Teabaggers United Against Sanity

C-SPAN's running the Teabagger rally in DC this afternoon. Congressman Jack Kingston justifies twelve years of what he acknowledges were Republican-approved deficits by saying they didn't add up to one year's deficit in the economic collapse they left behind in 2008. A placard up at the front of the crowd- unchallenged as an "infiltator"- reads, "A village in Kenya has lost its idiot."

Congressman Steve King is, well, Congressman Steve King. A band called Rivoli Revue gave teenage garage bands all over America a bad name.

When you consider the recent poll that shows the Baggers are wealthier than the average American, you can see why they obsess about taxes, and why the speakers go on about how the poor should be poorer. "We work for our money, dammit!" Poor people are slackers and liberals.

Victoria Jackson, who played a blond ditz on SNL,  has morphed into a right-wing blond ditz and sings about there being a Communist in the White House.Saxbee Chambliss, the Georgia senator who has even more Vietnam draft deferments than Dick Cheney, tries to out-crazy Congressman Steve King. Alas, Mrs. Bachmann is still to come and retires the trophy.

Congressman John Linder- a member of the looney toons Georgia delegation to the US House- says we should eliminate the tax code because Americans gave tons more money to charities- as of 1988. Trust Waldo- even idiots in Congress choose their comparison dates carefully. Picking on from 22 years ago- well, that's just another Reagan wet dream.

A Hollywood guy says he and Kelsey Grammer and Jon Voight are starting a right-wing TV network. One presumes there will  be an endless rotation of John Wayne war movies.

Culture war code words abound. This allows the Baggers to claim they haven't a racist, nativist, homophobic bone in their bodies while all nodding and cheering.

Some Teabag group head named Hoagland calls for a return to the Articles of the Confederacy, so the states can bully the federal government and only do what the white, well-to-do, Bagger majority wants.

A Mexican-American youth minister fronting a band called Politik praises the Teabaggers for, among other things, "not rejecting me when I had my facts wrong."

Watch the broadcast. See if you can find, in the crowd shots, anyone who's not white.