Comments on: Jonah Answers the Anti-Tea Party Hysteria

By: GayPatriot » Bill Maher & the Use of the “Tea Bag” Smear

GayPatriot » Bill Maher & the Use of the “Tea Bag” Smear — Thu, 07 May 2009 07:18:42 +0000

[...] however, would rather smear this movement than understand our concerns. I’ve blogged on this before, and more than once. The latest to do so is Bill Maher who took to the Los Angeles Times [...]

By: Aussie

Aussie — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:29:03 +0000

Houdentenor can you give a breakdown for the figure? You see the graph that I have seen that shows the deficit under Bush does not support your statement.

By: Houndentenor

Houndentenor — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:54:28 +0000

Bush added 8 trillion to the deficit. That’s hardly a little bit and not all of it was spent in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I am for balancing the budget. I always have been. But I remember all too well the Republicans going on TV and telling us that deficits don’t matter. I’m sure there was some criticism somewhere from the right of Bush’s deficits but it wasn’t very loud and it certainly wasn’t from the Republican leadership.

By: North Dallas Thirty

North Dallas Thirty — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:17:19 +0000

It’s also the fact, ILC, that people may all vote at the same rate – one per person — but are taxed at different rates.

One wonders what this company would be like if the requirement was that you had to pay taxes in order to vote. The Obama Party would be a historical footnote.

By: ILoveCapitalism

ILoveCapitalism — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:06:02 +0000

From Jonah’s article, another leftie myth about the Tea Parties:

2. The original tea parties were about taxation without representation, today’s spending is the result of Democrats winning elections, so it’s taxation with representation.

Jonah’s response is off. He misses the following truth: Obama campaigned on a net cut in spending. The people voted, or thought they were voting, for spending cuts. So no, Obama’s spending isn’t taxation “with representation”.

Jonah does make the following good point about it:

Democrats are tripling the debt, which means that generations of Americans not yet born will be taxed to pay for spending today. That is a kind of taxation without representation.

I consider it a reinforcing point.

I like Jonah’s closing. In answer to the absurd charge that the Tea Party movement is somehow fascist, he writes:

If you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because you are either grotesquely ignorant or because you subscribe to a statist ideology that believes the expansion of the state is the expansion of liberty.

By: windybon

windybon — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:54:07 +0000

Every time I hear a liberal say Bush did it, too, I think of what my mother used to tell me. “I suppose if Mary jumped off a cliff, you’d jump off too.” I don’t understand why, by Bush increasing the deficit gives Obama permission to double/triple it. If it was wrong for Bush, it’s even more wrong for Obama because he saw what happened to the deficit under Bush.