Liberal Hypocrisy On Display In Berkeley As Student Defends Riots Against Education Immigration

Instapundit points to this video interview of a Berkeley student representative explaining why it’s okay for students to riot in the streets in the name of their cause.

We posted the raw video of the rioting here.

What’s so interesting about this interview is that during two separate moments, the student representative displays an astounding level of liberal-Progressive hypocrisy.

We have taken the liberty of transcribing these two sections below.

Moment number 1 – (2:00)

HOST: Describe to me what exactly what you guys are going through that just absolutely causes this outrage.

STUDENT: Absolutely. Well um in the fall the UC regents voted in a %32 fee increase to over 10000 a year for in-state tuition. This at a time that they are cutting classes, letting in fewer student from in-state and more students from out of state. Um, so effectively we are closing off the campus, making it less accessible to people, and those who are here are getting less out of their education.

That complaint doesn’t sound too immigrant friendly. Is she saying that Berkeley students only want immigrants from other states and countries just as long as they go to private schools?

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Posted Mar 5th 2010 at 6:13 am in Culture, Education, News, Politics | 84262171 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/amarcus/2010/03/05/video-liberal-hypocrisy-on-display-in-berkeley-as-student-defends-riots-against-education-immigration/Liberal+Hypocrisy+On+Display+In+Berkeley+As+Student+Defends+Riots+Against+Education+Immigration2010-03-05+14%3A13%3A01Andrew++Marcus

The Insignificance of the CPAC Straw Poll

The enthusiasm at this year’s CPAC was palpable.  Conservatives turned out in record droves, optimistic and on the offensive against a government they rightly feel has run amok.  Dick Cheney and John Bolton amongst others predicted that Barack Obama would be a one term President.  I would take a more cautious view.  Beatable as I think President Obama is based upon his bombastic arrogance, blind elitism, blatant dishonesty, and boundless seemingly intentionally destructive policies, if the 2010 CPAC straw poll tells us anything it is that the conservative movement is still searching for its opponent.

Before delving into the numbers, it is important to note that while roughly 1/4 of the 10,000 in attendance at CPAC participated in the poll, around 50% of these voters were students.  And indeed the youthful Campaign for Liberty crowd was highly visible and energized throughout the convention, which explains the extent of Congressman Ron Paul’s success.  Paul, the staunch libertarian came in first with 31% of the vote, Mitt Romney the establishment candidate second with 22% and Sarah Palin the (absent from CPAC) Tea Partier third but lagging significantly behind at 7%.

What is fascinating about the results is that the top three spots were split between three different types of conservatives, and further that the top two spots were divided between two candidates so bipolar.  In my view, Ron Paul comes off as unrefined, radical and principled, while Mitt Romney comes off as polished, moderate and slickly political. Sarah Palin alternatively is the homey if not hokie populist.

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Tags: Ann Coulter, Barack Obama, Congress, conservatives, CPAC
Posted Feb 22nd 2010 at 7:01 am in Uncategorized | 77846259 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/amellon/2010/02/22/the-insignificance-of-the-straw-poll/The+Insignificance+of+the+CPAC+Straw+Poll2010-02-22+15%3A01%3A06Andrew+Mellon

Congratulations to the ‘Tea Bashers’

As a member of a very successful Tea Party in Quincy, Illinois it is my distinct honor and privilege to offer my thanks and congratulations to this astroturf response to the tea parties. This hard hitting website has taken the MSNBC format to a new level. Hit us again guys, because while you spend never-ending union dollars attacking Tea Parties, we are repairing the change you said we could believe in, one candidate at a time.

This tiny group of Tea Bashers says its mission is “To prevent the Tea Party’s dangerous ideas from gaining legislative traction.” You might want to watch something other than the mainstream media. In case you haven’t heard, we have already gained legislative traction, which I’ll venture a guess that this was the reason for the emergency birth and delivery of your premature website.

