The Foundation

“It does not take a majority to prevail … but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.” –Samuel Adams

Editorial Exegesis

“A group named CrashtheTeaParty.org is planning on attending Tea Party rallies around the country tomorrow pretending to be party members. The strategy is to behave outrageously on Tax Day to provide fodder for the media, which likes to portray opponents to the Obama presidency as fringe radicals. The plot is part of the typical liberal playbook to silence opposition to the left-wing agenda. The party crashers already have dropped into Tea Party meetings and rallies to stake out vulnerabilities. According to Jason Levin, head of CrashtheTeaParty.org, the group has affiliates in 65 cities across the land. He unconvincingly claims that his group’s bizarre antics will simply reflect the hidden views of Tea Partiers. ‘Do I think most of them are homophobes, racists or morons? Absolutely,’ Mr. Levin told Associated Press. The saboteurs’ Web site leaves no doubt about the methods being employed. ‘Whenever possible, we will act on behalf of the Tea Party in ways which exaggerate their least appealing qualities (misspelled signs, wild claims in TV interviews, etc.) to further distance them from mainstream America and damage the public’s opinion of them,’ the site informs. … ‘They can’t actually debate our message, and that’s their problem,’ explains Bob MacGuffie, an organizer for a Tea Party group with members in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey. The Democrats’ desperation shows that Mr. MacGuffie is right on target. Polls show the American public is angry about the explosion of government power during the Obama presidency and Democratic control of Congress. Liberals in power don’t have thoughtful responses to popular criticism, so they are trying to ostracize skeptical thought and intimidate those brave enough to stand against the bureaucratic juggernaut.” –The Washington Times

Upright

“No one likes a spoiled brat. The national leaders who just rammed socialist health care mandates down our throats and many of their compatriots in the liberal media have revealed their selfish, bratty, bully, true selves as they have unloaded a barrage of attacks on the courageous tea party activists around the nation. The socialist policies being forced on America are deplorable to most Americans. The liberals in leadership, just like spoiled bullies, want this, they want that – and they want it all right now – oh, and according to their specific dictates. They are the big bullies who rule the block, and they will not be challenged by small town Americans who try to thwart their plans.” –columnist Rebecca Hagelin

“The radical acolytes of Chicago’s late left-wing organizer Saul Alinsky also understand the importance of manufacturing demons. ‘Before men can act,’ Alinsky preached, ‘an issue must be polarized. Men will act when they are convinced their cause is 100 percent on the side of the angels, and that the opposition are 100 percent on the side of the devil.’ This explains the left’s relentless campaign to sabotage the anti-tax, anti-bailout movement from Day One.” –columnist Michelle Malkin

“When Supreme Court Justices retire, there is usually some pious talk about their ‘service,’ especially when it has been a long ‘service.’ But the careers of all too many of these retiring jurists, including currently retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, have been an enormous disservice to this country.” –economist Thomas Sowell

“The world is about to get a lot more dangerous. For more than 60 years, the United States has been the pre-eminent nuclear power in the world, and the world has been safer as a result. While anti-nuclear fanatics warned of an apocalypse if the U.S. continued to expand and improve its nuclear arsenal during the Cold War, the reality was that our superiority over our enemy and our unwillingness to foreswear the use of nuclear weapons prevented the conflagration many feared. Now, President Barack Obama is determined to abandon six decades of proven nuclear deterrent policy in favor of a fantasy that he can rid the world of these dangerous weapons by tying America’s hands behind our backs.” –columnist Linda Chavez

“What rankles, though, is Obama’s habit of putting down America while praising himself. The laughable assertion that Obama has taken ‘historic steps to improve our own democracy’ shows not humility but an extreme vanity. A truly humble president would occasionally evince some doubt as to whether he is worthy to lead America. Obama seems to doubt whether America is worthy of being led by him.” –Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto

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Dezinformatsia

Alternate universe: “[W]e have seen it on the Republican and the conservative side much, much more than on the Democratic side. The name calling in groups, with signs, calling people, you know, epithets, comparing them to Hitler. We’ve seen it much more from the conservatives, from the tea party movement.” –CNN anchor Don Lemon

Violence! “The McVeigh Tapes puts into perspective the threat posed by anti-government extremism. It doesn’t have to lead to violence, but it can and it has. We ignore this, our own very recent history of anti-government violence and the dangers of domestic terrorism, at our peril.” –MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow attempting to connect tea partiers and conservative activists to terrorism

Fearing the wrong thing: “You have these 14 states’ attorneys general saying that they want to have the court overturn the recently passed health care law. I must say, I was just with my grandkids at Fort Sumter, and the notion of nullification made me extremely nervous because it was, of course, the first step toward the Civil War.” –ABC’s Cokie Roberts

No bias here: “Justice John Paul Stevens … may be the last justice from a time when ability and independence, rather than perceived ideology, were viewed as the crucial qualifications for a seat on the court.” –New York Times “reporter” Adam Liptak

Advice: “If this president decides that his main criteria is to nominate someone to avoid a big fight, he’s betrayed the people who elected him and I think he’s betrayed what a lot of people think are his own feelings about who should be on the [Supreme] Court. He should nominate, no not someone who is an extremist, off the cliff, but someone that he thinks, at least, let’s see how it evolves, is going to stand up for the principles – on the left, if you will – that he believes in.” –ABC news dinosaur Sam Donaldson

Redefining terms: “Well, ‘activist’ is one of those epithets that’s thrown around when it comes to Supreme Court justices, but, as it turns out, everybody likes a certain kind of activist. Liberals like Roe v. Wade, which was a decision to overturn abortion laws in every – in many states in the union. That is certainly an activist decision, but conservatives like activism, too. They like the Heller decision two years ago that overturned gun control laws – democratically passed and democratically elected officials passed gun control laws, and in an activist decision, the Supreme Court struck that down. The Supreme Court struck down part of the McCain-Feingold law. That was certainly an activist decision. So there are liberal activists and there are conservative activists. I think that term should be retired, frankly, because it’s not terribly helpful.” –CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin (Apparently, upholding the First and Second Amendments is now considered “activist.”)

