[ale] Well isn't this special

[Greg Freemyer]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:29 AM, George Carless <kafka at antichri.st> wrote:
>
> Greg Freemyer (greg.freemyer at gmail.com) wrote the following on Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:47:52AM -0400:
> > If strong support of individual liberty and limited government is what you
> > call extreme, then yes Tea party members are extreme.
>
> If only any of them had any actual SOLUTIONS or PROPOSALS. It's all very well to call for limited
> governent and for limited spending; the problem is with the cognitive dissonance when it comes to
> anything concrete -- such as how to pay for tax cuts without cutting entitlements (Medicare, say), or,
> particularly, military spending (it's funny how "limited government" fans seldom seem to advocate for
> "limited military"...).

Odds are high that Tea Party advocates will control the budget for the
next 2 years.  So we'll get a real chance to check out how they manage
it!



> And, well, libertarians have been around for a long time; the tea party is something of a different
> beast, and I think it's difficult to argue against a preponderance of photographic evidence that
> suggest that the tea partiers seem to overlap rather significantly with the 'birthers' and other
> crackpots...

I'll be curious to see who shows up for the left's 10-2-10 shindig
this weekend.   I suspect the left will have its fair share of
crackpots in attendance.



> George
>
Greg