We can’t think of a better way for organized labor to spend its time and money. I am so thrilled with your approach I may donate to your cause myself.

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Tags: astroturf, Big Labor, Hope and Change, MSNBC, organized labor
Posted Feb 11th 2010 at 10:13 am in Big Labor, Tea Party | 67634255 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/smcqueen/2010/02/11/congratulations-to-the-tea-bashers/Congratulations+to+the+%27Tea+Bashers%27+2010-02-11+18%3A13%3A24SFC+Steve++McQueen+%28Ret.%29

The Tea Party’s Focus: Elections

For the Tea Party movement, 2009 was about coming together, meeting our brothers and sisters in arms, and standing athwart socialism, yelling, “Stop!”  It worked. President Obama entered office promising socialized medicine, card check, and cap and trade all before the August recess.  He went 0 for 3 thanks a grassroots uprising that came together like spattered quicksilver.

In our desire to fix things, we also launched a lot of legislative initiatives.  These initiatives included various sovereignty amendments in the states, petitions for Constitutional Conventions, petitions for redress of grievances, petitions of right, and state laws exempting states from any national healthcare legislation.  Each of these was a bold and important step, and such laws, amendments, and petitions should continue.  Next year.

Let’s not fool ourselves. While the Tea Party movement has been very effective, it has been effective only when focused on a very narrow set of compelling causes.  Our quick responses to card check and cap and trade convinced the White House to suspend those initiatives until we weren’t looking. Our overwhelming attack on ObamaCare took the last bit of energy and time from each Tea Party patriot.  We left it all on the field.

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Tags: august town halls, cap-and-tax, cap-and-trade, government health care, leftist policies
Posted Feb 4th 2010 at 7:13 am in Tea Party | 6969888 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/bhennessy/2010/02/04/the-tea-partys-focus-elections/The+Tea+Party%27s+Focus%3A+Elections2010-02-04+15%3A13%3A01Bill+Hennessy

Illinois Shows Limitations of Tea Party Movement

The Tea Party folks keep getting mad at me for saying that in the end they might prove ineffective in races at levels higher than local because they aren’t organized enough. They puff up their chests proudly proclaiming that they intend to resist being organized and they claim that being organized is precisely what they are fighting against. I understand the feeling, even sympathize quite a lot, but there is a problem with this obstinacy. It means they won’t win on a statewide ballot very often. The Illinois primary just proved me correct, too.

Let’s take the race for Senate in Illinois as exhibit “A.” Of course the good old boys in the state party went with Mark Kirk, the center left candidate from a northern suburb of Chicago. He was the he-can-win candidate and the establishment choice. Not one Tea Party group, though, wants Kirk and for good reason — and I heartily concur with them, as it happens. So who was the “Tea Party candidate,” the one meant to beat out Kirk, the one backed by the newly found power of the Tea Party movement? There wasn’t one. There were three.

Sadly, the Tea Partiers in Illinois split their vote all up. Some Tea Party Groups went with Don Lowery and some went with Patrick Hughes. A few even went with John Arrington. Hughes, of course, was the only one that had even a remote chance as far as voter polls were concerned. Hughes at least registered in the polls, Lowery and Arrington barely showed up at all.

Now, I like Mr. Lowery to be sure. He is a great fellow and has some fantastic principles. I can see why Tea Party groups are attracted to him. I feel the same way about Mr. Arrington. On the other hand, the same can be said of Hughes (disclosure, I endorsed Hughes). The problem is not that one or the other Tea Party group chose the wrong candidate, it’s that they didn’t choose the same candidate. They petered away their votes by choosing three candidates allowing Mark Kirk to run away with it.

