Tea and Stupidity

I might be able to take the people playing dress-up on the White House lawn a little more seriously if they had started protesting when Bush began running up the deficit in his first term. For eight years they cheered on a president who subsidized the rich and bogged us down in not one, but two astronomically expensive wars that he never had any sort of exit strategy for or any idea of what a “victory” in these conflicts would actually mean.

From what I can tell, the protestor’s message is, sure we’re all for racking up massive debts to kill and torture people but by god, we’re not spending our hard earned money on some pansy-ass bullshit like saving people’s lives. It would almost be funny if it weren’t so pathetic. The really ironic thing about these hard core Republican supporters is that they claim fiscal responsibility is their goal but the last president to run a surplus was a Democrat. I realize that the tea parties started because of the banking bailout but that was originally Bush’s idea. Obama just continued the policies of his predecessor and somehow he got labeled a fascist, socialist, Nazi-lover because of it.

I’ve been trying to avoid the elephant in the room but I’m having a hard time not coming to the conclusion that these are a bunch of racist imbeciles. From the ludicrous birther claims to the Obama’s a Muslim rants, they seem to be grasping for any nonsensical lie they can come up with to avoid having to admit that their democratically elected president is a black man. It seems appropriate that it was a congressman from South Carolina, the first state to secede from the union, who couldn’t bring himself to give our first black president even a modicum of respect during a speech he was giving about one of the biggest problems our country faces today. I’m just surprised he didn’t add the pejorative “boy” after his shockingly rude outburst.