Terror and Hostage Taking

The talking point of the Obamacrats over the last week has been that the Tea Party Congressmen are "terrorists" who have been holding the country or the economy "hostage". I am sure that many of you have seen or heard the montage of various Democrats and media commentators repeating this line. When I thought about this for a while, I went through a few stages, but ultimately, I arrived at finding the whole effort quite funny. Let me explain:

For quite some time, the Demcrats have stayed away from using the terrorist. When Major Hassan attacked and killed thirteen army personnel at Fort Hood, neither the media nor the Obama Administration described him as a terrorist. He was a loner. He was someone who had suffered various unspecified indignities at the hands of his fellow soldiers. But he was not a terrorist even though he had planned for a massacre and then carried it out fairly successfully. When the underwear bomber or the Times Square bomber were caught and their attacks failed, they too were not "terrorists". No, they were acting alone (even when it later turned out that they were not) and they were poor incompetent fools. The rule of the Democrats seemed to be that it was not possible to use the words "Muslim" and "terrorist" in the same sentence. Even the War on Terror became just an Overseas Contingency Operation under Obama and the Obamacrats. So the fight against those who have killed thousands of innocent Americans no longer involved a struggle with terrorism.

So, if terrorists and terrorism are words not to be spoken in the Obamacrat lexicon, what did the Tea Party do that led to them now being called terrorists. Here is the list (and perhaps I should warn you that some of the items may be too graphic for young liberals.):

1) The Tea Party (shudder) opposed Obamacare.
2) The Tea Party opposed the high spending of the stimulus. Indeed, it was the stimulus spending spree that gave rise to the Tea Party in the first place. (Only the truly brave should go one from here. At least read the list while seated.)
3) The Tea Party wants to reduce federal spending.
4) The Tea Party wants to cap future spending so that future spending sprees by the Congress will be nearly impossible.
5) The Tea Party wants the private sector to grow so it opposes higher taxes.
6) The Tea Party wants a smaller government.
7) Here is the clincher: The Tea Party is actually voting to do many of the things on this list. The Tea Party Congressmen are not just going along with business as usual which is what got the USA into its current mess.

I am sure that any of you who managed to read the entire list without screaming in fear can now recognize why the Obamacrats say that the Tea Party are indeed terrorists, but for any who remain confused, let me clear things up. In the world of Obama and the Obamacrats, terrorists are not folks who kill or kidnap innocents. No, in the distorted world of the left, terrorists are those who want to diminish the power of the government with the effect that is will diminish the power of the left over all the people. They cannot imagine anything more terrifying than Americans who determine their own futures without resort to some government agency run by the left which will tell everyone what to do. Nothing is more terrifying to the left than the loss of their power.

Personally, I think it is funny that Obama and the Obamacrats actually think that ordinary Americans are going to buy into this crap. The Tea Party are no more terrorists than they are racists. (Okay, so a bunch of you just said that the Tea Party is a bunch of racists. They said so on MSNBC.) But those out there who still can recognize reality understand that what we are seeing from the left is actually a massive panic attack. For the last eighty years, there has never been such a strong and widely supported push to roll back the government and the power of the left in America. The Obamacrats are in a full melt down because they no longer control the dialogue and they cannot even control the direction of the political flow.