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CONGRESSMAN, GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE, SUFFERS WRATH OF ANGRY CROWD FOR VOTING FOR BAILOUT, SUPPORTING STIMULUS
The message from folks in Greenville to Congressman Gresham Barrett was clear Friday evening: Voters are mad about the $700 billion bailout he voted for and the massive government stimulus package he is now supporting.
Barrett, a Republican, attempted to speak before an estimated crowd of 4,000 people at a Post Tax Day Tea Party in the Upstate only to be greeted by boos from most everyone in attendance.
None of the other speakers — including Gov. Mark Sanford, Sen. Jim DeMint and Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer — were booed.
Protesters screamed “go home” and blew air horns during the duration of Barrett’s five minute speech. Some even turned their backs to him.
Messages on dozens of signs and hundreds of fliers also expressed a similar contempt for “Bailout Barrett.”
The gubernatorial candidate did his best to deliver his speech, but the crowd never let up.
“I know you’re mad, I know you’re frustrated, and I hear you,” a shaken Barrett said over the crowd. “You may boo, you may turn your back on me, but I’ll never turn my back on you.”
Barrett has come under heavy fire across the state for his bailout and stimulus support, something that will seriously hamper his gubernatorial bid. Especially with so much of the anger coming from his own backyard in the Upstate.
View the video on YouTube or in High Res on Viddler. To get involved in the South Carolina Tea Party movement, head to SCTeaParty.com.
Daggum Adam. I didnt realize so many of your toothless family members called Greenville home…
This a**hole wants to be our next governor. I am so sorry, I have written him letters as he was our congressman and he just played big man. He is so stupid, just how did he get to Washington to start with. Just remember people he lives off of our money, but he does not listen to us.
Barrett is a socialist not a conservative! Throw him out! We need only true conservatives, not atheists like Barrett.
Great rally! Our first, but not our last. Barrett has driven the nail in his political coffin. We turned our backs while he made his speech, and glad to see many others do the same. Politicians like Barrett give the Republican party a bad name! We need REAL Conservatives in office, not RINOS!
I agree with giving Gresham the hard time, but didn’t Adam support the very same vote? Didn’t he plead with us to support Senator Graham in his patriotic stand? Does not McMaster support taking the money b/c it is our now? Adam we can find your post on this subject…what say you? Gresham has some ’splainin’ to do, but so do you…
You are all dumb if you think SC does NOT need the money…I just heard about 6 teachers who were told they would not be hired next year due to budget cuts…this is not funny. The just spoke tonight with a member of the Citadel BOD and he informed me that we are in TROUBLE. We took in 200 additional students last year but we cant do that this year due to space. We cant take any more out of state students so we are sunk. We are cutting policemen in SC…think down the road when the work force retires and the people who cant go to college NOW cant work in these jobs and we have a need to fill these jobs but have no one. We will have a mass exit of college and well trained professionals leave SC for other states. Take a look at Rock Hill…it is happening already…but you keep sending this crap out OK…and watch our housing market fall because YOU think a few dollars more in taxes is going to hurt you in the long run…you aint seen nothing yet till you try living in ignorance…or should i say even more so.
Speechless…Barrett was considered the conservative in the crowd. His own backyard doesn’t trust him….next please because SC is in serious trouble.
This is very painful to watch. Almost make me feel bad for the poor guy. almost
I don’t understand why he was there. Even will folks knew he was gonna get booed and will folks is a moron. His staff should be fired.
Mike – if SC needs the $$, then why is SC giving it to the feds, only to have it returned with strings attached? Just keep the $$ in the first place! And if your institutions are in the red, maybe it’s because the “administrative” part of their budgets are out of control. If “public servants” give themselves the right to oust you out of your home because you can’t give them what they want – more of your $$ to go into their personal pocket – then they should AT LEAST cut their own salaries & perks to be in line with the median income of their constituents before raising any more taxes!! and trying to make The People feel guilty for politician’s & administration’s lack of good judgement & responsibility in executing their duties. Sorry, no more pity parties, no more laying guilt onto hard working people for the financial woes that are the result of government rip-offs and incompetence/poor judgement.
