Hennessy's View

Sometimes it is personal.

Beginning with a simple blog post in February 2009, the St. Louis Tea Party Coalition has attracted over 40,000 people to dozens of events and online crusades.  The vast majority of these folks represent America’s highest ideals in character and citizenship.  We are educated, polite, and patriotic.  We are stand-up people who fix our own problems and earn our own livings.  We are not perfect, of course, but we understand that no one else can live our lives for us.

When we announced those events and asked people to show up, I don’t think any of us considered the responsibility we were taking on.  But we were.  We were asking strangers to take a risk, to take a stand. That invitation carried an implied promise of reciprocity: if you stand with us, we’ll stand by you.

Then, on Monday, we heard the cruel lies and invectives hurled by Ben Jealous and other NAACP representatives. Their attacks were aimed at the women and men who answered our invitations.  People of good character and reputation were being labeled racists simply because they deigned to say, “enough” to the the government we, the people, created.

We could not let the NAACP’s baseless accusations stand. We did not want this confrontation, but we will not be silenced.

I emailed our resolution to the NAACP’s headquarters at midnight on Tuesday and went to bed.  I set the alarm for 5:00 and prayed. In the morning, I got out of bed and prayed again. I posted the resolution on stlouisteaparty.com.  I wrote my thoughts on this blog, and I headed to work, praying all the way.  See, you’re never really sure, in a situation like this, how it’s going to work out. You do what you think is right and prepare for whatever comes your way.

Since Tuesday, my prayers have been answered repeatedly.  Besides the support from big names like Sarah Palin and Andrew Breitbart, we’ve received dozens of emails:

My tea party admires yours, for your courage, and would like to adopt/ sponsor/support your resolution, by posting it on our website at www.ncteapartyrevolution.com as well as our facebook group.

From Texas:

THANK YOU for condemning the NAACP for their revolting and hypocritical insults of Tea Partiers everywhere.

I live in a small city in West Texas, where our Tea Party generally preaches to a like-minded choir. But I know I speak for every conservative in West Texas when I say thank you again, for having the courage to speak frankly.

Massachusetts

Congratulation on your resolution condemning the NAACP. We are standing by your side on this issue. May we use your resolution as a template for our own resolution here in MA?

Colorado

As the chairperson of the Elbert County Tea Party I am going on record, and per the request by the St. Louis Tea Party for us to join with them, in condemning and exposing the totally illogical and dishonest nature of the NAACP’s actions.  In the end they discredit themselves and harm their mission much more that they do ours, but we must have the courage and the willingness to stand up and call dishonesty exactly what it is, DISHONEST!

And dozens of others around the country. Plus, Jesse Jackson stepped away from the NAACP accusations, Dave Weigel said the NAACP’s stunt backfired, and former NAACP chapter president defended the Tea Party.

When you do the right thing, good people will stand up for you.

How much more personal can you get?

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Claim is it’s a law enforcement issue.  But under the Obama Regime, anything seems possible.  Anything at all.

I will spend this weekend backing up and downloading my blogs. 

Who know.  This could revitalize the mimeograph machine.

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The NAACP has decided that it’s worth time to call 20 million American patriots “racists” for advancing liberty and economic opportunity. 

At midnight, the St. Louis Tea Party Coalition sent a resolution condemning the NAACP’s bigotry and hatred to its Washington bureau.

The Tea Party’s principles are simple and clear:

• Smaller federal government
• Lower taxes
• Fiscal responsibility
• National defense
• Federalism

Those are precisely the tools to lift all Americans out of poverty. They’ve worked every time they’ve been tried.  In America, we just haven’t tried them in awhile, due in large part to the NAACP’s advancement of socialism.

Each of these First Principles protects the rights of every American—the rights inherent in our humanity, not phony “rights” invented by a bureaucrat.  We stand for rights given by God that no man, no government, can justifiably deny or diminish.  Our principles are the very same principles that the NAACP stood for in 1909 but has wandered away from since the 1970s.

