I went to one of the teaparties at the Rhode Island State House in Providence this week, over 4,000 people were there it was great!
And actually the teaparties are non-partisans. Our Politician Elites want to make people think that this is all some “rightwing” conspiracy to undermine Obama. But it was not. There were people from all political persuassions at the teaparty. And they all are concerned about what they see as the growing gulf between common everyday working Americans and a Federal Government that is completely out of touch with them, and running roughshod over them.
Below are two quotes.
- “It’s despicable that right-wing Republicans would attempt to cheapen a significant, honorable moment of American history with a shameful political stunt,”And:
- Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
You know where the second one comes from, the first quote is from Rep. Jan Schakowsky and she was talking about the Tea Parties that were held all across the country yesterday.
She went on to say that the right wing was distorting the truth about the president tax policies. Apparently Rep. Schakowsky believes that her position, and the president’s, is the final say and that we should just fall in line like lemmings and not question what is going on in Washington. She apparently forgot to read the first amendment where it reads that we have the right to free speech and to peaceably assemble, and she clearly does not believe that we have the right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
She has her positions and many Americans have a differing position as was evidenced yesterday. Because we differ with HER position she finds our decision to recognize our first amendment rights despicable and shameful. I ask you, “who is truly being despicable, the person who exercises a constitutional right or the person who feels that a person who exercises a constitutional right is a despicable person?”
But there is a twist to this story. Rep. Jan Schakowsky is calling those who participated in Tea Party tax protests despicable, but the funny think here is that on the day that people were protesting the tax increases, her husband was pleading guilty to tax fraud. Now that is what I call despicable and shameful.
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