Subject: Re: Why I don't need to drink coffee in the morning.....
From: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:08:12 -0400

Did you read my letter I just sent?  I think I made a well reasoned
argument.  I am not going to win her over, but I think I was reasonable.  I
may really, really send it to her.  (And by the way I agree with you 100% -
you can read between the lines even in the NYT article - these people are
racists.  Mainly because their other arguments make no sense racism can be
the only explanation.)

I next want to write a letter to Mr. McQueen asking if he is so concerned
about Free Trade where did he get the fabric to make his flags he is
selling?  I bet not from the U.S.

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:58 PM, <[email-masked]> wrote:

> How do you argue, reason or appeal to people who are either willfully
> ignorant or just plain stupid. Its impossible. There are real issues to
> debate (free trade, federalism, taxes) -- but in typical right wing fashion
> instead of making the argument on the merits they engage in ad hominem
> attacks and entice people down on their luck with the promise of community
> and sometimes revenge for all that's gone wrong in their lives. The danger
> of the Tea Bagger movement is that a lot of these people seem really upset
> that our President is black and giving legitimate outlet for hate speech is
> dangerous. People forget OK City and all the militia bs that preceded it.
>
> Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®
> ------------------------------
> *From: * Eric Schwerin <[email-masked]>
> *Date: *Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:40:58 -0400
> *To: *Hunter Biden<[email-masked]>; Beau Biden<
> [email-masked]>
> *Subject: *Why I don't need to drink coffee in the morning.....
>
> The reason I don't need to drink coffee in the morning is because I read
> articles like this that drive me so crazy I can't help but be
> self-caffeinated.  I think I am going to try and find email addresses for
> each of the idiots in this article and write them letters to explain why
> they are hypocritical morons.
>
> March 27, 2010
> With No Jobs, Plenty of Time for Tea Party By KATE ZERNIKE<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/z/kate_zernike/index.html?inline=nyt-per>
>
> SOUTH BEND, Ind. — When Tom Grimes lost his job as a financial consultant
> 15 months ago, he called his congressman, a Democrat, for help getting
> government health care.
>
> Then he found a new full-time occupation: Tea Party activist.
>
> In the last year, he has organized a local group and a statewide coalition,
> and even started a “bus czar” Web site to marshal protesters to Washington
> on short notice. This month, he mobilized 200 other Tea Party activists to
> go to the local office of the same congressman to protest what he sees as
> the government’s takeover of health care.
>
> Mr. Grimes is one of many Tea Party members jolted into action by economic
> distress. At rallies, gatherings and training sessions in recent months,
> activists often tell a similar story in interviews: they had lost their
> jobs, or perhaps watched their homes plummet in value, and they found common
> cause in the Tea Party’s fight for lower taxes and smaller government.
>
> The Great Depression<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/g/great_depression_1930s/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier>,
> too, mobilized many middle-class people who had fallen on hard times.
> Though, as Michael Kazin, the author of “The Populist Persuasion,” notes,
> they tended to push for more government involvement. The Tea Party
> vehemently wants less — though a number of its members acknowledge that they
> are relying on government programs for help.
>
> Mr. Grimes, who receives Social Security<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/s/social_security_us/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier>,
> has filled the back seat of his Mercury Grand Marquis with the literature of
> the movement, including Glenn Beck<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/glenn_beck/index.html?inline=nyt-per>’s
> “Arguing With Idiots” and Frederic Bastiat’s “The Law,” which denounces
> public benefits as “false philanthropy.”
>
> “If you quit giving people that stuff, they would figure out how to do it
> on their own,” Mr. Grimes said.
>
> The fact that many of them joined the Tea Party after losing their jobs
> raises questions of whether the movement<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/us/politics/13tea.html> can
> survive an improvement in the economy, with people trading protest signs for
> paychecks.
>
> But for now, some are even putting their savings into work that they argue
> is more important than a job — planning candidate forums and
> get-out-the-vote operations, researching arguments about the constitutional
> limits on Congress and using Facebook<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/facebook_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org> to
> attract recruits.
>
> “Even if I wanted to stop, I just can’t,” said Diana Reimer, 67, who has
> become a star of the effort by FreedomWorks, a Tea Party group, to fight the
