{"id":1877,"date":"2010-06-15T02:17:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T09:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1877"},"modified":"2010-06-15T02:17:25","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T09:17:25","slug":"teabuggery-on-parade-615","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/15\/teabuggery-on-parade-615\/","title":{"rendered":"Teabuggery on Parade – 6\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teabaggers do some crazy things, and lately the collection of insanity has been sufficient to cause a worldwide shortage of tin foil. Lets start with Keith Olbermann\u2019s take on Sharon \u201cObtuse\u201d Angle and and Rand \u201cI\u2019m only a racist on days that end in Y\u201d Paul.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

More on Angle later.  If Paul even lies about being board certified, can we believe him about anything?"<\/font><\/p>\n

Next, Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes discuss Angle\u2019s rehabilitation, demonstrating how the GOP tries to mischaracterize  their true positions.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

No matter how hard they try, they can\u2019t remove the stripe from this pole cat.<\/font><\/p>\n

No collection of Teabuggery would be complete without a contribution from Michelle \u201cBatshit\u201d Bachmann.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"15michele-bachmann\"<\/a> …In an interview Friday with Fox Business\u2019 David Asman \u2014 who asked in a recent blog post, \u201cIs the president funding terrorism?\u201d [Faux Noise delinked] \u2014 Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) claimed that the aid \u201crewarded\u201d Hamas, and that it showed Obama was siding with Iran and Hamas over Israel:<\/p>\n

BACHMANN: I also don\u2019t think it was a a good signal for the president to give $400 million in aid to Gaza. He had a choice to make last week. The president had a choice between standing with Benjamin Netanyahu, or standing with Ahmadinejad and Hamas.<\/span> Hamas is a terrorist organization. This should not have been a difficult choice, but the President chose to stand with Hamas and then they were rewarded this week with $400 million in aid.<\/span> Gee, you don\u2019t think that will embolden them to take future aggressive actions against Israel, do you? […]<\/p>\n

ASMAN: Are you going to start up some sort of congressional investigation to look into this, because it would literally be against the law to contribute money to an organization that funnels money to terrorists. […]<\/p>\n

BACHMANN: And again, I\u2019m against sending this $400 million to Hamas. I think it\u2019s a very foolish thing to do to reward them for these aggressive actions that were taken last week.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Just about every part of Bachmann\u2019s argument, from the facts to the conclusions, is wrong. First of all, the $400 million Obama promised goes to Gaza and<\/span> the West Bank<\/a>, and the majority of it will almost certainly go to the larger West Bank. Secondly, none of the money will go to Hamas. The funds will instead be distributed through NGOs and the U.N.<\/a>, as has been U.S. policy in Gaza for some time.<\/p>\n

Moreover, Bachmann\u2019s claim that the aid package means Obama \u201cchose\u201d Hamas over Israel is complete nonsense<\/a>. Beyond that fact that Obama has repeatedly stressed his support for Israel, U.S. aid to Israel easily dwarfs that to the Palestinian territories, and aid to Israel has actually increased<\/a> under Obama. This fiscal year, the administration budgeted $2.7 billion for Israel, while it plans to give $2.85 billion in FY 2011\u2026 [emphasis original<\/span>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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If anything, Obama has refused to commit while most of the world is condemning Israel\u2019s illegal blockade.<\/font><\/p>\n

For last, I\u2019m saving an example of Teabuggery that borders on treason, suggesting the violent overthrow of the US government.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"15barber\"<\/a> Add another to the growing collection of strange<\/a> and disturbing<\/a> political ads coming out of Alabama these days.<\/p>\n

Rick Barber, a candidate in the Republican primary for the state’s second district, has released a one-minute ad in which he implies he supports impeaching President Barack Obama, then goes on a protracted criticism of the IRS, concluding with an actor dressed as George Washington declaring, "Gather your armies."<\/p>\n

The ad begins with the Tea Party-backed Barber implying support for Obama’s impeachment. "And I would impeach him," Barber says in the ad’s opening line as he sits at a table with actors dressed as Washington, Sam Adams and Ben Franklin\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Here\u2019s the ad itself.<\/font><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s as offensive as it is infantile.<\/font><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t understand why the GOP do not repudiate such people as Democrats did Alan Greene.  But the Republicans have embraced them, their only reaction, attempts to cosmetically disguise their extreme positions.  This we must not allow.  We need to keep presenting them for what they are.  A weakness of the left is that we tend to tell the truth and figure we\u2019ve dealt with it.  The GOP, on the other hand, repeats their lies, no matter how outrageous, over and over again, until people start believing it because they hear the lies from them so much more often than they hear the truth from us.  If they have been successful through repeating lies, cannot we be more so by repeating the truth?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Teabaggers do some crazy things, and lately the collection of insanity has been sufficient to cause a worldwide shortage of tin foil. Lets start with Keith Olbermann\u2019s take on Sharon \u201cObtuse\u201d Angle and and Rand \u201cI\u2019m only a racist on days that end in Y\u201d Paul. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news […]<\/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-1877","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\/1877","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=1877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}