(Blog Post) When John Boehner, the Republican leader of the House, appeared at the Tea Party rally at the Capitol on Thursday afternoon, it was a dramatic signal: The wing-nuts have taken over the GOP. Full Story »
Posted by Jo Bobenhouse Smith
A short article skimming the actions and characteristics of Teabaggers using Rep. Bachmann’s Tea Party gathering at the capital (to scare congress) as its premise. Although it's obvious nutcakes have kidnapped the GOP, the author tries to make the point that neocons are falling into the pond of reactionism just when the tide may be turning, as shown by the two Governor GOP wins. But the wins may actually indicate voters’ disgust with incumbents. In New York’s 23rd district, neocons threw out the GOP candidate substituting their own and lost utterly.
“Boehner, for one, declared that the health care bill is the ‘greatest threat to freedom that I have seen.’ That’s some statement. A greater threat than Hitler’s Nazism or Soviet communism?”
A short article skimming the actions and characteristics of Teabaggers using Rep. Bachmann’s Tea Party gathering at the capital (to scare congress) as its premise. Although obvious that nutcakes have kidnapped the GOP, the author tries to make the point that neocons are falling into the pond of reactionism just when the tide may be turning, as shown by the two Governor GOP wins. But what the wins may actually indicate is voters’ disgust with incumbents. Because in New York’s 23rd district, where neocons threw out the GOP candidate and substituted their own, they lost utterly.
What would the right-wing nutcakes do without the terms “Nazi,” “Red,” “Holocaust,” and all those other mid-twentieth century phrases?