Since America’s credit rating was downgraded for the first time in history under President Obama, Democrats and their media structure have been working overtime to spin this as the tea party’s fault. They’re spinning so hard they’re absolutely dizzy.

John Kerry: “Blame the tea party!”

David Axelrod: “Blame the tea party!”

Then there are those who blame everything and everyone other than the party in charge.

Cokie Roberts blames the Constitution:

Barney Frank blames the military:

The White House said that S&P made a “mathematical error” (they downgraded the downgrade) even though S&P says it is irrelevant, the downgrade stands.

Except that military spending is only 4% of GDP. Mark Steyn notes in his latest book (which is a must-get) After America, in ten years we “will be spending more of our federal budget on interest payments than on the military”  – and “according to the CBO’s 2010 long-term budget outlook, by 2020 the government will be paying between 15 and 20 percent of its revenues in debt interest.” Steyn notes that “America will be spending more on debt interest than China, Britain, France, Russia, Japan, Germany, Saudi Arabia, India, Italy, South Korea, Brazil, Canada, Australia, Spain Turkey, and Israel spend on their militaries combined.“ Frank is careful not to mention Libya when talking about war funding; he mentions only Iraq (which is ending) and Afghanistan (which his party extended and pledged more troops) because by reminding viewers that we lumbered into conflict with a country that posed no immediate threat to our interests, he’d be showcasing Democratic irony.

Blaming the tea party (or the military, or anything else) is asinine and an outright lie and I said exactly this on CNN this morning. Let’s review.

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Pundit Press last month compiled a hefty list of articles, some of which were covered here, as a chilling exhibition of media hatred — bias seems unsuitable — towards conservatives, the GOP, and the tea party.

There are some legitimately non-hyperbolic editorials coming out from the Left. However– a disproportionate amount coming from actual establishment news organizations and writers should be cause for alarm. Yes, there is the regular alarm-pulling at the Nation and the Daily Kos– but there is a troubling trend. The most heavy– and even obscene terms are being thrown at the GOP. Below are just some examples from this month alone.

- William Yeomans, Politico: Tea Party’s Terrorist Tactics
- Paul Waldman, American Prospect: Underestimating Right Wing Insanity
- Nicholas Kristof, NY Times: GOP Zealots Threatening America’s Security
- Andrew Leonard, Salon: New GOP Hostage Demand: Kill ObamaCare
- E.J. Dionne, Washington Post: Tea Party Extremism Endangering Nation
- Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA): “Cult Fringe” Holding Up Debt Ceiling Increase
- Gene Lyons, Salon: A Republican Party Divorced From Sanity
- Gary Younge, The Guardian: Debt Ceiling Crisis Exposing GOP Madness
- Bill Maher: Maher: Where Were The “Teabaggers” Before “Blackie McBlackman?”
- Senator John Kerry (D-MA): Kerry: Tea Party Republicans a “Group of Absolutists, Extremists”
- Robert Kuttner, American Prospect: The Joys of Fanaticism
-  Paul Krugman, New York Times: The GOP Went Insane Long Ago
- Robert Reich, Huffington Post: The Wrecking Ball Right
- Joan Walsh, Salon: GOP’s Extremist 2012 Field Helps Obama
- Jonathan Chait, The New Republic: The Republican Crazy Is Not an Act
- Mike Littwin, Denver Post: Tea Partier Crazies Want U.S. to Default
- Tina Brown, MSNBC: GOP Are Suicide Bombers in Debt Negotiations
- Martin Frost, Politico: The tea party Taliban

Read the full list here. Of course I find it laughable that the media is abandoning blatant fact by ignoring how the party who controlled the whole of government for two years, tripled the deficit, refused to present a budget, and fought against the $4 trillion in cuts that S&P said were needed, cuts the tea party demanded, is somehow the victim. The victim of what, exactly? Themselves? For three years I watched, and for the past year I’ve chronicled on this website (along with many other dedicated citizen journalists) the media’s waffling on the influence of the tea party. When Democrats want to ignore the movement, they and their MSM pals laugh off grassroots as “irrelevant.” When they want to dodge blame for their own actions, they switch and say that the tea party is all-powerful.

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My memory is getting worse with time, but it’s still pretty good. Anybody out there remember what happened on Nov. 2, 2010?

I think there was an election that day and if my memory serves me well, Democrats and liberal Republicans got creamed. Bear with me for a second, I think my numbers are pretty good here, 63 House seats, six Senate seats, about a dozen governorships, and close to 700 State House seats flipped from “D” to “R.” I also seem to recall at the time that the Democrats and their activist old media worked hard to downplay and ignore the massacre because….well….because it just hurt too much to acknowledge the slaughter.

