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October 21, 2011 at 10:56 am 
Ed Brayton At a time when tens of millions of Americans are unemployed and hurting, Tea Party Nation is demanding that business owners sign a pledge not to hire anyone until Obama is out of office. Seriously. Right Wing Watch has the text of the email they sent out:
Resolved that: The Obama administration and the Democrat-controlled Senate, in alliance with a global Progressive socialist movement, have participated in what appears to be a globalist socialist agenda of redistribution of wealth, and the waging of class warfare against our constitutional republic’s heritage of individual rights, free market capitalism, and indeed our Constitution itself, with the ultimate goal of collapsing the U.S. economy and globalizing us into socialism.
Resolved that: President Obama has seized what amount to dictatorial powers to bypass our Congress, and that because the Congress is controlled by a Progressive socialist Senate that will not impeach one of their kind, they have allowed this and yielded what are rightfully congressional powers to this new dictator.
Resolved that: By their agenda and actions, those in our government who swore oaths to protect and defend our Constitution have committed treason against the United States.
Resolved that: The current administration and Democrat majority in the Senate, in conjunction with Progressive socialists from all around the country, especially those from Hollywood and the left leaning news media (Indeed, most of the news media.) have worked in unison to advance an anti-business, an anti-free market, and an anti-capitalist (anti-individual rights and property ownership) agenda…
Resolved that: Our President, the Democrats-Socialists, most of the media, and most of those from Hollywood, have now encouraged and supported “Occupy” demonstrations in our streets, which are now being perpetrated across the globe, and which are being populated by various marxists, socialists and even communists, and are protesting against business, private property ownership and capitalism, something I thought I’d never see in my country, in my lifetime.
I, an American small business owner, part of the class that produces the vast majority of real, wealth producing jobs in this country, hereby resolve that I will not hire a single person until this war against business and my country is stopped.
That’s not just crazy, it’s repulsive.
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I wonder how many of the nitwits that have/will sign this are unemployed themselves?
So in order to thwart Obama’s “ultimate goal of collapsing the U.S. economy,” they want to guarantee that unemployment stays high. I can’t see any reason that wouldn’t work.
I find it interesting that they explicitly made it about class:
But class-warfare is evil and by the way doesn’t exist anyway, right? And I think we could have an argument about who produces more wealth, the owners, or the workers.
Personally I doubt many people are going to sign up. I mean, business owners don’t hire people out of the goodness of their hearts, they hire them because they have work that needs to be done. Not hiring new workers may therefore hurt their business. Although I guess some businesses don’t expect to need to hire anyone for the coming time anyway, because of a lack of demand, so they can sign up without that risk.
Of course, if they were aware that low demand was the real problem facing their business, they should want to support politicians who want to increase demand, for instance by means of stimulus packages…
Of course the bypassing of Congress (and even more the courts) in the war on scary people is a real worry and it isn’t much of a defence that Obama is only following the precedent set by his predecessor.
Wait, you were talking about his economic policy?
OK I’ll stop laughing and ask.
What powers over economic policy does Obama have that Bush didn’t?
How exactly did he seize these powers?
agenda of redistribution of wealth, and the waging of class warfare against our constitutional republic’s heritage of individual rights,
free marketlaissez faire capitalism, and indeed our Constitution itself, with the ultimate goal of collapsing the U.S. economyFunny, this is actually what these nitwits support.
But, matty1, didn’t you know “resolved that” means never having to prove your priors?
Be it resolved that none of the aforementioned resolutions even have a passing resemblance to reality.
Who really funds “Tea Party Nation?” The Kochs? Karl Rove and the hidden contributors to “Crossroads?” Some other astro-turfers?
Some on the right raising the issue of treason again. Theyy accidentally have a point in that someone in government actually did commit treason, but Dick Cheney and Karl Rove are no longer in the White House.
Seems to me, back when Bush Jr. was prez, the people bitching about him did not accuse him of directly trying to destroy the country. They accused him of, for example, being imbecilic enough to accept neo-con policies that would destroy the country.
These tea baggers and wingnuts think the president actually has an objective to destroy the country. And he’s doing it by using his “dictatorial powers” to implement… evil jobs stimulus packages and health care for everyone.
Okay-y-y-y… *eyeroll*
I quit reading after I counted 3 references to socialism in the first sentence alone.
I like that.
If you don’t give us the White House back, we’ll hold our breath until our faces turn blue.
I hope this new, higher plane of insanity is a sign of a growing desperation to be relevant.
The usual.
Tea Party/GOP… We want the worst for you.
Dems… We are incapable of governing.
At least they are consistent in living up to their stereotypes. The next few decades aren’t going to be much fun.
Hopefully they’ll provide a list of business owners that actually take this pledge so I know which businesses to avoid.
