Here is a hypothetical transcript of a speech on Labor Day 2011 on Main Street, Anywhere, USA by a Tea Party speaker. (You will note the striking similarity to the speech given on Labor Day in Detroit, MI., by Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa):
“Are there any Tea Baggers in the house? (Thunderous applause!) This is Main Street, Anywhere, USA, but today, this is Tea Bagger town! (More thunderous applause!) We are individuals, families, students, workers and businessmen, we are black, white and brown, we’re gentile and Jew, hispanic and anglo, young and old, we’re employed and unemployed, haves and have nots, gay and straight, and we’re all patriots. We all believe in and love our country. This is the message that we send today, and this is the message that we send to the voters of America.
There is a war being waged on the responsible taxpayers and founding fathers of America. You see it everywhere: It is in the progressive movement in general, you hear it in the words of Jimmy Hoffa, president of the Teamsters Union, it is in rhetoric of SEIU, it is in hearts, minds and words of politicians like Rep. Maxine Waters, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Rep. Andre Carson, Rep. Frederica Wilson, and Rep. Al Green. And we see the war in Wisconsin where SEIU, NEA, and AFT brought in the shock troops in support of the flouting of the democratic process and in defense, not of their collective bargaining rights, but of their unfettered access to what they consider the deep pocket of the American taxpayer. But the people of Wisconsin spoke and we beat back the forces of evil that are bankrupting municipal corporations from coast to coast and will continue to do so in 2012. But that victory could be illusory if we do not unite against the common enemy. That’s number one.
Number two, in Ohio, we are fighting a battle there with regard to the same kind of taxpayer exploitation and abuse we see coming from public employee unions throughout the country. We will watch the success of SB5. We’ve got millions of responsible taxpayer supporters. We are going to win in Ohio — that is our number two.
And in Michigan, we’re going to see right to work laws passed. Yes, even in Michigan we going to see sanity returned to the pay and benefits of public employees. It’s coming.
We have to keep an eye on the gathering storm we face coming from the progressive movement—it is a war on the Constitution and responsible taxpayers. And you see it everywhere there is an entitlement, gimmie gimmie, don’t gore my ox mentality. And you know there is only one way to beat and win the war being waged against the American taxpayer.
The one thing about responsible citizens and patriotic Americans is we like and welcome a good fight. Been there, done that! And you know what, the enemies of responsible citizens and the American taxpayer have got a war, they’ve got a war with the founding fathers, individual liberty and personal responsibility and there is only going to be one winner. It is going to be the responsible taxpaying citizens of America – we are going to win that war. All the way.
But it starts with your involvement, it starts with next November. We’ve got a bunch of people out there that want to see the president’s radical egalitarian agenda expanded and accelerated and they are called progressives, liberals and collectivists; and democrats – the people who want to fundamentally change the core values of the American State away from individual liberty and personal responsibility and towards a cradle to grave nanny state philosophy. Make no mistake, they are the enemy!
President Obama sees what’s going on. He reads the polls and the unemployment figures. Well, guess what, we’ve got the vote. And the answer to what we say is, we’re on to you Mr. President, and your radical agenda, and November 2012 cometh. We will beat the radicals and give this country back to the responsible taxpaying citizens of America. We can do it together.
We’ve also got to talk about spending. I get so tired about people who think that big government, play for pay and crony capitalism is the way to create jobs, and they’ve got the audacity to use phrases like “the summer of recovery.”
Well I’ve got news for you. It’s time to recognize that the root cause of stagnation and unemployment in this country is the fact that we got a president who campaigned on the theme of class warfare and radical change in America and is doing everything in his power to implement his collectivist agenda. And what we’ve got to do is insure that the president and his fellow travelers are sent back to Chicago to join Rahm Emanuel, maybe as the faculty of the Saul Alinsky School of Community Organizing.
We are going to hear from President Obama in a few minutes, and I am so glad that he has come to Anywhere, USA because this is where he will see the real America. Undoubtably his appointments secretary clicked the wrong key on her computer; but here he is. He looks out on this army of people and you know what I say? President Obama, this is your Waterloo. We are an army ready to march against your radical agenda. President Obama, we want one thing: No more years, no more years, no more years. (the crowd joins the chant)
That’s what we are going to tell America…..When he sees what is going on here on Main Street, USA, what we are doing here, he’ll rue the day he read from his first Teleprompter. But he and his fellow travelers need help finding their way out the door. And you know what? Everybody here has got a vote. If we go back, we keep the eye on the prize, lets take these sons-of-bitches out and take America back to where we belong.” (Thunderous cascading waves of applause!)
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At a hypothetical press conference the following day Jay Carney was asked if President Obama had any response to the inflammatory rhetoric used by the Tea Party speaker at the Main Street rally.
Carney: Remember the hallowed words of the president when he spoke to the need for civility in political rhetoric at the funeral for the fallen after the Tucson tragedy last February. He said, “Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let us use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy, and remind ourselves of all the ways our hopes and dreams are bound together... for all our imperfections, we are full of decency and goodness, and that the forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us...But at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized -- at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do -- it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.”
The president condemns the speaker at the far right-wing Tea Party rally on Main Street, USA. The president commends the speaker at the far right-wing Tea Party rally on Main Street, USA his Tucson speech and that she reflect on the wisdom and divine inspiration contained in his words of love, brotherhood and civility. The president calls on speaker at the far right-wing Tea Party rally on Main Street, USA to apologize and seek absolution for her rhetorical transgressions.
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