First Conservative - Political Humor and Obamatudes

Huffington Post ran a piece on April 12 comparing Tea Parties to Book Burning Sessions.  It may surprise the lefties that many thinking Americans would readily agree to a mass book burning – as long as the books being burned are copies of the Federal Tax Code.  Burning all of these would provide enough heat to keep Fairbanks warm until Christmas.

Lefties in general and the Huffingtons in particular simply cannot grasp the fact that there are so many people who don’t like the Obama spending plan.  This lack of understanding will drive media coverage of the Tea Party events now two days away.   Media types don’t understand why overspending is damaging and can’t be expected to teach themselves. 

It is therefore important to make sure our local media understands why over spending is damaging.  The central reason is Inflation.  Inflation is Obama’s tax increase on the middle classes.  The Leader has already learned that the world isn’t crazy about buying US debt instruments, so he will have no choice but to print the money he needs.  Not wanting to leave this to the last minute, the administration has already expanded the current money supply very significantly.  Investors are somewhat unwilling to buy US T-Bills because Obama has already shown his willingness to devalue them the next day.

Inflation though, is a detailed discussion.  If one can keep a liberal’s attention for a couple hours, then one has a chance at winning the argument.  Lefties just don’t have the patience to understand facts or history, they just want to get on with the business of feeling. 

Where does that leave the Tea Parties?  The anti tax movement still needs press coverage and the key to gaining it is to make the messages entertaining but simple enough for journalists to grasp.   Pithy signs and witty slogans are all part of the mix, but there is one key element all Tea Party participants must make sure to use – laughter. 
Self righteous lefties are at their core are highly emotional beings.  As we learned during the Clinton years, emotional beings have one objective in life and that is “to be liked.”  Ann Coulter admonishes us to save our breath in discussing issues with liberals because they can’t discuss a rational issue on an emotional level.  When presented with facts, they just spin themselves into hyperventilating , incoherent  masses of goo.  Don’t believe this?  Just watch an interview with James Carville. 

So as the good guys take to the streets on Wednesday to do battle with those that would steal from our children, remember to point and laugh out loud at the ACORN members and counter protesters.  This is the one thing they can’t stand.   And journalists may just be inspired to talk with someone who is smiling, rather than a foaming-at-the-mouth angry skinny guy who hasn’t seen a shower in several days. 

And after the rally?  Start calling the TV station if your local media types get the story wrong.  Local journalists do not own truth, but they will omit facts.  If they do, they should be called on it.  And light up the blogosphere with your stories.  The blog world is the last bastion of uncensored communication. 

So take heart and take notes!  Hope and Change is on the way!  See you on the 15th!

Protests are generally thought to be inventions of the poor and leftists.  However, the French bourgeois revolution (1789 – 1799) showed that even the middle classes were fully capable of separating heads from shoulders.  And all this started curiously enough as a tax revolt.   President Obama of course faces the same situation.  A government gravely in debt and a cabinet full of career bureaucrats that significantly raised spending, bear interesting similarities to 1789 France.   Soon, the US public’s mood could emerge just as foul.

Over spending and the associated borrowing inevitably leads to rapid, even hyper inflation.  This is the worst of all possible tax increases as inflation raises costs of essential goods and services to the poor and middle classes.  Inflation is a government tax because it is directly tied to government overspending and over-borrowing.   Stop borrowing and printing money and inflation will subside.  When Obama tells the country that He is giving a middle class tax cut, His statement is simply untrue.

As you head to your state capitol grounds or wherever your nearest Tea Party is scheduled to take place, keep in mind that although you might be new to the protest game, there is much to do and see.  Most of it is reasonably fun.  Should you have difficulty enjoying your Tea Party or if you are apprehensive about what will happen, here are ten suggestions to improve the day and bring people together in the spirit of protest.

10.  Roll late-season snowman sized snowballs in front of news reporters’ vehicles.  Journalists hate to work and denying their transportation to the press club bar means they will have to take a look at what is going on around them. 

9.  Find the infiltrator –  Obama’s brown shirts will be in the crowd.  Huffington Post and ACORN members will be the President’s eyes and ears and mischief makers.  One can usually tell an ACORN member by smell.  When one goes without showering for multiple days, one tends to stand out in a crowd.

8.  Look for the best opposition sign – then laugh (Remember the counsel of Ann Coulter… you can’t reason with these people so spin them into a lather and they’ll make fools of themselves) Laughter is the thing liberals really hate.  They can blame you for anything, but laugh at them and they come unglued.

7.  Find the MSNBC reporter – this could be a challenge.  MSNBC’s ratings  are so low that they may have to subcontract reporting duties to a local high school student.  The student will have endured years of oppression at the hands of the teachers unions, so treat her/him gently.

6.  Try to find the Governor – most Tea Parties are to be held on state capitol grounds.  Wave to the governor from where you are.  If your state is run by a Democrat, wave anyway, but understand that your Guv will probably be in Vegas.

5.  Nod your head ‘yes’ and smile when onlookers drive by and gawk – You need to appear confident.  Drive by types will be surprised though.  You will be the first protester they have ever seen that has washed his hair this decade. 

4.  Explain that Inflation is a Tax Increase!   - Obama will argue that he gave the middle classes a tax cut.  The tax cut he provided will be eaten up in two weeks on the inflation driven grocery bill.  And we won’t even talk about fuel prices. 

3.  Wear a Marie Antoinette wig – Liberals won’t get this right away.  Only when they are in their bunk beds at the youth hostel will it dawn on them that you were making fun of the last French Queen who lost her hair as well as what it was attached to.

2.  Take a big cake – Lefties probably won’t get this either.  But keep shouting to them “let them eat cake!”  Then point to your Marie Antoinette wig.

1. Wear red white and blue ribbon.  The tricolor was born during the French revolution.  Obama and Democrats would do well to remember that when government extorts wealth that it doesn’t create, the people tend to dislike it – and yes, even intensely.  They occasionally revolt over it.