they need’s a damn good whacking.
Everywhere there’s lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon.
(Repeat)
Praise Jebus, God hates the needy, Amen
Comment posted March 1, 2011 @ 12:59 pm
Timmy really must be getting frightened. He’s been working at this bid for Pres. for over a year, has gotten nowhere, gets yawns where ever he goes. He must be staying up late at night just trying to come up with new ways of getting his name out there- getting someone to notice him. The book didn’t work. It flopped.
His answer: More ridiculous videos. If it makes you happy Tim, you go for it. We’ll keep laughing our butts off.
Comment posted March 1, 2011 @ 1:09 pm
Pawlenty can’t win. That’s because he’s a weenie. He compulsively hedges anything he may need to weasel out of later.
Despite the nice, flag-waving visuals, his spoken Tea Party description kills the video.
“…somewhat fresh, somewhat new…” “…a little bit of outsider status…”
Can you imagine Michele Bachmann telling her troops (and they are her troops!) that they are “somewhat fresh”? …that they have “…a little bit of outsider status”?
You can smell the fear on him. Ex-Governor Bridge (and Financial) Collapse is a dead candidate walking.
Comment posted March 1, 2011 @ 8:29 pm
Obama did not declare DOMA to be unconstitutional; that is for the courts to decide. Rather he concluded after review and discussion with Attorney General Eric Holder that DOMA “fails to meet a rigorous standard under which courts view with suspicion any laws targeting minority groups who have suffered a history of discrimination.” Based on this conclusion, a decision was made for DOJ to stop defending DOMA in the pending lawsuits even as the federal government will continue to enforce DOMA – and will continue to do so until the courts have ruled otherwise or until Congress has repealed DOMA.
Be sure to go to the source to understand the finer points of what is going on than to listen to the misleading soundbytes espoused by anti-gay folks, of which Dennis is one.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/23/obama-doma-unconstitutional_n_827134.html
Comment posted March 2, 2011 @ 12:52 pm
It’s good to see that Dennis supports Roe v Wade and the Healthcare Reform Act since they are the law of the land, and would not support a Republican who opposed them. Otherwise, he’s just a mouthy hypocrite.
Comment posted March 3, 2011 @ 1:54 am
If we wanted to take our government back we would have to start by getting religion and corporate money out of campaign finance. For the sake of sovereignty, political free speech should be a right reserved exclusively to the actual citizens of the country.
The Tea Party serves the wrong masters.
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Comment posted March 3, 2011 @ 12:04 pm
Republican one-man supreme courts:
President George H. W. Bush’s Office of the Solicitor General decided not to defend federal statutes that required minority preferences in broadcast licensing in Metro Broadcasting v. Federal Communications Commissionse.
18 U.S.C. § 3501 intended to overrule Miranda‘s requirement that warnings be given to establish voluntariness of statements by criminal defendants. Every administration (including Reagan and Bush I) took the position that the statute was unconstitutional and therefore did not employ it when opportunities to do so arose.
Comment posted March 4, 2011 @ 11:52 am
Looks like “Crazy Train” needs a new conductor.. ALL ABOARD !! Gov. T- Baggs should put his Pocket Constitution into a paper shredder like the rest of the Republikan Elite have.. The only Constitutional Amendment that the Bagger Party cares about is the 2nd Amendment.. The First, Third, Fourth, Fifth ect. is the equivalent to Toilet Paper!! Gov. T- Baggs your nothing less then a Loser in a cheap suit.. Everything you say sounds like it came out of a David H. Koch textbook for ‘Dummies’…
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