There was a lot of discussion today in the blogosphere about the exceedingly biased and silly coverage of the April 15 Tea Parties around the nation. Their cynicism was matched only by their contempt. Its alright. They will carry the water for the Left…all the way to bankruptcy, and that’s fine. If the fact that they have completely discredited themselves doesn’t bother them, it doesn’t bother me. In fact, I welcome the silence that will come when their soapboxes are taken from them and given to their creditors in the oblivion that they are racing towards. No, what irritates me is when people in my own government forget their place and start casting aspersions toward the people they are supposed to serve. Case in point?
Congresswoman Schakowski opined that yesterday’s tea parties were “despicable” and “shameful.”
Consider that for a moment. A member of Congress, an elected official stated that the peaceful assembly of MILLIONS of Americans across the country to protest an out-of-control government Hell-bent on enslaving us to debt that we will NEVER be able to pay off decided to show her level of comprehension and understanding by calling the gatherings “despicable” and shameful.”
Despicable Des”pi*ca*ble\, a. [L. despicabilis, fr. despicari to despise; akin to despicere. See Despise.] Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift. Syn: Contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; pitiful; paltry; sordid; low; base. See Contemptible. Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
Shameful Shame”ful\, a. 1. Bringing shame or disgrace; injurious to reputation; disgraceful. His naval preparations were not more surprising than his quick and shameful retreat. –Arbuthnot. 2. Exciting the feeling of shame in others; indecent; as, a shameful picture; a shameful sight. –Spenser. Syn: Disgraceful; reproachful; indecent; unbecoming; degrading; scandalous; ignominious; infamous. — Shame”ful*ly, adv. — Shame”ful*ness, n. Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
Doesn’t really seem to fit, does it? While I’m relieved that Mensa doesn’t have to worry about reviewing her application for admission, I am sad that her village is missing its idiot. Every village needs its idiot to hold out as an example to its children of how not to be when they grow up.
Who is Congresswoman Schakowski? She is a career politician. She was elected to her sixth term in Congress last November, and before her first election to the United States House of Representatives, she served for eight years in the Illinois General Assembly. Before that? From her website:
Think about what this doesn’t say. It doesn’t say she has ever held a real job. It doesn’t say she has ever taken the risk of being an entrepreneur. It doesn’t say that she has ever had to make a payroll. What it does say is that she has spent nearly twenty years in elected office, and more than a decade in Washington D.C., which is more than enough time to lose touch with the concerns of everyday Americans, assuming that she ever was in touch with them to begin with.
It also doesn’t tell you that her husband, Robert Creamer, pleaded gulity to tax violations and bank fraud for writing rubber checks and failing to collect withholding tax from an employee. The Honorable Congresswoman’s response toher spouse’s guilty pleas:
“In my heart, I know that these mistakes do not define or diminish this good man, or the good work that he has done over the last 40 years or that he will do in the future,” Schakowsky, D-Ill., said after her husband’s court hearing.
I forgot. Character doesn’t matter when you are a Democrat, or married to one. But the money quote?
Schakowsky, who lives in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, said she doesn’t think her husband’s plea would prompt a primary challenge next year in her heavily Democratic district.
The sad thing is, she was correct. Still, one wonders just how much training is required to denounce the people who are unhappy about paying the bill for your idiotic spending spree that will undeniably transform the nation and force government dependency on us all, and yet fail to recognize the application of your chosen charges against the American people to your own spouse, who violated the law and failed to pay taxes. That is a special brand of hypocrisy. Perhaps we should refer to it as the “Democratic Standard”…you know, the one that is different from the one applied to you and me.
Think she needs to hear about it? Me too. Drop her a line at:
Washington, D.C.
2367 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-2111
Fax: (202) 226-6890
And maybe you can send her a dictionary while your at it.
H/t to Folly and XBradTC
Taxes, Stupidity, and Death 
Well said, if you put her email in you’d generate more responses, like mine. i like your point that these same people who want to raise our taxes and debt don’t want to pay their own! What amazing hipocracy that no one has focused on!