When I saw the crowd yesterday, and heard the Palin screeching about restoring honor, I had to take a deep breath before I put my foot through the telly. Because, you know, not helpful.
How the hell - and I mean that quite literally - did the conversation, such as it is, get framed in those terms? How can extending health care benefits be dishonorable? How does establishing mutually respectful relationships with previously spurned nations constitute dishonor? This kind of rally would have made sense after Vietnam, after Nixon. But during Obama's presidency?
It makes me despair. You have summed it all up brilliantly. Joe Bageant's book 'Deer hunting with Jesus' helped me to understand a little better, but as you say - the grassroots support for the Tea Party is bewildering. Please. Exploit us some more.
It's like Palin's Mama Grizzly Bear crap (rearing up to protect her young from - better access to doctors and hospitals? Not being deployed in combat in Iraq? Those big, nasty threats?) - it defies all rational thought.
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How the hell - and I mean that quite literally - did the conversation, such as it is, get framed in those terms? How can extending health care benefits be dishonorable? How does establishing mutually respectful relationships with previously spurned nations constitute dishonor? This kind of rally would have made sense after Vietnam, after Nixon. But during Obama's presidency?
It makes me despair. You have summed it all up brilliantly. Joe Bageant's book 'Deer hunting with Jesus' helped me to understand a little better, but as you say - the grassroots support for the Tea Party is bewildering. Please. Exploit us some more.
It's like Palin's Mama Grizzly Bear crap (rearing up to protect her young from - better access to doctors and hospitals? Not being deployed in combat in Iraq? Those big, nasty threats?) - it defies all rational thought.