The Foundation

“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.” –Thomas Paine

Dezinformatsia

Loud mouths: “The conservative voices of America, they are holding you down. They don’t believe in your freedom. They want the concentration of wealth. They’ve shipped your job overseas. … They suppress your vote. … They talk about the Constitution, but they don’t want to live by it. They talk about our forefathers, but they want discrimination.” –radio talk-show host Ed Schultz at Saturday’s “One Nation” rally in DC

A smattering of leftists descended on the National Mall over the weekend to make sure everyone knows they hate the Tea Party. And while they were at it, they trashed the place. See for yourself.

Conservative cross-examination: “Good Morning America on Sunday recapped the liberal One Nation rally held on the nation’s capital, Saturday, but skipped any mention of the socialist and Communist themed signs seen during the march. These are some of the signs that were featured during reporter Tahman Bradley’s segment: ‘Peace, justice, equality, hope, change,’ ‘Fair trade, not free trade,’ ‘Educate every child,’ ‘Full and fair employment’ and ‘Silence GOP lies.’ However, signs with the Communist Party USA logo, posters reading ‘Capitalism is failing, socialism is the alternative’ and ‘Build a socialist alternative’ were not.” –Media Research Center’s Brent Baker

Psychology: “I think [the Tea Party is] more about believing in this preposterous fantasy that white people are some kind of oppressed minority in the age of Obama.” –MSNBC’s Lawrence O'Donnell

“This morning, is the Tea Party losing traction? Our new poll says the answer may be yes…. [I]t seems like the more exposure the Tea Party is getting, the less popular it’s becoming.” –ABC’s George Stephanopoulos

“It sounds like we’re listening to the Cro-Magnon political party sometimes. They don’t believe in evolution, they believe guns should be used against congressmen and congresswomen if you don’t like the way they voted and we should reconsider the best thing Congress has done in 100 years – civil rights. So what do you make of your political party and the candidates that the Tea Partiers have shoved forward?” –MSNBC’s Chris Matthews

Useful Idiot: “I looked through [Obama’s] statement, and, you know, when he says things like ‘Jesus died for my sins. I’m saved by God’s salvation’ – that’s about as definitive as you can get. At this point, if jackasses out there question his faith, they’re just haters.” –MSNBC’s token “conservative,” Joe Scarborough

Newspulper Headlines:

We Blame Global Warming: “Snow Pile in Finland Finally Melts” –AccuWeather.com

We Blame George W. Bush: “Las Vegas Hotel Knew of Pool ‘Death Ray’ Back in 2008” –ABCNews.com

You May Be a Redneck if… “Man is Wounded by Shotgun Blast After Driving Pickup Through Porch” –Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader

Bottom Stories of the Day: “Democrats Aren’t Staging a Comeback” –NationalJournal.com

(Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)

The Demo-gogues

Post partisan politics? “If I hear one more Republican tell me about balancing the budget, I am going to strangle them.” –Joe Biden, who quickly added, “To the press, that’s a figure of speech.”

The BIG Lie: “If you are concerned about debt and deficits, the other side is not presenting any serious ideas.” –BO

Whose money is it? “Their number one economic priority is giving $700 billion in tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires.” –BO, who doesn’t want small business owners to keep their own money

Demotivational speaker: “Every single one of you is a shareholder in that mission of rebuilding our country and reclaiming our future. We can’t let this country fall backwards because the rest of us didn’t care enough to fight. The stakes are too high for our country and for your future.” –Barack Obama

Failing to practice what you preach: “[Y]ou have to go by the three C’s: the Constitution, your conscience and your constituents when you make a vote. What your caucus, Democratic or Republican, thinks is very, very secondary to what I just described.” –House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who routinely ignores the Constitution

Pot and kettle: “I’m always suspicious of, uh, of politics that is dividing people instead of bringing them together.” –Barack Obama, the great divider, on the immigration debate

Pot and kettle again: “It seems to me that Tea Party activists, increasingly influential in the Republican Party, do not seem to much like America the way we are.” –Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH)

“[T]he Republicans have said ‘no, no, no.’ … They have been the party of ‘no’ and obstructionism. … [T]hey do not want America to succeed. They’re into politics.” –Sen. Bernie Sander, self-proclaimed socialist from Vermont

Belly Laugh of the Week: “Ours is a complex message. The Tea Party message is pretty easy and simple. We just don’t have it in our make-up, in our DNA, to mislead the public.” –Democrat Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell

Village Idiots

More hating the Tea Party: “Perhaps the greatest threat of all is the undermining of our Constitution, at the vanguard of this insidious attack is the Tea Party.” –actor Harry Belafonte getting it backwards

Predictions: “If the Democrats can make this a choice, not a referendum, they can win. If it’s a referendum on anger, apathy, laced with amnesia, they’re going to have a problem.” –Bill Clinton

“Maybe after the election is over – I don’t think the Democrats are going to have a very good success in a couple of weeks – but after that’s over, he’ll still be president for two years, and I think he’ll have a much more forceful presentation now than he’s got, you know, a clearer picture of what the situation will be, and I believe he’ll be successful.” –Jimmy Carter on BO

