"Tea partiers: 'Cut spending! 'Which Spending? 'Uhhh...'" Critique

Laura Clawson's post on the Daily Kos blog, Tea partiers: 'Cut spending!' Which Spending? 'Uhhh...' is about Clawson's opinion on the Republicans’ ideas on Budget cutting. Clawson's intended audience is more on the Democratic liberal side, clearly shown by the insults on the Tea Party and conservative Republicans. It is no secret that to attract an audience with a political party, most of the times you’ll succeed in getting their attention by bashing the other party. She uses her bitterness emotions towards Republicans to capture her intended audience’s attention. Clawson's claim is that Republicans are being "ignoramuses" and naïve when it comes to Budget cuts. Her argument is backed up two things, her bitterness and her evidence of other people statistics and quotes from Republicans themselves.

The evidence that Laura Clawson provides are Business Insider's founding and quotes from Republican members to support her claims. The founding of Business Insider’s by Brett LoGiurato presented the budget cut ideas of the Tea Partiers and what they think should happen instead of raising the debt limit. Many of the participants had no idea how little the cuts they suggested would help the country. Clawson even provides links of where she got her evidence to support her facts. The quotes she uses are straight sayings from members of the Republican Party. The quotes she uses make the GOP members sound cold, selfish, and ignorant, helping her claim and argument. Clawson’s emotions also help her argument win the minds of people who are angered by the GOP and Tea Partiers.  She insults the other party and questions their intelligence at every turn. To some people, this might be bothersome, but to a lot, this will get their rage going and support her side.

Her argument is very convincing on how she handled her evidence. She can end up convincing a lot of people with her evidence, and most importantly, rage. It’s easy for the media to convince people now a days with emotion and constant negativity. It is clear Clawson has a political agenda of trashing the political party she does not agree with. It’s obvious that’s how strongly politically involved people work and they will try nonstop to gain support for their party, and crush their opponents.