Lately there have been more and more self-professed 'Tea Partiers' calling in to the Left leaning talk radio shows I often listen to and laying down the law as they brew it. This has allowed me to finally get a firm grip on exactly who I think the Teas are and where they come from.
The TEA Party is really an acronym for 'The Easy Answer Party'. They believe the lies they hear on Rich-Right Radio.
...When Limbaugh tells them that lowering taxes increases federal revenue they love the sound of it and they buy it. When Rush tells them that if his taxes are raised on the hundreds of millions he makes per year, then their taxes must also be raised on their sub-100k salaries...this is an immutable fact of nature El-Rushbo explains and they buy it. They don't know or care that during America's glory days (from 1940-1980) taxes on the Limbaugh class were double to triple what they are today.
When they were told Iraq needed to be occupied by the USA they never batted an eye because they know in their hearts that God wants America to rule the world anyway and after all Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz were right in assuming it would be an easy and lucrative adventure.
They supported deregulating the financial sector because after all 'society' would be safer and better with no government at all.
The Easy Answer Party are the Golden Goosers, believing that the less you invest in government the stronger your nation is. In other words, the people on the Right hand side of American politics, those most conservative and nationalistic and inclined to wage war...the very people who encouraged George W Bush to become the worst president in American history, to destroy the American economy and ruin America's reputation as the global good guys (which we earned in WWII) those are the Tea Partiers.
The Tea Party is comprised of the very people who were at the forefront of horrible policy making that put the USA in a hole as deep as that of the Great Depression; a hole so deep that if not for the unprecidented steps of the federal government to save our banks and auto industry America would be on her knees today and thereby offering the same temptation to tyrants the world wide that was offered to Hitler when the Great Depression crippled us.
Having failed so miserably to lead their country when they had the reins these selfish fools were left with only two options, 1. to shut up and let the other side have their turn, or 2. Change their name to something different and pretend they had nothing to do with the national tragedy which they had caused.
And the first statement issued by The Easy Answer Party was all too predictable...they claim that if the government that stepped in and pulled their nation's ass out of the fire had only stood back and done nothing...everything would have been just fine.
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