Take the 5th..... Please

by: carolh

Wed Mar 17, 2010 at 11:24:44 AM EDT

This morning I read something that got my blood to boiling. As I frantically was working this morning to pay off my many medical bills  at my very tiny small business, something I read before work kept me distracted - so I had to blog.

It was simply this:  crazy nonsense about Tea Party activists who want to recall Senator Menedez, for VOTING.  Not criminal wrongdoing, not Republican style adultery, not even ethical misconduct.  Just for VOTING in a way that the little girls throwing their Tea Party tantrums didn't like. Aw.

I got news for those Tea Party guys. This cuts both ways you know.  I have had to endure the heartless voting record of Mr Scott Garrett for way too long.  Silly me, I assumed, when your guy loses the election, the other guy gets to vote for what HE wants. The loser LOSES.  See, that's how it was supposed to work.

Well, the Tea Party activists stirred up by the hate groups here decided to go after the Senator with an ethnic sounding name.  Lautenberg votes with Menedez and they vote so consistently Democratic that I trust they will vote for Democratic values 99% of the time - which they do.  Why the little Tea Party  girls chose to ONLY go after Menendez is shocklingly, astoundingly, absurdly blatant bigotry.  In addition, The Tea Party activists, instead of actually winning an election, want to circumvent the democratic process and only invite their friends in for tea.

Here is where it can cut two ways. Who would Progressive NJ Dems who actually believe in evolution and helping their fellow man DEARLY love to remove from the Senate?  Scott Garrett of course.  You go after our guys, we will recall yours.  We actually respected the outcome of the past elections where the 5th district was so gerrymandered as to ensure Scott Garrett's win for the foreseeable century.  Lou Dobbs, king of anti-immigrants lives  with other old angry white men in the rural parts of the 5th, and THEY have had their say for WAY too long here.  I have been resigned to NOT having ANY representation in the House for the past 8 years. Because my guys lost the election.  Now that the Tea Party folks have shown that ANY angry idiot with an ax to grind and too much time on their lazy hands can destroy democracy as we know it, I hope they realize they will have to reap the consequences of their actions.

You take away the Senators that speak for ME and the progressive community in NJ and I will see to it that your boy Garrett and his friends are recalled too. Just cause I don't like the way they vote and I think their mother dresses them funny.  Wars have been fought over less.  This recall effort by the Tea Party bigots is more than a silly prank.  It is literally a shot across the bow.  One that CANNOT go unanswered.