The Political Fish

And now, its rolling on in the literal sense.

The Teaparty Express left Sacramento California on August 28, and will be holding Tea Parties across the nation all the way up until September 12, when the movement will culminate in Washington DC for the grand daddy of them all. The 9/12 March on the Capitol.

One way or another, the government will listen to its citizens.

Check out the Teaparty Express blog for daily updates as they move across the country. The Political Fish wants to encourage Americans that are fed up with this government and their intrusions into the lives of everyday citizens to attend one of the tea party rallies as this group of patriots travels across the country. There is a schedule on the website of where they will be. Today, the group travelled through New Mexico, and it is on to El Paso Texas tommorow.

The Tea party movement has been brewing now for almost 6 months. It started as a small gathering in February, grew exponentially by April 15th, when an estimated 1 million Americans showed up at their local event to protest an overreaching government. The numbers swelled again on July 4th, as our nation celebrated its independence by reminding the government just who is still in charge, according to our founding documents. As we move towards the 9/12 event, there are now many more events scheduled across the nation, for those who simply cannot make the trip to the capitol.

Anger is building in middle America. People are not going to take much more of this administrations, or the government as a whole, much longer. It has overstepped, overreached, and underestimated its citizenry. With the teaparties, we have begun to take back the control of this nation, as it was intended by our founders.

Los Angeles California Representative Diane Watson (D) at a townhall meeting heaped praise on the Cuban Revolution, Che Guevara, and the allegedly wonderful Cuban healthcare system (wondering why they try to float to Florida on cars). Oh yeah, and in the process towed the Democratic party line of race-baiting anyone who disagrees with the President.

Apparently Los Angeles talk radio station KABC AM-790 was the only news outlet to cover this astonishingly irresponsible comments…take a listen.

Makes you wonder why Cubans do whatever they can to get to South Florida doesn’t it? I mean, in this womans shockingly naive worldview, Cubans got it made!!

This statement is chocked full of stuff to pick through. All the birthers out there can have her statement about “electing a President from Kenya and Kansas”. I thought it was Hawaii?

Thanks to Michelle Malkin for typing out the transcripts to this poor womans idiotic statement. Maybe it will sink in better if you can read it.

WATSON: You might have heard their philosophical leader. I think his name is Rush Limbaugh. And he said early on, “I hope that he fails.”

Do you know what that means? If the president, your commander-in-chief, fails, America fails.

Now, when a senator says that this will be his Waterloo, and we all know what happened at Waterloo, then we have him and he fails. Do we want a failed state called the United States?

And remember: They are spreading fear and they are trying to see that the first president that looks likes me fails.

Now just understand what’s at the bottom line.

And you know we just got, 48 hours ago, we just go back, we were in Beijing, China, Hong Kong, China, we were in Taiwan, we were in Guam, we were all over the Far East.

I just want you to know: People look at the United States as a country that has changed its way and has elected someone from Kenya and Kansas, I’ll put it like that.

And they’re saying, “We thought you would never do that.”

So we don’t want to have this young man, and he just turned 48 — we want him to succeed, because when he succeeds, we regain our status. We regain our status.

It was just mentioned to me by our esteemed speaker, “Did anyone say anything about the Cuban health system?”

And lemme tell ya, before you say “Oh, it’s a commu–”, you need to go down there and see what Fidel Castro put in place. And I want you to know, now, you can think whatever you want to about Fidel Castro, but he was one of the brightest leaders I have ever met. [APPLAUSE]

And you know, the Cuban revolution that kicked out the wealthy, Che Guevara did that, and then, after they took over, they went out among the population to find someone who could lead this new nation, and they found…well, just leave it there (laughs), an attorney by the name of Fidel Castro…

One final question, who the heck were these people clapping for this woman? Is there really an element of society this dumb?

These politicians in Washington are going to learn a hard lesson in the very near future. 2010 elections are coming soon.

Harry Reid (who has a favorability rating in the low 30’s in his home state of Nevada) today referred to townhall protesters as “evil-mongers” spreading “lies, innuendo, and rumors.”

Reid is the very definition of the Washington establishment, so far removed from the thoughts and concerns of the people he represents. The townhall protesters are Republicans, Democrats, Independents, and everything in between on the political spectrum, and the inflammatory rhetoric of the typical DC bullies has shown us truly who they are in the past weeks. Dame Pelosi has been quite outspoken as well recently concerning the protesters, it truly drives these people nuts to know that the majority of the American public doesn’t want Reid, Pelosi, Obama, or anyone else from inside the beltway making important life or death decisions for them.

Harry Reid…its time to go. And its a safe bet that you will go the way of Tom Daschle. From the Senate Majority leader, to shamefully and disgracefully losing the next election. So long Harry.

This video is painful to watch, but yet as an opponent to government taking over the healthcare system, I propose more teleprompter-less townhall meetings for our community organizer-in-chief. Take a listen.

Oops…thank you Mr. President for reminding the American people just how inept government-run entities really are. I’m thinking next time, talk about Amtrak!

One major perk about being the President of the United States, is that on major issues, you have the big microphone. You have all the opportunity in the world to state your point, and the vast majority will listen. The trick is…don’t squander the bully pulpit (no pun intended)

Yesterday in Portsmouth, the President looked amateurish at best in trying to sell his health care plan. It was obviously a staged event, deck stacked in his favor. This townhall showed no resemblance to any other townhall that has taken place across the country in the past weeks. Can you say astroturf?

We were all moved by the cute little girl who questioned the President. From Boston.com

A girl from Malden asked President Obama a question at Tuesday’s town hall meeting in New Hampshire about the signs outside “saying mean things” about his health care proposal.

Eleven-year-old Julia Hall asked: “How do kids know what is true, and why do people want a new system that can — that help more of us?”

The question opened the door for the president to respond to what he called an “underlying fear” among the public “that people somehow won’t get the care they need.”

The girl later told the Globe that picking the president’s brain was “incredible.”

“It was like a once in a lifetime experience,” she said.

A moving moment for sure. The children of America coming out and getting engaged in the healthcare debate. Too good to be true for the President it seems…as with everything else in Obamaland, this one was a setup. Turns out, little 11 year old Julia Hall’s mother has been quite the Obama supporter, turning out thousands of dollars in donations to the President.

Julia’s mother was an early Obama supporter in Massachusetts during the presidential election, so she had previously met First Lady Michelle Obama, the Obama daughters Sasha and Malia, and Vice President Joe Biden.

“This was my first time meeting Barack Obama, and he’s a very nice man,” Julia said. “I’m glad I voted for him.”

She said Obama won a mock presidential election at the Cheverus School in 2008. And on Tuesday, he approached her after the town meeting.

“He said ‘great question,’” Julia said. “I shook his hand and got his picture.”

Kathleen Manning Hall, Julia’s mother, was shocked when her daughter said she wanted to ask a question. They wrote it down beforehand, and Julia didn’t miss a beat when Obama called on her.

“It was surreal,” said Manning Hall, a coordinator of Massachusetts Women for Obama during the election.

*Sigh*  And you wonder why I am cynical of every move this President makes. Little Julia was nothing more than a planted opportunity for the President to soothe the fears of “America’s children”, shamelessly planted in the crowd. Sadly, Mom is deeply invested in Obama and has had many previous meetings and run-in’s. Not quite the “once in a lifetime experience” we were supposed to blindly believe.

The true astroturf moment of the healthcare debate took place in Portsmouth New Hampshire. No doubt Madame Pelosi will take notice of all this astroturfing.