American voters sent one of their most clear messages ever.

Voices have been heard in DC over the recent debt ceiling talks, but they will not be silenced until this problem is solved Constitutionally. Government cannot solve its spending problem on its own, it must be controlled through the Constitution. Our Founders knew this, the tea party patriots know this, the media and the Democrats still don’t get it, but they are on the run right now, and they do know that.

While both sides will claim victory over the debt ceiling talks, there is no question the debate has changed. Victory never happens soon enough for those on the right side, but serious ground has been gained. A battle has been won, but the war itself is still undecided.

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It’s difficult to tell if O’Donnell is quoting the Democratic base for the sake of the question (inaudible due to crosstalk in the beginning) or if she included herself in that “we” to cast her lot in with Democrats on this, but it’s an interesting clip.

What makes it even more interesting, though, is when Carney tells O’Donnell: “We didn’t get the grand bargain … up front.”

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“Let’s do this interview without talking points, let’s just talk to each other, OK?”

Is Don Lemon serious? He interrupted Paul constantly; no one wants to hear Lemon try to argue (instead of interview) with Paul and try to pass it off as a Q and A. We want to hear Paul answer.

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The world will end August 2^nd.

Or something like that.

Preacher Harold Camping picked 6:00pm May 21^st, the Democrats in the Treasury have picked August 2^nd.

Thus, the parrots in the activist old media have joined in and said that if we don’t raise the debt ceiling to a bazillion, gazillion dollars by that date the financial markets will collapse, the NFL season will not happen, and unemployment will skyrocket to 8%. Who knows, gas prices might even go up.

“Do you want to have a situation where August 2^nd comes and they fail to pass it … and the world laughs at us?” says Chris Matthews. “Does anyone win if we have a catastrophe?”

“I don’t think anyone wins because the catastrophe is so apocalyptic.”

That last quote was NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, not Preacher Camping.

Also, remember Chris, we elected a Citizen of the World as President, why would they ever laugh at us?

Timmy Geithner said not raising the debt ceiling would cause “catastrophic damage.”

The new IMF Chief declared “nasty consequences for the entire global economy.”

Barack Obama says we need to get a deal done to “avert Armageddon.”  Hey, I thought Steve Buscemi took care of that in 1998 with Bruce Willis.

And Chicken Little said … well, you know what Chicken Little said.

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The irony would be amusing, were the stakes not so serious. The very day that the United States Congress passed sweeping legislation that will undermine the economy, increase debt and send tax rates soaring, a leading liberal media outlet criticized the elected officials who have been in charge of the president’s home state for repeatedly passing legislation that has: undermined Illinois’ economy, increased Illinois’ debt and sent Illinois tax rates soaring, thus poisoning the business environment and employment prospects in the state. It appears that government’s mission isn’t to tax and spend. Who knew?

It will be hard to believe, but when Illinois Democrats passed all of the legislation that got Illinois into this cesspool of a fiscal crisis, both they and the MSM assured voters that the there was nothing to worry about. These great new programs, they said, will actually make the state more prosperous and, if you disagreed with that proposition, then you were obviously a crabby conservative trying make political hay at the expense of what was obviously the best thing for the people of the state of Illinois. Sound familiar? (more…)

The atmosphere over at Democratic National Committee headquarters has to be pretty gloomy these days. Their party’s prospects in November have progressed from dismal to disastrous and there’s no telling how much worse it can get. Over at the Dem’s website, nobody has bothered to update news about their famed “50 State Strategy” since September of last year. Perhaps, had they employed a “57-State Strategy” instead, the future might look a little brighter for them.

Let it not be said that conservatives and libertarians are without empathy. We’ve been there. We know how disheartening it is when your party of choice is about to get clobbered and worse, when that happens because party leaders refuse to heed your message. We can only hope that  Democrats won’t get sidetracked by the so-called “pragmatists” within the party trying to lead the party astray by deviating from the progressive agenda. It would be a damned shame if somebody was successful in convincing this administration to pull a Clintonesque pivot toward the middle.

Maintaining one’s focus is important and one can only visit the Daily Kos so many times before the amount of bile there starts eating through your skin and destroying your soul. So, as a public service, I’ve taken the liberty of designing a few motivational posters that will help our Democrat friends stay on point as we approach the November elections. No charge Dems – feel free to print them out, use them as screen-savers, whatever. We’re here to help.

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