This in on Yahoo today ...

What's telling about this are a few things that are not too well-known about prominent "Tea Partiers". Check this out:

Start with the movement's financial backing. The Tea Party Express, a group formed by a longtime California GOP consultant, has raised more than $5 million and financed about $2 million in advertising to help candidates.

The organization was an offshoot of a political action committee created to support John McCain's Republican presidential run in 2008, and its chief strategist is Sal Russo, a Sacramento Republican operative who has worked for nearly 50 years helping run party campaigns, including those of Govs. George Deukmejian of California and George Pataki of New York.

Still loving that "Tea Party Express"??

How about this:

Tea party candidates have also received a boost from FreedomWorks, a conservative group led by former House Republican leader Richard Armey. Its political action committee, formed last April, has raised only a fraction of what the Tea Party Express has amassed in its PAC. But Armey's group has its own influential network, and it has weighed in to support tea party candidates that did not get Tea Party Express support, such as Rand Paul in Kentucky.

OK ... So they hooked up Rand Paul. Does anyone believe Dick Armey would have supported him for any reason other than political gain?

Now I don't know enough about Meckler at this point, and work keeps me from really getting down and dirty for the time being, but she's right on the money with what she says about these two organizations. Armey is a party hack, and who in his right mind would support an organization built on a foundation of supporting McShithead?

Sage is constantly hitting the Tea Party between the eyes, not because he doesn't believe in the movement or the idea or the concept, but because those who wish to lead it are frauds.

The aforementioned information should be evidence enough, and I'd be careful about trusting Meckler as well. This is, after all, a nation built on the distrust of those who wish to lead it.

It's what America is all about.

RWR

Cross-posted at The Second American Revolution.

Hmmm ...

So I guess all the prosperity in Iran, as compared to, say, the United States, is because the US is capitalist?

Hmm ...

The problem with the world today isn't dumbasses like Ahmadenijad, but the stupid people who believe his bullshit.

Yeah Barack. Thanks a lot for pulling out of Iraq so this clown's no longer surrounded. Real smart move ...

Phht.

RWR

... or not.

O'Donnell wins in Delaware.

LaMontagne Wins in New Hampshire.

Here's the rundown from the primaries.

TWENTY STATES going to court against Oblahmacare.

GOP political elites are pissed.

First off, as pertains to O'Donnell and LaMontagne, I will reserve comment on what I think of their victories until I have reviewed their respective records. However, I can't see many scenarios in which O'Donnell wouldn't have been, at a minimum, a significant improvement over Castle, who makes John McCain look like, well, John McCain. Strangely, if Castle were to look in the mirror, he might see McCain himself staring back at him, so just about anyone should have been able to beat Castle in today's climate - even Bozo the Clown.

LaMontagne? Well, I would hope our favorite New Hampshirite would be willing to comment. How about it, Sage?

Twenty states going to court over the ripoff that is Obamacare? Folks, the problem with this is that this number isn't closer to fifty. Americans really need to wise up to this fraud and what he is trying to do. Wake up soon, America, or you may wake up one day in the Union of American Socialist States (UASS). If it's not obvious by now, the the stupid people Sage speaks of are winning the day.

Probably the most telling thing about the current level of success about the Tea Party, however, is that the Republican Party elites are not happy. The only reason this would be the case is that they see their grasp on power slipping away. Sadly, they probably are subscribing to the illusion that they are losing to the Democrats because of the Tea Party, when in reality it is the Tea Party to which they are losing. Soon the communists in the Democratic Party will see the effect of the Tea Party, as they will be forced to watch as their own power base dwindles away.

Face it, folks. The Tea Party is a pretty big tent. Even Sage finds the tent too big, and he may be right. But the one thing that unites ALL Tea Party activists, regardless of their other agendas, is the reverence towards the Founding Fathers and the Constitution. Returning power to those in the Tea Party movement will bring the debate back to what it should be: whether or not the Constitution and/or the Founders' intent provide for the implementation of any specific plan or issue. THAT is what America is SUPPOSED to be about, and any move in that direction must be looked at as good.

So you Republicrats and LOTE guys out there can go right ahead and call the Tea Party irrelevant all you want. Not only does the current evidence say you are probably wrong, but that fact can only be a good thing for this country. After all, the Constitution is what the Tea Party is fighting for. All a LOTE voter is fighting for is keeping the Democrat out, regardless of the similar damage the Republican would do. That's no way to run a country.

RWR

Cross-posted at The Second American Revolution.

The IT business is finally moving along much faster. Time for blogging is at a premium, and much time is taken up with other matters, such as sweet sixteen parties and the like.

The music business is also picking up. A nearly completely dry 2009 and an even worse first half of 2010 seem to have yielded to some pretty nice shows. Turns out the one client was pissed at his producer and couldn't be bothered pursuing work. One of the top five most recorded bands in the history of recorded music, no less!

Anyway, we're all just chugging right along. Not much in the way of news. Glenn Beck puts on a great function in DC and Sharpton, et al go out and demonize him. YAWN. Say what you want about Glenn Beck. Liberals hate him more than they hate Hannity, Limbaugh, and Coulter combined. I wonder what their reaction is going to be when Greg Gutfeld goes primetime! They're SCREWED!

So yeah. No news. Obama pulled the rest of the troops out of Iraq. Never mind the forward bases there we're going to need when we have to go in and take Tehran. No surprises there, either. No news indeed.

Liberals hate Republicans, Republicans hate Constitutionalists, and Constitutionalists just want to be left alone.

No news there, either.

So I guess the only news is that I, your humble and excellent host, am still alive and healthy - and 20 pounds lighter than I was a mere four months ago! The numbers on the scale are still falling, though slower, but without having to give up any of life's real pleasures.

The big downer? Yeah, Sage apparently came south-side and forgot to call me. Not a surprise, but I was looking forward to again shaking his hand after over three years of no in-person contact. I imagine the hair on the top of his head isn't any longer and that on the back isn't any shorter. His email updates are always enjoyable, he's still one of the best friends I have, and his comments here are always provocative. Hey Sage, are you getting the hint here? hahaha

So yeah. I'm still alive. I'm still breathing. I'm still the same asshole the libs (and now a lot of LOTE Republicans) have come to hate ... and I'm still the Patriot the Founding Fathers would have stood up and set as an example for their countrymen.

Well thank God for that last!

RWR