I had no idea how important this weeks nationwide anti-tax tea parties were until hearing liberals denounce them with such ferocity. The New York Times Paul Krugman wrote a column attacking the tea parties apologizing for making fun of crazy people. Its OK Paul youre allowed to do that for the same reason Jews can make fun of Jews.
On MSNBC hosts Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow have been tittering over the similarity of the name tea parties to an obscure homosexual sexual practice known as tea bagging. Night after night they sneer at Republicans for being so stupid as to call their rallies tea bagging.
Every host on Air America and every unbathed basement-dwelling loser on the left wing blogosphere has spent the last week making jokes about tea bagging a practice they show a surprising degree of familiarity with.
Except no one is calling the tea parties tea bagging -- except Olbermann and Maddow. Republicans call them tea parties.
But if the Republicans were calling them tea-bagging parties the MSNBC hosts would have a fantastically hilarious segment for viewers in San Francisco and the West Village and not anyplace else in the rest of the country. On the other hand theyre not called tea-bagging parties. (That of course refers to the cocktail hour at Barney Franks condo in Georgetown.)
You know what else would be hilarious? It would be hilarious if Hillary Clintons name were Ima Douche. Unfortunately its not. It was just a dream. Most people would wake up realize it was just a dream and scrap the joke. Not MSNBC hosts.
The point of the tea parties is to note the fact that the Democrats modus operandi is to lead voters to believe they are no more likely to raise taxes than Republicans get elected and immediately raise taxes.
Apparently the people who actually pay taxes consider this a bad idea.
Obamas biggest shortcoming is that he believes the things believed by all Democrats which have had devastating consequences every time they are put into effect. Among these is the Democrats admiration for raising taxes on the productive.
All Democrats for the last 30 years have tried to stimulate the economy by giving tax cuts to people who dont pay taxes. Evidently offering to expand welfare payments isnt a big vote-getter.
Even Bush had a stimulus bill that sent government checks to lots of people last year. Guess what happened? It didnt stimulate the economy. Obamas stimulus bill is the mother of all pork bills for friends of O and of Congressional Democrats. (O stands for Obama not Oprah but theres probably a lot of overlap.)
And all that government spending on the Democrats constituents will be paid for by raising taxes on the productive.
Raise taxes and the productive will work less adopt tax shelters barter instead of sell turn to an underground economy -- and the government will get less money.
The perfect bar bet with a liberal would be to wager that massive government deficits in the 80s were not caused by Reagans tax cuts. If you casually mentioned that you thought Reagans tax cuts brought in more revenue to the government -- which they did -- you could get odds in Hollywood and Manhattan. (This became a less attractive wager in New York this week after Gov. David Paterson announced his new plan to tax bar bets.)
The lie at the heart of liberals mantra on taxes -- tax increases only for the rich -- is the ineluctable fact that unless taxes are raised across the board the government wont get its money to fund layers and layers of useless government bureaucrats none of whom can possibly be laid off.
How much would you have to raise taxes before any of Obamas constituents noticed? They dont pay taxes they engage in tax-reduction strategies they work for the government or theyre too rich to care. (Or they have off-shore tax shelters like George Soros.)
California tried the Obama soak-the-productive stimulus plan years ago and was hailed as the perfect exemplar of Democratic governance.
In June 2002 the liberal American Prospect magazine called California a laboratory for Democratic policies noting that California is the only one of the nations 10 largest states that is uniformly under Democratic control.
They said this mind you as if it were a good thing. In California the article proclaimed the next new deal is in tryouts. As they say in show biz: Thanks well call you. Next!
In just a few years Democrats had turned California into a state -- or as its now known a job-free zone -- with a $41 billion deficit a credit rating that was slashed to junk-bond status and a middle class now located in Arizona.
Democrats governed California the way Democrats always govern. They bought the votes of government workers with taxpayer-funded jobs salaries and benefits -- and then turned around and accused the productive class of greed for wanting not to have their taxes raised through the roof.
Having run out of things to tax now the California legislature is considering a tax on taxes. Seriously. The only way out now for California is a tax on Botox and steroids. Sure the governor will protest but it is the best solution ...
California was in fact a laboratory of Democratic policies. The rabbit died so now Obama is trying it on a national level.
Thats what the tea parties are about.
Ann Coulter is a columnist and author of Guilty: Liberal Victim and Their Assault On America.
