Where Was the Outcry? Special Comment by my 72-year-old friend

By GottaLaff

My very caring, impassioned 72-year-old Twitter pal, who goes by the name 42bkdodgr, would like to share his feelings about the hypocrisy, racism, and outright hostility of the -Ers, and I am more than happy to oblige.

I took the liberty of adding a couple of graphics.

Take it away, 42bkdodgr:

The Political Carnival recently posted an article titled “ Colorado Tea Party Organizer Issues Racist Threat To Fellow Blogger” which I read with great interest. Many of you know I detest racism in all forms from my previous special comments on The Political Carnival.

I found the racist threat made by Shaun Conley, a plumber in Johnstown Colorado, to be disgusting and reprehensible. What caught my interest was his ending comment, “You can’t spend your way to prosperity, and you can’t borrow your way out of debt. That’s what we’re trying to fight as a group” (tea baggers).

I ask Shaun and the “tea baggers” the following:

Where was the outcry when President George Bush took the budget surplus given to him by the Clinton Administration and used it up and substantially increased the National Debt?

Where was the outcry when President Bush took this country into an unjust war on misinformation that his administration provided Congress and the American people?

Where was their outcry when Bush Administration violated national and international laws... and our country lost the respect of the international community?

Where was the outcry when the Bush administration didn’t include the cost of the Afghan and Iraq Wars in the annual budget, but hid it under “supplementing spending”?

Where was the outcry when President Bush signed a prescription drug plan for the elderly without being able to pay for it?

Where was the outcry in 2005, when the budget estimate for the Medicare prescription drug plan would cost more than $1.2 trillion in the coming decade? That amount is larger than the $900,000 billion to $1 trillion dollars the Obama administration is estimating the Health Care Reform (HCR) will cost over 10 years, which will be fully funded.

Where was the outcry outrage when end-of-life provision for terminally ill people was included in the 2003 Medicare Drug Bill, that was overwhelmingly approved by the Republicans in Congress? Why are you then so concerned about the so called “death panel” inclusion in the proposed HCR bill?

From Conley’s remarks, you know he was surely against any stimulus plan, so he probably would have liked the banks, brokerage firms and auto companies to fail, throwing this country into a deep depression.

Maybe if these so called “tea baggers” would have been as vigilant during the Bush Administration, as they are concerned about the birth place of Obama, whether he is “one of us”, rather than engaging in mob rule to shut down real discussion at Town Hall meetings, this country would be in better shape today.

Great thanks again for another relevant, thought-provoking piece, 42bkdodgr. We need a gazillion more like you.

You never fail to make my day.