This guy must be an android. He just kept reading his script in spite of the people and their expression of contempt and disgust. SNL couldn’t have done a better role. Don’t these idiots get it? They probably could have started throwing their shoes and this drone would have continued as he tried to dodge it all.
What a pathetic situation.
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I did not realize that being a socialist was the equivalent of being an atheist. Oh, but then again, I was education in South Carolina public schools (mind you one of the last in education standards in the country), so maybe I was simply misimformed. Hmmm… South Carolina needs the money and we need to move forward. I agree with state’s rights, but come on – this is too far.
Doesn’t anyone remember that Mark Sanford said that our SC budget can’t grow faster than the incomes of the citizens. He told them so! Now they want to nurse at the breast of Obama who feeds them the poison milk of debt to China. We are going to have to make the cuts. The Porkulous will end in 2 years. Then who are you going to blame for the cuts. RINO’s must GO!
Well, well, well, there have now been found people who equal and exceed Gresham (Empty Suit) Barrett on the stupidity meter. Those people are the right-wing reactionary wing-nuts shouting in this crowd. Where were all of these folk during the last eight years when The Shrub and his willing accomplices in the Congress were doubling the national debt, and “balancing” the books by borrowing from China? Where were they as The Shrub and “Easy-Al” Alan Grease-pan inflated the financial and housing bubbles? Where were they when The Shrub decided to make war on two sovereign countries — with predictable Vietnam-style results? Where were they when the Empty Suit was elected and reelected as their representative? Boy, does Barrett need some new speech writers as well as some lessons in how to deliver a speech. I doubt that he could string five coherent words together without a script. And the scripts he is being given are lousy.
While I can agree with holding a politician’s feet to the fire of responsibility for their actions, the reception given Barrett was too much like that the libtards gave Tancredo at UNC-Chapel Hill recently.
A simple turning of backs, letting the crickets provide the only response, would have made just as strong a point to the speaker, without lowering us to the level the other side uses all the time.
I was shocked at the reception he got last night, and although I did not personally turn my back or boo I can’t blame anyone who did.
Fact is, if you say you’re a conservative of high caliber you’re given a trust by conservatives in SC. I like what one speaker said who came after Barrett: conservatives ought to know that bailouts are NEVER right!! Never! So there shouldn’t even have been a question. It’s been said that you never question in the darkness what you’ve been shown in the light.
No one, not me, not you are perfect and we’ll make mistakes as long as we’re on this earth. But there’s mercy to be had for those who humble themselves and ask forgiveness. I think if Barrett continues on with his campaign he’ll never recover from the defeat he’ll face in the primary, but if he withdraws his candidacy now and publicly apologizes and works to earn that forgiveness, public opinion of Barrett will quickly reverse itself.
Is demanding a perfect record on this issue too much to ask, seeing the example of Sanford and DeMint in particular?
Knave, I’m still waiting to hear the moral outrage from the anti-war kooks who bought into Obama, only to find that we’re still going to have tens of thousands of “advisors” in Iraq for years to come, as well as growing troop strengths in Afghanistan.
So where is YOUR moral outrage?
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I was there for this and the video is good but it doesn’t do it justice. Barret got sent a message he won’t forget. It was unlike anything I’ve ever seen. It should be a warning to any other politicians who act like him.
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Well i’m glad to see all you good ol right wing,crazy,conservative christian,hippocrite,homophobe, loonies are gettin together.
Now why don’t you,ns go to Rush’s house and have a big ol barbeque
and talk about how you are going to kick that N… out of the white house. YEEE HAAAA!!
We do not need these fake Republicans hiding behind tochy, feely, political liberal BS. We will vote them all out of office and get real conservatives working towards our interest. This is just the begining towards the end of liberal politics as usual.
The outrage is not that the war must continue in Afghanistan, for now anyway.
The outrage is the pedo duro that the Right foisted on America and the world, the illegal invasion of Iraq.
The sheer venality and obnoxiousness and inadequacy of your Dear Leader — the sock puppet — and his master, Darth Vader.
Wish I coulda been there to boo this assclown. Hope he drops out of the guv race. Maybe he can get himself a bailout, bet he wishes he had one last night!
The Congressman is an “old school” Republican who tries to make government work, is fiscally conservative and believes in America and likely realizes that our form of government is what has made this country so great.
