Tea Party Defender
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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I have been trying to resist the impulse to respond to the letter on this subject since it appeared on the fourth of the month. I can no longer abide the almost federal government-like arrogance with which it and subsequent postings have been written.
First of all, I want it clearly understood that I consider myself a patriot, one with no allegiance to any political party or organization. I have because of disgust with the federal government and the politicians that comprise it, attended tea party events. My assessment of the Americans who I have observed at these functions is that they are far more patriotic and care more about the future of our nation than those who are members of organizations like ACORN, or unions like SEIU. That negative assessment would include those who support the named organizations or support politicians who do. That's my opinion and I still have as much entitlement to it as the writer of the subject letter.
Mark Souder's voting history is a matter of record. It's what it is, and it is up to the individual voter to decide when he steps into the voting booth how to cast his ballot. How that turns out is nobody else's business but the voter's, and I resent the insinuation that I should give someone else's opinion credence in which box to check or which lever to pull. I do not recall anyone asking my opinion on how to vote before a ballot was cast to favor the unqualified, unaccomplished, and to date incompetent junior senator from Illinois during the last presidential election. Failure to capitalize is not an error.
The conclusion and accusation that tea party-going citizens would oppose even proposals that were good for the country is flawed and untested. Tea party-goers, like most of the nation who are not deluded by empty rhetoric, are still waiting and hoping that at some future time the administration will put forth a proposal which might be considered both good for the country and given our country's economic condition, affordable.
When Scott Brown won the senatorial election in Massachusetts, I heard a commentator on TV say, "That's one for the teabaggers and zero for the dirtbaggers." I don't mind being called a teabagger. It separates me from the others.
David Eason
Warsaw, via e-mail
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I have been trying to resist the impulse to respond to the letter on this subject since it appeared on the fourth of the month. I can no longer abide the almost federal government-like arrogance with which it and subsequent postings have been written.
First of all, I want it clearly understood that I consider myself a patriot, one with no allegiance to any political party or organization. I have because of disgust with the federal government and the politicians that comprise it, attended tea party events. My assessment of the Americans who I have observed at these functions is that they are far more patriotic and care more about the future of our nation than those who are members of organizations like ACORN, or unions like SEIU. That negative assessment would include those who support the named organizations or support politicians who do. That's my opinion and I still have as much entitlement to it as the writer of the subject letter.
Mark Souder's voting history is a matter of record. It's what it is, and it is up to the individual voter to decide when he steps into the voting booth how to cast his ballot. How that turns out is nobody else's business but the voter's, and I resent the insinuation that I should give someone else's opinion credence in which box to check or which lever to pull. I do not recall anyone asking my opinion on how to vote before a ballot was cast to favor the unqualified, unaccomplished, and to date incompetent junior senator from Illinois during the last presidential election. Failure to capitalize is not an error.
The conclusion and accusation that tea party-going citizens would oppose even proposals that were good for the country is flawed and untested. Tea party-goers, like most of the nation who are not deluded by empty rhetoric, are still waiting and hoping that at some future time the administration will put forth a proposal which might be considered both good for the country and given our country's economic condition, affordable.
When Scott Brown won the senatorial election in Massachusetts, I heard a commentator on TV say, "That's one for the teabaggers and zero for the dirtbaggers." I don't mind being called a teabagger. It separates me from the others.
David Eason
Warsaw, via e-mail
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