As our Executive and Legislative branches plot nefarious schemes in order to pass a healthcare bill which the American people have clearly denounced, we begin to see why The Tea Party Movement has proliferated into a huge phenomena.  But as with all shifts in the political tides, there are always those who resist and even denigrate such movements despite their being the essence of American Government.

Whether they be ideologically opposed or otherwise, the Media in our Nation has come out largely in disfavor of Tea Parties, which only proves our ongoing argument that the Media is, indeed, Liberally-biased and largely against common values--which ultimately runs counter to the Nation's overall interests.

Frank Rich's recent New York Times article--which vilifies a majority of Americans who count themselves as members of the Tea Party Movement--seems to illustrate how misguided the Leftward truly are in their understanding of this Nation.  In fact, Rich's column could be counted as nothing more than a left-leaning monumental tower of Pisa to Liberal misinformation.

Rich states, in his opening, that "no one knows what history will make of the present" in regards to the events that are shaping the Nation's future.  This misguided column even launches from the gate in error, which provides only a poor foundation upon which to build a shabbily constructed outhouse of ideas.  To wit, I would be more than happy to give Rich at least a glimpse into the future as it regards history.

Hatching Suicide Planes from the "Tea Party Incubator"

The simple answer is that History will most likely view this period as a time when normal Americans re-engaged with  their Governance which lost its way over the past 5 years.  History will further note that as our economy sank further into the gallows of financial despair, the Democratically-controlled Legislative and Executive branches of our Government were busily trying to take advantage of the unfortunate  situation by passing ream after ream of legislation that could only further damage the economy--if not ignoring it entirely.

How am I doing so far Frank?

I should also point out that history will note that the Democrats' ongoing efforts to jam healthcare through at any cost also acts as a figurative punctuation mark on what has been the most invasive, damaging and economically devastating legislative cycle that this Nation has yet seen.

Rich goes on to state, furthering his Tea Party-obsessed and deranged connection by way of explanation, that a tragic murder-suicide by a disturbed individual who had crashed his plane into an IRS building was the most significant political event of February 2010.

Excuse me Frank, not to embarrass you, Sir, but there was that teeny-tiny matter of the seating of a Massachusetts Republican Senator to a position that had been occupied by the extremely liberal Senator Ted Kennedy in an extremely Liberal state for three decades which also happened in February.   Another small (apparently to Liberals) matter was the construct of fraudulent Global Warming data that was one of the pillars of the President's impetus.

These were just a couple of the many significant February events that are apparently un-noteworthy--let's not forget the prolonged aftermath of the  State of the Union speech which called everyone concerned out for not playing by the rules of Presidential Fiat  and played heavily into February political posturing--despite having occurred at January's end.  And yet, to address Rich's statement concerning the "suicide plane"--the question that boils up to the top of my curiosity level would be "since when did an angry individual with a plane become a political event"?  News-worthy yes, but political event?

Can I Have a Medium Fry with Your Column?

In fact, Rich's reference to Stack as a "Tax Protester" falls far short of Stack's list of grievances with life in general; Stack seemed more to have problems with the Government's methodology of collection used against him rather than the actual tax system.

• Stack had extreme issues, also, with Capitalism and actually derided Capitalists as "gullible" and "greedy"-- Now who does this sound like?

Tea Partiers, in fact, are all for our Capitalist system.

• Stack indicated in his suicide letter that he also had problems with the current American Medical System.  Now, who else do we know of, Mr. Rich, who also has problems with the American Medical System?

Tea Partiers, in fact, are for our American Medical System.

• Stack also intimated a hatred of  George Bush and his cronies.  Now, who, that we know of, despises George Bush and his "cronies"?

When we painfully read through Stack's manifesto, the one thing that we took away from it was that this disturbed individual actually belonged in the Radical Left-Wing Fringe.   Doubtful?  This was the last line in his suicide note:

"The Communist's Creed: From each according to his ability to each according to his need."

"The Capitalist's Creed: From each according to his gullibility to each according to his Greed."

So far, Mr. Rich your argument is not holding very much, if any, water.  With the above quote from Stack himself,  I believe I can victoriously rest our case in this regard.

OH!  This Is just too "Rich"....

Then Rich actually on the one hand admits that it would be "inaccurate" to call Stack a Tea Partier--while on the other hand disingenuously characterizing Stack as a member of the Anti-Government Right by emphasizing Stack's "frothing Anti-Government, anti-tax rage" overlap with the Tea Party banner.  Our conclusion?  As it is in Big Government--so it is with Left-Leaning Opinion Propagandists.  The Liberals taketh and the Liberals giveth away--it is, indeed, a specialty with them to be sure in their Redistribution Methodology of both facts and funds.

If we are to begin grouping various political and antisocial tendencies in the form of over-laps, Mr. Rich, as bell-weather events for politically-ill harbingers, then I would submit, Sir, that your Democrats and their other "Extremely Leftist Political Groups of Interest" Brethren are going to have even bigger problems come November due to these self-same "over-laps" that you find so compellingly connected.

Rich goes on to state that because a few individuals who identify both with the Tea Party Movement and Stack's hatred of Government in general built a shrine on Facebook to Stack, the entire Tea Party Movement is, in essence, just like Stack--along with the politicians who felt pity for Stack.

Once again Mr. Rich, we could construe your faulty logic, in a balancing equation, as vilification of an Administration which--having been sympathized with by "The People's Communist Party"-- commiserates with much of The Administration's positions.

Are you certain that you want to go there Frank?  This ground you are trying to stand on is shakier than the Pacific Ring of Fire at present.