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Tags: adam andrzejewski, Americans for Prosperity, dan proft, Doug Hoffman, Freedomworks
Posted Feb 3rd 2010 at 8:17 am in News, Politics, State Politics, Tax Reform, Tea Party | 69286184 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/wthuston/2010/02/03/illinois-shows-limitations-of-tea-party-movement/Illinois+Shows+Limitations+of+Tea+Party+Movement2010-02-03+16%3A17%3A24Warner+Todd++Huston

Explaining the Tea Party Movement and the Bewilderment of the Political Class

It is apparently a mystery to a lot political insiders why the Tea Parties have become so popular with so many Americans in state after state across the nation.

Many have simply tried to dismiss the phenomena as the ranting of a relatively small number of angry right-wing zealots. They are dead wrong but one gets the feeling the political class finds this easy dismissal far more comforting than the unsettling truths driving angry and vocal dissatisfaction by people from across the political spectrum.

“Real people” like me resonate in politics right now because of the growing chasm between what the political elites of both parties see as the best course for the nation—and for themselves– and the hopes and fears of the average American man and woman. In China that difference might mean very little to government as we saw in Tiananmen Square but, according to the Founding Fathers, such a division should not even exist here in the United States.

Those who are passionately protesting at Tea Parties and making themselves felt at the polls have rightly detected more than a hint of contempt for the average citizen. If everything were going well such elitist arrogance might be accepted, as it has been in the past. But things are not going well for our nation and more and more people are challenging the performance, ideas and motivations of those who hold themselves out as smarter and better than the rest of us.

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Tags: Christmas terror attack, DC school vouchers, Fair Tax, Hurricane Katrina, Janet Napolitano
Posted Jan 25th 2010 at 10:43 am in Congress, Culture, Featured Story, Healthcare, Obama, Politics, State Politics, Tax Reform, Tea Party, federal spending | 64930180 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/jwurzelbacher/2010/01/25/explaining-the-tea-party-movement-and-the-bewilderment-of-the-political-class/Explaining+the+Tea+Party+Movement+and+the+Bewilderment+of+the+Political+Class2010-01-25+18%3A43%3A22Joe+%26%2339%3BThe+Plumber%26%2339%3B+Wurzelbacher

The Leftist Bullies

We live in seriously challenging times – times that warrant serious conversations on the state and direction of our nation.  From the fiscal crash course our nation is on to the ever-present threat we face from Islamic terrorism, there’s plenty of fodder for constructive political discourse.  Many on the Left, however, are bent on marginalizing opposing views by any means necessary.  The censorship and number fudging exposed in ClimateGate is one recent example.

The tea party movement seems to perpetually be in the crosshairs of the Left’s most insidious propaganda artists.  A post on taxpayer subsidized NPR’s blog that’s getting some attention this week features a video by Mark Fiore entitled “Learn to Speak Tea Bag.”  The cartoon gives mock step-by-step instructions on what Fiore believes is the modus operandi of tea party activists.  Fiore unintentionally serves up a nearly all-inclusive package on all that is dishonest and malicious about the Left’s continued campaign to discredit this wildly popular grassroots force.

Fiore’s isn’t the first and likely won’t be the last tea party hit job.  Everyone from the President to “mainstream” media commentators have joined in since the movement’s inception in February 2009.  This multifaceted attack on the tea party movement has revealed an interesting trend that mirrors the evolving tactics of a maladjusted, intellectual deficient schoolboy bully.

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Tags: Anderson Cooper, climategate, CNN, Keith Olberman, MSNBC
Posted Jan 7th 2010 at 10:49 am in Big Labor, Congress, Economics, Environment, Healthcare, Obama, Politics, Tax Reform, Tea Party | 56278308 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/johara/2010/01/07/the-liberal-bullying-psyche/The+Leftist+Bullies2010-01-07+18%3A49%3A21John+M.+O%26%2339%3BHara

Our National Debt is Growing to Immoral and Unsafe Proportions

If you are under 30, you really need to read this column and pass it on to your friends.  Your elected officials are dooming you to a new sort of bondage, a form of 21^st Century slavery, if you will.

First, some background.

