{"id":3547,"date":"2010-12-06T01:20:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T09:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3547"},"modified":"2010-12-06T01:21:04","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T09:21:04","slug":"teabuggering-the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/06\/teabuggering-the-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Teabuggering the Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teabaggers have a rather selective understanding of what the Constitution guarantees, and seem quite ready to trash whatever portions thereof contradict their platform of guns, greed and hate.\u00a0 But when it comes to sheer ignorance, this governor needs to return to grade school.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"6Paul_LePage\"Maine Gov.-elect Paul LePage says it will be a smooth transition from his campaign, where his rhetoric was often confrontational toward the federal government<\/strong>, to working with the Obama administration as Maine’s governor.<\/p>\n

The Waterville Republican visited Washington, D.C. this week with other newly elected governors to meet with the president as well as top administration officials to help forge new relationships. He also met with top Republican members of Congress, where the GOP has an incoming majority in the U.S. House.<\/p>\n

LePage, whose pledge to make headlines by telling Obama to “go to hell”<\/strong> reverberated nationally during the campaign, was also quoted during the campaign as intending to “push back against the federal government\u2026<\/p>\n

…The governor-elect said his major concerns are overreaching policies — LePage identified education and health care as areas he thinks the federal government goes too far — and how much, and in what way, the federal government distributes funds.<\/p>\n

“I am going to be sitting with our attorney general and ask him to join the (health care reform) lawsuit against the federal government,” he said, adding he just learned that if 35 states join the suit, the law “dies, automatically<\/strong><\/span>.” Twenty states so far have joined the suit, filed in federal court in Florida, to repeal the provision in health care reform law that requires individuals to purchase health insurance… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <The Kennebunkport Journal<\/a>><\/p>\n

Hat-Tip: TPM<\/a><\/p>\n

Earth to Teabagger!\u00a0 Earth to Teabagger!\u00a0 Hello?\u00a0 Is anyone at home between those ears?\u00a0 If 35 states would join the suit, the only thing that would mean is that 35 states had joined the suit.\u00a0 Have you been getting your tea from Batshit Bachmann?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Teabaggers have a rather selective understanding of what the Constitution guarantees, and seem quite ready to trash whatever portions thereof contradict their platform of guns, greed and hate.\u00a0 But when it comes to sheer ignorance, this governor needs to return to grade school. Maine Gov.-elect Paul LePage says it will be a smooth transition from […]<\/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-3547","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\/3547","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=3547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}