The New York Times and The Dreaded Tea Party Jihad

The Democrat talking points are out. There is one that seems to have been circulated to all the usual suspects amongst the liberal illuminati and they are repeating it over and over ad nauseum. The talking point in question? The Tea Party is a bunch of terrorists. Last week, Thomas Friedman compared them to Hezbollah. Joe Biden piled on as well, saying that they “acted like terrorists.” The Grey Lady’s Joe Nocera carries on the meme as well, while kicking it up a notch. Not only are they terrorists, but they’ve been waging a jihad on the American people.

It really isn’t the point of this article to mention the fact that the New York Times refuses to call, you know, actual terrorists “terrorists.” They’re just militants. Even the term Jihad, according to unindicted co-conspirators CAIR, “includes struggle against evil inclinations within oneself, struggle to improve the quality of life in society, etc. etc.” It’s clear that this definition only holds true when discussing misunderstood Muslims who really only want to be loved and hugged, especially when they’re flying jet liners into buildings and blowing up subways.

Nocera rails against the terror tactics of the Tea party that have kept the American people dumbstruck with horror. They scorned compromise, unlike the President and Senate Majority leader who, at every opportunity, said that any bill that included cuts would be Dead on Arrival. The fact that the Tea Party was unwilling to budge on what President Obama recently referred to as “Job Killing Tax Increases” is irrefutable proof that they hate Americans and worked with “gleeful willingness” to destroy American faith and credit.

Of course, we know that this interpretation of the Tea Party stance is either total mind numbing ignorance or a malicious distortion of the facts. Nocera is obviously basing his stance on the idea that it is default that will cause damage to the money market’s faith in America. This canard is one made of whole cloth by the Obama administration. It has been shown over and over again that America is in no danger of immediate default. The market, on the other hand, is quite worried about the future. A future of ballooning debt is what keeps them awake at night. At some point, the cost of servicing that debt will overtake the government’s income. It was the ratings agencies that threatened to drop America’s bonds from AAA to AA if there weren’t $4 Trillion in budget cuts. The Tea Party understands this, even if the Washington elites either don’t care or can’t quite fathom the economics involved.

While the above is, at best, silly and, at worst, malicious, it isn’t stupid. That’s what comes next in Nocera’s screed.

“America’s real crisis is not a debt crisis. It’s an unemployment crisis.”

Well, yes, America has an unemployment crisis. That is mostly because of the Obama administration’s job killing policies. The Health Control bill, Dodd-Frank, the endless regulations pumped out by the EPA, the ongoing demonization of business, the kowtowing to every whim of the unions and the uncertainty about whether or not new onerous taxes will be imposed all work together to prevent anyone from hiring.

The double speak then deployed is mind numbing. As he discusses the need to foster job creation he drops in this line:

“Incredibly, the Democrats even abandoned their demand for extended unemployment benefits as part of the deal.”

I’m not sure where this particular bit of paralogia comes from, but it has appeared before in liberal talking points. Paying people for being unemployed reduces unemployment. Why would people go back to work if they’re getting paid not to work? Do people have to turn in their common sense when they start writing for the New York Times?

It is true that economic growth could go a long way to work on reducing the debt. There is only one tried and true way of growing the economy and that is reducing government’s involvements in the markets. That means fewer regulations, fewer subsidies, lower taxes.

We can look around the world and find nowhere that Keynesian economics have been an overwhelming success. Even Germany, the poster child for the socialist democracies of Europe, realized years ago that the best way to improve the economy is by cutting taxes. In 2004, Germany had one of the highest corporate tax rates in the industrialized world at over 40%. A year later, seeing that their economy was stagnating, they cut that rate by almost 14%. This has jump-started their economy to the point that they are able to bail out every failing state in the European Union.

Joe Nocera is, in the end, a small, malicious, lying hack. He clearly does not care about the truth. He does not care about Middle America. He does care about the less fortunate. He cares about the progressive agenda, and he knows the only way to move the progressive agenda forward is to bribe people to vote for Democrats. He only cares about getting more people beholden to the bloated government so they’ll keep putting their patrons back in power.

We do not wear suicide vests. We do not wish harm to the country. We are not terrorists. We are not extremists. We are the majority. We are the people.