This routine is only a small step beyond what Limpbag and his ilk have been hoping (calling) for since before Obama was inaugurated. Certainly this is cruder, more overt and closer to treason, as Limpbag’s pontifications are compared to the more stealth actions of the “mainstream” Republican politicians. Their agenda involves mainly trying to achieve their own nefarious goals by convincing or forcing others to do the sacrificing and suffering.
Once again we observe one of a countless number of psychological projections by conservatives. Here we have Tea Party Nation falsely claim Democrats are ideological radicals purposefully bent on destroying the country when in fact their own documents such as this one clearly portrays that it is Tea Party Nation who are extremist radicals bent on destroying the country in the name of their ideology.
How many small businesses have been targeted by OWS again? Or are we supposed to consider Citibank and Wells Fargo to be small businesses?
As for waging war on the free market, from what I remember of my Economics classes (and I have a Master’s in the subject) assets are supposed to have some intrinsic value to them when they are bought and sold; they are not supposed to be split apart and cobbled back together again in order to hide their real risks and value. That used to be considered fraud.
The reality is that small businesses in the US do not create the majority of jobs (at least at any given time).
It’s actually “socialist” Europe where many countries have a larger percentage of their working population employed in small businesses:
http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/small-business-2009-08.pdf
Face, say goodbye to nose.
That’ll larn ye!
Isn’t there a law against treason? If patriotic, freedom-loving real Americans have evidence of such a serious crime, isn’t it their duty to deliver that evidence to the proper authorities?
Actually if you have knowledge of such an ongoing criminal conspiracy and don’t report it, you’re probably committing some kind of crime.
Uh, aren’t those paragraphs supposed to start with “Whereas,” not “Resolved that”? Isn’t it the ending that is supposed to start with “Be it resolved that”?
And when are the small business owners going to realize that they actually have more common ground with their workers against the politicians owned by “big business”? As theguy points out in #20, it is actually “socialist Europe” where small businesses and small farms that enjoy better protection and thrive better than in the “free market” US.
If
refusing to purchase from companies that support organizations and advocate positions that are actively trying to make your life miserable = “economic terrorism” (as Bill O’Relly and others have said about gay rights organizations organizing boycotts of businesses who give money to anti-gay foundations)
then
Refusing to hire somebody who wants to work when you have a position that needs to be filled in order to make a political point so distantly removed from your actions and their direct impact = the “economic terrorism” equivalent of suicide bombing.
Nothing really new here. O’Reilly threatened to “pack it in” and fired everyone who worked for him if he were forced to a pay a marginally small increase but still much lower than someone in his bracket would have paid under Saint Ron in his taxes.
Obama Derangement Syndrome is no longer something to just laugh about. It’s reached the point where people with it are perfectly willing to shoot the entire country in the foot just to get what they want.
Does anybody else see this as a tacit admission that an economic stimulus funded by the government can work to revive an economy? After all, if Obama’s stimulus plans really are so bad for the country, the Tea Party just needs to do nothing and watch the economy collapse. Instead, they’re worried that a new round of stimulus may actually decrease unemployment just enough by next year that the economy might not be bad enough to defeat Obama. And they can’t fully count on the House blocking any and all possible jobs plan, since house members may be in danger themselves if too many of their constituents are out of work.
So now they’re begging small business owners to tank the economy just for political gain. I can guarantee that if both houses of Congress and the president were Republicans, there would be stimulus plans. Unfunded stimulus plans (paid for by borrowing money) coupled with as much deregulation and tax cuts that they could get away with.
@AsqJames – They probably think they’re the Most Real Americans Evur.
These people are like petulant children. Why don’t they just threaten to hold their breath until the bad man goes away.
Petulant children can easily turn into sadistic tyrants: this mail reeks of bloodlust and looks too much like a pro-coup-d’état justification.
It’s not about the economy. It’s not even about the country. It’s about the Tribe. The “People” elected the wrong president. From the wrong Tribe. Therefore, he’s not legitimate (“Obama, Usurper in Chief”). No Democrat is. No Democrat can be. They’re from the wrong Tribe. Clinton tried to split the difference and, if anything, that made them hate him more. And since then they’ve had a decade of Tribal purges, war and a tanked economy to purify those left in their “big tent”.
Thanks for posting this. It finally drove a point home for me that I’d been struggling with.
Conservatives are actually radicals would-be revolutionaries. The only thing they’re all about conserving is their “right” to decide they don’t like someone or some group and then demonize them. Most of the rest of us know this practice as “lying” which is conveniently against their rules unless you agree with them and frequently mutter about how much your invisible friend means to you.
And if this doesn’t work they promise to hold their breath until they get what they want.
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