I wish bipartisanship was worse hehehe...I think you meant partisanship ;-)
-----Original Message----- From: Jerry Barnes [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 1:13 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: File in scary as hell "not saying that it is any different, but people keep yelling about change.. it won't come from the Tea Party.. change will only come from outside of the Democratic/Republican joint political machine" The irony in here is so thick, you could cut it with a knife. President Obama ran on a platform of political change. To clean up Washington and usher in an age of cooperation. What we have is more of the same. Lobbyist run his administration, bipartisanship is worse than it has been in generations, and the public trust the government less now than before he was elected. The tea party movement is outside the Democratic/Republican political system. That is why Democrats and Republicans hate it so much. The tea party movement is associated with the Republican party since that is the vehicle that it is using in its attempt to win elections. The irony comes in when one sees that tea party endorsed candidates are knocking off incumbents and career politicians in the primaries. Actual political change isn't coming from DC. It's coming from the grass roots. The tea party movement is actually a liberal movement in the terms of classical liberalism. The early liberal thinker John Locke, who is often credited for the creation of liberalism as a distinct philosophical tradition, employed the concept of natural rights and the social contract to argue that the rule of law should replace absolutism in government, that rulers were subject to the consent of the governed, and that private individuals had a fundamental right to life, liberty, and property. The real question is "Can it maintain its intensity or will it fade away after one or two election cycles?" J - No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Mark Twain The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy. - Thomas Jefferson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:327563 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
