{"id":1214,"date":"2010-04-20T02:44:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T09:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2010-09-18T10:04:21","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T17:04:21","slug":"teabuggery-on-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/teabuggery-on-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Teabuggery on Display"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teabuggery was on display in force yesterday, as the GOP celebrated the original Tea Party Patriot, Timothy McVeigh.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"GOPKoolAid\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s start with GOP presidential hopeful, Tom Tancredo:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Another day, another teabagger rally filled with regular folks concerned about their taxes and whatnot. Oh, and the main message<\/a> from their keynote speaker, former congressman Tom Tancredo, who said:<\/p>\n

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… Americans have reached the point where “we’re going to have to pray that we can hold on to this country” … “If his wife says Kenya is his homeland, why don’t we just send him back?”<\/p>\n

But don’t be too hard on old Tom … this isn’t the first time he’s suffered a meltdown<\/a> in public\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Daily Kos<\/a>><\/span><\/p>\n

The day would not be complete without input from Mooseolini herself, the tweeting tundra twit:<\/span><\/p>\n

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A certain former half-term governor appears to be drifting even further away<\/a> from the American mainstream. Over the weekend, appearing at an evangelical Christian women’s conference in Louisville, Sarah Palin rejected the very idea of separation of church and state, a bedrock principle of American democracy.<\/p>\n

She asked for the women — who greeted her with an enthusiastic standing ovation — to provide a “prayer shield” to strengthen her against what she said was “deception” in the media.<\/p>\n

She denounced this week’s Wisconsin federal court ruling that government observance of a National Day of Prayer was unconstitutional — which the crowd joined in booing. She asserted that America needs to get back to its Christian roots and rejected any notion that “God should be separated from the state.”<\/p>\n

Palin added that she was outraged when President Obama said that “America isn’t a Christian nation.”\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Washington Monthly<\/a>><\/span><\/p>\n

The GOP also used the occasion to roll out a whole new lie.<\/span><\/p>\n

…Republicans are horrified that President Obama has a secret plan to pass this tax, and are shouting from the rooftops (of the nearest Fox News building) how strongly they’re going to oppose it. The facts that Obama himself has come out against the idea, and it seems to have virtually no support in Congress, have not gotten in the way of Republicans doing so, either\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Huffington Post<\/a>><\/p>\n

Finally, from Think Progress<\/a> we have video of some gun toting Teabaggers at an armed demonstration just across the Potomac from DC.\u00a0 Their own words indict them far better than I could.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Is the next Tim McVeigh in that group?<\/span><\/p>\n

If McVeigh could see today\u2019s GOP celebrating the day he made infamous, he would feel proud.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Teabuggery was on display in force yesterday, as the GOP celebrated the original Tea Party Patriot, Timothy McVeigh. \u00a0 Let\u2019s start with GOP presidential hopeful, Tom Tancredo: Another day, another teabagger rally filled with regular folks concerned about their taxes and whatnot. Oh, and the main message from their keynote speaker, former congressman Tom Tancredo, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}