I Don뭪 Care How Energized the Teabaggers Are, They Need to Be Right about Something

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I Don뭪 Care How Energized the Teabaggers Are, They Need to Be Right about Something

Edited on Sun Sep-19-10 07:33 AM by 20score

It does matter that teabaggers are energized and it certainly matters that our media gives them so much undo attention. And it matters even more that the media pretends they have something important to say. But it only matters as far as their affect on the nation and politics goes, it should not translate into actual legitimacy. A compulsive gambler may be correct in pointing out to a family member they are trying to borrow money from that they are have no cash, but it doesn뭪 mean the cause of the dearth of dollars is that the heating bill has gone up. The same goes for the teabaggers and their screeching about the economy.

I hear from good people who are trying to be reasonable that, 밃t least the Tea Party is finally involved, even if they are misguided.� But I politely disagree. Teabaggers claim very often that they 밼inally woke up.� After sleeping through the biggest attack in our country뭩 history, two wars - one of which was an aggressive, illegal war that they supported � a trashing of our Constitution that has suddenly become important to them after the fact, and a recession that borders on being a depression. Now they wake up and times are bad - and it뭩 someone else뭩 fault. There are only two possibilities for ceasing their slumber. Either they are lying to themselves and everyone else that they, 멽ust woke up� because Beck told them to wake up, or they don뭪 like a Democrat - especially a black one - in the White House. Actually, that뭩 really still only one reason. But, to give them the benefit of the doubt, there may be another reason I can뭪 think of, it just isn뭪 the one they give.

Well, maybe it is a problem that is tied to being on the left, or maybe it is because of the lack of mercury in the water supply in some places, but many of us have a long term memory that extends further back than one or two months. Obama took office in January of 2009. By February or March of 2009, Beck and his followers were blaming Obama for the recession of 2008. And while I may not be a fan of the health care bill or the financial bill � because those bills are too far right, not because they are socialist, fascist, take-overs - I am a big fan of reality. Lest we forget, the teabaggers � who were known as Bushies from 2001 until 2009 � believed in August of 2002 that Osama bin Laden attacked us on September 11, 2001. By October of 2002 they were convinced that Saddam Hussein had attacked us. No matter how much energy and involvement these people have now, they are still the bottom ten percent of the moron brigade, of the U.S. of A.

And they keep uppin� the dumb. Every time teabaggers put someone up front that stretches the limits of believability and people think, 밢kay, now they뭭e reached the bottom,� they find someone even crazier and more moronic than the last. It뭩 as if they take that observation as a challenge. 밯ell, that뭩 as dumb as they뭠l ever go!� 밢h no it뭩 not!� they say in retaliation. People thought Bush was the bottom of the barrel. 밡ope, they said, meet Palin.� Well, you뭨e right, she is dumber and more fanatical too. That must be the bottom. 밡ope, meet Sharron Angle!� they said. "Wow, where the hell did you find her? Please tell us this is it, you aren뭪 going to go digging any deeper." 밐ell no,� they said. 밡ow we뭨e going to dig into the religious fanatic mine - and here she is, Christine O묭onnell.�

These people have always been with us. Crazy, not too bright and mostly bigoted. It is just that in the past, they were known as crazies and no one pretended that these people should be running things. But now they get coverage and unfortunately, legitimacy that they don뭪 deserve. Their solution to an out of control deficit and debt - more tax cuts. Their solution to an out of control Wall Street � less regulation. A person who believes in science or even proposes to negotiate with the other side is hounded out of the Republican Party and sneered at by the know-nothings.

They뭭e already been given far more respect than they deserve. It뭩 time that people showed them the same respect they have given the rest of us. Which is to say, none.