First, they were the Birfers. The out-of-touch whackaloon nutjobs who pursued unseating President Obama on the basis of a made-up myth about his place of birth. Egged on by a worthless media, the Birfer contingent vomited forth Orly Taitz and a raft of frivolous lawsuits.
Maybe they thought they were going to do like Newt Gingrich did in the 1990's and bury Obama under legal troubles. Problem is, Gingrich's pretexts for investigating Clinton, feeble and baseless as they were, were at least based on real events. The Birfergasm was swirled out of the gossamer cloth of lunacy, and the substance of all Birfer allegations vanished upon contact with human skin.
Then, they became the Teabaggers.
With a feeble and incorrect understanding of the whole "Boston Tea Party" event, the Teabaggers self-identified with a phrase most often used in modern America to describe an often degrading sexual act. People who were paying attention ought to have understood right away how out-of-touch the so-called "Tea" party was.
But our media, bless their incompetent little hearts, saw through their special two-sided lens a controversy that would make good headlines. Shrieking, senseless imbeciles raving about a complete fantasy world of nonsense makes good TV. So the "teabagger" party made headlines, and headlines, and headlines, and headlines, and headlines, and headlines.
200,000 people can march on Washington for immigration reform, and the MSM can't see them. 150 teabaggers being intentionally led on by a Fox News anchor -- that's A BIG FUCKING DEAL.
Except, that it really wasn't. As the summer and fall wore on, the debate continued despite the harshly-elucidated demands of the teabaggers that it STOP.
As the fall and winter wore on, the legislative process continued, despite the foot-dragging and dishonest negotiating stance of the Republicans. And completely ignoring the shrieking whingeing from the miniscule contingent of over-amplified Teabaggers.
And finally, as Spring broke over an exhausted nation, Barack Obama, still the President, still with over a 50% approval rating in the depth of the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression, signed the HCR legislation into law, and the Teabaggers turned out to have been exactly what they were -- a miniscule fractional minority of shrieking, angry, totally mentally unhinged racist extremists whose opinions are SO WILDLY FAR out of step with Mainstream America that they turn out to have been irrelevant to the debate.
Let's make that plan: Teabaggers, you were IMPOTENT. You were FEEBLE. Your movement had NO POWER, NO BALLS, NO COURAGE, and NO TRACTION.
The only reason the Tea Party movement had any existence whatsoever was due to their undeserved support from America's completely worthless mainstream media, and astroturfing funds disbursed from the top-down hierarchy of the pro-corporatist arm of the GOP desperately bent on NOT having this conversation right now.
The Tea Party is over. It is evident that they were not even part of the conversation on HCR this year and last. Neither were the GOP; they chose to come to the table with NOTHING, and oddly enough NOTHING is what they came away with. Regardless of the fact that the HCR bill that was "RAMMED" down their throats was composed largely of ideas that were just dandy for Republicans 17 years ago, the public now sees that Republicans were actually against it. And they can't go back anytime soon and pretend they were really for it. Not when mega-fucktard Grover Norquist's Club For (Revolting Wartlike) Growth is busy with an online campaign to REPEAL the bill that was just signed.
I want to see in November how fast and far away from their own vile, toxic base the GOP is going to have to run to even try to save face. I will make a prediction now: November 2010 is going to be a FUCKING SLAUGHTERHOUSE for the GOP. They've approached this year with a political tin ear that is magnificent in its obdurate impassive resistance to the needs and desires of the American electorate.
Their Tea Party is the Weak Teabag now, having been revealed to be utterly impotent, worthless, meaningless, and actually a gigantic turn-off to the American public. And their Party of No antics have asured that come November, the American voter can easily see who is on his or her side, and who is just SCREAMING like a petulant child that they're IMPORTANT, IMPORTANT, IMPORTANT!
Fuck them. Fuck the Teabaggers. Fuck every last one of them. Nothing has disgusted me more than this movement of willfully-ignorant fucking MORONS. I can't respect them at all. I wouldn't wipe them off my shoe if they touched it -- I'd BURN the fucking shoe.
Racist, ignorant, deliberately mis-informed, impervious to the facts, filled with hatred and possessed of a completely unearned sense of arrogant entitlement, these teabagging shitheads are everything I've ever despised in a fellow human being. They are literally all of the worst that human beings have to offer highlighted and exaggerated and packaged as offensively and repulsively as possible.
And as a party, they are NOTHING. Good-bye, Tea Party shitheads. Your 15 minutes are FUCKING OVER. It is now time for you to drink your heaping mug of SHUT THE FUCK UP. Adults are talking.
UPDATE: At least one commenter has tried to appeal to the teabaggers' humanity and shared identity as Americans. He has made a very compassionate stand that we should not treat these folks so disdainfully.
I disagree. I cannot overlook lies and threats of violence. I could give a fuck less if the most-ignorant 0.001% of America doesn't feel happy or comfortable with HCR. Those folks had an opportunity several turns back to listen to facts and reason, and they chose racism, hatred, stalking, and threats of violence instead. Another word for their behavior is TERRORISM.
And for that, they can burn in hell.