There is a letter circulating via Twitter etc. which purports to be from a disappointed Tea Party supporter to the Hattiesburg American. In fact this is a poorly-written bit of leftist agitation.
The first three paragraphs attempt to establish the writer’s bonafides as a Tea Party supporter who is now angry, bitter, disappointed, let down (let me check my thesaurus here), and is going to share a bit of good old-fashioned conservative spleen.
Except that what follows in the letter is a laundry list of Marxist talking points. So I have posted them with rebuttals:
- attempting to destroy Medicare
- Saving Medicare, unlike simply letting it fail, as it is currently fated.
- by privatizing the program with vouchers,
- Not true, read the Ryan Plan.
- supporting continued billion-dollar subsidies for oil companies
- Tax credits which at any rate are far below averages across industries
- (Are you liking gas prices now?),
- This is due to Obama’s scarcity terror, not oil profits which are still less per gallon than proceeds from gas taxes
- attacking public radio and broadcasting,
- Attacking the taxpayer funding, not the activity. Mark Levin said he would personally sponsor Sesame Street. Good programs will succeed, and crap will go away. Finally.
- removing low-cost reproductive health services for women,
- Abortion: expensive, dangerous, immoral (there are exceptions)
- Contraception: inexpensive, unreliable
- Abstinence: Free, safe, requires and builds character
- depriving certain populations of their rights to serve in the military and to marry,
- Uh, anybody in particular?
- Homosexuals have the same right to marry as straights. Just not same-sex marriage.
- It is a duty and a privilege to serve, not a right.
- destruction of the health care bill,
- DIE DIE DIE
- attacking AARP
- DIE DIE DIE
- and senior citizens, and
- Join AMAC; AARP screwed you and then took huge waivers from ObamaCare.
- refusing to rein in Wall Street and CEOs raking in millions and billions in salaries.
- Not Congress’ problem to solve
- failed to add new jobs,
- You want the House to do this?
- and spent time patting Bush on the back for getting bin Laden (Remember: “I don’t know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don’t care. It’s not that important. It’s not our priority.” – G.W. Bush, March 13, 2002), that they have failed miserably!
- Except that we now know he *was* pursuing leads on bin Laden. Even with the ground still hot at WTC, Bush did not sink to competing with a scruffy-bearded thug.
And then the guy just falls apart completely, having forgotten why he started writing the letter in the first place. He began by posing as a conservative, but finishes up in a socialism-fuled leftist froth.
Loser.
