Conservative Donnybrook

The developing MSM and liberal memes holding that yesterday’s “tea parties”: 1. were basically a corporate-sponsored “astroturf” movement, and 2. were attended by a collection of paranoid right-wing kooks – can be seen playing themselves out in Krugman’s latest column:

These parties … have been the subject of considerable mockery, and rightly so. … President Obama is being called a “socialist” who seeks to destroy capitalism. Why? Because he wants to raise the tax rate on the highest-income Americans back to, um, about 10 percentage points less than it was for most of the Reagan administration. Bizarre.

Yeah. That is really, really bizarre. That this black-helicopter crowd should find anything to worry about in  Obama’s shoveling of untold trillions into massive bailouts and other black holes and Bernanke’s unprecedented, frenzied money-pumping, and conclude that it might all somehow affect their tax burden at some point and maybe increase the scope of government power — hey, Krugman’s an economist, tin-foil fools, and he thinks everything’s fine. Anyone can see that Obama is basically a moderate tax-cutter!

Last but not least: it turns out that the tea parties don’t represent a spontaneous outpouring of public sentiment. They’re AstroTurf (fake grass roots) events, manufactured by the usual suspects. In particular, a key role is being played by FreedomWorks, an organization run by Richard Armey, the former House majority leader, and supported by the usual group of right-wing billionaires. And the parties are, of course, being promoted heavily by Fox News.

Well, that criticism hits home and it doesn’t. Continue Reading »

To support their savior, Barack Obama, Georgetown University covered the name of Christ during a speech by the chosen one.  Apparently the President asked Georgetown to cover any signage or symbols on the Gaston Hall stage where he was to deliver a soul-stirring speech.

A spokes-hole for the once Catholic institution said:

“In coordinating the logistical arrangements for yesterday’s event, Georgetown honored the White House staff’s request to cover all of the Georgetown University signage and symbols behind Gaston Hall stage….  Frankly, the pipe and drape wasn’t high enough by itself to fully cover the IHS and cross above the GU seal and it seemed most respectful to have them covered so as not to be seen out of context.”

Outrageous!  I sure hope that Notre Dame is paying attention.  South Bend, are you listening?

We know that Obama is no fan of religion and this is nothing shocking.  But the fact that a university that claims to be Catholic would cover the name of Christ in order to appease an enemy of the faith is nothing short of depressing.  It is commonly known that Georgetown University does not represent the faith.  They (and many other Catholic schools) are, as others here have pointed out, CINO.