.....There are real terrorists out there: Hezbollah, Hamas, al Qaeda, Iran’s rulers. Yet some of the same people who are slapping the “terror” label on the Tea Party and condemning Obama for dealing with them also advocate outreach to Mideast terrorists, if not to negotiate with them, at least to understand of what makes them tick.
"If liberals believe anything, it is that the right is either solely, or mostly, responsible for the degradation of political discourse in America. And they are surely correct to condemn such ugly rhetorical excesses as the Obama-is-Hitler placards that flowered across the land in the summer of 2009.
But liberals are in deep, deep denial about their own incivility issues. ".....................................................................................
"Nocera’s colleague Tom Friedman, for example, has excoriated the Tea Party as the “Hezbollah faction” of the Republican party but has also argued that the U.S. must not isolate Mideast radicals if they are “change agents who are seen as legitimate and rooted in their own cultures.”
“They may not be America’s cup of tea,” Friedman instructed. “But we need to know about them, and understand where our interests converge — not just demonize them all.”
Shouldn’t progressives extend the Tea Party that same courtesy, given that they are at least, you know, Americans?
This country has deep economic problems and profound internal divisions. We can’t solve the former if we constantly exacerbate the latter. We have nothing to hate but hate itself.
The Tea Party is a terrorist organization in the mind of liberal. They scare liberals because they throw fact bombs at their inane and emotion tirades into a territory that should be claimed by intelligence instead of emotions.
Anything that compromises the flat brainwaves of liberal is terror.
RT...any organization that threatens this country and it's citizens because its members do not have the knowledge or expertise to be in public office, but instead make decisions based on ideology instead of facts, borders on terrorism to me.....because. yeah...Im terrified
archer wrote: RT...any organization that threatens this country and it's citizens because its members do not have the knowledge or expertise to be in public office, but instead make decisions based on ideology instead of facts, borders on terrorism to me.....because. yeah...Im terrified
With your definition, we have a terrorist in the White House.
"That anger reached its apex on Tuesday, when I wrote a column comparing the Tea Party Republicans to terrorists. The words I chose were intemperate and offensive to many, and I’ve been roundly criticized. I was a hypocrite, the critics said, for using such language when on other occasions I’ve called for a more civil politics. In the cool light of day, I agree with them. I apologize. "