Newspulper Headlines:

We’d Like to Report Tim Geithner, Charlie Rangel, Tom Daschle, Kathleen Sebelius and Hilda Solis: “Make Money by Turning In Tax Cheats” –WUSA-TV Web site (Washington)

He’s Repeating All of Clinton’s Mistakes: “EDITORIAL: Obama Eyes Interns” –The Washington Times

Even FDR Didn’t Go That Far: “Obama Considering as Many as 10 Candidates for High Court Opening” –The Washington Post

We Blame Global Warming: “Near-Death Experience Explained by High Levels of CO₂” –FoxNews.com

Bottom Stories of the Day: “Obama Gets Preachy” –Time.com

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

The Demo-gogues

Supreme narcissist: “I’m pretty confident that we’re not going to plunge into a great depression, which I wasn’t so clear about a year ago. I’m pretty confident that we’ve stabilized the financial system. I’m pretty confident that the economy’s on the mend. I’m also pretty confident that we have got a heck of a lot of work to do to put people back to work. I’m confident that health care was the right thing to do. And that’s going to be a significant achievement when generations look back on it. … But I’m going to wait until I’m maybe 10 years out of office, before I start making assessments about how I do.” –Barack Obama

Non sequitur: “For nearly half a century, we were willing to pay any price and bear any burden to win the Cold War. The threat from Soviet nuclear warheads was a clear and present danger in our lives. Just as clear and present is the danger climate change poses to our economy and national security.” –Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) (Of course, we didn’t give up our freedom to win the Cold War, which is what Kerry and his ilk want us to do to combat “climate change.”)

Supreme Court pick: “It will also be someone who, like Justice Stevens, knows that in a democracy, powerful interests must not be allowed to drown out the voices of ordinary citizens.” –Barack Obama on his upcoming Supreme Court nominee

The BIG Lie: “We actually have not required in this law that you carry health insurance.” –Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)

What a guy: “I just made the tea party people spend a lot of money that wasn’t necessary on all these ads they had to use against me so they can’t use it on somebody else. I’ll take credit in sucking their treasury dry.” –Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI), supposed “pro-life stalwart” who easily caved and voted for ObamaCare and then announced his retirement

Village Idiots

Bad analysis: “Here’s what every Democrat who’s running and supported the president ought to be thinking. They ought to be thinking, here’s a president, and we supported him, who stood up in a very difficult time, made some tough decisions, has a vision not just for how to solve the problem in the short term, but is doing things to strengthen the economy for the long run. And on the other side you have a Republican Party that has essentially said, ‘We’re going to sit on the sidelines and root for failure, and that’s our political strategy.’” –White House adviser David Axelrod

Just more words: “President Obama should travel to the Knesset in Jerusalem and the Palestinian Legislative Council in Ramallah to call upon both sides to negotiate a final status agreement based on a specific framework for peace. He should do so in the company of Arab leaders and members of the Quartet, the diplomatic grouping of the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations that is involved in the peace process. A subsequent speech by Obama in Jerusalem’s Old City, addressed to all the people in the region and evocative of his Cairo speech to the Muslim world in June 2009, could be the culminating event in this journey for peace. … Obama must pursue a far-sighted strategy with historic audacity.” –Zbigniew Brzezinski and Stephen Solarz, respectively Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser and a former congressman from Brooklyn

From the global village: “The recent statement by the U.S. president … implicitly intimidates the Iranian nation with the deployment of nuclear arms. This statement is very strange and the world should not ignore it since in the 21st century, which is the era of support for human rights and campaigning against terrorism, the head of a country is threatening to use nuclear war.” –Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (Get real. BO doesn’t have the guts to intimidate a gnat. Didn’t this guy get the memo that BO is disarming America?)

Short Cuts

“The White House issued its Nuclear Posture Review Tuesday. It told our enemies that the U.S. won’t respond to a biological attack with nukes. From now on if we want to destroy a country, we’re just going to send them the White House economic advisers.” –comedian Argus Hamilton

“Another day, another meaningless Obama summit, this one on nuclear proliferation, at least we hope it’s meaningless. The only thing that would be worse than a meaningless Obama summit is one that makes some real difference.” –radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh

“If you’re still struggling over your tax return, wondering why you pay so much to finance a dysfunctional and wasteful government, maybe it’s time you adopted the same rules used by government number crunchers. … So why not use the same type of make-believe methodology on your tax return?” –columnist Daniel J. Mitchell

“We are nearing the climax of ‘tax season.’ That’s the problem right there, by the way: Summer should have a season, and baseball should have a season, but not tax.” –columnist Mark Steyn

“Imagine combining a straightforward tax law, a single and low tax rate, and the freedom to choose between that approach and the status quo. Talk about a stimulus package! Even better, such a reform would turn April 15 into a relatively pleasant spring date rather than the scariest day of the year.” –columnist Deroy Murdock