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Antidisestablishmentarianism
Submitted by d2 on Fri, 02/19/2010 - 7:49am.
Listening to The Tea Party Party (tm) rant about corrupt politicos and corporations, I've always been amused to think how sensible 1960 republicans would have sniffed disapprovingly at this motley crowd of reactionaries: If one overlooks the eliminationism, racism, religiosity and a fair helping of definitely-not-christlike 'tude, (and is that REALLY all that much to overlook?) Teabaggers are 21st-century hippies, which makes this all the funnier.
MATTERA: It's always a delight to participate in CPAC. This is like our Woodstock. Except, unlike the left gathering, our women are beautiful, we speak in complete sentences, and our notion of freedom doesn't consist of snorting cocaine.
(...lurved that word as a kid)
Libertarian response to CPAC
From the comments at Digby:
http://www.lp.org/news/press-releases/libertarians-criticize-cpac-conservatives
Wes Benedict offered the following statement:
I'm sure we'll hear an awful lot about "limited government" from the mouths of CPAC politicians over the next few days. If I had a nickel every time a conservative said "limited government" and didn't mean it, I'd be a very rich man.
Unlike libertarians, most conservatives simply don't want small government. They want their own version of big government. Of course, they have done a pretty good job of fooling American voters for decades by repeating the phrases "limited government" and "small government" like a hypnotic chant.
It's interesting that conservatives only notice "big government" when it's something their political enemies want. When conservatives want it, apparently it doesn't count.
If a conservative wants a trillion-dollar foreign war, that doesn't count. If a conservative wants a 700-billion-dollar bank bailout, that doesn't count. If a conservative wants to spend billions fighting a needless and destructive War on Drugs, that doesn't count. If a conservative wants to spend billions building border fences, that doesn't count. If a conservative wants to "protect" the huge, unjust, and terribly inefficient Social Security and Medicare programs, that doesn't count. If a conservative wants billions in farm subsidies, that doesn't count.
It's truly amazing how many things "don't count."
Ugh
I feel like a cavewoman, I've been using "ugh" so much these days, in response to all the extremist fringe wingnuttery I've been exposed to.
Me making Rethuglican wingnuts sound smart by comparison. Ugh.