This is a real response to a comment on my blog from a tea party loyalist (read original comment below)

Dear 'Palindrone',

It is kind of amusing to know that you are being pitying me for being clueless and at the same time displaying ‘cluelessness’ of gargantuan proportions. You parrot a lot of ‘Palindrones’ in your comment, like “The Tea Party is about returning power to the people’, ‘We’ve become a land of entitlement’ and ‘tax and spend policy of the government’ etc. etc. without even attempting to answer the simple question ‘What would the party do going forward?”, “How will that revive the economy and bring deficits down”? and most importantly if you tea partiers got riled up by the stimulus (but trillion dollar deficits by Bush are fine with you apparently as you guys didn’t froth at the mouth when that happened) then kindly explain how would you have got the economy out of the devastating tailspin it was in and pulled it out from the vicious cycle caused by the state of panic and loss of confidence, which were threatening to freeze the economy and cause further debilitating losses to the common man. You brainwashed buttheads don’t acknowledge the fact that since the stimulus was passed the economy has come out of a seeming bottomless recession and the stock market has grown by more than 50% in one year after the stimulus. You would shudder to know what would have happened without sane heads in the government who didn’t fall for the politico crap of ‘deficits’, from people already had nagging apprehensions as soon as Obama was elected and jumped at the first criticism that was offered by opportunists such as Palin (common, she had better ideas to revive the economy than the crack team established by the govt?). You soaked in everything these unscrupulous scavengers were saying because you wanted to believe everything they said in the back of your mind and kind of made it into a self-fulfilling prophecy. The stimulus package was extremely well thought out, to revive the crucial financial economy (and continue the damage prevention that Bush started with TARP, a $800 billion package) and also provide more jobs by rebuilding the national infrastructure (sorely needed too). You clueless morons painted that package as a bailout (thanks to the nobel laureate economist Palin) when it was just partly a continuation of Bush’s TARP for financial firms (that part of the stimulus plan that is) and was extremely necessary to keep the nascent recovery alive. Take an economics 101 class if you can’t get it even now. Also, you cannot dispute the fact that the economic growth has been higher since the package and the stock market (which was in the danger of going below 6000 at that point) has recovered strongly. Obviously, it is easy to point out that unemployment hasn’t gone down much and the economy is not roaring but think about how disaster was averted due to the stimulus and how bad things would be without it.

Also, regarding the ‘sick of spending’, ’No more tax and spend’ and the ‘down with deficit’ slogans that your party is shouting from the rooftops, where was this anger when Bush added more than trillion to the deficit with the wars and other bills. Let me give you a quote from your ‘favorite paper’ (you would do good to read this paper and knock some sense into yourself) about the medicare prescription program that was passed the Bush team. “Calculations by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and other independent fiscal experts show that the $1.1 trillion cost over the next 10 years of the Medicare prescription drug program, which the Republican-controlled Congress adopted in 2003, by itself would add more to the deficit than the combined costs of the bailout, the stimulus and the health care law.” Read about it here. Where was your anger when the Clinton surplus was wiped away and replaced with a trillion plus deficit? That itself shows that the very foundation of your party is based on hypocrisy and opportunism. When there was no other issue to beat down the Obama administration the tea party leaders started working up the crowds about how their country is getting bankrupted by Obama, and boy did you suckers fall for it or what. Did ya wonder brains know that Obama hasn’t raised any taxes so far and has actually provided a payroll tax cut to 95% of the working people? Get your head out of the sand and try to look at the other side of the story for a change instead of falling for every load of horse hooey that the tea party/gop leaders hand down to you.

Regarding the healthcare it would also be good for you morons to realize that we are actually reducing the deficit with this plan and the national cost of not adopting some of reform would be higher, as the insurance costs were spiraling every year. It is a fair debate as to which provisions could have been modified and what should be added/deleted but I don’t remember this explosion of disgust when Mitt Romney passed this plan for Massachusetts. You two-faced hypocrites are accusing Obama of being a socialist for passing a plan that was created by a Republican and no Tea Party leader will admit to that fact when asked. The fact is that something had to be done about healthcare, as the insurance costs were going through the roof, and this was a commendable effort where the deficit from healthcare was being reduced and the number of uninsured decreasing at the same time. There is no perfect plan for this and if you all have a better suggestion then you would have given it by now instead of just bashing a genuine effort.

The list of your deception and misleading attacks can go on and on but the bottom line is this, the Obama administration has been trying from the very first day to get the country out of the economic funk, and they have tried many innovative and commendable programs like ‘cash for clunkers’, and ‘tax break for first-time home buyers’ etc. that actually helped to a certain extent. The tea party (parties rather) on the other hand have nothing to offer in terms of concrete policies or alternatives and all they do is froth at the mouth and denounce every genuine attempt by the Obama admin.  Oh btw, the Obama admin also gets this simple fact that the economy has to grow first before the deficits can come down anyway, and just clamping down monetarily is not going to do that and will only raise the deficits further. So there!

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