I had no idea how important this weeks nationwide anti-tax tea parties were until hearing liberals denounce them with such ferocity. The New York Times Paul Krugman wrote a column attacking the tea parties apologizing for making fun of crazy people. Its OK Paul youre allowed to do that for the same reason Jews can make fun of Jews.
On MSNBC hosts Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow have been tittering over the similarity of the name tea parties to an obscure homosexual sexual practice known as tea bagging. Night after night they sneer at Republicans for being so stupid as to call their rallies tea bagging.
Every host on Air America and every unbathed basement-dwelling loser on the left wing blogosphere has spent the last week making jokes about tea bagging a practice they show a surprising degree of familiarity with.
Except no one is calling the tea parties tea bagging -- except Olbermann and Maddow. Republicans call them tea parties.
But if the Republicans were calling them tea-bagging parties the MSNBC hosts would have a fantastically hilarious segment for viewers in San Francisco and the West Village and not anyplace else in the rest of the country. On the other hand theyre not called tea-bagging parties. (That of course refers to the cocktail hour at Barney Franks condo in Georgetown.)
You know what else would be hilarious? It would be hilarious if Hillary Clintons name were Ima Douche. Unfortunately its not. It was just a dream. Most people would wake up realize it was just a dream and scrap the joke. Not MSNBC hosts.
The point of the tea parties is to note the fact that the Democrats modus operandi is to lead voters to believe they are no more likely to raise taxes than Republicans get elected and immediately raise taxes.
Apparently the people who actually pay taxes consider this a bad idea.
Obamas biggest shortcoming is that he believes the things believed by all Democrats which have had devastating consequences every time they are put into effect. Among these is the Democrats admiration for raising taxes on the productive.
All Democrats for the last 30 years have tried to stimulate the economy by giving tax cuts to people who dont pay taxes. Evidently offering to expand welfare payments isnt a big vote-getter.
Even Bush had a stimulus bill that sent government checks to lots of people last year. Guess what happened? It didnt stimulate the economy. Obamas stimulus bill is the mother of all pork bills for friends of O and of Congressional Democrats. (O stands for Obama not Oprah but theres probably a lot of overlap.)
And all that government spending on the Democrats constituents will be paid for by raising taxes on the productive.
Raise taxes and the productive will work less adopt tax shelters barter instead of sell turn to an underground economy -- and the government will get less money.
The perfect bar bet with a liberal would be to wager that massive government deficits in the 80s were not caused by Reagans tax cuts. If you casually mentioned that you thought Reagans tax cuts brought in more revenue to the government -- which they did -- you could get odds in Hollywood and Manhattan. (This became a less attractive wager in New York this week after Gov. David Paterson announced his new plan to tax bar bets.)
The lie at the heart of liberals mantra on taxes -- tax increases only for the rich -- is the ineluctable fact that unless taxes are raised across the board the government wont get its money to fund layers and layers of useless government bureaucrats none of whom can possibly be laid off.
How much would you have to raise taxes before any of Obamas constituents noticed? They dont pay taxes they engage in tax-reduction strategies they work for the government or theyre too rich to care. (Or they have off-shore tax shelters like George Soros.)
California tried the Obama soak-the-productive stimulus plan years ago and was hailed as the perfect exemplar of Democratic governance.
In June 2002 the liberal American Prospect magazine called California a laboratory for Democratic policies noting that California is the only one of the nations 10 largest states that is uniformly under Democratic control.
They said this mind you as if it were a good thing. In California the article proclaimed the next new deal is in tryouts. As they say in show biz: Thanks well call you. Next!
In just a few years Democrats had turned California into a state -- or as its now known a job-free zone -- with a $41 billion deficit a credit rating that was slashed to junk-bond status and a middle class now located in Arizona.
Democrats governed California the way Democrats always govern. They bought the votes of government workers with taxpayer-funded jobs salaries and benefits -- and then turned around and accused the productive class of greed for wanting not to have their taxes raised through the roof.
Having run out of things to tax now the California legislature is considering a tax on taxes. Seriously. The only way out now for California is a tax on Botox and steroids. Sure the governor will protest but it is the best solution ...
California was in fact a laboratory of Democratic policies. The rabbit died so now Obama is trying it on a national level.
Thats what the tea parties are about.
Ann Coulter is a columnist and author of Guilty: Liberal Victim and Their Assault On America.