He is in for a RUDE awakening with the “new GOP” which has in my mind apparently turned into a bunch of wacko, anti-tax, anti-government, anti-American, all-take-and-no-give-back, fringe zealots who are probably pleased to have taken over a party and have enough influence that they can shout calls of “secede” to the likes of the Texas govenor; who will try to humor them rather than walk of stage at such crazy garbage. Like Barret, Rick Perry wants to humor these people, unfortunately these are the “new conservatives” who hate our government, and our country – know nothing of conservative fiscal policy, only tax cut fundamentalism and are fine with bigger and bigger debts as long as they don’t have to pay any taxes. The TEA party should be enough to get any other reasonable Republican to dissassociate from the the GOP, as obviously the GOP’s was not smart enough to disassociate from the treasonous, secesionist finge wing that apparently now rules the palace.
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I’m with everyone on the cause. But this was a little rude. I understand being mad but its kind of sad.
Written by Mike Apr 17th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
You are all dumb if you think SC does NOT need the money…I just heard about 6 teachers who were told they would not be hired next year due to budget cuts…this is not funny. The just spoke tonight with a member of the Citadel BOD and he informed me that we are in TROUBLE. We took in 200 additional students last year but we cant do that this year due to space. We cant take any more out of state students so we are sunk. We are cutting policemen in SC…think down the road when the work force retires and the people who cant go to college NOW cant work in these jobs and we have a need to fill these jobs but have no one. We will have a mass exit of college and well trained professionals leave SC for other states. Take a look at Rock Hill…it is happening already…but you keep sending this crap out OK…and watch our housing market fall because YOU think a few dollars more in taxes is going to hurt you in the long run…you aint seen nothing yet till you try living in ignorance…or should i say even more so.
Mike the schools are in trouble because they are run as monopolies by the government. If you don’t want the teachers fired fix the schools. Here is how, first pass the 65-35 law. No school district may have more than 35% of the employees not be teachers. If you look you will find that only 30-40% of any districts employees are teachers, that is backwards. In addition administration staff should always be let go first until the 35% is reached, no teachers should ever be fired before that. Give choice the dumbing down factories known as Public education need competition to become better but the fascist never like competition, that is part of what makes them fascist. I know its a hard word, and while they are not like Franco’s, Mussilini’s or even close to Adolf’s buds they are on the same beginning. Freedom and Liberty over equality. The government can only make us equal by making us equally miserable, or are you hoping for the job of one of the Pigs in Animal Farm?
Barrett just doesn’t get it. Blah, Blah, Blah… what did he say again…Blah, Blah Blah…must be talking to himself again???
Silence DG said,
“…these are the “new conservatives” who hate our government, and our country…”
You, sir, have been watching too much CNN and reading too many fascist DHS reports!
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Listen to this one — a caller on Rush Limbaugh today said that when she called her senator’s office (U.S. Senator Ben Nelson) to inquire whether he would be attending any of the tea parties, she was told that the senator was prohibited from participating in a government protest because [get this] “he is a part of the government.” I couldn’t stick around to hear Rush’s response to that — but — Whoa Nelly!
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If any of you are true conservatives then you would know that Cong. Barrett is the 2nd most conservative rep. within the house. He is also by far the most conservative, fiscally and socially, out of the big 3 in the governor’s race. I encourage you to check his voting record. He has made one bad vote and this was it, you can’t just write the guy of for that. He voted against the stimulus and will vote against any other gov’t aid. This act of booing and people turning their backs was out of hnd and completely rude.
This is what the Republican party has turned into…radical, fanatical, extremist, religious zealouts and closed-minded individuals who’re filled with hate and disrespeect. That’s why the GOP is lossing its strong hold in the south…and its loosing ground real fast! I voted Democrat this election for the first time in my 30 year voting life because I lost confidence in EVERY ELECTED GOP offical several years ago. Do these people not realize the nation is in this economic condition because of 8 years or “wild, uncontrolled spending..and a broken goverment” (per JOHN McCAIN). There would never have been a need for a BAIL OUT had the GOP leadership at the White House and Congress been watching what was going on and not trying to establish a ONE PARTY THEOCRATIC nation with the assistance of some main line denominations…and their pulpit hate mongering. Barrett, the BAIL OUT and Stimulus are a DIRECT RESULT OF THE FAILURE/INABILITY OF THE GOP to govern.