> health care overhaul. “I’m on a mission, and time is not on my side.”
>
> A year ago, Ms. Reimer’s husband had been given a choice — retire or be
> fired. The couple had been trying to sell their split-level home in suburban
> Philadelphia to pay off some debt and move to a small place in the city.
>
> But real estate agents told them the home would sell for about $40,000 less
> than they paid 19 years ago — not enough to pay off their mortgage.
>
> Then Ms. Reimer saw a story about the Tea Party on television. “I said,
> ‘That’s it,’ ” she recalled. “How can you get this frustration out, have
> your voices heard?”
>
> She liked that the Tea Party was patriotic, too. “They said the Pledge of
> Allegiance and sang the national anthem,” she said.
>
> She had taken a job selling sportswear at Macy’s. But when her husband
> found her up early and late taking care of Tea Party business, he urged her
> to take a leave. When the store did not allow one, she quit.
>
> “I guess I just found my calling,” she said.
>
> Ms. Reimer, now a national coordinator for the Tea Party Patriots, also
> found a community. Directing protesters to Congressional offices on Capitol
> Hill before the vote on health care this month, Representative Steve King,
> an Iowa Republican who has become a Tea Party hero, stopped to welcome her
> by name. “I should have known you’d be here,” he said, embracing her.
>
> A Tea Party member from North Carolina recognized Ms. Reimer from
> Massachusetts, where she led crews knocking on doors in the snow for Scott
> Brown<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/scott_p_brown/index.html?inline=nyt-per>,
> the state’s new Republican senator. “Our slave master,” the man said,
> greeting her.
>
> Ms. Reimer often wells up talking about her work. “I’m respected,” she
> said, her voice breaking. “I don’t know why. I don’t know what is so
> special. But I’m willing to do it.”
>
> She and others who receive government benefits like Medicare<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/medicare/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier> and
> Social Security said they paid into those programs, so they are getting what
> they deserve.
>
> “All I know is government was put here for certain reasons,” Ms. Reimer
> said. “They were not put here to run banks, insurance companies, and health
> care and automobile companies. They were put here to keep us safe.”
>
> She has no patience for the Obama administration’s bailouts and its actions
> on health care. “I just don’t trust this government,” Ms. Reimer said.
>
> Jeff McQueen, 50, began organizing Tea Party groups in Michigan and Ohio
> after losing his job in auto parts sales. “Being unemployed and having some
> time, I realized I just couldn’t sit on the couch anymore,” he said. “I had
> the time to get involved.”
>
> He began producing what he calls the flag of the Second American
> Revolution, and drove 700 miles to campaign for Mr. Brown under its banner.
> Flag sales, so far, are not making him much. But he sees a bigger cause.
>
> “The founding fathers pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred
> honor,” he said. “They believed in it so much that they would sacrifice.
> That’s the kind of loyalty to this country that we stand for.”
>
> He blames the government for his unemployment. “Government is absolutely
> responsible, not because of what they did recently with the car companies,
> but what they’ve done since the 1980s,” he said. “The government has allowed
> free trade and never set up any rules.”
>
> He and others do not see any contradictions in their arguments for smaller
> government even as they argue that it should do more to prevent job loss or
> cuts to Medicare. After a year of angry debate, emotion outweighs fact.
>
> “If you don’t trust the mindset or the value system of the people running
> the system, you can’t even look at the facts anymore,” Mr. Grimes said.
>
> Tea Party groups like FreedomWorks recognize that they are benefiting from
> the labor of many people who have been hit hard economically. But its
> chairman, the former House majority leader Dick Armey<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/dick_armey/index.html?inline=nyt-per>,
> argued that their ranks will remain strong — and connected — even as members
> find work.
>
> “I see these folks as pretty much the National Guard,” Mr. Armey said.
> “They will go back to their day jobs, they will go back to their Little
> League and their bridge club. But they will have their activism at the
> ready, and they will stay in touch.”
>
> Mr. Grimes, for his part, is thinking of getting a part-time job with the Census
> Bureau<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/census_bureau/index.html?inline=nyt-org>.
> But he is also planning, he said, to teach high school students about the
> Constitution and limits on government powers.
>
> “I don’t think that the unemployment thing is going to change,” he said.
>
> --
> Eric D. Schwerin
> Rosemont Seneca Partners
> (202) 333-1880
> [email-masked]
>
>

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Eric D. Schwerin
Rosemont Seneca Partners
(202) 333-1880
[email-masked]