“So why does Obama and Messina lie about the TEA Party? Dictators always need a domestic boogieman to blame its failures on, and this time it’s the TEA Parties fault.”
On January 4th, Obama’s campaign manager Jim Messina, sent out an email that also appears on Obama’s re-election website. Talking about the Iowa caucuses he said, “The extremist Tea Party agenda won a clear victory. No matter who the Republicans nominate, we’ll be running against someone who has embraced that agenda in order to win – vowing to let Wall Street write its own rules, end Medicare as we know it, roll back gay rights, leave the troops in Iraq indefinitely, restrict a woman’s right to choose, and gut Social Security to pay for more tax cuts for millionaires and corporations.” (http://www.barackobama.com/news/entry/this-is-not-a-joke)
From 2009 to 2011, Messina was Obama’s Deputy Chief of Staff. He is a consummate Washington insider who is sometimes called the “most powerful man in Washington that you never heard of.” His nickname is “the fixer.” In a December 2011 interview with the political outlet Poliogue, he said that the right consists of NRA members, pro-lifers, and Evangelical Christians in the Bible Belt. On the left, he said, it’s minorities, young people and women. The reason he characterizes the debate this way is discussed in my book in the chapter on Critical Theory.
As it turns out, every one of the assertions made in Messina’s letter is demonstrably false. Not only do Democrats have more money, they are tied into Wall Street as much as the Republicans. Democrat Elizabeth Warren is the architect of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and is a leading figure in the Occupy Wall Street movement. In her Senatorial bid against Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown, she, with the help of the media, portrays Brown as a Washington insider who is beholding to Wall Street and the TEA Party. However, OpenSecrets.org reports that the Senatorial Campaign Committee, which is helping the Harvard Professor, has taken over $40 million from Wall Street during the last 7 years.
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