Tenthers are now claiming that the U.S. Federal highway system is unconstitutional. More below the fold.
Conservatives are increasingly enraptured with tentherism, which claims that landmark federal programs such as Medicare, Social Security, the VA health system and the G.I. Bill are violations of the 10th Amendment — and many leading conservative officials are determined to impose the tentherism on the country. Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) is a tenther, as are Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC). Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas embraces tenther claims that the federal minimum wage and the federal ban on whites-only lunch counters, among other things, are unconstitutional.
Indeed, even federal highways opponent Barton is no small figure in conservative politics; Barton is one of six "experts" tasked with rewriting Texas’ public school textbooks to teach a right-wing alternative history to Texan children. Apparently, Barton and his fellow tenthers also want to rewrite the Constitution.
This from the Think Progress story I linked above. That was to give you a little background on "Tentherism" if you haven't already read or diaried the subject before. So basically tenthers believe most, if not everything, the federal government does is unconstitutional. And the fact that Clarence Thomas thinks that White's-Only lunch counters is unconstitutional is laughable.
Now to the laughable Federal Highway System issue:
In a recent radio interview, Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH) made the seemingly-innocuous statement that the federal highway system, as well as federal laws ensuring safe drugs and safe airplanes, are constitutional. Nevertheless, Shea-Porter is now under attack by "tenther," activist who think everything the government does is unconstitutional
That these people think that their arguments are legitimate and debatable makes me want to cry. There's no basis for this argument other than to look back in history and to see that since the Civil War there has been widespread Southern hatred for the federal government. Civil rights and Medicare didn't help matters. And it's not just southerners. There are Tenthers, as mentioned above, in the highest levels of our government.
So...what the hell are they doing there? Well, allow me to answer my own question: They are trying to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat...us. Tenthers, birthers, deathers, twits on Twitter spreading lies...it all comes back to the same basic question: You have this one life. Are you going to spend it building, or destroying? Tenthers and birthers have made their choice to destroy and disrupt. I make the choice to build.