So, we've been hearing a lot of chatter on cable TV this week about a Fox News/GOP Tea Party Revolution. Fox News and the right wing fringe of the GOP have obviously gone completely bat bleep crazy over something. They are screaming day in and day about something. I am not sure what it is at this point. I've heard rants like "taxation without representation."
Huh? As I've mentioned before, we had an election recently that did not require lawsuits or recounts. This week President Obama has a 66% approval rating. The Democratic Party is at 51% while the Republican Party has a 26% approval rating. A majority of Independents and some moderate Republicans support President Obama's agenda.
So why is there so noise spewing from the right? Is this tea party thing merely a childish tantrum thrown by a bunch of sore losers and clowns?
Let's explore a few events of this past week to try to find an answer.
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According to some conservatives the Obama Administration is an ongoing communist plot of the past sixty years. Books must be burned! Especially those that mention evil evolution.
Here at home, Republican lawmakers continue to embarrass Texans. According to Betty Brown (SD-4), Asian immigrants should change their names so xenophobes like Brown can pronounce them.
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow had a lot of fun with this on her show last night. Thanks for the ongoing mortification to constituents here, Ms. Brown.
Next up are the ravings of a demented and deranged mind gone mad. Karl Rove is a prime example of Freudian projection and twisted pathology.
Turd Blossom is starting to sound like Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth. The fat man doth protest too much.
As we can see, this week our esteemed Republican lawmakers and their spokesmen Glen Beck and other FOX anchors have clearly gone off the cliff called sanity. The merger between the Republican Party and right wing Fox News anchors has taken the Party to an even lower level in the realms of their self imposed whacko world. From Media Matters:
Was that supposed to be the news, a sitcom or a scene from a psycho ward?
Jed Lewison, front page writer for Daily Kos and contributor to The Huffington Post put together a series of video clips of FOX and the Republican Party's teabagging revolution. Jed provides us with a hilarious peek into what lies behind the psycho babble.
S.C.Governor Sanford on why he refused stimulus money for the unemployed in his state.
Apparently Republican lawmakers and FOX do not know there is another meaning for teabagging. It is a very naughty one .
Below Jed interspersed news clips of several of FOX anchors with those discussing "teabagging" from scenes in Sex and the City. Warning: the video contains language that is R rated and might be offensive to some. Folks might not want to play it at work or at home when the kids are around.
Phil Gingrey (R-GA) proudly dangles two teabags in front of his face while on the air with Fox's Bill Hemmer:
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and Ana Marie Cox discuss the teabag revolution in great detail.
I guess Republicans must have a lot of time on their hands. One would think that because the party received a major licking in November it would try to get its act together. But the Party seems incapable of developing a platform that would effectively and equitably serve the American people. Instead it has truly become the Party of extremists, crybabies, NO, Rush, Palin, Beck and folks like those on the first video clip above.
One would also think that the Republicans remaining in office would do more to help their constituents who are undoubtedly suffering given the record-breaking job losses of late. Did they not take an oath to serve the Constitution and their constituents? Why do they refuse to work with their Democratic colleagues in Congress to move our economy and our country forward?
It seems that Republicans are incapable of thinking outside of their narrow box. They feel more secure by playing by the rules of their old failed play book. Attack, lie, rant, rave and bellyache about anything they do not support or understand.
A diarist over at Daily Kos reflects upon the present state of the Republican Party.
On a fundamental level, conservatives have nothing to say because they don't know what to say. Even if they dared attempt to use the same political strategies as before in spite of their obvious failure, they would be immediately called out as the race-baiting garbage they have always been, due to sensitivity about Obama's own race. They're completely flummoxed. It takes time to develop entirely new paradigms, and they don't have them right now.
In the diary below, diarist lightseeker cites an article from the Washington Monthly that discusses, among other things, why Governor Rick Perry said he was "proud" to be on Glen Beck's show.
But that's not really the interesting part. Alex Koppelman added, "Unfortunately, not captured in the video is what happened next, when Texas Gov. Rick Perry came on and Beck asked, 'Governor, you're regretting being on this program at this point, are you not, sir?' Perry responded, 'Not at all, Glenn Beck. I'm proud to be with you.'"
And that, in a nutshell, helps explain what's gone terribly wrong with conservative Republicans of late. Beck appears to be in desperate need of medication, and the chief executive of one of the nation's largest states is "proud" to appear on the show, just moments after Beck pretended to set a colleague on fire.
Enough is enough. It is time for the Republican Party to put an end to its madness before every heavily armed whacko in this country takes them seriously. Stop with the dangerous rhetoric and childish tantrums. Grow up. Get a grip. Get on board or offer viable and rational alternatives.
