Another Tea Bag Moment, Or: How Did So Many Patriots Fail American History?
Another Tea Bag Moment:
Orly Taitz, the woman who has made it her life’s passion to prove that Barack Obama is not an American, has asked the United Nations for protection against, what she calls, “persecution” in the United States for her efforts. That this most arch of conservatives has begged assistance from the one organization most arch-conservatives fear the most, drips with sweet, sweet irony.
And the Kicker?
Glenn Beck brought the house down at the CPAC convention Saturday night with his sweeping condemnation of what he calls “progressivism”. He called it a ‘cancer that must be cut out’ of our system.
Well, I hope he can look Teddy Roosevelt straight in the eye and say the same thing as TR is himself the ‘birther’ of progressivism and the progressive movement in the United States.
It all happened way back in 1912 when a split within the Republican party between Mr. Roosevelt’s and William Howard Taft’s factions caused the old rough rider to set his own course, one that would endear him and the progressive movement with a permanent, stone-faced impression on the hills of South Dakota along with Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln.
What did Teddy say that launched the progressive movement Mr. Beck believes is a cancer?
“To destroy this invisible Government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.”
Author Samuel Haber, writing about the movement at the time said, “Progressives shared a common belief in the ability of science, technology and disinterested expertise to identify problems and come up with the best solution.” Maybe Beck and the CPAC folks who you seem to want to run this nation have no sense of our collective American experience or maybe they’re simply re-writing history to fit their own belief system and the truth be damned. That they would do this is not unexpected. That the American people would fall for it is a sad testimony to our nation. We do get the government we deserve … and it’s coming.
Another Tea Bag Moment, Or: How Did So Many Patriots Fail American History?
Another Tea Bag Moment:
Orly Taitz, the woman who has made it her life’s passion to prove that Barack Obama is not an American, has asked the United Nations for protection against, what she calls, “persecution” in the United States for her efforts. That this most arch of conservatives has begged assistance from the one organization most arch-conservatives fear the most, drips with sweet, sweet irony.
And the Kicker?
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