Doug Powers: Bluff called

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Bluff called
By Doug Powers • April 30, 2009 09:04 AM

President Obama said the following at a town hall meeting/100th day in office sermon:

“Those of you who are watching certain news channels on which I’m not very popular, and you see folks waving tea bags around, Obama said, “let me just remind them that I am happy to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs down over the long term, how we are going to stabilize Social Security.”

Strange that Obama could so easily reference something he was unaware of, but nonetheless, tea party organizers are taking the president up on the offer (they say “accepted his offer” because “called his bluff” sounds too harsh for hope):

The National Leadership Team of the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition today accepted President Obama`s invitation “to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs down over the long term, how we are going to stabilize Social Security.”

The invitation was extended by the President at a Town Hall Meeting held in Arnold, Missouri today. Michael Patrick Leahy, a member of the National Leadership Team of the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition, said “We want to broaden the scope to address the President`s runaway march to socialist-statism, and the rampant across the board irresponsible spending he is promoting with his $787 Billion Stimulus Plan and his $1 Trillion Annual Deficit, his takeover of General Motors, Chrysler and the Banks.”

The rest of that press release is here.

You’ll notice how the entire tea party movement is being dismissed as a Fox News stunt, which anyone who’s followed this since the beginning knows is a complete pile of Pelosi. As a matter of fact, didn’t this whole thing, at least in part, get rolling because of Santelli’s “rant” on CNBC?

Another frustration for the left is that when the liberal sock-puppet media did show up, they were only fishing for wackos to discredit the tea party movement and instead ended up providing everyone with laughable examples of their own bias.

Thanks though to the president for helping boost attendance on July 4th even higher than it would have otherwise been.

Posted in: Barack Obama, Tea Party

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"Socialist-statism"... good descriptive term.

Well... here's hoping the Obamessiah indeed follows through with his invitation, and truly listens. Maybe this will help minimize the scoffing coverage of the Tea Protests by most of the MSM, and help legitimize it across a broader audience.

My concern is that Daley the Elder, and now Daley the Younger, would often assuage incipient opposition by inviting potential rabble-rousers to meet with him, and become "part of the solution"... brought into the Machine-fold. Could be our Chicago/Cook County Democrat president has learned well from his mentors?