In all of history so far as Im aware there had only been two famous tea parties. At the first one Samuel Adams and a few of his freedom-loving friends pitched several crates of tea into Boston Harbor. The second was the one Lewis Carroll wrote about a madcap affair with the March Hare the mad Hatter and the narcoleptic Dormouse ganging up to give Alice a hard time.
All of that changed on the 15th of April when a series of tea parties took place all across America. Even I who try to avoid crowds attended a gathering here in the San Fernando Valley.
If you believe the creeps in the MSM -- and why would you? -- we were all dues-paying members of political fringe groups and none of us would think about leaving the house without first donning our little aluminum hats. If you believe Janet Napolitano -- and how could you? -- we were not merely man-created disasters like Somali pirates and Islamic butchers but full-fledged terrorists. Some among us even confessed to being military veterans.
Well either she is very wrong or I am. The 3000 people who showed up at the Van Nuys Civic Center looked like pretty decent average Americans. But not being the head of Homeland Security I cant claim to be an expert when it comes to spotting terrorists.
Heck all I know is that when I look at the likes of Charles Schumer Barney Frank Chris Dodd Barbara Boxer Harry Reid Patrick Leahy Henry Waxman Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Lee my blood runs cold and when I hear Barack Obama pushing his socialist agenda and reaching out to the likes of Castro Chavez and Ahmadinejad the little hairs stand up on the back of my neck. Its like watching one of those really creepy movies but instead of all the scary stuff taking place on Elm Street it occurs on Pennsylvania Avenue.
At the get-together I attended we were rallied aroused and amused by such speakers as comedian Evan Sayet actress Morgan Brittany and talk show host Kevin James. In fact my only problem with the event aside from my decision to wear tennis shorts on a night the temperature dipped into the low 50s was that the entire focus was on Obamas insane fiscal policy. I in no way wish to suggest that the bail-outs the budget and the so-called stimulus package dont remind me of something Dr. Frankenstein would have cobbled together in the castles basement if his master plan had been to destroy capitalism.
However there are so many other things about Obama and his mission that I find terrifying I hate to have us so busy concentrating on his left hand while with his right he muzzles the conservative media destroys our missile defense capability funnels funds to ACORN AmeriCorps and Hamas nationalizes the banks and takes control of the automotive industry and for good measure discusses nuclear disarmament with Russia while trusting the U.N. to deal with Iran and North Korea.
So while I regard Obamas plan to use the tax code to impoverish productive Americans while using tax rebates to bribe those who dont even pay income taxes as a vile left-wing plot Id hate to have my fellow conservatives so completely focused on this one area that they fail to see all the other tricks this con artist has up his sleeve.
Something that has bothered me over the years is the way the lamebrains in the left-stream media invariably turn into unlicensed shrinks whenever a Republican is in the White House but toss a dust cover over the couch as soon as hes replaced by a Democrat.
For instance how many times did we hear liberals babbling about the psychological demons George W. Bush had to contend with because of his allegedly troubled relationship with Dad? But the fact that Bill Clintons father was a drunken bully apparently left no emotional scars on Bills impenetrable psyche.
Furthermore I have yet to hear such eminent Freudians as Bill Maher Chris Matthews Rachel Maddow Frank Rich or Keith Olbermann even suggest that being deserted by both his father and his step-father spending his formative years in the alien culture of Indonesia only to be dumped at the age of 10 on his white relatives in Hawaii may have turned Obama into a smooth-talking narcissistic psychopath incapable of telling the truth even if its about something as relatively inconsequential as sending his kids to a public school and getting them a mutt from a shelter.
Now of course Im not saying he is any of those things. But dont you think if he had wound up after experiencing all that early trauma as somebody who believed in a free market economy; in supporting Israel against the barbarians; in opposing late-term abortions; in calling terrorism by its rightful name; in attending a church that had more in common with Rick Warrens than with Jeremiah Wrights; and in sharing the Constitutional interpretations of Justices Roberts Alito Thomas and Scalia the media would have long ago concluded that even if he wasnt exactly the Manchurian Candidate he was definitely a booby who needed to be hatched?
W. Burt Prelutsky is an accomplished well-rounded writer and author of The Secret of Their Success: Interviews with Legends and Luminaries.
