Immune To Irony

How do these people get elected into office? Did they stop drooling on themselves long enough to convince the rubes they call their constituents that they would be of use in Congress? ANY USE?

After receiving a complaint from a rube/constituent of their inconvenience during their recent travel, Republican Texas Rep. Kevin Brady decided to write a letter on their behalf, which would be a nice gesture if it weren't for the purpose of the trip and the specific travel complaint, as the Wall Street Journal so aptly describes:

Protesters who attended Saturday’s Tea Party rally in Washington found a new reason to be upset: Apparently they are unhappy with the level of service provided by the subway system.

Rep. Kevin Brady asked for an explanation of why the government-run subway system didn’t, in his view, adequately prepare for this past weekend’s rally to protest government spending and government services.

Seriously.

This would be funny if it weren't so pathetic. But what do you expect? These people who, as Brady writes in his letter of complaint to DC's Metro system, "came all the way from Southeast Texas to protest the excessive spending and growing government intrusion by the 111th Congress and the new Obama administration" complained that said government's transit system did not spend extra money to provide extra service for the teabagger event.

Seriously.

And the newest Republican MENSA member to step into that dubious Spotlight of Superstupid decides to write a letter on the behalf of an 80-year old woman, who is most likely in that evil, socialized Medicare program, with absolutely no conception of the irony of the situation.

Seriously.

And the kicker of this whole affront to the teabagging community? In July, the House voted on a resolution for appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, HUD, and related agencies including emergency funding for the Metro DC subway system. Brady voted against the resolution.

Seriously.

Texas Republican Rep. Kevin Brady: SUPERGENIUS.

(H/T Wonkette)

Moderate Republicans? NEVER!

The Taxman Cometh...

posted by Armadillo Joe

On this tax day, as you do your patriotic duty and surrender your hard-earned dollars to prop up the opulent lifestyles of assorted corporate executives in the manner to which they've grown accustomed, I give you my counter-proposal to all the misdirected anger of those asinine, corporate-sponsored (with your bailout dollars!) tea-baggin' parties:



Matt Taibbi, on whom I have to kinda admit I have something of a man-crush, also has a point about the underlying truth of the tea-baggin' parties:

It’s a classic peasant mentality: going into fits of groveling and bowing whenever the master’s carriage rides by, then fuming against the Turks in Crimea or the Jews in the Pale or whoever after spending fifteen hard hours in the fields. You know you’re a peasant when you worship the very people who are right now, this minute, conning you and taking your shit. Whatever the master does, you’re on board. When you get frisky, he sticks a big cross in the middle of your village, and you spend the rest of your life praying to it with big googly eyes. Or he puts out newspapers full of innuendo about this or that faraway group and you immediately salute and rush off to join the hate squad. A good peasant is loyal, simpleminded, and full of misdirected anger. And that’s what we’ve got now, a lot of misdirected anger searching around for a non-target to mis-punish… can’t be mad at AIG, can’t be mad at Citi or Goldman Sachs. The real villains have to be the anti-AIG protesters! After all, those people earned those bonuses! If ever there was a textbook case of peasant thinking, it’s struggling middle-class Americans burned up in defense of taxpayer-funded bonuses to millionaires.

Happy Teabag Day! - UPDATED

UPDATE: I'll continually add links thoughout the day of the teabagger coverage as I find them. Steep!

GottaLaff: No Permit, No Dumpee

Bob Cesca: CNN Gets Ballsy with Tea Baggers
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Sacramento Tea Party recreation.


Awww. They played dress up and I missed it?! And polluted the river too?

Et tu, Cliffy?


More Updates -
Marc Cooper: Anti-Obama Taxpayer Tea Parties steeped in insanity

Fox News Can Travel Back In Time

As Neil Cavuto notes, Fox News covered the Million Man March.

... Impressive.

(H/T Bob Cesca)

Teabaggers! Steep!