“Across the country, activists with ties to the Tea Party are railing against all sorts of local and state efforts to control sprawl and conserve energy. They brand government action for things like expanding public transportation routes and preserving open space as part of a United Nations-led conspiracy to deny property rights and herd citizens toward cities,” the N.Y. Times is reporting.
“They are showing up at planning meetings to denounce bike lanes on public streets and smart meters on home appliances — efforts they equate to a big-government blueprint against individual rights.
“Planning groups, several of which said they had never heard of Agenda 21 until protesters burst in, are counterorganizing.
‘”The Tea Party people say they want nonpolluted air and clean water and everything we promote and support, but they also say it’s a communist movement,’ said Charlotte Moore, a supervisor who voted yes. ‘I really don’t understand what they want.’
The rest of the article is here.
This same rhetoric highlighted this year’s CABPRO dinner, as I reported previously.
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This last week the Supreme Court spent 3 days on arguments about the health care law. On MSNBC’s Hardball there was a young tea party guest to counter a guest for the new law. I listened in astonishment when this tea party gal mentioned that she had to get health care and didn’t have to pay for it. Chris asked her how it was paid for and she just insited she didn’t have a problem. The pro health care guest then used the opportunity to point out that the mandate is a way to get everyone covered and minimize the financial impact of free riders.
My impression of the teas is that they are “something for nothings.” They want all the goods and services for free. They are senseless with irrational anger and are determined to hystericaly lie about everything.
On a note of the past before the tea party I remember when Drew Bedwell spouted hate for the UN by declaring that Nevada County would have UN helicopters swarming Nevada County skys over NH2020.
One very insightful post and response.
Hasn’t America had enough Tea to last a lifetime? Is Tea getting a bad name? Wonder if shares in LIPTON are tanking?
Here is the deal. UNLESS those in the MIDDLE and LEFT leaning and SENSIBLE Republicans get off their butts — this very day — and push back against Tea-Insanity, regular folks can expect more of the same from Tea Types across the nation — especially at local levels (meaning insanity at school boards, County, City and Towns). Ain’t no different than those folks in Nazi-Germany, really, who sat on their hands saying to themselves that what happened to the Jews, first, then others, would never happen to them or their towns, until it was too late. You really want science removed from the classrooms? Policy made by those who believe the insanity spouted by someone who worshiped a rapist/murderer? I really don’t think there is a bit of over reach in the comparisons.
So what are you gonna do today, folks? Next week, next month, next election, when? Do your homework and get busy.
I highly recommend viewing this Charley Rose interview with Simpson and Bowles about the deficit. It was definitely an eye opener for me. http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11294
By the way, here is an example of how these guys just lie and there is no accountability….see the post titles Letter To The Editor
http://cabproreport.typepad.com/weblog/
See the problem…..the average price of electricity per kwh in the USA is $0.1153 not $1.16, so the price to charge the VOLT is $1.85 not $18.50……
and has anyone noticed that Todd Juvinall has stopped posting on the CABPRO blog….perhaps his handlers figured out he is too stupid to represent their views.
Here is my favorite for the day, Todd says, “the EPA will be rained in”.
Steve, It might look like lying but I suspect the writer was sincerely misinformed because of very poor research. He seems to imagine that electric vehicle electricity charges are made on top of home usage and at the top rate schedule.
He should go to the PG&E Chevy Volt rate calculator and then humbly correct himself. http://www.pge.com/cgi-bin/pevcalculator/PEV/
BTW, I wonder if Todd was using definition #5 of “rain” in the online dictionary: a heavy and continuous descent or inflicting of anything: a rain of blows; a rain of vituperation.
Greg, the original post was by Eric Bolling (Fox Business Channel’s Follow the Money). He is a reporter. With a record….I think he was likely intentionally lying.
Here is a good analysis of his claims.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/chevyvolt.asp
Here is Eric on how the Muppets are destroying America!
Don’t expect a retraction…his show was recently cancelled by Fox.
I pointed this farce out on the CABPRO blog, but of course the response was essentially, ….facts? we don’t need no stinking facts!
I’m not versed in electric rates and such, so I’ll stck to my rule of keeping my mouth shut–or fingers idle–when topics I’m not conversant in are taking place. But, reading Juvinall, and a guy named White on one of those blogs, in response to comments I had made a week ago but didn’t check the box to recieve responses, as I meant it to be my farewell comment, I’ve decided there is no hope of educating them. I had made a point about how English common law had influenced the thinking of the founding fathers and White went on some what of a rant, (I’m paraphrasing) as to how that statement prooves how stupid I am, etc. You know what I’m talking about, since I’m sure you know their dialogue and debating style.
If they had read anything besides NRA publications, they’d know many wealthy colonists were still sending their kids to England for an education right up to the revolution, and that the Founding Fathers–at least a great many if not most–were sons of the Scottish Enlightenment and Parlimentary development and history, which was an asset when sitting down together and shaping Madison’s draft into a document they could present to replace the Articles of Confederation. But I guess I’m not telling you guys anything you don’t know.
Jeff – your report is accurate. The Tea Party people are causing problems in the Bay Area opposing all kinds of smart growth initiatives as a UN plot to take away your property rights. You are no exagerating
Nope, Jeff, is not exaggerating. The Tea Party regularly storms their way into meetings, forums and events accusing everyone and their mother that there is a UN conspiracy going on and it is our intention to take away all their property rights via Agenda 21.The only conspiracy going on that I know of is of their own doing.
It is custom for these particular Tea Party members to make wild accusations throughout gatherings and constantly disrupting, or hurling their paranoid accusations at the very end of a meeting when there is not time to recover. I call this obstructionism and I plan on calling them out on it. Their game is one of false accusation and never one of solution.
Their paranoia is getting old…
Tin foil hats, anyone?
New local growth for some smart self employed esutrpinuee???
Yubanet shows a sense of humor on April Fool’s Day:
http://yubanet.com/regional/Nevada-County-Selected-as-Model-Community-by-International-Agency.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YubanetRegional+%28YubaNet.com+-+Sierra+Nevada+News%29#.T3jH6xzDYeU