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Teabaggers 
Big Government
Glenn Beck's chalkboard not withstanding
Excerpt:
For more than a year now, we've been hearing
from Republicans, tea party people and Glenn Beck's chalkboard
about how big government is destroying American
liberty and freedom. Much of the shrieking is literally accompanied
by the yellow Revolutionary War "Don't Tread
on Me" flag.
Every tea party lawn concert and misspelled sign
regatta features people dressed in colonial drag with tea bags dangling
from their tri-corner hats, waving banners in
support of tax cuts, liberty and freedom and against the allegedly tyrannical
Obama government. They're really scared and they
want their country back from the (somehow) black liberal Nazi...
Throughout all of the misinformed and contradictory
right-wing antics of the past year, I've been wondering how
post-Bush Republicans and conservatives can possibly
square all of their newly found affinity for freedom, liberty and
the Constitution considering their eight year
support for Bush era policies. Policies like illegal wiretaps of American
citizens,
the USA Patriot Act, suspension of habeas corpus
(it's in the Constitution) and all the rest of it.
Have they at long last abandoned their support
for these obvious trespasses against liberty and the Constitution?
In fact, Glenn Beck said recently that he failed
to speak out back then but, "It doesn't matter. I'm here now."
Convenient timing. History appears to have skipped
the first decade of the 21st century.
Put another way, are the Republicans suddenly
joining up with civil libertarians to denounce policies that infringe upon
basic constitutional rights? Maybe Rush Limbaugh
teaming up with the ACLU during his drug case was a sign of things to come.
A civil liberties-oriented conservative movement,
eh?
Not a chance in hell.
If only we could get the Democrats to list the
facts - i.e Clinton left Bush a SURPLUS.
The Douchebaggers are tired of government spending?
So are we.
When we were in charge, everybody had a
home, they had a job and things were, generally, great
I remember the Queen
Harpy, Dr Laura, saying, "What good
is a great economy if the president is having sex?"
Do you think the 30 millions people now on food stamps care give a fuck
about Clinton's sex life now?
Do you think the millions of people who lost their jobs give a fuck
about Clinton's sex life now?
Do you think the millions of people who lost their homes give a fuck
about Clinton's sex life now?
Under Clinton, our biggest problem (besides the GOP-manufactured Monica problem) was how to spend the surplus.
Compared to today, we were all living in Paradise in 1998, but the Democrats refused to fight for that.
Now look where we are - all because the Democrats refuse to fight.