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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

YouTube Wednesday:

Tea Parties and Such

It's hard to take such right-wing distortions seriously, isn't it?

TEA-CRAZY. We here at InstObama.com are more than a little disturbed about all the extremist activities planned for today. I think we can all agree that madness is afoot, but what kind of madness are we talking about? I know conservatives and their ilk believe in their own lack of responsibility for the course of action our new president -- Obama be praised -- has been forced to take in rectifying matters of eternal injustice within these United States. They believe in fact that they are as innocent as put-upon children, and that their tea parties will be a simple effusion of rollicking free spirits:

How silly can a tea party get? And what's an "Unbirthday" in the U.S. context?

Isn't this ultimately a cartoonish view of the truly dire fix the nation is in? Is it valuable, or even valid at any level, to cast our new savior as some kind of self-obsessed, monarchic idiot?

No, the MSM isn't "in the tank" for Obama (2:35 in). Nor is it unfair to the
right (4:45 in). Next thing, they'll be calling InstObama.com the Cheshire Cat.

It's all nonsense. Let's not forget that the participants in today's tea parties are the same people who put in place what passes for leadership in the Republican caucus of the congress. When the country needed them to act, they preferred to remain smug, indolent, somnolent, and entirely out of touch with reality, with the result that the communal teapot is empty.

Not too hard to spot McCain and Boehner and Specter, is it?
And with all that pouring of tea, why isn't there any in the cup?

Small wonder that right-wing extremist protesters have chosen to deride and attack not just Obama (PBUH), but the august Democratic congressional leadership consisting of Speaker Pelosi and her legislative consort what's-his-name. Do they really fancy that the vox populi they imagine themselves to be can rise up like some sudden childlike giant against the duly authorized command structure of the U.S. government? Fat chance.

The tallness of Alice as "the people" is just an optical illusion. Nancy is in charge.

The truth is, they're in way over their heads. Their tea parties are hardly innocent, and the situation is far less redolent of the American dream than an existential nightmare. If only they knew how to see, like an enlightened liberal, through a looking glass darkly.

Everything is completely dire. There's no leeway for luxuries like liberty.

When all is said and done, there comes a time for for putting aside those rose-colored looking glasses and seeing reality as it is, plain and whole and, well, ugly and not a little tedious.