From Matt Taibbi’s takedown of the Tea Party movement:

A hall full of elderly white people in Medicare-paid scooters, railing against government spending and imagining themselves revolutionaries as they cheer on the vice-presidential puppet hand-picked by the GOP establishment. If there exists a better snapshot of everything the Tea Party ( Read more... )

An anonymous commenter left me a comment in this post here where I said that I didn't think any Teabaggers had any idea what they were talking about, and I began to write a short reply but it got longer than I intended, so I'm just going to post it as an entry, because it's a criticism I've gotten before-understandably-and it's worth addressing.

I ( Read more... )

• Sunny and warm in NY, cold and snowy in Dallas. Weird.


• I am fairly certain that no teabagger has any idea what they oppose in the health care bill :
  

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• Hell, Teabaggers don't even know much about TAXES-and that's supposedly their main issue.


• Yesterday Rush Limbaugh gave out the wrong number to contact Congress. Wingnuts who called got a pro- ( Read more... )

RED STATES:

• The South, the Great Plains, the Mountain West and Appalachia
  
• 35% of the population, 50 Senators
  
• Subsidized extraction industries-agriculture, oil, gas, coal and forestry-and majority of military installations
  
• Pays 29% of federal taxes
  
• From 1991 to 2001, received $800 billion more in goods, services and cash from Washington than it paid ( Read more... )

"Do you have blacks, too?"
-President George Bush,
to a shocked Brazilian President
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, March 2001.
(about half of Brazil's total population of 170 million are black citizens.)