Posted by
PDX Dave on Sunday, March 14, 2010 4:07:10 AM
Today's DNC-organized "Coffee Parties," initially billed as protests, had little to do with protest and a lot to do with smug, kum-by-esque "I love the government more than you do" cheerleading contests.
Calling for a rubber-stamp Congress and more federal government involvement in the lives of average Americans, the "Coffee Clatch Commiserate Party" (CCCP) had no trappings at all of protest, and all the earmarks of one of Fidel Castro's pro-government rallies. This group of gray-haired, has-been hippies haven't felt such bon ami with "the man" since the National Guard saved their lives at Wood Stock as they ran naked and high on drugs through muddy lakes of their own feces and urine.
One of the more laughable nutty nuggets of the group-hug here in Portland was a Janeane Garofalo-looking angry lesbian who loudly and angrily demanded an end to loud and angry debate. She would appear to belong to the school of thought that feels that yelling angrily is the best way to oppose angry yelling. Their newfound desire to defend the ideals of all-powerful government is straight from the Twilight Zone.
This same group just two years ago was hysterically accusing the United States of being the most racist country on the planet. They wept openly at the mere thought of government intrusion into the phone calls of foreign terrorists. Now these latte-lapping liberals proclaim as their group's founding principle: "The government is not the enemy, but the expression of our collective will."
Funny they didn't feel that way when nearly 80% of Americans demanded we invade Iraq.
Speaking of "collective will," it is the "collective will" of the people of the United States that our representatives reject socialized medicine. It seems collective will is a good thing for these Castro Cuddlers right up until it runs counter to THEIR will, then it becomes a reason to scream bloody murder and demand minority rule.