Um, what? “It’s an old charge in politics that somebody flip-flops. It’s a little unusual to have somebody flip-flop and then flap-flip. Seriously. You know what I’m talking about.” –Al Gore

Editorial Exegesis

“A big employer mulls dropping health insurance coverage due to ObamaCare’s mandates. The claim that if you like your plan you can keep it was a lie, and the effort to destroy private insurance is working. The 30,000 or so hourly workers at McDonald’s undoubtedly like the health care plan their employer provides and would like to keep it. For $14 a week, a worker gets a plan that caps annual benefits at $2,000; $32 a week gets you coverage up to $10,000. They get minimum coverage at a minimum price, but most younger workers are healthy and for that reason, they constitute a high percentage of the uninsured. What McDonald’s Corp. offers is not a one-size-fits-all nanny-state special that forces young males to pay for mammograms. President Obama promised that under ObamaCare these workers could keep these plans, but McDonald’s has told federal regulators in a memo that it would be ‘economically prohibitive’ for its insurance carrier to continue to cover its hourly workers unless it receives a waiver to the ObamaCare requirement that 80% of premiums for such ‘mini-med’ plans be spent on medical care. Other large employers who offer such plans could find themselves in the same dilemma…. This administration doesn’t understand how businesses operate and really doesn’t care. As for private insurers, the White House doesn’t care if they’re driven out of business due to higher costs. … Companies such as McDonald’s, and insurance companies too, must manage their bottom lines to stay in business. ObamaCare distorts a system based on risk and turns it into an entitlement that is based on political considerations and aimed at getting as many people totally dependent on government as possible.” –Investor’s Business Daily

Insight

“Politicians never accuse you of ‘greed’ for wanting other people’s money – only for wanting to keep your own money.” –columnist Joe Sobran (1946-2010)

“I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit.” –President Grover Cleveland (1837-1908)

“Things in our country run in spite of the government, not by the aid of it.” –American humorist Will Rogers (1879-1935)

Upright

“What [Harry] Reid and his counterpart in the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, are hoping is that Democrats who lose their seats in the election will be willing to pass legislation in a lame duck session that they know the voting public doesn’t support. In Reid’s logic, they will be free to vote their liberal ideology. And it won’t matter because they will have already lost their jobs. But it is precisely this kind of arrogance that has Democrats in such poor shape heading into the mid-term elections.” –columnist Linda Chavez

“American presidents have advanced redistributionist policies before, but none has used Marxist class-war rhetoric as routinely as Barack Obama. Obama has used the words ‘millionaire’ and ‘billionaire’ in just about every political speech he has made since August – and although Obama himself is a millionaire, he never uses those words except pejoratively. ‘Millionaires and billionaires’ in Obama’s lexicon are people who should be taxed more and held up as objects for public antipathy.” –columnist Terrence Jeffrey

“What about the politician who tells us that he’s not going to raise taxes on the middle class; instead, he’s going to raise corporate income taxes as means to get rich corporations to pay their rightful share of government? If a tax is levied on a corporation, and if it is to survive, it will have one of three responses, or some combination thereof. One response is to raise the price of its product, so who bears the burden? Another response is to lower dividends; again, who bears the burden? Yet another response is to lay off workers. In each case, it is people, not some legal fiction called a corporation, who bear the burden of the tax.” –economist Walter E. Williams

“The Obama administration has fewer people with real world experience in the private sector than any other administration in years. Maybe if they had more people with practical experience in the economy, we wouldn’t be in the mess that politicians created.” –economist Thomas Sowell

“If more politicians were faithful to the Constitution, the government would be restrained. And restraining government is ‘weird,’ ‘wacky’ and ‘dangerous’ to so many liberals today.” –columnist Jonah Goldberg

Short Cuts

“It is a lawyers’ adage: If you have the law on your side, argue the law; if you have the facts, argue the facts; if you have neither, pound the table. Forgive the Democrats for their current table-pounding. They cannot run on their record.” –columnist George Will

“[CNN anchor] Rick Sanchez was fired after saying that Jews control the media on a satellite radio show. If he had said that on his show on CNN, he wouldn’t have gotten in trouble because no one would have heard it.” –comedian Jay Leno

“It’s raining! I don’t like it! Why hasn’t Congress passed the Good Weather Act and the Everybody Happy Act? Sound dumb? Why is it any dumber than a law called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which promised to cover more for less money?” –columnist John Stossel

“Barack Obama did away with the ‘War on Terror’ and changed it to something like ‘Foosball on Terror’ with the promise that it would cause the bad guys to want to come over for some Shawarma and hummus and talk about how the Afghanistan national soccer team would be a real force in the 2014 World Cup.” –political analyst Rich Galen

“Organizers of Saturday’s ‘One Nation Working Together’ rally at the Lincoln Memorial are proud of their diversity. Before the event, they predicted it would be the ‘most diverse march in history.’ It turned out they were right. Looking around the rally, there were Teamsters Local 311, Service Employees International Union Local 1199, Communications Workers of America Local 2336, American Federation of Teachers Local 1, United Auto Workers Amalgamated Local 171, Transport Workers Union Local 100, and representatives of many, many other unions. That’s a lot of diversity.” –columnist Byron York