Excuse me, what’s in that “Tea” you’re drinking?

Last night as I was watched primary election results trickle
in, I was struck by the consistency of the 'message' of the all the Tea Party robots
(or “voters” as a “non partisan” person would call them) who were interviewed
after casting their vote. 

Each pretty much stuck to the party mantra, "Less
Government/give the power back to the people."

While technically you can’t fault the fact that the robots all seems to be drinking
from the same cup of Tea, here’s my problem. Not
one reporter asked these robots what I think is the all important question,
'what exactly does that mean?'

Make no
mistake about it, this right wing faction of the Republican Party is one step
removed from batshit crazy.  They are
systematically trying to and succeeding in knocking off established/moderate
Republicans who they believe aren’t doing enough to cut spending and stop the
growth of Government. 

And if you believe the pundits, they are also making it
easier for certain Democrats, who were thought to be in trouble, to win
reelection. I tend to agree with the pundits, but as a Democrat I know, when
victory is at hand, we tend to find a way to mess it up. So, I’m keeping quiet
on that front for now.

But as
usual, I digress.

These Tea
drinkers, like their de facto leader Sarah Palin, and the Republicans they continue
to beat down, complain that the President and the Democrats are spending
unnecessarily — on things like the stimulus package, which many economists
have said helped avoid a second great depression and the health care reform
bill, which is estimated to reduce the deficit by $143 billion over the next
decade — all while proposing to permanently save the Bush-era tax cuts which,
while still being scored, are expected to cost 4 times what the “failed” stimulus
and health care reform bills are estimated to cost over the next decade…COMBINED.
 (Click here to read today’s - Washington
Post Article on the Republicans proposed tax cuts) 

Can I
get a WTF from the congregation please?  Amen. 

Maybe
it’s me. Maybe I’m just so slanted to the “Left” to understand why all this
talk about big government and over spending is nothing more than the typical
Republican double talk. Let’s face it, for all the talk, their primary concern is saving the Bush
tax cut for those making over $250,000 a year because without them — they say
— the economy is going to tank even further. Keep in mind, these same tax cuts
have been in place since the start of this economic fiasco conjured up by the
Bush administration, and have done little/nothing to help boost the economy or spur
job growth.

Or
maybe it’s because I can’t actually believe that these Tea drinkers, who are SOOO
mad at everything, have the slightest clue as to who the hell they are voting
for, and that they are only voting for them because they aren’t “establishment”
people. 

Here’s
a prime example of what I mean.

Take the
Tea Party candidate for Governor of New
York, Carl Paladino. He wants to relocate welfare recipients to empty ‘jail facilities’ because
he thinks, “they would probably
like living there because of the great bathroom facilities” and that the
facilities could be a place “where they would work in state-sponsored jobs, get
employment training and take lessons in 'personal hygiene.”

Now I will admit both of these statements have been taken
a little bit out of context, but not enough to make them false in anyway.  This is exactly what he thinks and is
proposing as a solid new and fresh idea.

How exactly does this grand idea boost the economy,
spur job growth or slow down the growth of government? If you have an answer,
please share it with me, because this one really stumps me.

While Paladino, Sharron Angle [the Nevada Tea Party candidate running against Harry
Reid] and Christine O’Donnell [the Delaware Tea Party candidate for Senate]
will each make the fall election season more interesting than usual, should even just one of them win, I will need a serious infusion of some of that Tea.  

How else am I going to get a good enough buzz to
contain the embarrassment of the fact that enough Tea robots thought either one of them were qualified
to be elected to anything.