Peggy Nooners lies through her TP teeth

Peggy Noonan lying through her teeth? Nothing new there. Lying through her teeth on behalf of the tea party types? Not a lot new there.

The twist? Given her relation ship with Poppy Bush, she uses this op-ed as a vehicle to kick Bush pere in the nuts too.

Lie No 1 (or more than that, if disaggrataged):

In a practical sense, the tea party saved the Republican Party in this cycle by not going third-party. It could have. The broadly based, locally autonomous movement seems to have made a rolling decision, group by group, to take part in Republican primaries and back Republican hopefuls.

"Broadly based" and "locally autonomous"? Let me call Dick Armey and the Koch brothers on that one.

Related:

Part of the social and cultural reality behind the tea party-GOP establishment split has been the sheer fact that tea partiers live in non-D.C. America.

Lie 2, indirectly:

I know and respect some of the establishmentarians, but after dinner, on the third glass of wine, when they get misty-eyed about Reagan and the old days, they are not, I think, weeping for him and what he did but for themselves and who they were.

The lie here? Nooners pretending she's not part of that establishment herself.

Kicking Bush Jr in the nuts?

The tea party did something the Republican establishment was incapable of doing: It got the party out from under George W. Bush.

I'm sure she loved that.

And, actual bit of truth:

The tea party, with its energy and earnestness, restored the GOP to itself.

Yep, restored it to its self.

Oh, and as for the claim that neither the tea party or the GOP is actually racist, let's talk to some Washington state Supreme Court justices.
Again, Dick Armey ... lives where, Nooners?

Dick Armey, hypocrite

Well, this really isn't new. Fortunately, Olbermann has a rapid-response fireback. Too bad he didn't take a few more shots.

Dicking around on healthcare

What else can you say about former GOP and Democratic House Majority Leaders, Dick Armey and Dick Gephardt, both doing healthcare reform lobbying for the same New Jersey healthcare company? Other than, I’m waiting for Armey to go lobbying at Barney Frank’s door.

Dear tea-partiers in Duncanville and elsewhere

Get a clue.

If you need one, even though this isn’t PR by Faux News, start by reading this.

Beyond that?

First, you ARE represented. If (assuming you’re Republicans) your party is out of presidential power after eight years …

It¹s called “democracy.” Deal with it.

Fortunately, nobody I talked to personally is a Ron Paul-style goldbug, although many pity partiers (a truer name for them) are.

Gold has little intrinsic value; what pricing it has is largely assigned by human greed.

You want something material to back our Federal Reserve notes? Try oil or coal instead.
As for “overtaxed”? Nobody’s increased your tax rate. Even above $250,000, it’s still only being moved back to what it was when Clinton became president and less than what it was when Reagan left office.

And, offering a constructive alternative would be better than just mentally holding your breath over alleged overtaxation.

When I was at a protest recently, I had a constructive option nationalizing banks. I didn¹t offer a vague “something.”

As for tea-party pusher Dick Armey, if his flat tax idea is so good, why did he never, ever propose a flat tax for corporate income taxes?

Answer is ALWAYS the same.

Whether rich individuals or rich businesses, flat taxes always benefit the rich.