On October 16, 1854, Abraham Lincoln, then a former one-term Congressman, gave a three hour speech in Peoria, Illinois in which he decried the extension of slavery into the territories.  The Republican Party was barely three months old.  Lincoln warned that slavery was a “monstrous injustice” based on the raw principle of “self-interest” at odds with the “fundamental principles of civil liberty.”

Lincoln was moved to action by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, widely seen as a check on the growth of slavery in the territories.

At Peoria, Lincoln presented the economic, legal and moral case against slavery.

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Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Barbara Boxer, currency devaluation, deficit spending, federal deficit
Posted Dec 21st 2009 at 7:21 am in Congress, Economics, Obama, Politics, State Politics, federal spending | 49858150 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/cdevore/2009/12/21/our-national-debt-is-growing-to-immoral-and-unsafe-proportions/Our+National+Debt+is+Growing+to+Immoral+and+Unsafe+Proportions2009-12-21+15%3A21%3A56Chuck+DeVore

Reasons to be Cheerful in America Today

A few days ago I was thinking that I would like to post something uplifting on Big Government. After all, there is plenty going on right now which is wrong or ludicrous, but perhaps that makes it especially important to focus on what we have to be grateful for in America. Sadly, the best way I can think of to do that is to tell you a few stories about what is wrong and ludicrous in my country, Britain- home of the Magna Carta and the Mother of Parliaments. So here are some stories of common, everyday British madness which I hope will make you feel more optimistic about the USA.

1) From Surrey Today:

A former soldier who handed a discarded shotgun in to police faces at least five years imprisonment for “doing his duty”.

Paul Clarke, 27, was found guilty of possessing a firearm at Guildford Crown Court on Tuesday – after finding the gun and handing it personally to police officers on March 20 this year.

The jury took 20 minutes to make its conviction, and Mr Clarke now faces a minimum of five year’s imprisonment for handing in the weapon.

In a statement read out in court, Mr Clarke said: “I didn’t think for one moment I would be arrested.

“I thought it was my duty to hand it in and get it off the streets.”

The court heard how Mr Clarke was on the balcony of his home in Nailsworth Crescent, Merstham, when he spotted a black bin liner at the bottom of his garden.

In his statement, he said: “I took it indoors and inside found a shorn-off shotgun and two cartridges.

“I didn’t know what to do, so the next morning I rang the Chief Superintendent, Adrian Harper, and asked if I could pop in and see him.

“At the police station, I took the gun out of the bag and placed it on the table so it was pointing towards the wall.”

Mr Clarke was then arrested immediately for possession of a firearm at Reigate police station, and taken to the cells.

Reader, try to fathom what kind of country punishes a man for doing his civic duty, what kind of idiots sit on a jury that takes twenty minutes to sentence him, what kinds of imbeciles framed this law.

Do you feel better about America yet?

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Tags: britain, european president, European Union, gun laws, optimism
Posted Nov 19th 2009 at 9:27 am in Congress, News, Politics, Tea Party | 3349892 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/dkalder/2009/11/19/reasons-to-be-cheerful-in-america-today/Reasons+to+be+Cheerful+in+America+Today+++2009-11-19+16%3A27%3A50Daniel+Kalder

2010: The Kyoto Election

The New York Times reports this weekend that:

“SINGAPORE — President Obama and other world leaders have decided to put off the difficult task of reaching a climate change agreement at a global climate conference scheduled for next month, agreeing instead to make it the mission of the Copenhagen conference to reach a less specific “politically binding” agreement that would punt the most difficult issues into the future.”

Read down the article and note the several claims by participants offering the greatest exhibits imaginable at the running absurdity — now in its 18th year! — that is this movable feast of conferences in Rio, Barcelona, Bangkok, Bali, Buenos Aires, Bonn, and next month Copenhagen: We had to declare it a failure in advance in order to ensure its success. Mmm. Yes.

