The "Teabag" Protests Smack of Neo-McCarthyism

[thundley4]

The "Teabag" Protests Smack of Neo-McCarthyism

Today's "teabag" protests would be funny, if they didn't make me think of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, and what he might have accomplished if Fox News existed during his time.

On February 9, 1950, McCarthy, a Republican from Wisconsin, said to the Women's Republican Club of Wheeling, West Virginia,

"While I cannot take the time to name all the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205."
McCarthy never released the names on the list, and there is no evidence that he had any real knowledge of any actual Communist Party members or spies in the State Department. But that didn't stop McCarthy from going on a four-year rampage, destroying people's careers and lives based on lies, innuendo and guilt by association. By the time Special Counsel for the Army Joseph Welch asked McCarthy during a hearing of the Subcommittee on Investigations of the Senate Committee on Government Operations on March 11, 1954, "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?", the country had started to figure out that McCarthy was nothing but a charlatan, using fear and lies for political gain.

In light of more than 50 years of lessons on the dangers of McCarthyism, you would think that such a tactic could never work again. That may or may not be true, but one thing is for sure: If the tools employed by McCarthy fail today, it won't be for a lack of trying by the Republicans. Because as we sit here, in April 2009, an increasingly desperate Republican party has resorted to the worst abuses of the fear mongering of the 1950s to try and regain power.

Hm, I thought that McCarty had been vindicated by history, except in the left eye anyway.  Still the left is trying their damnedest to belittle and ignore the root cause of the protests. Taxes are too high and wasteful spending has got to end. That was the message and the left refuses to acknowledge that.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Meanwhile the little pig brats at UNC are chanting with glee about having forced Trancredo off stage.

**** these little liberal BS lying, two-faced fascists.

This "culture" war will get far, far worse before it gets better.

[USA4ME]

For any libs who are wondering why people took to the streets for Teabag parties, this is just a small part of it.

Unwarranted secrecy regarding the largest disbursement of public funds in U.S. history continues in the executive branch. So Congress should finally exercise its oversight authority and find out where every last bailout dollar has been spent. Three major news organizations – Bloomberg News, Fox Business News, and The New York Times - had to file lawsuits against the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve Board after they were refused bailout documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). All three were stiffed by an administration that failed to deliver on a promise of more government transparency and accountability. In response to its lawsuit seeking compensation agreements between the government and two of the largest bailout recipients, Fox finally received 10,096 pages of heavily redacted documents from Treasury showing that “virtually all the details of the bailout were worked out among a handful of lawyers.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Stop-stalling-and-show-us-the-bailout-books-43088037.html

Not only is the Obama administration packed with crooks and tax cheats, it’s also filled with liars, starting at the top. Did we expect better out of a Chicago machine politician? No one with any sense did, but here’s yet another concrete example of how Obama snowed his followers. He promised transparency and has been less transparent than the so-called secret-loving Bush administration.

If you are not angry at this administration, my question to you is what is wrong with you? Either you are in on the scam, or you are willfully ignorant.

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[MrsSmith]

The "Teabag" Protests Smack of Neo-McCarthyism
Hm, I thought that McCarty had been vindicated by history, except in the left eye anyway.  Still the left is trying their damnedest to belittle and ignore the root cause of the protests. Taxes are too high and wasteful spending has got to end. That was the message and the left refuses to acknowledge that.

He was.  He was no more guilty of lying than Pres. Bush is guilty of starting an illegal war.  The left never lets little things like facts stand in the way of their opinions.

[Duke Nukum]

He was.  He was no more guilty of lying than Pres. Bush is guilty of starting an illegal war.  The left never lets little things like facts stand in the way of their opinions.

And whoever started a legal war?  Libs like to combine words to confuse people, hate crime, illegal war, social justice, etc. etc.  It has nothing to do with engaging the intellect but only in inciting passions.

A war by itself isn't horrible enough to the left, they have to try and make war worse than it is to feed their outrage addiction.

[The Village Idiot]

The "Teabag" Protests Smack of Neo-McCarthyism
Hm, I thought that McCarty had been vindicated by history, except in the left eye anyway.  Still the left is trying their damnedest to belittle and ignore the root cause of the protests. Taxes are too high and wasteful spending has got to end. That was the message and the left refuses to acknowledge that.

millions of grass roots citizens speaking truth to power and who have absolutely no political power are now McCartyites?

[Ptarmigan]

McCarthy was right. He should of lined them all up to the wall and have them executed.