But his line about the absurdity of national healthcare somehow being in the hands of a handful of Congressmen whose states are made up of less people than the cast of Ben Hur is dead on. And his "nobody cares about your feelings" line to the GOP is great too; if I wanted to see someone whining and crying about their feelings like the goddam Republicans I'd fucking watch a video of me chewing my fist after finding out my high school girlfriend went for a ride into town with another dude. I'd expect a thicker skin from the party who prides itself on it's heartless, mindless "falling in line" credo.
But "If the President has a BLT tomorrow, the Republicans will try to ban bacon" is frightening in it's truth since if I had to pick a group of people to compare teabaggers to, I'd say Al-Queda. Not because teabaggers are terrorists, but because like the young, impressionable recruits of Al-Queda, they're so easily persuaded. Teabaggers are angry, frustrated and, thanks to their own leaders both in Congress and on the radio/tv, have been led to believe their country is about to be led not by Hitler, but by Hitler's gay brother who's addicted to abortions, so an opportunity to join others just like themselves in their outrage is an attractive proposition. Your average teabagger has not spent years studying what socialism is and what it's dangers might be, nor is he likely an actual racist. But it IS seemingly very easy to get him riled up in a ball of fury; it's easy to get some shit-kicker in Alabama to come to the town hall and raise a lil hell and fuck it, let's make things more exciting by bringing some guns and drawing Obama with a Hitler mustache on a posterboard, just like a young kid in Pakistan might get worked up enough about hating Evil America, or the Jews, or, even better, Kelly from Beverly Hills 90210 to strap on some TNT and hit the monkeybars with his new "friends"
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