But here’s the far larger point, and Team Tea Party and simpatico coalescences should take note and begin organizing accordingly:

This also makes the Kyoto II, the proposed twenty five-year extension of a five-year plan that was the Kyoto treaty, an inescapable issue for the 2010 U.S. mid-term elections.

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Tags: 2010 midterm elections, Al Gore, carbon emissions, climate change, Copenhagen Summit
Posted Nov 15th 2009 at 2:07 pm in Environment, Obama, Politics | 3130652 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/chorner/2009/11/15/2010-the-kyoto-election/2010%3A+The+Kyoto+Election2009-11-15+21%3A07%3A13Christopher+C.+Horner

The Future of Wade Rathke and ACORN, Part II: Tea Parties and Protests

Last Tuesday, I had round two with former ACORN Chief Organizer and current head of Community Organizations International, Wade Rathke. This interview was a lot more sweeping. It ranged from Rathke’s philosophy, his philosophy on organizing, his views on the tea parties, to all sorts of issues surrounding ACORN.

1)What do you think of the tea parties?

It’s important to note that I wasn’t asking about political philosophy or personal preference, but rather as an organizing philosophy.

Rathke is impressed by their ability to organize. As an organizing phenomenon, the tea parties are effective and, as an organizer, Wade Rathke believes they took advantage of a vacuum, stepped in, and filled a void that the president never saw coming. Rathke once referred to the tea party movement as “tea baggers”. He did this only once. He never really took any pot shots at them besides this and so I don’t know that this was a deliberate dig.

Rathke did, however, also point out that often the tea parties fail basic organizing principles.

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Tags: ACORN, ACORN 8, ACORN embezzlement, acorn scandal, Bertha Lewis
Posted Nov 13th 2009 at 5:01 pm in ACORN, Culture, Politics, Tea Party | 3068261 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/mvolpe/2009/11/13/the-future-of-wade-rathke-and-acorn-part-ii-tea-parties-and-protests/The+Future+of+Wade+Rathke+and+ACORN%2C+Part+II%3A+Tea+Parties+and+Protests2009-11-14+00%3A01%3A36Michael+Volpe

Exclusive: Police Report on Gladney Beating by SEIU Thugs

It has been more than three months since Kenneth Gladney was viciously attacked by SEIU employees. The assault wasn’t an accident, but a deliberate attempt to intimidate and silence tea party activists and town hall protesters. The morning of the Gladney assault, the White House presented to Senate Democrats a ‘battle plan’ to quell the protests. The White House advised Democrats “punch back twice as hard.” Gladney was the first casualty.

The Gladney beating took place at a forum on ‘Aging’, sponsored by Rep. Russ Carnahan. Carnahan had been caught flat-footed by earlier protests. This time he was more prepared; the day before the forum, Sara Howard took over as his communications director. Ms. Howard is a veteran leftist activist, holding senior positions with SEIU.

SEIU and partisan hacks like Media Matters have tried to spin away the Gladney beating. They would have you believe a 130 lb diabetic, recovering luekemia patient, picked a fight with men almost twice his size. The police report puts an end to that lie.

GLADNEY PART 2.1 –

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Tags: Bob McCulloch, Kenneth Gladney, Russ Carnahan, SEIU, Tea Parties
Posted Nov 9th 2009 at 10:47 am in Big Labor, Exclusives, Justice/Legal, News, Obama, Politics, State Politics, Tea Party | 27754281 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2009/11/09/exclusive-police-report-on-gladney-beating-by-seiu-thugs/Exclusive%3A+Police+Report+on+Gladney+Beating+by+SEIU+Thugs2009-11-09+17%3A47%3A06Capitol++Confidential

Here We Go Again: Rostenkowski, Health Care and the Original Town-Hall Protest

Back in 1989, the Democrat House, led by Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, passed the ‘Catastrophic Health Care Act.’ The Act promised to expand coverage and benefits, financed by a surcharge on senior’s existing Medicare benefits. Passage of the Act sparked on outcry from seniors. CBSNews goes back into the archives to find footage of one of the protests.

