There are many pundits out there who, in one form or another, say “we should listen to the tea party … that we need to take their grievances seriously.” In that spirit, I say to hell with Obama’s agenda! Let’s consider what initiatives we SHOULD adopt to make them feel included. Here are the TOP TEN can't-go-wrong moves to make that will bring unity and harmony to the nation!
- Establish a joint-congressional committee to investigate whether Obama is REALLY an American.
- Create a special prosecutor to investigate how ACORN stole the 2008 election.
- Establish literacy tests to bar non-English speakers from voting, citizenship be damned.
- Pass a law barring the federal government from establishing ‘death panels.’
- Institute massive tax cuts – recession be damned.
- Close down the internment and indoctrination camps in North Dakota and elsewhere.
- Pass a constitutional amendment barring people who conservatives think are socialists from being president.
- While at it, pass an amendment barring anyone who is not a conservative middle-aged white man from serving any elective office whatsoever.
- Pass laws barring the US from joining or supporting the One World Government.
- Pass laws establishing that evidence is no longer needed to find someone guilty of conspiracy.
Most definitely an agenda to be taken seriously! This is not what most tea partiers think, you say? Check THIS out from Newsweek.
A Foreign Policy President (Jacob Heilbrunn) from the National Interest
"As Obama faces political trouble at home, he is increasingly turning his attention abroad—and chalking up some impressive results."
More Taliban Leaders Captured from live-blogging at the Huffington Post
"Pakistani officials say up to nine al-Qaida-linked militants have been arrested in several raids in the southern city of Karachi. ... Make that one more Taliban leader captured. Yesterday we highlighted the report from Newsweek's Declassified blog about the capture of a second Taliban leader in Pakistan last week, Mullah Abdul Salam, right around the same time as Pakistani authorities grabbed the Taliban's second in command, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar."
Don't Start Bombing Iran Just Yet (David Frum) from the FrumForum
"The Iran nuclear program issues press releases like a second-place political campaign. Why? Two possible answers: -The Iranian nuclear program is not going very well. Lacking an actual completed weapon, the Iranian mullahs may seek to gain some of the political benefits of weaponizing by boasting and bragging. Watch out for us! We’re coming! Any minute now! Getting closer! Or -Might the regime be deliberately provoking a foreign strike?"
Judging Stimulus by Job Data Reveals Success (David Leonhardt) from the New York Times
A VERY important article today in the NYTimes!!
"Imagine if, one year ago, Congress had passed a stimulus bill that really worked. Let’s say this bill had started spending money within a matter of weeks and had rapidly helped the economy. Let’s also imagine it was large enough to have had a huge impact on jobs — employing something like two million people who would otherwise be unemployed right now. If that had happened, what would the economy look like today? Well, it would look almost exactly as it does now. Because those nice descriptions of the stimulus that I just gave aren’t hypothetical. They are descriptions of the actual bill."
Happy Birthday, Dear Stimulus! (Daniel Gross) from Slate
"Don't listen to those Republicans—you're a big success."
Tribunal and Error (Op-Ed) from the New York Times
"Indeed, it’s very disappointing to see politicians and pundits smear the law enforcement community, to imply that the United States attorneys and the F.B.I. cannot do their job properly under the law. Our justice system is an integral weapon in our war against Al Qaeda, and its successes are a big reason the terrorist group has failed to hit our homeland for nine years."
Fear of a 'Multicultural' Nation from Truthdig
"Tom Tancredo made opening-night remarks at the inaugural National Tea Party Convention in Nashville. ... Obama’s election reveals the need for us to “have a civics [or] literacy test before people can vote in this country.” Tancredo is wrong. United States political history reveals our long-standing tradition in this area."
Mullen Finds Little Resistance Among Soldiers to Gay Troops from the McClatchy News Service
"At a Senate hearing earlier this month, Sen. John McCain R-Ariz., urged Mullen and Defense Secretary Robert Gates to "keep the impact it will have on our forces firmly in mind." Yet those gathered at Marine House made it clear they've already accepted the idea of gays and lesbians serving among them."
Probing the Tea Party's Conspiracy Theorist Fringe from the Atlantic
"The Tea Party movement proudly boasts an anti-establishment, anti-incumbent, small-government worldview. But, as a movement, it continues to struggle with its conspiracy-minded roots. Andrew Breitbart and other conservatives recently rejected a high-profile birther speech at the first Tea Party convention in Nashville. There, the tension between the Tea Party's mainstream political ambitions and its vocal, conspiracy-theorist fringe was on full display."
Mount Vernon Statement: the Contradiction at the Heart of this Conservative Fusion (Op-Ed) from the Christian Science Monitor
"Do conservatives really think that two of history’s most radical documents – the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution – were conservative?"
Learning to Manage the Fringe from the Washington Independent
"Conservative activists and Republican politicians have, thus far in the Obama presidency, largely been able to escape the negative attention generated by the movement’s fringes."
SCARY POLITICS NUGGET!!
Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right from the New York Times
"Worried about hyperinflation, social unrest or even martial law, she and her Tea Party members joined a coalition, Friends for Liberty, that includes representatives from Glenn Beck’s 9/12 Project, the John Birch Society, and Oath Keepers, a new player in a resurgent militia movement."
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