Comments on: So Apparently I am A Tenther, And Probably A Truther And A Birther

By: The “Tenther” Smear | Florida Tenth Amendment Center

The “Tenther” Smear | Florida Tenth Amendment Center — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:54:12 +0000

[...] forbid we let the Constitution get in the way of something popular. Ken at the Popehat blog responds: This is transcendentally silly and almost perfectly Orwellian. It’s authoritarian to believe [...]

By: Ian Millhiser Uses Lame New Moniker, Tries To Marginalize All Those Who Question Congress’ Authority | The Crowbar

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:09:56 +0000

[...] to force everyone to buy something merely because they exist. He calls us "Tenthers," a lame attempt to sweep us to the fringe along with Birthers and Truthers. The Tenther moniker even [...]

By: Joshua

Joshua — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:59:42 +0000

I didn't realize that "Democrat Party" was pejorative until I read the wiki. Interesting. Millhiser is an asshat liberal; i.e. he doesn't know what he's writing about. Maybe he's right, though, I mean, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, and Mao all opposed Social Security and Medicare. And they all supported low taxes.

By: John David Galt

John David Galt — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:22:59 +0000

I'd like to thank Millhiser for putting a label to what I have always believed in.
Now let's form the Tenther Party and get the Great Rollback started. It's about time.

By: Another new insult that applies to me. |

Another new insult that applies to me. | — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:38:57 +0000

[...] Bloody fucking right I would strip away the very reforms and regulations which caused and prolonged the Great Depression and are currently taking us into the "Greatest Recession Since The Great Depression TM". And yes, you bet your fucking lazy welfare riding ass that I want to hamstring "progressive" (read: determined by popularity polls) legislation. . . . if you believe in limited government, constrained by the enumerated powers of the constitution… [...]

By: JimAbs

JimAbs — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:25:35 +0000

Millhiser: "Tentherism, in a nutshell, proclaims that New Deal-era reformers led an unlawful coup against the “True Constitution,” exploiting Depression-born desperation to expand the federal government’s powers beyond recognition."

FDR knew better than to let a good crisis go to waste.

By: The Liberty Papers »Blog Archive » Quote Of The Day

The Liberty Papers »Blog Archive » Quote Of The Day — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:33:30 +0000

[...] Tip: Popehat Share and [...]

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:47:20 +0000

jack, every protest — left or right, mainstream or fringe — is going to have a lot of ignorant louts. The non-ignorant non-louts have jobs, and hobbies. You'll find just as many people at anti-war (or other "liberal") protests with no clue what they are talking about. So if your characterization is accurate, it is not unique.

The "tenther" slur is not aimed only at people on the Mall waving signs. It's also aimed at representatives and commentators.

By: jack fate

jack fate — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:23:06 +0000

@Proud Southerner: Perhaps, given your screen name, you should not complain about those "who cannot break free of having to label and categorize people." WTF do you think a name like "Proud Southerner" serves the purpose of? Also, where, when, why and how have you been asked to surrender a liberty in deference to another person or group's "life choice?" And what, exactly, does your Constitution "grant" you?

By: jack fate

jack fate — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:12:41 +0000

Ken, I think you take a perfectly smart and reasonable argument regarding the tenth amendment and cloaking it in the victim hood of the so called and widely ridiculed "tenthers." Unlike a "tenther" (or a "birther" or "truther" or whatever), you can actually hold an intelligent and well articulated thought about the topic at hand. But your fellow sufferers of liberal "-er" scorn? I'll bet 99% of them didn't know what the tenth amendment said (or what it related to) until their preferred self-reaffirming media demagogue "informed" them. As it became an useful weapon in the shit-flinging approach to oppositional politics the current right wing is addicted to. I'm not sure why your grouping yourself with the stupid people, never mind taking umbrage with their cause.

By: Ezra

Ezra — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:52:16 +0000

Like getting married?

By: Proud Southerner

Proud Southerner — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:25:35 +0000

Why is it that liberals criticize others for being bigots and racists when it is they who cannot break free of having to label and categorize people? What happened to the melting pot? Why aren't we just Americans with differences? I don't give a damn what your skin color is or who you sleep with. Just don't shove it in my face or ask me to give up my liberties for your life choices. You are no better or worse and deserve no special treatments or freedoms over what my Constitution grants me.

By: An American

An American — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:38:06 +0000

Sick of the labels, sick of the right or left, sick of the main downstream media making profits dividing and controlling Americans.

I'm an American for damn sakes… to hell with the rest of the divided.

By: Anonymous Patriot

Anonymous Patriot — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:10:54 +0000

I'm so sick of being labeled…