The more the left tries to stop the Tea Party movement using various means the more it grows. You would think that with the ongoing “stupid and evil fringe extremists” narrative the number of people who identify with the movement would drop rather than rise from 16% to 24% in one month according to Rasmussen.
For the record I am not in that 24%. I am sympathetic to its concerns about the size and reach of government and its deleterious effect on freedom opportunity responsibility and prosperity. The leader of the local Tea Party movement is a good man with a servant heart who used to be part of my ministry team.
H/T Ace of Spades HQ.
After basking in the glory of having made the Sweet Sixteen in men’s college basketball Cornell University is in the news because of strongly offensive words a faculty member allegedly said to two African-American graduate students at a conference on black intellectuals in Rochester. Many students and faculty are not pleased with the administration’s apparent lack of response. Not good.
H/T Althouse.
Congressman Barney Frank was on a plane from Los Angeles to Boston. Two ophthalmologists on their way to a conference began to complain loudly about the health care reform legislation. Congressman Frank said sorry I would just like to sit and read. His partner said something impolite and it quickly turned into standing and shouting. Finally the two women calmed down and kept quiet for the rest of the flight.
I have a very low opinion of Congressman Frank but the way these two doctors behaved was completely unacceptable. This was an airplane at 30,000 feet. Wrong place and wrong time. Leave the man alone. Props to Congressman Frank for a genuinely clever comment:
“It reminds me of the joke about the woman who’s in a restaurant and Clark Gable‘s there. She complains to the waiter, ‘Clark Gable is annoying me.’ The waiter says, ‘He’s not even talking to you,’ and she says, ‘Yes, and I find that very annoying.’”
Heh. Good one.
H/T Althouse.
