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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
5 comments:
Johnny Rico
said...
I see the fringe left is now worried about the Tea Party more than the Republicans. This shows you the strenghth of a party that the liberals were trying to laugh at a few months ago.
The Tea Party does want limits on big government. The oil disaster as well as the current economic crisis could have been diverted if big government had not mandated it so.
So there, it has been said, the Tea Party is this imperiled country's best and last hope.
And you, JW, think government would have been a savior in each of these? I see the elevator does not make it to the top, and there is no light on upstairs. And the cause of these crises is too little government oversight? Reading what you write is always good for a laugh, and really in a sad kind of way.
J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.
The views expressed on WataugaWatch are solely those of J.W. Williamson or individual contributors and are not necessarily shared nor endorsed by the Watauga County Democratic Party nor by any other adults of sound mind in this or any other universe.
5 comments:
I see the fringe left is now worried about the Tea Party more than the Republicans. This shows you the strenghth of a party that the liberals were trying to laugh at a few months ago.
The Tea Party does want limits on big government. The oil disaster as well as the current economic crisis could have been diverted if big government had not mandated it so.
So there, it has been said, the Tea Party is this imperiled country's best and last hope.
Your ole pal
Johnny Rico
And you, JW, think government would have been a savior in each of these? I see the elevator does not make it to the top, and there is no light on upstairs. And the cause of these crises is too little government oversight? Reading what you write is always good for a laugh, and really in a sad kind of way.
J.W.,
"Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things you couldn't do before." - Rahm Emanuel
Karl Rove is bad, unless I get a Karl Rove who believes as I do... then he's good.
You have always seemed like a bit of an intellectual to me, J.W.
Why lower yourself to this ridiculous level?
Love the cartoon, and I see its significance! :-)
J.W. seems to have rattled a few cages, here.
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