I don’t like Barret because he NEVER responded to ANY OF MY CALLS or emails…and Lindsey Graham isn’t the people’s representative either. Graham ADMITTED in a CNN interview (just after the election) that “I voted with President Bush many times when I should have voted against him…I was wrong” HE ADMITTED IT ON CNN and we put him back into office to betray us again.
The GOP has become a party of extremist who’s actions contradict their testimony.
Protesters screamed “go home” and blew air horns during the duration of Barrett’s five minute speech. Some even turned their backs to him.
That’s not in any way anything like what far-left groups like ACORN do or anything. In fact, that was a truly intellectual response that will certainly raise the level of debate in the U.S. Tip for next time: repurpose one of the chants that ANSWER uses, and make sure and make some papier mache figurines just like ANSWER does.
This is exactly what the Tea Parties are about. We The People need to take back The People’s House in 2010! The People don’t care whether you have a D or R after your name…if you’ve been there too long, you’ve been there long enough! Think about the lobbyists, campaign contributors and businesses that want gov’t contracts — they all throw money at congress people. It’s a shame, but when politicians stay too long in the corrupt cesspool that is now Washigton DC, they can’t help but become corrupted. There is a reason why our founding fathers made the term of a congressman two years. Congressmen were supposed to give a limited time in service to their country and then return home. Our founding fathers would be shocked to see we’ve created “professional politicians.” In the 2010 election We The People will not vote for D or R, we will vote for new and honest.
Let’s wake up South Carolina. Our Congressional delegation has six members and they’ve all be in Congress a long time. Don’t look at the D or R – consider how much time they’ve spent in the barrel filled with bad apples:
Henry Brown – 8 years;
Joe Wilson – 10 years;
Grasham Barrett – 8 years;
Bob Inglis – 12 years;
John Spratt – 26 years;
James Clyburn – 16 years.
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To Mike: if teachrs are being laid off, it is because school administration always budgets as if they were sure of getting full funding two years in the future. It is like your getting a new car because you expect your uncle to die and leave you his inheritance. If the old fart decides not to die, you are stuck right? My bet is that the school district is laying off teachers because they likewise anticipated increased funding and made many more commitments than they could afford if the money did not come. Washington is now supposed to supply the lack, and if they will get it, the schools will expected to get that amount and more two years hence. From the feds, and if not from the feds, then you.
I know that GB voted for the bank bailout; if the banks would have failed all would be but lost. I understand why people are angry with the Congressman but that no excuse to be disrespectful. He acted as most of us would have, he may have by all accounts saved our nation from a depression. But of course people in this state listen to people like Adam that are politically motivated in everything they say. So if you truly want a socialist country keep it up, all your doing is tearing the Republican party apart which will only help the Obama people.
I am sick and tired of whining politicians who campaign as conservatives only to abandon their principles on key issues to their base.Barrett got exactly what he deserved.When you act like a party hack instead of the principled conservative people thought they were electing you are going to be held accountable from now on.He should seriously reconsider his gubernatorial bid!
And a brief message to South Carolina Republican House and Senate members.Your attacks on Mark Sanford won’t be forgotten either.If it is one thing I took away from the Tea Party I attended it is that voters are fed up with party posturing and politics as usual!
It’s time for the rights’ underwear to show.
Barret sounds like what I always thought was the true conservative. Not knee jerk, but real. Too bad the crowd isn’t listening…
Jane K, your 100% correct…I did that last November…I voted against anyone who had been in ANY ELECTED OFFICE (city, county, state and federal) more than two terms. Jack Cafferty, of CNN, has been asking Americans to VOTE OUT THE OLD GUYS for over a year. The problem in South Carolina, Jane…if your Republican anything you say or do is the WORD OF GOD and beyond question…and if your not a specific denomination, your opinion is worthless because your ignorant, unleanred and heathern. SC will be the last state to vote out ANY of the OLD BOYS OUT who have been in ANY office more than two terms…especially Republicans. If two terms is the max for the President…it should hold true for EVERY ELECETED OFFICE ON ANY POLITICAL BALLOT…regardless of Political party affiliation. Gresham Barret WILL BE ELECTED to ANY OFFICE he runs for…and by the very people who booed him last Friday…thats the way you do it her in SC.