The report forgets to mention that Congress quickly repealed the Catastrophic Act in response to the voter backlash. Something current Members of Congress might want to keep in mind.

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Tags: Catastrophic Health Care Act, Dan Rostenkowski, government health care, health care reform, Medicare Advantage
Posted Nov 7th 2009 at 12:38 pm in Congress, Healthcare, Politics, Tea Party | 2708231 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2009/11/07/here-we-go-again-rostenkowski-health-care-and-the-original-town-hall-protest/Here+We+Go+Again%3A+Rostenkowski%2C+Health+Care+and+the+Original+Town-Hall+Protest2009-11-07+19%3A38%3A32Publius

‘One Voice Against Socialism’ Inspires Movement

Janet Allquist, 68, said she has always been faithful about voting but was never active in politics — until six months ago.  That’s when she had an epiphany and decided to leave John, her husband of 48 years, for life on the road as a political activist.

Luckily for John, a retired Marine Corps pilot, she didn’t go far.  Instead, she launched a one-woman protest campaign and became what she called “one voice against socialism” at the intersection of Highways K and N in her hometown of O’Fallon, Mo.

What motivated Allquist, a retired McDonnell-Douglas secretary, to become political?  She said it was, and still is, the future of her three children and 11 grandchildren — including one with Autism — whose photos appear like wallpaper on the doors of her side-by-side refrigerator.

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Tags: Barack Obama, political activism, public option, socialism, Tea Parties
Posted Oct 28th 2009 at 7:30 am in Healthcare, Obama, Tea Party | 2136651 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/bmccarty/2009/10/28/one-voice-against-socialism-inspires-movement/%27One+Voice+Against+Socialism%27+Inspires+Movement2009-10-28+14%3A30%3A25Bob+McCarty

Tea Partiers Turn on GOP Leadership

Interesting story at Politico. Having been involved with both the tea parties and GOP leadership, color us unsurprised:

While the energy of the anti-tax and anti-big government Tea Party movement may yet haunt Democrats in 2010, the first order of business appears to be remaking the Republican Party.

Whether it’s the loose confederation of Washington-oriented groups that have played an organizational role or the state-level activists who are channeling grass roots anger into action back home, Tea Party forces are confronting the Republican establishment by backing insurgent conservatives and generating their own candidates—even if it means taking on GOP incumbents

Read the whole thing here.

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Tags: beltway republicans, GOP leadership, Tea Parties, tea party movement
Posted Oct 11th 2009 at 9:16 am in Congress, Politics, State Politics | 1536689 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2009/10/11/tea-partiers-turn-on-gop-leadership/Tea+Partiers+Turn+on+GOP+Leadership2009-10-11+16%3A16%3A38Publius

Conference Call Transcript Implicates Fed Art Agency in Government Co-Opt of Arts Community

The White House is attempting to mimic Leni Riefenstahl by rounding up those in the arts and entertainment industry and using them as the vehicles through which President Obama can peddle his agenda.

The National Endowment for the Arts denies that it was working with White House officials to promote the president’s agenda through the arts via this taxpayer-funded organization:

This call was not a means to promote any legislative agenda and any suggestions to that end are simply false. The NEA regularly does outreach to various organizations to inform of the work we are doing and the resources available to them.”

Unfortunately, the transcript of the actual call does not corroborate the NEA’s statement. BigGovernment.com obtained the full transcript of the conference call on which White House official Buffy Wicks (of the Office of Public Engagement and head administration official for Serve.gov; Wicks previous worked with WakeUp Walmart and was a lobbyist for the United Food and Commercial Workers’ Union), and others – including lead organizers with Rock the Vote and Current TV – discussed ways to co-opt the art community for political purposes and manipulate those around them so as to push things like Obama’s health care legislation. It’s a call that call participant Patrick Courrichie says raised the hair on his arms.

