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Political bullet points: GOP crazy train to teabagville
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The Beltway scene is always good for a few laughs, an eye roll or two, or some good old-fashioned hand-on-the-forehead accompanied by a sigh action.
This week, however, Republicans may have reached a new high...or low, as it were, as the bullet points illustrate...
*Bachmann-Teabag Overdrive. What is it about the Republican party that seems to embrace crazy lately? Whether it is creepy, weepy Glenn Beck, the well-read, winkin' Sarah Palin, or Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, the GOP seems to be gravitating towards ever scarier characters.
Bachmann organized a teabag rally on the steps of the Capitol this week to protest healthcare reform. One after another, Republicans marched to the podium to spew faux outrage and wax patriotic about 'standing with the people' and waving their pocket edition constitutions in the air. They evoked images of the founding fathers, quoted Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, and called themselves patriots. It was enough to keep Beck weeping for hours.
At one point, Bachmann even implored the teabaggers to show Congress the 'whites of your eyes'. If you think that sounded ridiculous in your own head when you read it, go to Youtube and watch the clip. I've got one word: meds.
Overall, the scene was as amusing as it was pathetic. A throng of angry people used as window dressing at a political stunt show listening to patronizing cartoon characters denounce everything from socialism to the idea of death panels.
Wait! Wait, I can't take anymore of the bizarro world, GOP. I give up. Yes, that's right. Teabaggers...you got us. You've tortured us enough and I'm ready to spill the beans. What we really want is for the government to eliminate insurance companies so they can take over the racket for themselves in order to euthanize senior citizens. Which makes a lot of sense...especially when you consider that 48 U.S. Senators (including 26 Democrats) and 103 U.S Representatives (including 66 Democrats) are, you guessed it, senior citizens.
*Its the Size of your Estimate That Counts. Although the 'news organization', Fox News, allowed guests' claims that anywhere from 50,000 to one million attended the hate-filled teabag soiree to go unchallenged, most other news sources--the credible ones--pegged the number closer to 4,000-5,000. Fair and balanced must be in the eyes of the beholder.
*Medicare (isn't) For Dummies. I want everyone reading this article to call their senators and representatives and ask that they bring legislation before both houses to erase an insidious injustice. I saw plenty of white and gray hair at the teabag rally and we must right a terrible wrong. All those teabaggers that have been suffering under the thumb of socialism must be set free. So revoke their Medicare! They deserve their liberty! Stop treading on teabaggers!
*Boehner of my Existence. House Minority Leader and tanning aficionado, John Boehner (R-OH), attended the party as well and affirmed his solidarity to 'stand with all freedom-loving Americans against this bill.' And I believe him. He is standing with some Americans against this bill. The CEOs and corporate execs that run the major insurance companies in this country are, after all, citizens too.
*Boehner of my Existence Part II. But Boehner wasn't finished. He then went on to say that, "This bill is the greatest threat to freedom that I have seen in the 19 years I've seen here in Washington." I don't believe I can string together enough well-placed adjectives or pen flowery language sufficient enough to describe just how patently absurd this is.
*I'm Not Making This Up. And finally, Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) is a definite candidate for the GOP Nut Job of the Year award. Recently, on the floor of the house that Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson built, Foxx had this enlightening tidbit to offer, 'I believe we have more to fear from the potential of that bill (healthcare reform) passing than we do from any terrorist, right now, in any country.'
The founders' eyes must be rolling in their graves.