In all of history so far as Im aware there had only been two famous tea parties. At the first one Samuel Adams and a few of his freedom-loving friends pitched several crates of tea into Boston Harbor. The second was the one Lewis Carroll wrote about a madcap affair with the March Hare the mad Hatter and the narcoleptic Dormouse ganging up to give Alice a hard time.
All of that changed on the 15th of April when a series of tea parties took place all across America. Even I who try to avoid crowds attended a gathering here in the San Fernando Valley.
If you believe the creeps in the MSM -- and why would you? -- we were all dues-paying members of political fringe groups and none of us would think about leaving the house without first donning our little aluminum hats. If you believe Janet Napolitano -- and how could you? -- we were not merely man-created disasters like Somali pirates and Islamic butchers but full-fledged terrorists. Some among us even confessed to being military veterans.
Well either she is very wrong or I am. The 3000 people who showed up at the Van Nuys Civic Center looked like pretty decent average Americans. But not being the head of Homeland Security I cant claim to be an expert when it comes to spotting terrorists.
Heck all I know is that when I look at the likes of Charles Schumer Barney Frank Chris Dodd Barbara Boxer Harry Reid Patrick Leahy Henry Waxman Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Lee my blood runs cold and when I hear Barack Obama pushing his socialist agenda and reaching out to the likes of Castro Chavez and Ahmadinejad the little hairs stand up on the back of my neck. Its like watching one of those really creepy movies but instead of all the scary stuff taking place on Elm Street it occurs on Pennsylvania Avenue.
At the get-together I attended we were rallied aroused and amused by such speakers as comedian Evan Sayet actress Morgan Brittany and talk show host Kevin James. In fact my only problem with the event aside from my decision to wear tennis shorts on a night the temperature dipped into the low 50s was that the entire focus was on Obamas insane fiscal policy. I in no way wish to suggest that the bail-outs the budget and the so-called stimulus package dont remind me of something Dr. Frankenstein would have cobbled together in the castles basement if his master plan had been to destroy capitalism.
However there are so many other things about Obama and his mission that I find terrifying I hate to have us so busy concentrating on his left hand while with his right he muzzles the conservative media destroys our missile defense capability funnels funds to ACORN AmeriCorps and Hamas nationalizes the banks and takes control of the automotive industry and for good measure discusses nuclear disarmament with Russia while trusting the U.N. to deal with Iran and North Korea.
So while I regard Obamas plan to use the tax code to impoverish productive Americans while using tax rebates to bribe those who dont even pay income taxes as a vile left-wing plot Id hate to have my fellow conservatives so completely focused on this one area that they fail to see all the other tricks this con artist has up his sleeve.
Something that has bothered me over the years is the way the lamebrains in the left-stream media invariably turn into unlicensed shrinks whenever a Republican is in the White House but toss a dust cover over the couch as soon as hes replaced by a Democrat.
For instance how many times did we hear liberals babbling about the psychological demons George W. Bush had to contend with because of his allegedly troubled relationship with Dad? But the fact that Bill Clintons father was a drunken bully apparently left no emotional scars on Bills impenetrable psyche.
Furthermore I have yet to hear such eminent Freudians as Bill Maher Chris Matthews Rachel Maddow Frank Rich or Keith Olbermann even suggest that being deserted by both his father and his step-father spending his formative years in the alien culture of Indonesia only to be dumped at the age of 10 on his white relatives in Hawaii may have turned Obama into a smooth-talking narcissistic psychopath incapable of telling the truth even if its about something as relatively inconsequential as sending his kids to a public school and getting them a mutt from a shelter.
Now of course Im not saying he is any of those things. But dont you think if he had wound up after experiencing all that early trauma as somebody who believed in a free market economy; in supporting Israel against the barbarians; in opposing late-term abortions; in calling terrorism by its rightful name; in attending a church that had more in common with Rick Warrens than with Jeremiah Wrights; and in sharing the Constitutional interpretations of Justices Roberts Alito Thomas and Scalia the media would have long ago concluded that even if he wasnt exactly the Manchurian Candidate he was definitely a booby who needed to be hatched?
W. Burt Prelutsky is an accomplished well-rounded writer and author of The Secret of Their Success: Interviews with Legends and Luminaries.
