A Teabaggist "leader"- in a leaderless amoeba one must use the term advisedly, except with respect to their corporate paymasters- has called for dumping the Speaker of the House. Only a couple of months into the job, he is, apparently, impure.
The rage of the 'baggers- almost anything sets them off- reminds me of when Mao Zedong set loose the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. Roving gangs became a defacto parallel government, and those they didn't like were subject to public humiliations, time in "re-education" camps, and banishment to farms to perform manual labor.
The other striking feature of the Teabaggers is how they gulled the public into thinking they were just about getting the public finances in order. That's just a loss leader for a right wing movement that gets further right, seemingly, by the day. You can see it in the Teabag influence putting Congressman Ron Paul- a decades -long hater in a smiley face- top of their preferences for the GOP presidential nomination.
Establishment right wingers go on all the time about RINOs- people they consider Republicans In Name Only. Now the establishment types have a new crop of RINOs- the Teabaggers, who, like Congressman Paul, are Republicans when it's convenient (for Paul, it's seniority and a committee chairmanship) and are Tea Partiers when it isn't (Paul running his personal party convention in the same city as the GOP in 2008).
The rage of the 'baggers- almost anything sets them off- reminds me of when Mao Zedong set loose the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. Roving gangs became a defacto parallel government, and those they didn't like were subject to public humiliations, time in "re-education" camps, and banishment to farms to perform manual labor.
The other striking feature of the Teabaggers is how they gulled the public into thinking they were just about getting the public finances in order. That's just a loss leader for a right wing movement that gets further right, seemingly, by the day. You can see it in the Teabag influence putting Congressman Ron Paul- a decades -long hater in a smiley face- top of their preferences for the GOP presidential nomination.
Establishment right wingers go on all the time about RINOs- people they consider Republicans In Name Only. Now the establishment types have a new crop of RINOs- the Teabaggers, who, like Congressman Paul, are Republicans when it's convenient (for Paul, it's seniority and a committee chairmanship) and are Tea Partiers when it isn't (Paul running his personal party convention in the same city as the GOP in 2008).
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