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Posts tagged "tea party"

Farmers are pitching something and it's not hay

Agriculture subsidies amount to little more than a free ride for many farmers that don’t need help. Good or bad times, taxpayers money, piled on top of favorable trade policies and other boons, keeps flowing to sugar, corn, wheat and other growers. Now the agriculture lobby has in its sights the congressional supercommittee that is... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
November 1, 2011 at 7:30 am
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Occupiers and Tea Partiers Unite

Here is the real solution to America’s economic problems that should satisfy both the Occupy Whatever movement and the Tea Party: So how best to confront America’s growing class division? With serious economic growth beyond Wall Street. A flatter tax system with fewer exemptions, limiting trusts and foundations and ending the preference for capital gains... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
October 15, 2011 at 9:05 am
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The Chicago Godfather of the Tea Party explains the facts of life to CNBC dolts

CNBC/CME Group floor reporter Rick Santelli is credited with igniting the Tea Party movement a few years back when during a report on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade he ripped the bailouts. He was reprimanded for expressing his opinion (“he’s only a reporter”) while the wiseguys back on the anchor desk were... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
September 4, 2011 at 12:04 pm
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Tea Party started right here in Chicago

Did you think it started in some Alabama backwater or was conceived in the mind of a former Alaska governor? No, thank Chicago. The Sun-Times gives well-deserved recognition of the role that Rick Santelli, the CNBC reporter who reports from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile had in starting the Tea Party. A interesting and well-written story... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
September 19, 2010 at 4:59 pm
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Why aren't you out smoking pot...

instead of writing a book about the tea party protests? That’s what Jon Stewart jokingly asked a 20-something John O’Hara, who wrote a book, “The New American Tea Party: The Counterrevolution Against Bailouts, Handouts, Reckless Spending and More taxes.”  I suspect that anyone as young as O’Hara who is conservative comes as a surprise to Stewart... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
April 22, 2010 at 3:33 pm
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Zorn and Byrne at it again

This is the latest in a series of dialogues conducted between Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn (from the left) and Dennis Byrne (from the right). Problem is, left and right isn’t all that clear cut. This exchange and comments also can be found posted on Zorn’s blog, Change of Subject.   The art of political... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
April 19, 2010 at 7:19 pm
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Taking a hatchet to moderate government

Go ahead, attack promoters of moderate government. Paint them as flakes, kooks and goons. Call them unhinged and unglued. Toxic, mean-spirited, shrill and dangerous. Nothing would please us more than your persisting in mislabeling or misunderstanding — the effect is the same — what angers the majority of Americans. Convince yourself that dissenters to your... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
March 30, 2010 at 8:34 am
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Tea bagger profile; maybe not what you think

Many had not be active politically; few had been very involved. Most were not “rabble rousers” but ordinary citizens who had reached a “breaking point” and believed it was time to get involved. There is other information that you might find interesting and informative. The analysis was done by the Chicago-based Sam Adams Alliance, a Chicago-based... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
March 27, 2010 at 10:57 am
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Tea party revolt on Chicago's North Shore?

New Trier High School New Trier township is one of the wealthiest in the United State, flowing with cash for the best of everything, including its schools. So when the New Trier Township HIgh School board and administrators decided they needed to rehab the main school (there’s a newer one out west in Northfield that... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
February 6, 2010 at 1:04 pm
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Garrison Keillor, profiler

Garrison Keillor, stereotypemeister, suggests that “tea partyers” are so far out of the mainstream that their “paranoid hallucinations of the right” prompts them to ignore the “great heaps of dead bodies [in Haiti that] are moved by front-end loaders and dumped, uncounted, unidentified, into openpits in a stricken country while people feast and walk treadmills on enormous cruise... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
January 21, 2010 at 10:39 am
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