THESE PEOPLE ARE SO DUMB!!! Why are conservatives so goddamn stupid all the time? We need to educate the South, before that entire half of America devolves into one huge, stupid, racist, inarticulate, uninformed idiot island (get it? if they secede, it’ll be like they’re an island?)
Nathan – please do not insult atheists by comparing us to this douche. This guy is braindead. The fact that he would walk into a crowd this hostile and not alter his game plan shows that he has no sense and no character. In a situation like that, a candidate needs to either walk away shortly after beginning or address the cause of the unrest. To go forward with that dribble was downright silly.
[...] especially when he says, “I have devoted my life to the conservative cause.” The Palmetto Scoop caught it all, and no wonder: Barrett’s been eating crap from South Carolinians for his TARP [...]
CNN cited the Palmetto Scoop on its website! Good work, Mr. Fogle.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/18/gop-congressman-booed-mercilessly-at-tea-party-rally/
Well lets see now, we have Hannity, O’Reilly, Limbaugh, Fox & Friends all feeding garbage to the uneducated masses who would rather get their information spoon fed to them by political entertainers than to take a minute to read up on the whole story. No wonderthe country is a mess an all this nasty, gutless hate exists. Matters not who is at the helm in this country – Bush was an idiotic puppet without a clue, guided by Karl Rove who did nothing but stuff his pockets full of cash. Obama got the hot potato passed, and now all you fools want to jump up and yell foul! Where were you when Bush spent the entire surplus and then some? Why weren’t you yelling GO HOME then? Geez, get some education before you open your mouth’s an insert your feet – both of them!
Mike Bianhi – I agree with you 150%!
JaneK, you are so stupid. Joe Wilson hasn’t been in Congress for 10 years. Try just over 7. He took office in January 2002.
You are all dumb if you think SC does NOT need the money
Oh, they need it all right. They need it to stay in their own pockets in the first place, not to get it taxed away and redistributed from Washington minus a 70% handling charge.
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All you wishing for another conservative administration and hoping Obama fails? just take a look at your 401 just take a look at your bank account. Just think about the damage your Bush and all his cronies from the Nixon era did to this country here and a broad.
GET EDUCATED….
Get the commies out of both the Republican and Democratic Parties.
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The right wing loves this great country of ours but we fear our government. Why is the left so angry? Why do you feel the need to call people names and put them down. I thought you were the party of understanding, of enlightenment. The problem is your feel good policies are destroying this country. Banks, Auto Makers, Airlines need to be able to fail. If they are not run properly then they should fail. Once you hit your bottom the only place to go is up.
I tell you what we’ll split the country in two, the left can have the eastern side and the right can have the West. The right will take all of our Guns, Religion, Capitalists and Producers. The Left can have all of the people you love so much. We will pay taxes to our own limited government. People will have to work and produce something if they want something. When your friends from China invade you because your just a peace loving country who just want to show love for your enemy’s, we will not come to your defense. When your side of the country goes down in Communist flames we will not help you.
We’re sick and tired of paying other peoples bills, we’re sick and tired of being taxed for being successful, and we’re not going to take it anymore. I don’t care what you think of me because I don’t have to care about you.
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If anyone still thinks that this is still about Republican vs Democrat or left vs right, they haven’t got a clue. This is about freedom.
Some nice astroturfing from the left, here, too. Some of the best I’ve seen.
Well, ya gotta give credit where credit is due…
The OKC Tea Party organizers let the politicians know from the getgo they were not welcome. Our speakers were grassroots folks, the organizer, an Army Ranger, ret., a college student and a housewife. The only “professional” speaker was a local radio announcer who had been supportive and plugged the Tea Parties every opportunity he had. He gave out dates, times and places for various gatherings across the state. There were 23 Tea Parties here and coverage by the news was very minimal.
Most people don’t understand what really happens when people “joins” one political part or the other. For the most part these men are selfishly ambitious people who just want to “get ahead” and they join the political party where they live that has the most voters. They do it because it’s “the only show in town”. Then once they get into power, they do not represent their constituents until just prior to the next election. The Democratic party is like a bunch of socialists or communists and the Republican party is for the most part like a socialists. Why has this happened? Because America is too busy with bread an circuses.
