"Trouble's a-Brewin"
You’re goddamn right it is Queenan: (via HotAir)
One of the things that helped get Obama elected was that he was really cool. This made Democrats feel cool. Tea Party types are not cool. But there are an awful lot of them out there. The Democrats thus find themselves in a bind. They cannot continue to cede the public stage to the Tea Partyers. They cannot simply sit back and do nothing. Maybe they should try torchlight parades. Or coffee claques. Perhaps even fistfights. But they better try something soon. Trouble’s a-brewin’.
Leave it to a dumb Philadelphian turned European socialist to make the right observation for all the wrong reasons. No offense Philadelphia.
I don’t know what Joe Queenan’s “cool” cred is, but kickin’ that kinda stupid shit would get get his lame ass laughed out of Jersey. Suck it Queenan.
Easily the most uncool jackasses I have ever met reside exclusively on the political left. The whole lot of ‘em are really just a bunch of wanna-be 60’s hippies. It’s actually quite comical to watch.
And wait a minute…Barack Obama is cool? Is that a joke? When the hell did that happen? The guy bowls like a moron, drinks beer like a pansy and wears mom-jeans to limp-wristedly do the worst impression of a President throwing out the first pitch that I’ve ever seen! Dude, he throws like a girl…no offense to girls.
Obama is like a halfassed metrosexual. But any self-respecting douchebag metrosexual wouldn’t be caught dead in the corny shit Obama wears. You wanna see corny? Look no further than Queenan himself. Yeh, that guy’s the perfect arbiter of “cool” these days.
The only way to describe tripe like this is that fools like Queenan want to believe they’re cool…and smart. He basically admits it, albeit for idiotic reasons, when he says that Obama made Democrats “feel cool”. There’s a lot of Democrats that think they’re smart too; we’ve all gotten quite a healthy helping of Democrat intelligence this year, haven’t we.
So Queenan basically advocates that Democrats start throwing punches in order to counter the Tea Party’s rank uncoolness and yet weirdly unexplainable growing influence. Great strategy. I’m sure the million people I hung out with in D.C. on 9/12 will be literally shitting their pants at that kind of threat.
After you take the sarcasm tag off, I got news for Joe Queenan.
We’re itching for Democrats to start torchlight parades and fistfights. Let’s all take off the gloves and start throwing down. I can tell you who my money’s on in a nationwide street fight.
Hint: It ain’t Columbia undergrads or aging bongo-players like Joe Queenan.
Bring it on bitches.
Russ
PS:
Latinos and blacks are not invited to tea parties. Well, maybe as caterers.
He’s a racist too.
Russ
I’ve been thinking of how best to link this piece by Virgil at the Reb when it hit me…this is who my money’s on in Queenan’s nationwide street fight:
The political parties will not save you. The tea and cakes parties will not save you. The only thing that will save you and your families in the end is to reject the federal system, stop paying your income taxes, your sales taxes and starve the machine. Yes, I hear you cry “oh Virgil we must work within the system”, “we must be pragmatic”, “we conservatives are law abiding people and can’t participate in unlawful activity”. Ultimately the choice is yours and you can make excuses to yourself, your family and me all day long. Life is rough, get a helmet. If you want to be free and if you want to ensure that you are leaving your progeny a future free from government enslavement then you better be ready to make the hard choices. Your choices are being made for you now on a daily basis. How about you start exerting a little control in your life eh?
Goddamn that boy can riff. Does Queenan really think that liberal Democrats are gonna wanna start a fistfight with dedication like that?
Yeh…me neither.
Although I’m not so sure this is true:
The progressive’s are not intimidated by the tea party movement, they are not concerned with town hall meetings nor are they bothered by the rise of third party or independent candidates. They are on the offensive and will remain so until they realize their objectives. You may deny the truth though pay me now, or pay me later, you will eventually pay. If anything should be clear following the state of the union address and the ancillary post SOTU congressional meetings the federal government is not the problem. An unruly, uncooperative, bellicose electorate is.
I don’t know about that V. I think a good lot of ‘em are starting to tremble, as they should. Queenan’s article wasn’t the first I’ve read that alludes to this fear and I’m fairly certain it won’t be the last. We’ve got their attention and said attention is not, despite the protestations of the more self-deluded, an attention like you find at the zoo.
Staying with that imperfect analogy for the moment though and assuming arguendo its validity, where the dynamic may have been, many months ago, in fact one of the liberal elite and rank and file staring through the iron gates at the Conservative animals inside, believe me when I tell you that more than one of the gawkers have realized that we may have just busted open the lock. It’s only a matter of time before the gates fly open and we take back the zoo.
I just have one disclaimer on V’s otherwise brilliant piece; solitary or small tribe civil disobedience is akin to gnawing at just one leg of the table. After you’re done chewing you may even take a whole leg out, but the table will still stand and the effort, while noble and just nonetheless, will have been futile.
I portend a slaughter of epic proportions coming this November that if all goes according to plan, will literally take out two of the tables legs in one fell swoop. After that, all it takes is a slight breeze to topple it.
We can do this from the inside, but I’ll concede that this may be the last chance we have. I do believe that a new paradigm is coming to Washington. It’s a paradigm that was born thousands of years ago and reborn in the streets of America in the Summer of 2009. This isn’t a “movement” so much as it’s a fundamental reorganization of philosophical priorities. There are millions and millions of people who may never have taken a second to recognize, a) where we started, b) how we’ve gotten to where we are and, c) how best to reverse course and realize the “Dream that was Rome” before last Summer.
But as it were, those people took a second. And then they took another.
And now they believe.
Liberty belongs to you and me. I for one know we’re going to take it back from those who would deny us the right.
Great piece V.
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Reader Comments (2)
That's really funny, actually. He wants the LEFT to start torchlight parades and fistfights?
The party of metrosexuals? And anger management classes? And pacifism? And gun control? And appeasement? And "end all wars now"?
The party that doesn't want little kids to keep score during soccer games because losing hurts the fragile ego?
He wants THESE people to pick a fight?
Heh. I'm with you, Russ.
Go 'head. Bring it.
Yeh it's pretty funny when aging hippies try talking tough. I literally could not be less worried about it.