Cry Havoc, Loose the Racist Card of Yore

Next, Rich's Column descends into the same paranoid if not schizophrenic diatribe as it formerly disavowed when Rich parlays an Extreme Left Reporter's efforts at linking the big tent Tea Party Group to far-right members of extremist fringe movements which are of an anti-government bent.  Rich goes on to state that it only takes a few "self-styled Patriots" to sow havoc--to which we can easily counter that it only takes a few "self-styled anti-patriots" to sow the same such havoc with our country.  This can already be seen by looking at where the Nation is today, Mr. Rich.  In a tandem sense,  never has this Nation been more politically divided nor more economically wounded than it is currently.  Mr. Rich seems to be one of many suffering from the "Liberal Ostrichitus" Pandemic.

Rich then skates even further out on thin ice by stating of  Tea Partiers:  "They really do hate all of Washington and if they hate Obama more than the Republican establishment, it's only by a hair or two."  Then Rich throws out the "Racist Card" yet again by stating that Obama "get's extra demerits for his race in some circles, otherwise he and Bush would be in a dead heat" (of dislike).  Rich, why not yank out the "Liberal hallucinogenic drip line"  of Mainstream Media that is feeding your insanity of falsehoods?!  You cannot possibly believe that Tea Party members place Republicans on the same Constitutionally-damning level as the Liberals in charge.  (At least Krugman and Dionne believe in their faulty notions).

As to the racist ploy, I can only say that we have all grown truly weary of Liberals stating that the Nation is racist when better than half of its citizens voted for Obama.  Regardless, then Rich goes nuclear and states that the Tea Party is actually the Party of No Government at all or; more dramatically, they are actually "Anarchists."

Now we begin to see where the true fear lies in these Liberal-Misanthropic Party Apologists.

We May Need a Combine  for the Democrat Harvest This Year...

In fact, Tea Partiers do not hate their Government.  On the contrary, Tea Party members LOVE their Government so much--they want it back!   The Tea Party Movement does not wish to eliminate taxes, they simply want a say in how their tax money is spent.  Indeed, we all know that America's Government is what makes this Nation exceptional.  We revere our Founding Fathers who were Politicians.  The Tea Party Movement simply sees that its Government has temporarily moved away from being a Government of, by, and for The People and has become a Government of, by, and for the Government--along with being a Bully of Redistribution.

We have seen extremes of unchecked power and and an arrogance of power that is not in keeping with this Country's historical traditions.  We are our Government, in essence, and we are a Free Market Economy, for better or for worse, and will forcefully make our "Collective Will" known when it appears that we have been totally disregarded by those in positions of Legislative Authority.  What the Liberals forget is that "We The People" have the ultimate Legislative Authority and will exercise our ultimate authority in the upcoming season of harvest.

Rich goes on trying to drive a wedge between the Republicans and the Tea Party Members when, in fact, no such discontent exists between the two.  There are fiscally Conservative Democrats, Libertarians, Republicans, Blacks, Hispanics, Chinese, Japanese--you name it --they are here within this movement.  Most have come together in order to make their wisdom of the following fact known in earnest:

The Government can no longer leverage the future of this country without massively lowering the exceptional standard of living and the quality of life that this nation has come to know.  Consequently, we may yet be the first generation to leave the State of Our Union in a far worse condition than when it came into our responsibility to preserve and further--absent of our immediately altering course now.

A Willingness to Die for One's Country Is Not Terrorism

Rich then makes what has fast become a collection of comical if not disingenuous blunders by stating that the passion on the Right has migrated to the Tea Party's Counter-conservatism.  The Tea Party, Mr. Rich, is like a Fourth of July Fireworks display of Conservatism.  Allow me to educate your apparent lacking erudition, Mr. Rich, by stating that the word  "counter" means "in opposition to" or "directly opposite" that which it is conjoined with.  Therefore, your usage of "counter-conservatism" to describe the Tea Party would mean that the Tea Parties belong to the Liberals as being opposites of Conservatives.  Do you, Mr. Rich, actually believe that Tea Parties are a Liberal uprising?

Rich goes on to state (after he has appointed Ron Paul as  the Conservative's Fearless Leader) that Paul was called out by none other than a Wall Street Journal editorialist that "Paul's followers include conspiracy theorists, anti-government zealots, 9/11 truthers and assorted cadres of the obsessed and deranged."  This, to me, sounds like the current slate of Administration Czars.

After another exercise in down-talking blogs, talk radio and a number of other individuals who run counter to Rich's politics, Rich states that one Idaho retiree--Pam Stout--who cast her lot with Glenn Beck's 9/12 project--stated that, "I would give up my life for my country" when she fretted about another Civil War being in the offing.  Stout had said, "I don't see us being the ones to start it."  Rich then claims that Stout was echoing Palin's memorable declaration at the National Tea Party Convention earlier this past month.  Palin declared at the end of her speech:  "I will live, I will die for the people of America. . .whatever I can do to help."

Rich idiotically closes by stating, "it's enough to make you wonder who is palling around with terrorists now."

To that I would simply say that Rich's apparent unwillingness to die for his country is a sympton of what this Country can ill afford.  In fact, virtually every one of our heroes on the battlefield, in uniform of public service and those who have come home from battle were, indeed, willing to die for their country--and many have.

Suggesting that an individual's proclamation of being "willing to live and die for their Country" is somehow wrong only shows how misguided many in this Country have become in their diseased values of political correctness and Liberty bashing apathy.

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it."

~Mark Twain

Barry Secrest