The socialists are fearful of what is transpiring at the grassroot level (normally their “turf”)and working its way up through the population. There were 2,031 cities that committed to a “tea party” and with 400 reporting in, there have been an estimated 1,000,000 in attendance with this number expected to rise dramatically once all the cities report their attendance. In addition, over 35,000,000 viewers on the cable networks watched the coverage. This is what scares the socialists the most, a popular uprising that was spontaneous without national leadership (though look for national leadership to continue the pheonom).
I do not know much about SC political landscape, but I do trust the “party-goers” were downhome, god-fearing, good people that do not want to see this country turn leftward. It is typical for those who fear this tide to belittle and ridicule the participants as “knuckle-dragging, bible thumping, uneducated Bushies that hate non-whites”. When you cannot even keep pace with an argument with facts, drive by shooting is required (or bomb throwing vitriol).
I don’t understand why it is that if you do not the poorly run companies and banks bailed out with OUR tax dollars, you are uneducated, ignorant, etc. What about those banks and companies that need no help? Their management decisions and dollars are going to be devalued just like the rest of ours. In a capitalist economy, you have the ability to thrive or to fail based on the decisions you make….period!! It makes no difference what color you are or whether you are democrat or republican. It has always been about the business decisions you make as to whether you make money and get paid bonuses or fail and become unemployed….well, until now!!! Yes, someone needs to get educated and it is those who want to pour good money after bad with no end in sight!
It’s the same old story from the left who astroturf conservative blogs and the “experts” who sit before the cameras on MSM “news” networks. If you disagree with them, you are “a bunch of wacko, anti-tax, anti-government, anti-American, all-take-and-no-give-back, fringe zealots”. Our Founding Fathers put their property and their lives on the line for their country and as a result this is the greatest country on God’s green earth. For those of you here defending Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, I urge you to NOT back down. Vote your conscience in 2010 and 2012!
Sinclair Lewis said,”Fascism will come to America carrying a cross while wrapped in the flag”. Sounds like the Christian Right of the GOP who want to legislate morality. I don’t believe God wants us to legislate ones right to chose to sin…how can we know a man’s heart if he’s governed not to sin (”choose you this day whom you will serve”)? The fall of every nation in history happened when religious leaders took over the goverment! I’ve been a Republican a long time…but our party has been taken over by a radical, fanatical, opinionated, closed-minded religious sec…who have destroyed the party. Better the party than the nation…in my opinion. The very people who’re attacking Barrett…will vote him into any office if their preacher and denomination endorces him.
Seems like for both republicans and democrates,The gig is up.Bout time!
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A friend and I drove from North Carolina to attend. We also attended the Asheville party on the 15th. Three observations:
1. There were few if any black or hispanic appearing citizens in attendance at either location.
2. The silent majority may well be becoming the vocal majority.
3. The average citizen is far more aware of what is going on in the leadership of this country than Washington thinks.
The premise for these parties is simple – LIBERTY! The founding document of the United States presents two clear principles: (1)Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are rights granted by our Creator (that’s Almighty God for you progressives and atheists) and (2)government’s role is to protect those rights. To put it a little differently, government has a divine obligation to protect that which it cannot provide.
The US Constitution lays out 6 provisions of government in its preamble:
(1) form a more perfect union (regulating boundaries and rules between the various states)
(2) establish justice (the establishment of the rule of law)
(3) ensure domestic tranquility (the practice of the rule of law)
(4) provide for the common defense (speaks for itself)
(5) promote the general welfare (allow for fair business practices)
(6) secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity
These six provisions seal the rights established in the Declaration of Independence. They are prioritized by importance. Without life, there can be no liberty. Without liberty there can be no pursuit of happiness.
Government bureaucracy cannot provide liberty, but it is required to protect it. Capitalism allows for each citizen to pursue his dreams to their fullest, requiring only that he take responsibility in his failures as he takes profit in his success – that’s liberty. Government bailouts suck the life out of liberty as they are simply about control. By the way, Mike Bianchi, any thought that legislation is based on anything other than morality is asinine! The rule of law is all about morality. Also, the world’s governments failed when they became consumed with humanism (progressives). Study the fall of the Roman Empire – it’s a true picture of what libs are doing in this country today.
