AMY KREMER AND HER TEA PARTY

I listened to Chris Hayes this morning; only it wasn’t Chris Hayes nor was the show in the usual Chris Hayes format: three left leaning democrats and one middle of the road conservatives populated the screen. This morning, to the shock and horror of his usual listeners, like me, there was one radical republican (Amy Kremer) and one reasonable Republican (Fergus Cullen) and two liberals. Mr. Cullen, former chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party, pointed out what many of us suspected, which is that there was and still is a huge division between the Tea Party and the Republican Party. Amy Kremer, “chairman” of the Tea Party Express, espoused the usual Radical Tea Party diatribe against the American family. Why this show was so important to liberals is that it allowed the usual listeners to evaluate directly the lies on which the Tea Party thrives in contrast to moderate republicanism. The shortsightedness of the Tea Party positions looses something in the usual liberal translation of them.

First, their party positions are kindergarten simple, “No more taxes” and “Pay down the deficit”. They are actually proud of the fact that Tea Party members do not want to pay taxes to support their own government; like very young children, they want the candy but do not want to pay for it. They want all the advantages but do not want to pay for them, which means they want someone else to pay. That, my liberal friends, is the very definition of child like greed.

Rather than be ashamed of the fact they are irresponsible, they brag that Pete Domenici was that last Republican Politician to vote to increase taxes. That happened in Oct. 1990. He voted in favor of a bill to reduce federal deficits. Stop and think about that. Think of a household in which the breadwinner decides not to contribute to the economic wellbeing of the house in which he lives; Amy Kremer’s Tea Party, she was the guest on the show, mindlessly advocates doing exactly that. They act as though they want their family to live as they lived in 1929; no social security, no Medicare, unemployment insurance, no minimum wage, no unions, no advances of any kind, no broadband, not iPad, no elevators for Cadillac’s (in fact, no auto company bailouts therefore no Cadillac’s), no preemptive wars, no expanding of or fixing of the national or cities infrastructure, no EPA, no FAA, no SEC, etc.  Amy will not say it but it is not want they really want.  They want to be able to pick and chose those things that they can afford as individuals but eliminate what poor people can only afford collectively. However, if they can sucker the poor people into paying for what they want, they will take it; police, fire, good streets, huge damns, army, navy, etc. They want a free ride.

They claim to have one thing in mind; pay down the national deficit. They conveniently want you to forget that they under the misadventures of George W. Bush already foolishly spend the money. We are not talking about future spending. They are refusing to pay for what they already spent. Their slight of hand, which was so obvious this morning, is that the Tea Party wants us (our government) to destroy all social programs to pay for their foolishness, in some cases tragic foolishness. Amy Kremer wants to hurt her own family by making them live as they lived back before the New Deal, that would be pre-FDR, 1932. Keep in mind they intentionally spent the money to create an economic crisis. Now they are fighting to take advantage of the crisis they created to destroy what they hate the most, the 47%.