Sessions: Tea Party put some “terror” in the hearts of big spenders
posted at 3:15 pm on August 2, 2011 by Tina Korbe
Why I love Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), reason No. 825 (still the number of days the Senate hasn’t passed a budget!): Tea Party trash-talking has crept from the extreme corners of the progressive movement to NYT columnists to the second-highest seat in the country (although Vice President Joe Biden denies it), but Sessions doesn’t take it. Here’s the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee on CNN’s Piers Morgan last night:
“I think the Tea Party movement represented a spontaneous American expression of shock and concern over the spending that was going on in Washington,” Sessions says in the video. “We cannot possibly justify members of Congress borrowing 42 cents of every dollar that is spent. This is irresponsible and they demanded change and elected a lot of new people. They’ve been called terrorists. I would just say they put some terror in the hearts of big spenders. They are people who care about America and I think have helped move us to a discussion of how much we can spend to how much we can save.”
Yes. Thank you, Sen. Sessions. Why is it so hard to accept the Tea Party as an authentic, non-orchestrated political movement? Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid laments the way Tea Party representatives and senators have made the political process more difficult. Without them, Reid said, the debt ceiling could have been increased so much sooner. What? Like in December 2010, when Democrats still controlled the House and Senate? Why did Democrats wait, except to be able to blame Republicans? But Tea Partiers didn’t back down because they wanted a long-term solution to overspending. They’re happy to take the blame (I’d say the credit!) for making the political process a process once again — not merely a well-oiled machine designed to thoughtlessly grow government. Good for them.
(And a little off-topic, but I like my Townhall.com colleague Katie Pavlich’s aside about Piers Morgan: “Every time Piers Morgan expresses his anti-Second Amendment and Anti-tea party views, I always say he’s just bitter about a little thing called the American Revolution, but I digress.”)
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He’s a lefty, so he’d be exempt and free to be as much of a hazard to his and every one else’s health as he wants to be.
He’s a mobile environmental hazard area wherever he and his shadow are present.
hawkeye54 on March 20, 2013 at 5:25 PM
Because the commies used manupilated american opinion to shut down the House Un-American Activities committee in the 60s. That committtee had already uncovered the conspiracy among Hollywood, the press and the professors/teachers to brainwash the American children and take over the country. So the committee had one bad apple, but the whole committee served a vital purpose. I don’t think that many of you even know or remember this because of the good work by our power elite.
Old Country Boy on March 20, 2013 at 5:26 PM
Google “Operation Abolition”. That is the birthplace of Alinsky, obama, Doren, et al.
Old Country Boy on March 20, 2013 at 5:27 PM
I’m part of the 200 million Americans that don’t own a gun. Is it because I support an assault weapons ban? No. It’s because I live in the People’s Republic of New York and the process to get a pistol permit takes at least a YEAR.
Maddie on March 20, 2013 at 5:55 PM
Bummer.
I’ve bought 5 in the last 4 months – but uhhh, but I uhhh lost them all in a lake when I took them all fishing with me, ya, that’s the ticket……
Unfortunately Colorado has started heading down the NY path – thanks to a big wd of Bloomingidiot cash to the gun-grabbing Dems.
dentarthurdent on March 20, 2013 at 6:22 PM
If…. I mean “when” Micheal Moore chokes to death on a Triple-Whopper, my support for delicious fast food will still be as strong as ever.
@AsalamaTweetum
Opinionnation on March 20, 2013 at 7:39 PM
It’s as if Reid dared someone to surpass him on the Shameless Argument scale, and Moore stepped up and said “challenge accepted”.
The Schaef on March 21, 2013 at 9:04 AM
Believe it or not, I have a soft spot for Harry Reid. The NRA has long given him an “A” rating on gun rights, and he once relied on his Second Amendment rights for his own protection.
I pay no attention to Fat Mike. Long ago he devolved into a some kind of pathetic and grotesque cartoon character.
JackM on March 21, 2013 at 10:06 AM
A call to 911 just summons the clean up team to the crime scene.
JackM on March 21, 2013 at 10:12 AM
If anyone has to deal with someone who can’t seem to figure out exactly what B.O. believes and what he wants, just tell that person to look at Fat Mike.
B.O. is a skinny Michael Moore with a tan.
Simple as that.
JackM on March 26, 2013 at 9:48 AM
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