Tea Partiers Will Fall for Anything
Posted by
Ryan W. McMaken on October 4,
2010 10:11 PM
Tom Tancredo today boasted a variety of endorsements he has received from
local tea party organizers in his bid for the governorship in
Colorado. I won’t bore you with the details, but Tancredo, a Republican
member of Congress until 2009, launched a campaign as an independent
demagogue after he decided the GOP nominee was not to his
liking.
Now, I have no idea how representative these tea party organizers are of
the rank-and-file tea partier, but I do know that Tancredo has spoken at
local tea party events and has been cheered.
What’s interesting is that Tancredo was the only GOP member of the
Colorado Congressional delegation that voted for the TARP Bailout. So,
Tancredo, who voted for the greatest taxpayer ripoff in American history,
goes to tea party events where he recites something about the virtues of
small governments, and then receives thunderous applause.
Tancredo, who supported the legislation that stole almost a trillion
dollars from the taxpayers and handed it over to Goldman Sachs and
friends, now lectures the American people on the need for smaller
government.Probably no other piece of legislation in recent memory
galvanized and defined the party of liberty in America more than the TARP
bailout and the opposition to it. It was the legislation that revved up
the non-stop fleecing of the American public to about triple its normal
speed. And with the support of Tom Tancredo.
The tea party types here are making excuses for him because Tancredo now
says that voting for TARP was a mistake. How courageous. He voted for
TARP because that required no courage, and now he’s disavowing his vote
because that requires no courage. What a magnificent display of
principle!
But, hey, tea partiers, I’m sure that, even though he voted for the
biggest big government piece of legislation in decades, because Goldman
Sachs told him to, that doesn’t mean he won’t be a staunch opponent of
big government on everything else. Right? Keep dreaming, tea
partiers.
Hey, remember when all those Republicans slashed the size of government
after they got control of Congress back in 1994? Remember when George W.
Bush didn’t double the size of amount of federal spending in 8
years? Wasn’t that great?
Oh wait, none of those things happened? Well, I’m sure your voting into
office all the exact same people, like Tancredo, who gave us the bloated
government and bailouts of the last decade will suddenly act in the exact
opposite way now. It’s sure to happen.
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