So…it’s not about taxes. It’s not about spending. It’s not about term limits. It’s ALL ABOUT LIBERTY. Patrick Henry said “give me liberty or give me death”. Are you willing to stand up against tyranny today and proclaim as bold a message? I AM!!
Mr. Smith, where did you get you legal training. I never thought of simply rewriting the preable to the Constitution to say what I wanted it to say. But you are right. The preable supports your position, if we change the words.
The politicians should not be allowed to speak at any of the TEA party’s , they can attend if they like but they should only come to listen, We’ve heard enough from the the lying bunch of thieves’ and its time they heard from us! Most of the TEA party’s wouldn’t let them speak.
BOO, BOO, AND MORE BOO’S!!!
THAT IS MY COMMENT!
That is Classic. Too Late…Too Late… Too Late…ROFL.
Let this be a lesson and a warning to you FOX NEWS!
That is what a Neo Con gets from the RON PAUL REVOLUTION!
Whopping Huge Tea Party on Capitol Hill — 9/12/09
http://www.freedomworks.org/
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RE: MIKE 4/19 11:58
You need to read your post real careful my friend. You sum things up pretty good and dont even realize it. Take your own advice and please do look down the road. I think all of us would maybe see things just a little bit different if you or anyone else who believes in this “CHANGE” could answer just one simple question. I say it’s simple but actually it must be a tough one since no one can answer it. But, WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR ALL THIS FREE MONEY BEING PASSED AROUND? I ask you friend not to listen to anone on this site or any other for that matter. I ask only you read your history. This has already been tried a few times over history and it didn’t work then so what makes anyone think it will work now. I would be the first to agree with you this looks like a quick fix. But the main thing to remember is, it would only be a short term fix and then it would be twice as bad as it is now. Every state is hurting including our own but going in debt is not the answer. You can not buy your way out of this. We have to produce our way out. It’s basic common sense. Something I’m just learning most liberals dont have. ANd as for the housing market, I’m just a dumb a$$ truck driver but I seen this one coming years ago. To me it was common sense people could not buy a brick house on a trailor salary. You can figure it anyway you want to figure it but it will still always come out in the negitive. I honestly dont feel sorry for most people losing their house. I do some as I know some were backed into a corner and had no way out, BUt those who bought a house that they knew they couldn’t afford the day they bought it but only bought it to try and keep up with the Jones down the road, I have a hard time feeling worry for those. And you are so wrong friend. If you think it’s only going to be a few more dollars in taxes I wouldn’t want to be you when you finally wake up and smell the coffee. This thing is going to hit you like a ton of bricks. And you said it best. YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHING YET. If they pass all this on us you can surely say that you havent because the worse will be down the road. My only hope is if all this pass, and I’m talking about all of it. The gun control, abortion, gay rights, the whole mess. If it passes I hope everyone who was for this gets all the firsts from the results to happen to them. It’s all in the history books my friend. You should try and read it sometimes and not depend on anyone to tell you about it. Read it for yourself. Do not take someones word for it.
Memorial Day Tea Party! Flag day Tea Party! 4th of July Tea Party! Veterans Day Tea Party! Tea Tea Tea!
prtp3warrior what ever the hell that is, your boy Ron just cosponsored Barrett’s TEA ACT.
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Conservatives suck.
BARRETT,you are a discrace to any party, you dont answer letters,visits to your office ignored,now you ask for a vote,Ha !
I am a long standing card carrier Republican,no way can I find to
support you,even as a road sweeper.good by !
DONALD J.STRABLE
WAY TO GO GREENVILLE TEABAGGERS!
I went to a tax day tea party in The Woodlands TX where we promptly booed our congressman Kevin Brady for voting for TARP, twice. Despite the fact that we crashed his server and switchboard telling him not to vote for it. These guys gotta know we won’t forget and come primary/election, they are toast. I’m off to go protest Pelosi today in Houston.
GIVE ME LIBERTY, NOT DEBT!
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The charismatic candidate, I liked it.
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