Democrat Response To The Minot Tea Party: Ed Schafer Is A Hypocrite?
Why, exactly is he a hypocrite? Because while he was Governor and Secretary of Agriculture he, uh, got his health care through his employer. The government.
Oh, and the Governor backs flood protection infrastructure in Fargo.
The Executive Director of North Dakota`s Democratic Party, Joe Aronson sent KMOT a statement responding to the tea party in Minot Wednesday. He told us in part… “Once again the hypocrisy of this Republican group is amazing. They`ll accept their government health care and a paycheck when in office, but oppose any actions to help out North Dakotans. Talk about saying one thing and doing another.”
Aronson went on to blame Former Governor Schafer for headlining Minot`s TEA party saying Schafer is a hypocrite because he is supporting a billion dollar federal flood protection project in Fargo.
So, the Democrats are against flood protection in Fargo? Or do they just want to confuse the issue by focusing on a sort of spending that is a legitimate role of government so that we’ll ignore all the ridiculous spending the government does?
Obviously, it’s the latter. Which is a common tactic with liberals. If you suggest cutting spending, they start talking about fire departments and police departments closing or something like that. But the reality is that there is plenty of spending in our government budgets that goes for things not nearly as necessary as fire departments and police departments.
As for Ed Schafer taking government health care, he worked for the government. Are we suggesting that our Governors and such work for free now?
Judging from this rather silly reaction to the Minot Tea Party, it’s pretty clear that these liberals in North Dakota are scared to death of a little dissent.
On a related note, here’s a video report about the tea party and the Minot Daily News’ coverage.
