Excerpts from “Time for the Tar and Feathers” by Robert Tracinski:

* “So far, the tea parties have been a polite warning. For all of the left’s smears about how the tea party movement is driven by “hate”—another rehearsal of the left’s favorite racism smear—the rallies have actually had something of a festive mood. In the enlightened free society that we still live in, the tea partiers have had the sense that if enough of us raise our voices, our political leaders will have to listen. Well, they didn’t. So now the tea party is over—and it’s time for the tar and feathers. No, I’m not advocating violence against anyone…”

* “But what I really mean is that the time for polite warnings is over. It’s time to instill in the Democratic establishment in Washington a healthy fear and respect for the American people.”

* “The message we’ve gotten in return has also been crystal clear. A writer at The New Republic put it most brazenly, in his title for an article praising the president’s new campaign: ‘Americans Aren’t Enthused About Obama’s Agenda. Screw ‘Em.’ That’s the essence of the president’s message, too, though he puts it a little more politely.”

* “It has become clear that the Democrats won’t be stopped by fear of losing this fall’s election. Indeed, they have already taken such a loss into account. So we need to raise the pressure to a new level. To heck with whether or not they win re-election; we need to make Democrats afraid that if they support this bill they will never be able to move back to their home districts. They need to be afraid that they won’t be able to go out in public without being harangued—that every audience they address from now on will be an angry mob—that they will become lifelong pariahs for defying the will of the people. We need to make a vow that every Democrat who goes along with this bill will be a marked man for the rest of his life—or at least until the health care bill is repealed.”

* “…if [the socialized medicine bill] passes… the Republicans need to draft up a repeal bill in the simplest possible terms — one sentence will do: “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 is hereby repealed.” They must then declare that this repeal will be their first act as a congressional majority in 2011 and that it will be the first bill they send to a Republican president in 2013. The Republicans must make it clear that if the Democrats are going to sacrifice everything for this bill — their offices, their reputations, their peace and sanity — they will be sacrificing for nothing.”

* “In short, the Republicans should take their cue from a sign carried by one of the patriots at the giant September 12 tea party rally: ‘I’m not with the party of no. I’m with the party of hell, no.’”

– Mark Kalinowski
North New Jersey Tea Party Group
Liberty, Free Markets, and Individual Rights

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