WASHINGTON (CNN) – Senior White House adviser David Axelrod on Sunday suggested the "Tea Party" movement is an "unhealthy" reaction to the tough economic climate facing the country.
Axelrod was asked on CBS's "Face the Nation" about the "spreading and very public disaffection" with the president's fiscal policies seen at the "Tea Party" rallies around the country last week.
"I think any time you have severe economic conditions there is always an element of disaffection that can mutate into something that's unhealthy," Axelrod said.
Axelrod appeared to backtrack when pressed on whether the movement is unhealthy.
"Well, this is a country where we value our liberties and our ability to express ourselves, and so far these are expressions," he said.
"The thing that bewilders me is that this president just cut taxes for 95 percent of the American people," Axelrod argued. "I think the tea bags should be directed elsewhere because he certainly understands the burden that people face."
Democratic strategist James Carville disagreed with Axelrod on CNN's "State of the Union" when John King asked him if it's unhealthy for "an American to go out and hold a sign and say 'I think my taxes are too high.'"
Funny how they said that when anyone is screaming 'higher taxes' they are republican. That was how they came up with these tea parties being backed by cons and reps. Too funny!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Sal has many fellow travellers working in the MSM. No wonder MSLSD ratings are scraping the bottom of the barrell. By the way when was the last success by unfunny liberal nit-wit Ms Garafalo? Last anybody heard of her was on the turkey Air America which went belly up last year.
Who cares about the media, liberal or otherwise, they are just a bunch of 'commentators'----not any different than those that cover a football/baseball or anyother sport......the fact remains------
.......................................TEA PARTIES HAPPENED, WHAT WILL THE GOVERNMENT DO..............................................
anyone here elect a newsreporter/commentator??? Me either....................................
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
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Sal has many fellow travellers working in the MSM. No wonder MSLSD ratings are scraping the bottom of the barrell. By the way when was the last success by unfunny liberal nit-wit Ms Garafalo? Last anybody heard of her was on the turkey Air America which went belly up last year.