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Tags: Buffy Wicks, Current TV, Leni Riefenstahl, Michael Skolnik, Mike de la Rocha
Posted Sep 21st 2009 at 10:29 am in ACORN, Big Labor, Culture, Obama | 606684 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/dloesch/2009/09/21/conference-call-transcript-implicates-fed-art-agency-in-government-co-opt-of-arts-community/Conference+Call+Transcript+Implicates+Fed+Art+Agency+in+Government+Co-Opt+of+Arts+Community2009-09-21+17%3A29%3A12Dana+Loesch

Andrew Breitbart, Glenn Reynolds, Dana Loesch Headline Quincy, Il. Tea Party; FoxNews to Air

QunicyNews.org reports:

Steve McQueen is acting a bit like an expectant father right now.

That’s because he and the other organizers of “Lincoln’s Legacy: Patriots on the Prairie” are putting the some of the finishing touches on the Quincy Tea Part event, set for Saturday at 1 p.m. in Quincy’s Washington Park.

But with the final Blues in the District concert tonight, an event honoring police and firefighters on the anniversary of 9/11, work to set up the park, including the stage, cannot begin until late tonight or first thing Saturday morning.

With FOX News carrying portions of the event live, the network asked McQueen yesterday to find scaffolding for them to park their cameras. McQueen said he expected there to be several last-minute details to be finalized.

Quincy Mayor John Spring has accepted an invitation from Quincy Tea Party organizers to welcome those expected to attend the event from around the Midwest.

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Tags: Andrew Breitbart, Dana Loesch, FoxNews, Glenn Reynolds, Lincoln
Posted Sep 12th 2009 at 4:20 am in Economics, News, Politics, Tax Reform | 132251 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2009/09/12/andrew-breitbart-glenn-reynolds-dana-loesch-headline-quincy-il-tea-party-foxnews-to-air/Andrew+Breitbart%2C+Glenn+Reynolds%2C+Dana+Loesch+Headline+Quincy%2C+Il.+Tea+Party%3B+FoxNews+to+Air2009-09-12+11%3A20%3A53Publius

‘Big Government’ Rises Again

n7h6ycxmg5In 1995, President Bill Clinton stood before the nation and proclaimed, “The era of big government is over.” The following year, the federal budget deficit stood at 1.4% of GDP. Thirteen years later, in 2008, the deficit had doubled, to just over 3% of GDP. This year, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the federal budget deficit will equal 11.4% of GDP.

As George Will would say, “Well.”

This is the real source of our “summer of discontent.” Yes, millions of Americans spent the month of August holding Tea Parties, attending town halls, organizing, marching and protesting against ObamaCare, i.e. Congressional and Administration proposals to reconstruct the entire health care sector. But to suggest that health care alone is at the root of this backlash is to miss the forest for the trees. To paraphrase Democrat strategist James Carville, “It’s the big government, stupid.”

Since last September when the financial markets stumbled, we’ve seen a Wall Street bailout, government takeovers of AIG, Citigroup, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, GM, Chrysler, and numerous banks. The Federal Reserve has opened its discount window to almost all-comers and has taken the unprecedented step of aggressively buying up the federal government’s own debt. Congress rushed through a “stimulus to nowhere,” moved closer to a “cap-and-trade” remake of the energy sector and openly talked about higher taxes and more regulation. (more…)

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Tags: AIG, American Revolution, banks, Bill Clinton, Boston Tea Party
Posted Sep 9th 2009 at 5:26 pm in Congress, Culture, Economics, Featured Story, History, Justice/Legal, Media Criticism, News, Obama, Politics | 98274 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/mikeflynn/2009/09/09/big-government-rises-again/%27Big+Government%27+Rises+Again2009-09-10+00%3A26%3A17Mike+Flynn