When you look at the crime and poverty and family breakdown of the African-American community, where median household income is below that of illegal aliens, you see a half-century of failure by the NAACP. When you consider that the NAACP blocks every effort to educate the poor through school vouchers, you realize that the NAACP is all about power for a few, not opportunity for everyone. When you see that the NAACP refuses to condemn New Black Panther Party calls to murder police officers and babies, you understand how far that organization has fallen.

None of those persistent problems was caused by the tea party movement, yet the principles of the tea party are exactly what’s needed to wind down the multi-generational destruction in the African-American community.  As I have said repeatedly, we measure compassion by the number of people lifted out of poverty, not the number who remain trapped. We promote hope and achievement through liberty, safety, and pursuit of happiness.  That’s all we want.

The NAACP was once a vital weapon in the war against segregation and oppression. All that’s left is abigoted and malicious shell that does far more harm than good for people who need a break. 

The NAACP should give reason and decency a break by withdrawing its false and defamatory attack on the tea party movement.

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What if:  In January, a new Republican Congress is sworn in. First up on the agenda? A bi-partisan report stating that Congress must enact the most draconian tax increases and entitlement cuts in history or face total economic collapse.

That’s the scenario developing.

President Obama appointed a bi-partisan commission to make recommendations about the US government’s debt.  The commission will not report out until after the November 2010 elections, but the leaders—Republican Alan Simpson and Democrat Erskine Bowles–have given some warning about what we can expect. Here are some of the frightening highlights:

• “This debt is like a cancer” Erskine Bowles
• Federal revenue—the sum of all taxes and fees— “is completely consumed by three programs: Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.”
• “We cannot grow our way out of this” Erskine Bowles.
• Neither Bowles nor Simpson is confident that any measures will prove successful
• "I don’t know that I ever heard a gloomier picture painted that created more hope for me”—Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe
• Your personal debt obligation—the amount Congress charged to your Social Security Number—is over $47,000 and growing daily. And “you” is every American, born today or 100 years ago.

Among the ideas being tossed around:

• Reduce or eliminate the home mortgage tax deduction
• Raise the Social Security age to 70
• Means tests for Social Security benefits
• Means tests for Medicare

The irony, of course, is that 100 percent of taxes go to three entitlement programs prohibited by the Constitution. Either we begin a long-term phase out of those programs, or we face a horrific and prolonged depression.  Half the population cannot continue to live off the other half.

What do you think about giving up your home mortgage deduction to pay for wild government spending? Speak out in the comments section.

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Democrats are planning to punish the American people with draconian, destructive legislation during the lame duck session following November’s election, according the Wall Street Journal.

That’s why there have been signs in recent weeks that party leaders are planning an ambitious, lame-duck session to muscle through bills in December they don’t want to defend before November. Retiring or defeated members of Congress would then be able to vote for sweeping legislation without any fear of voter retaliation.

Cowardly bastards. 

Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, chair of the Senate committee overseeing labor issues, told the Bill Press radio show in June that "to those who think [card check] is dead, I say think again." He told Mr. Press "we’re still trying to maneuver" a way to pass some parts of the bill before the next Congress is sworn in.

In other words, these slimy frauds will retaliate against the people of this country by shoving more corruption down our throats.

If this doesn’t inspire every American to politically kick the teeth down the throat of the Democratic Party, nothing will. Let’s defeat the s.o.b.s so completely they couldn’t get elected dog-catcher in a town their family owns. 

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From Labor Day to Election Day, let’s flood Missouri and Southern Illinois with the largest grassroots campaign for patriotic candidates in American history.  While we don’t have funding from billionaires to hire college kids, we have thousands of dedicated American patriots who will tirelessly. 

Put in for vacation November 1, 2, and 3.  Your country will need you to get out the vote the first and second.  And you’ll need to sit back and smile on November 3.

Fight, fight, fight, fight like your children’s lives depend on it.

They’ve strangled Pursuit of Happiness.

They’ve targeted Liberty.

Can Life be far behind?

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