Causes Of The Boston Tea Party

July 4 infamy: Republicans try to destroy the American economy

(originally published at The Hill )

Ron Paul would defeat the debt-ceiling increase and cause a global crash. Paul Ryan would destroy Medicare and impose huge punishment on seniors. Mitch McConnell has said his No. 1 goal is to destroy President Obama, not improve our economy, and has abused the rules of the Senate to obstruct every major jobs program for more than two years. Eric Cantor walks out of the debt-ceiling talks and the big question is whether Cantor's dagger is aimed at the back of President Obama, Speaker Boehner or both. (I vote for both.)

On this July 4 the Republican Party is divided between the hope America fails Republicans, who appear to actively want joblessness to rise to seek political gain, and the radical Republicans who adore Ayn Rand, like Paul and Ryan, who favor extremist economic policies that would make America fail (as Republican economic policies often do).

The hope America fails Republicans are a disgrace, with their disgrace made more dramatic as the rest of us celebrate the Fourth of July. It is incredible, amazing and unprecedented that any leader of a major party in Congress could publicly state that his major goal is not to improve the economic lives of Americans, but to destroy a political opponent, while opposing programs to create jobs that Americans desperately want and need.

There is something strange, sick and weird about certain Republicans who express joy, glee and happiness with every new jobless worker while they brag about their success in destroying policies that would create new jobs.

Is there any better reason for large donors to give big money to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and Majority PAC?

The radical Ayn Rand Republicans sincerely believe in their reactionary support for unlimited greed and their destructive opposition to any programs that would create jobs.

Is there any better reason for large donors to give big money to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and House Majority PAC?

My guess is that the hope America fails Republicans and the radical Ayn Rand Republicans may well bring Democrats back to power in the House, and preserve Democratic control of the Senate. Americans do not like partisan politicians who hope America fails, or ideological radicals who would make America fail with an extremism that is hostile to the heartland of the nation.

Boston Tea Party 2.0 : America's Right

As the sun rises this morning and bathes in pinks and reds and yellows the frost-covered expanses of the fruited plain, Americans everywhere are stirring.  America’s true awakening, however,  came last night in the form of victory at the polls for Scott Brown, an unknown state senator from Wrentham, Massachusetts only a few months ago, now thrust onto the national stage as the unlikely successor to Ted Kennedy and the U.S. Senate seat Kennedy held for 46 years.

And this morning, left-leaning politicians, pundits and media types are scrambling to come together and unify behind a makeshift, threadbare explanation of just what happened in the Bay State yesterday.  Inevitably, the Democratic Party establishment will blame Martha Coakley, Martha Coakley will blame Barack Obama, and Barack Obama will blame George W. Bush.  Well, perhaps the last part was a stretch.  But lessons certainly did abound.   Lessons for Democrats, lessons for Republicans, and lessons for all of us.

First and foremost, above and beyond everything else, the result of last night’s special election in Massachusetts is a lesson for Democrats everywhere.

This wasn’t supposed to happen. No, not a Republican victory in the Bay State, though that wasn’t supposed to happen, either.  What really wasn’t supposed to happen, the larger story among large stories, is that a Tea Party candidate won in Massachusetts — the bluest of the blue states, the hob-knobbing ground for Harvard types and generations of Kennedys.  This isn’t 1773 anymore — tea parties just don’t happen in Massachusetts, unless tennis and yachts and trips to Martha’s Vineyard are also involved.

Now that the progressives have turned the mainstream media into an official propaganda orifice, however, we all should have to wonder aloud: where are they going to get their news? Sure, having a gaggle of pin-striped, capped-teeth sycophants running around trumpeting your causes and covering your gaffes may be a convenient way to broadcast your message and gloss over indiscretions, but it ultimately results in a not-so-free press which turns into a one-way street. The liberals in America can send, but they can’t receive.