{"id":433,"date":"2009-07-07T10:26:27","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T15:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hushbeck.com\/blog\/?p=433"},"modified":"2009-07-07T10:26:27","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T15:26:27","slug":"wausau-tea-party-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hushbeck.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/wausau-tea-party-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wausau Tea Party Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Their efforts to impede the Tea Party having been a bust, anonymous callers have started to call local businesses who supported the Tea Party calling the Tea Party Patriots a &#8220;Racist Group.&#8221;\u00a0 They must be very worried.\u00a0\u00a0 If the Tea Parties were as unimportant and insignificant as they like to claim then why the effort to stop them?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It also says a lot about the entire situation.\u00a0 The message of the Tea Party is a simple one.\u00a0 Government is growing too big, taxing and borrowing too much.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We simply have to tell the truth about what Government is doing and these people get all upset and start lying. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, the incredible leap of illogic to go from thinking Government is too big and spending too much to being somehow racist is astounding.\u00a0\u00a0 Especially given that many of those who support the current massive borrowing, opposed a much lower level of borrowing\u00a0 by the prior administration.\u00a0 I agreed with their criticism of Republicans who spent too much even if I did doubt their sincerity.\u00a0 Now it is clear that I was right to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Their efforts to impede the Tea Party having been a bust, anonymous callers have started to call local businesses who supported the Tea Party calling the Tea Party Patriots a &#8220;Racist Group.&#8221;\u00a0 They must be very worried.\u00a0\u00a0 If the Tea Parties were as unimportant and insignificant as they like to claim then why the effort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[384,1064,1101,1195,1247,1362],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-debt","tag-racist","tag-republicans","tag-spending","tag-tea-party","tag-wausau"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - 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