Non-Ideas

In the North Texas Conservative Shawn M. Griffiths blogs There is Nothing Like A Good Old Fashion Tea Party. The Texas Tea Party is the name of a movement for supporters of a third party called the Texas Constitution Party. I mislead when I say he blogs about it because except for the first paragraph he does not mention it again. After that, it is a rant against President Obama’s policies and how “we all know how Barack Obama feels about the Constitution.” That broad assumption was not followed by anything concrete except for more general and bland accusations against Obama.

The second paragraph begins with a reference to efforts by state legislatures like Texas, which are considering a resolution to remind Obama the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land. There are no links to provide verification and no further explanation is given to educate the reader on what exactly does that mean. I can only assume it may be the rejection of some of the stimulus money. The rest of the paragraph is a tirade about states’ rights and Obama’s unprecedented grab and abuse of power. Griffiths wrote Obama wants to be the next Lincoln and takes the leap of calling Lincoln a “tyrant.” No further details are given to support this belief.

According to Griffiths people who are supportive of President Obama are not “true patriots” and simply have fallen for his “messiah” message. Griffiths makes numerous mentions throughout the blog about Obama’s disregard and abuse of the Constitution but does not give actual facts or examples to support his ideas. The entire post was nothing more then a list of Republican talking points, which would not be so bad if they were at least cohesive thoughts. Griffiths can learn a lot about writing from his fellow conservative David Jennings of the Lone Star Times.

I am on the fence about Gov. Perry’s decision to reject a portion of the stimulus money given for unemployment benefits. After reading Jennings’ post I am leaning a little bit toward his point of view that it may not be a good idea at the end. I also think that the law could be changed back after the stimulus money is exhausted, but I do not know how difficult that would be. My overall my conclusion on Griffiths’ post is that I did not learn anything.