or should I say bigots, and quite succinctly I might add. Please go to the Dallas Morning News to read how Mr. Davis responds to the hatred and vitriol poured on to this movement. Here is a sample:

Some people with some very loud media megaphones believe that I will be conducting the equivalent of a Klan rally. This is a lie, and their slanders – driven by their political bigotry – cannot stand.

I don’t particularly care if some idiot on the street misreads the Tea Party vigor and invents in it a fictional sinister motivation. But when a succession of people who analyze things for a living weave such vast falsehoods, it is simultaneously sad and infuriating.

Frank Rich of The New York Times and Colbert King of The Washington Post are among the columnists willingly checking their honesty – or their brains – at the door to throw political mud. Either these people are too ignorant to know their charges or false, or they don’t care and spit their bile anyway.

King wrote last week of looking at “angry faces” at Tea Party rallies and finding them “eerily familiar,” resembling protesters seeking to prevent a black University of Alabama enrollee in 1956.

Rich peppered his column with Third Reich imagery, eventually backing up his claim of racism with comparisons to those who opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Leaving aside for the moment that much opposition to that measure came from Democrats, it cannot be said plainly enough today: These men and their numerous partners in this smear should be ashamed – if nothing else, for logical flaws beneath a fifth-grader.

Their argument is: (A) This movement is filled with vocal people displeased with the way things are going; (B) I can find examples in history of people whose vocal displeasure was fueled by racism. Hence, (C) these people must be fueled by racism.

OK, boys, let’s see how you like it: (A) You are fans of ObamaCare; (B) Castro is a fan of ObamaCare, so, (C) you are communists.

Logic and basic human decency prevent me from making that connection seriously. I would like to believe that if these craven critics actually attended a Tea Party event, their testimony would change. But I doubt it. Theirs is a screeching born of panic, the need to demonize a movement rather than debate it.

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At least according to Political cartoonist Tom Toles.

Health Care, the newborn

Tommy boy needs to get his facts straight, it wasn’t the Republicans that said this:

What are Democratic leaders saying? “If you pass the Stupak amendment, more children will be born, and therefore it will cost us millions more. That’s one of the arguments I’ve been hearing,” Stupak says. “Money is their hang-up. Is this how we now value life in America? If money is the issue — come on, we can find room in the budget. This is life we’re talking about.”

National Review

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Is Detroit the canary in a mine for what awaits the rest of the United States should we fail to heed it’s lessons?

Over the past 3 decades a decline and mass exodus in the rust belt exemplifies what is wrong democratic policies especially as they pertain to unions to which our current President holds in high esteem. Public sector Unions such as the Service Employees International Union has an especially warm place in the President’s heart.

But is it healthy for America?

Let us look at what the ascension of unions has done for the auto industry and Detroit in particular. General Motors’ woes are well known, the causes maybe not so much. Unions and bloated management have had much to do with the decline of the auto industry and it’s peripheral industries. The cost of building a car per hourly wage is at least double what it costs to build in Japan. Don’t even get me started on the hourly wages differences in the nascent Korean and Indian auto manufacturing industries. It should also be noted that those governments give incentives to spur manufacturing, jobs, and in return a vibrant, emerging economy.

While I am no advocate of slave labor/wages, I do believe what the unions demand goes way over and above a living wage. $70.00 an hour, pensions that never end and unemployment benefits that can also go on indefinitely is beyond the pale.

Detroit has gone from the fourth largest city in the 1950’s to a city where they recently announced the closure of another 44 schools this June and houses and property in Detroit are being sold for as little as $1.00.

And Detroit isn’t the only place this is occurring. New Jersey and New York and California are also feeling the pinch from teacher and public service unions. New Jersey has such a high property tax rate that people are leaving in droves.

A Monmouth University/Gannett polling institute announced in mid-October that a poll they conducted revealed that, “49% of New Jersey adults would like to move out of the state at some point, compared to 44% who would prefer to live out their lives here, and 7% are unsure. Moreover, 51% of those who want to leave the state say they are in fact very likely to make good on that wish. Another 36% say they are somewhat likely to eventually leave New Jersey and 10% are not too or not at all likely.”

Why are the property tax rates so high? Because of a bloated state budget that has been used to payoff the unions.

All of this is like a cancer that starts out in one or two places, and without radical treatment, will spread until the body dies. The beginning of treatment is diagnosis. Let’s hope that America has not received her diagnosis too late.

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