The pathetic demonisation of the Tea Party demonstrates the intellectual bankruptcy of America’s liberal elites

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UK Telegraph:

Can America’s Left stoop any lower than New York Senator Chuck Schumer’s juvenile and hate-filled attack on political opponents today amidst the battle on Capitol Hill over the federal budget? In a floor speech, Schumer, the chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, referred to conservative congressmen in the House of Representatives, many of them Tea Party caucus members, as a “flea”.

As The Hill reports:

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) compared House conservatives to a flea Friday as rhetoric in the spending fight intensified.

Schumer, who has been criticizing Republicans all day, said in a floor speech Friday that conservatives were the flea controlling the dog, which he said in this case is a federal government that could shut down at midnight.

“What we have here is a flea, wagging a tail, wagging a dog,” said Schumer, chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee.
“The flea are the minority of House Republicans who are hard right, the tail is the House Republican caucus, and the dog is the government,” Schumer explained. “That flea is influencing what the dog does … and it is sad.”

What is sad is a senior US politician using the kind of demagogic language against political opponents that is normally associated with authoritarian regimes. This is not Caracas, Mr. Schumer, but the capital of the free world, where political debate is supposed to be conducted in a civilised and intelligent fashion, with respect for political dissent against the government in power. And one would have thought, after the ruling establishment’s monumental thrashing in mid-term elections, that a degree of humility before the American electorate might be in order, but evidently not if today’s vile tirade is anything to go by.

Just a few weeks ago, in the wake of the Arizona shootings, Barack Obama called for a more civil political discourse in Washington. By all accounts, as demonstrated by the venomous attacks on conservative politicians in Wisconsin, and the vicious language deployed in the wake of Congressman Paul Ryan’s budget proposal, many of the president’s own supporters haven’t got the message. But let’s not hold our breath for the White House to disown Senator Schumer’s remarks, for this is a president mortally afraid of taking on the powerful barons of his own party, and who himself has mocked and sneered at the Tea Party in the past.

[Valin]

Geee

 

the intellectual bankruptcy of America’s liberal elites

 

That goes without saying.

Small simple question (my specialty )...When was the last time the left was correct about any of the Big Questions?

[AceRimmer]

Geee

 

the intellectual bankruptcy of America’s liberal elites

 

That goes without saying.

Small simple question (my specialty )...When was the last time the left was correct about any of the Big Questions?

 

Valin! What is NEVER?

[Sanguine]

The fundamental problem with this assumption is that "liberal" elitism implies that said elitism is related to moral, ethical, spiritual, or intellectual superiority. Liberal elitism is a function of the more base impulses of human nature: greed, avarice, covetousness, narcissism, fearfulness, all of which lead to the perceived need to control others.