Video: What's Racist About Balanced Budgets?

What's Racist about Balanced Budgets?

The internet and blogosphere are abuzz today with discussion of the NAACP's resolution that the Tea Party is racist (e.g. here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here -- all via Memeorandum). How predictable! For decades now, any opposition to the progressive expansion of state power, control, and influence is met with accusations of racism.

But in case you weren't aware (apparently the NAACP wasn't, because we know that it definitely isn't a radicalized tool of the progressive establishment, using patently absurd accusations to attack and intimidate grassroots political activists for challenging the status quo), the size, role, and influence of government have nothing to do with race!

What on earth could possibly be racist about saying we need balanced budgets? Or that our government spends too much? We do need balanced budgets (as it seems axiomatic to me that you have to produce something before you can consume it -- that you can't indefinitely spend more than you have to spend)! Washington D.C. does spend too much! What does that have to do with race? Besides -- who could disagree?

Playboy: Confessions of a Tea Party Consultant

BigGovernment.com is running a series of installments sharing a 7-page article written by an anonymous author and published by Playboy.  It's a highly enjoyable read. 

Everything I know about being a good consultant comes from Fight Club. Discretion is everything. Rule number one is you don’t talk about consulting for the Tea Party. Rule number two is you don’t talk about consulting for the Tea Party. The story about the wild characters who are shaping this campaign cycle is worth telling, but please excuse my anonymity.

I hold as many meetings as possible over Tanqueray and tonics at the St. Regis hotel on K Street in Washington, D.C. The bar is dark and private, with comfortable couches. Even the gin tastes better there. On weekday afternoons the only people in the bar are foreigners and political consultants long past caring about who actually wins.

Read the whole thing at Playboy here.

Calling out Conservatives at the Tea Party

This past wave of tea-parties I was honored to give the keynote speech to over 2,500 people at a tea-party in Winston Salem, NC. 

My speech, however, was distinctly different than others given that day; in fact, I made it a point to call out the injustices of the GOP in recent years. The best part, though, is that the speech was delightfully eaten up by the crowd and I spent hours after the speech talking to people about the message I aimed to convey... and they all overwhelmingly agreed with me.

It's one thing to be right, it's another thing to convince someone you're right; it's not only about what you say, but how you say it. 

Watch the speech below; in my humble opinion, this is the way we can win over the right.