Bad Brew Alert: Tea Party Being Hijacked by Progressives
That is the headline of the article they put out this morning. I happened to see it on twitter, pointed and laugh, and wanted to share the laugh. Or frown, suppose it depends on your response.
It is unfortunate that the burden of proof only rests on the Left. Like late-night tv infomercial salesmen, the O-Reilly's, Hannitys, Limbaughs, Savages, Heritage foundations, glenn beck's, etc etc focus more on yelling and facial expressions, or misleading Drudge-y internet articles. Facts be damned. Palm trees in wisconsin be damned..there's too many examples to even cram into a comment, aside, or parenthetical expression. Just too damn many.
And the GOP establishment loves to quote the Heritage Foundation. From Dubya on down.
They get one of their right wing media apparatus-bottom-feeders to throw a smear out there just to throw mud. If nothing, they like the flavor of their own Kool Aid. But the Heritage Foundation is supposed to represent 'smart' conservatism, right?
Progressives are hijacking the Tea Party? You wish. Then maybe there wouldn't be so many signs with misspelled two-syllable words on them.
Or maybe Heritage did this just to queue up some more fodder for Colbert.
Now, this is the body of a diary. This is where you enter quotes from the article, or summarize them while explaining that you don't link to bullshit websites, provide analysis, make arguments, etc.
But there's nothing to really say, because there's not even an assertion in the Heritage foundation writer's post that progressives are hijacking anything at all. ----There's just a quote from Barney Frank about reducing military spending, and a comment about some type of possible cooperation between Tea Party reps and Dems. Just talk. Nothing planned or executed or voted on.....
Wait, nevermind, there's not even that.
There's not even a quote from Frank. You click a link in article and you see the whole echo chamber trick here is based on a quote by Barney Frank. Alone. There is NOTHING coming out of the tea party on record as being 'with' Barney.
Frank said his quest to reduce military spending will probably attract Tea Party lawmakers who campaigned on a platform of fiscal discipline, even to cuts in an area that typically meet strong resistance from Republicans.
“I think the notion of nation building, of America enforcing stability over the world … is wasted money because it doesn’t work,” Frank told the Reuters Future Face of Finance summit. “I think there’s some potential alliance there.”
Frank also sees another area in which the Tea Party might be allies — any attempt by the Republican majority in the House to roll back reforms on derivatives in the wake of the financial crisis. “If they were to try to roll back derivatives regulation legislatively, yes, the Tea Party people would be allies of ours,” he said.
What about their ideological differences? “You learn to work with people that you don’t have anything in common with,” Frank said.
HAHAHA wtf?? "Probably" is all it took for you guys to write this? It's funny that wingers pretend they don't hear anything we say, but then they are hanging on every'probably' that escapes Barney Frank's lips. I thought they hated Frank for being gay. It's amazing that they find time to hang on to his every "probably".
Here's why we shouldn't consider military spending, which funnels billions to contractors and pork-barrel projects like in Boehner's own district, according to the heritage zombies:
“Arguably, the new Tea Party push on defense spending merely echoes long-standing progressive attacks on the Pentagon budget as the nation’s number one ‘entitlement’ program.”
But defense is no entitlement program. It is one of the core responsibilities of the federal government, and a necessity for sustained security and an independent American foreign policy. The issue of defense spending is exacerbated by a gross misunderstanding among average Americans about the share of military spending in the budget. According to a recent poll, 63% of those asked believe that the United States spends more on the military than on Social Security and Medicare. This is far from reality: roughly 58% of the 2010 U.S. budget was spent on domestic entitlements and welfare spending, whereas 20% was spent on defense.
Anybody wonder how fuzzy the math is from these zombies? Let's just say you could probably put some dots, hang it on your car mirror, and have it pass as fuzzy dice.
Tea Partiers are organizing a counter-protest right now in Wisconsin--breaking news!!