Kathianne
04-29-2010, 05:23 AM
The Democrats are working on it. Some interesting blogs and advice to those conservatives that have been hoping for some tea party led direction:
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/theanchoress/2010/04/28/dems-replay-may-2006-tactic/
Dems Replay May 2006 Tactic -UPDATED
Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 5:31 PM
Elizabeth Scalia
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Hispanics and Democratic lawmakers furious over Arizona’s harsh crackdown on illegal immigrants expect huge weekend rallies across the United States, piling pressure on President Barack Obama to overhaul immigration laws in this election year.
Don’t kid yourselves. They were going to do this whether Arizona passed a law or not.
The Dems and the left are replaying what they did in May of 2006: organizing nationwide marches with preprinted signs (courtesy, I am sure, of A.N.S.W.E.R.) and they’re going to pull the same street theater that got the right into an screaming “send them all back, right now!” uproar in 2006, which the media and dems capitalized on, to the detriment of the right.
The left went on to win that election, and since then have you seen these “uprisings” every May 1 or May 5? Since then, in fact, has much been said or done on immigration?
Nope.
Of course not. But it’s an election year, as in 2006, and the Democrats are in deep trouble. Back then, even with “Bush’s increasingly unpopular war” they were not quite sealing the deal. Playing this street theater, and the race card, helped to divide the right, weaken further weaken Bush’s support within his own party, and terrify the GOP congress; being called “racists” from the left, and “shamnesty-promoting traitors” from the right, that spineless crew decided that doing nothing was the safest bet.
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http://hotair.com/archives/2010/04/28/catos-advice-to-tea-partiers-dont-fall-in-love-with-government/
Cato’s advice to Tea Partiers: Don’t fall in love with government
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POSTED AT 10:12 AM ON APRIL 28, 2010 BY ED MORRISSEY
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If the Tea Party aims to restore federalism, then John Samples and Cato have a few pieces of advice for activists. The author of The Struggle to Limit Government: A Modern Political History sees plenty of cause for optimism in the momentum behind the Tea Parties — as long as it focuses on limiting the federal government, enforcing the Constitution, and bringing a new era of federalism to the country. To those ends, Samples offers five pieces of advice, some of which conservatives will likely question:
Essentially, these are the five lessons Samples wants to communicate:
Republicans aren’t always your friends.
Some tea partiers like big government.
Democrats aren’t always your enemies.
Smaller government demands restraint abroad.
Leave social issues to the states.
Items 1 and 5 will probably get very little dispute from Tea Partiers, but the other three are open for debate. I’d agree that Tea Partiers may not all be solid libertarians — which I’m not, either — but the movement itself is based on more limited government. I don’t think it’s accurate to say that some Tea Partiers “like” big government; it’s more like some aren’t enthusiastic about dismantling as much of the federal government as others, especially the more doctrinaire libertarians....
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/theanchoress/2010/04/28/dems-replay-may-2006-tactic/
Dems Replay May 2006 Tactic -UPDATED
Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 5:31 PM
Elizabeth Scalia
...
Hispanics and Democratic lawmakers furious over Arizona’s harsh crackdown on illegal immigrants expect huge weekend rallies across the United States, piling pressure on President Barack Obama to overhaul immigration laws in this election year.
Don’t kid yourselves. They were going to do this whether Arizona passed a law or not.
The Dems and the left are replaying what they did in May of 2006: organizing nationwide marches with preprinted signs (courtesy, I am sure, of A.N.S.W.E.R.) and they’re going to pull the same street theater that got the right into an screaming “send them all back, right now!” uproar in 2006, which the media and dems capitalized on, to the detriment of the right.
The left went on to win that election, and since then have you seen these “uprisings” every May 1 or May 5? Since then, in fact, has much been said or done on immigration?
Nope.
Of course not. But it’s an election year, as in 2006, and the Democrats are in deep trouble. Back then, even with “Bush’s increasingly unpopular war” they were not quite sealing the deal. Playing this street theater, and the race card, helped to divide the right, weaken further weaken Bush’s support within his own party, and terrify the GOP congress; being called “racists” from the left, and “shamnesty-promoting traitors” from the right, that spineless crew decided that doing nothing was the safest bet.
...
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/04/28/catos-advice-to-tea-partiers-dont-fall-in-love-with-government/
Cato’s advice to Tea Partiers: Don’t fall in love with government
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POSTED AT 10:12 AM ON APRIL 28, 2010 BY ED MORRISSEY
PRINTER-FRIENDLY
If the Tea Party aims to restore federalism, then John Samples and Cato have a few pieces of advice for activists. The author of The Struggle to Limit Government: A Modern Political History sees plenty of cause for optimism in the momentum behind the Tea Parties — as long as it focuses on limiting the federal government, enforcing the Constitution, and bringing a new era of federalism to the country. To those ends, Samples offers five pieces of advice, some of which conservatives will likely question:
Essentially, these are the five lessons Samples wants to communicate:
Republicans aren’t always your friends.
Some tea partiers like big government.
Democrats aren’t always your enemies.
Smaller government demands restraint abroad.
Leave social issues to the states.
Items 1 and 5 will probably get very little dispute from Tea Partiers, but the other three are open for debate. I’d agree that Tea Partiers may not all be solid libertarians — which I’m not, either — but the movement itself is based on more limited government. I don’t think it’s accurate to say that some Tea Partiers “like” big government; it’s more like some aren’t enthusiastic about dismantling as much of the federal government as others, especially the more doctrinaire libertarians....