No group of
political activists has been more intensely criticized than the Tea Party by
the Washington political establishment and its allies in the traditional media.
In recent days, thousands of left-wing zealots even signed petitions on
Moveon.org and Daily Kos demanding that “Teapublicans” like Sen. Ted Cruz of
Texas be arrested and prosecuted for “sedition.”
MSNBC’s Rachel
Maddow also applied the sedition label to the Tea Partiers, and Tennessee
Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen made an epithetic case for the prosecution:
"A lot of those members are
rabid, they're sophomoric — literally, they're second term in Congress —
they've never worked in politics before. Really, you've got to think, we take
an oath to protect this country from 'all enemies, foreign and domestic,' and
these are the domestic enemies."………..
By contrast,
Richochet.com editor Jon Gabriel is a regular blog contributor to FreedomWorks,
one of the activist groups most closely associated with the Tea Party movement.
Gabriel posed an important question in a recent blog post concerning
Washington's red ink flood:
“Debt increased under Republican
presidents and Democrat presidents. It increased under Democrat congresses and
Republican congresses. In war and in peace, in boom times and in busts, after
tax hikes and tax cuts, the Potomac filled with red ink. Washington likes to
talk about sustainability. Forget sustainable — how is this sane? Yet when a
conservative hesitates before raising the debt ceiling, he's portrayed as a
madman.”…..To Read More……
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