Santelli, Tea Parties, and States Rights

Everyone has heard Santelli’s rant by now and it indeed was a beautiful thing.

And everyone has heard the pulsillanimous Gibbs, Obama’s wet metrosexual PR goon , try his best to sneer at Santelli. What a pasty pile of flesh Gibbs is, isn’t he?  Santelli responds below.

Tea Party anyone?

The nation’s outrage over the never ending Bush-Obama Bailout Parade is heating up fast. This week alone we’ve seen grassroots rallies in Seattle, Denver, Mesa, and Kansas. Then yesterday, CNBC editor Rick Santelli set off a virtual firestorm when his passionate critique of President Barack Obama’s mortgage bailout plan inspired traders on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange to stop their pre-trading preparations to voice their support. The video of Santelli’s call for a “Chicago Tea Party” to protest the government’s constant intervention in the free market has spread like wildfire across all media outlets.
[...]
Closing his interview with National Review, Santelli also connected the mortgage bailout to the Obama Administration’s stimulus plan:

Santelli: I’ll be honest with you, I think I’ve gotten somewhere between 850-900, and I think I had three that were negative. … The issue is, you can’t pick out 8 or 9 percent and give them things that weaken the 90 or 92 percent who are carrying the water. … They need to quit picking winners and losers, and they have to quit alienating the classes. You have to figure out a way to float all boats, and I think that’s where the administration has gone wrong, and I think that’s the nerve I hit.
[...]

At the end of the day, it’s simple. A lot of the president’s advisers are saying that there’s a multiplier effect to the government money, and it’s over one. Now if that’s true, then the government should spend non-stop for the rest of our lives, because we’ll get a positive return. And it makes no sense. … I guess in the end, I believe in the founding fathers, and I believe that in America… the pursuit of happiness and to work hard and keep the fruits of your labor is something I believe in. And I’m not saying we should forget people who need help. But at the end of the day, Americans are strong and they’re charitable. I think what they have a problem with is that it’s force-fed via the government.
(Source)

And then there is the growing movement of individual states firmly declaring their sovereign status. See 25 States Claiming / Planning Sovereignty

Sphere: Related Content