Unemployed Tea Bag Party Leader Begs for Government Health Care

[Cypress]

The Tea Bag Party never fails to deliver comedy gold!

Tea Bag Party Activist Protests Government Health Care and Government Spending…….While Also Begging for Government Healthcare and Groveling for a Government Job


SOUTH BEND, Ind. — When Tom Grimes lost his job as a financial consultant 15 months ago, he called his congressman, a Democrat, for help getting government health care.

Then he found a new full-time occupation: Tea Party activist….

Mr. Grimes….is thinking of getting a part-time job with the Census Bureau. But he is also planning, he said, to teach high school students about the Constitution and limits on government powers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/us/politics/28teaparty.html?pagewanted=1

 

[evince]

I loved it when that bone head actor went on Fox and claimed when he was on unemployment and foodstamps no one helped him.

They are mentally ill.

 

[Cypress]

I loved it when that bone head actor went on Fox and claimed when he was on unemployment and foodstamps no one helped him.

They are mentally ill.

Hilarious. Wasn’t Joe the Plumber on welfare at some point?

It ain’t about healthcare or hatred of government spending, Desh. The two careers this tea bag part activist is contemplating are both taxpayer-funded: Census Bureau and teaching. The health care bill is far from liberal; it’s pretty much a rehash of what used to be considered Republican ideas (i.e, Romney Care, or sh*t the GOP supported in the 1999s).

It’s about fear and race. The always awesome Frank Rich has a piece about this.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/opinion/28rich.html?ref=global


A large fraction, perhaps even a plurality, of these Teabaggers are kept from starving because they are on some form of a New Deal program, medicare, unemployment insurance, disability payments, etc.,….. consequently, none of their alleged “strict constructionist, small government” blatherings make sense in this context.

But Rich highlights what actually does make sense. It’s the last vestiges of NeoConfederate America lashing out in fear. We’ve all seen it billion times in the last year. Cons complaining that people who don’t pay taxes are going to get a handout (translation: poor, welfare-queen black people); or that the Dems are giving a handout to migrant workers who don’t deserve it.

Indeed, most wingnut arguments are couched in the premise that hard working, tax paying schmucks (aka, white folks) are getting screwed by Democratic “hand outs” to people who don’t deserve it or don’t pay taxes (i.e., brown and black people, or more charitably single white moms on welfare). It ain’t no coincidence that rightwing hate groups have exploded on the internet in the last year, that rightwing message board poseurs are advocating domestic terrorist actions, and that teabaggers are yelling racist slurs at black congressmen. How does a very centrist, and hardly liberal Black president actually cause teabagger heads to explode on the basis of some very moderate – and at one time, Republican – ideas? Like Frank Rich notes, it ain’t about healthcare.

 

[Topspin]

We must be thankfull for these not shy boobs cons are dumb enough to roll out over and over. They don't have a clue about average Americans so they grab the first poor person who hates democrats. Very entertaining you must admit.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

We must be thankfull for these not shy boobs cons are dumb enough to roll out over and over. They don't have a clue about average Americans so they grab the first poor person who hates democrats. Very entertaining you must admit.

and more affective then you think. I met two people last week who were incensed that this reform package is going to take away their parents medicare coverage. I was like, "say what?" but they honestly believed that.

Actually Democrats are just getting started. I saw a pro-health care reform add by my local democratic representative and it was very affective.

Democrats just need to go out and sell this and they have the tools to do that. There's a lot of good things in the bill and as the benefits start phasing in, just with SS and MC Republicans will oppose it at their own risk.

Having said that, there's such a strong sense of anti-incumbentism going around that, as Clinton said, "It's the Economy Stupid".

Congressional Dems better hope that stimulus bill money budgeted for this construction season puts a lot of blue collar types to work. If it does, then the present rhetoric will be over blown. You won't see much change in the composition of either house of congress.