Blessed are those who love their Bible, but hate the poor: 3 revisions Tea Party style.
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Small Government: One Small Fly in the Ointment
A BIG LITTLE PROBLEM - Sometimes it's amazing just how big small government can be
Conservatives – especially their tea partying faction – are yelling, “Hell no! We won’t grow!” in their quest for government with a microscopic “G”. Their biggest quibble with St. Ronnie of Reagan’s government isn’t the solution, it’s the problem mantra was that he didn’t lay off the entire government (except for a staggeringly expensive, ass-kicking military…and it’s associated contractors and arms makers) and outsource everything to the states, or preferably, India by way of multinational conglomerates.
I suspect they’ll be getting a rude awakening soon. They’ll find it next to impossible to fight the strong running political tide, agree on what needs to be shed, or even agree on what small government means.
For example, arch-conservative Michele Bachmann wanted to prohibit earmarks only to find that, oops, her state wouldn’t get any money either. Suddenly her perception of pork changed in the face of angry voters who saw that Michele’s financial acumen was roughly equivalent to a high school home economics course in buying canned hams at rock bottom prices.
SOLUTIONS - Ain't that the truth?
One man’s crumbling highway is another’s canned ham. Let those drivers give up the ham. They need to be put on the fiscally conservative South Beach Minnesota Diet. Same for those homeless people too by golly. It’ll be good for their no account goldbricking asses.
Conservatives never met a regulation they liked – unless it benefits them or is written by lobbyists. And one of the biggest government expenditures of all is creating and enforcing regulations. The baggers and Republi-Goobs are of a similar mind that only the private sector is smart enough to do anything – apparently ignoring that whole financial derivatives thing. But who’s counting.
So here’s an idea.
Regulations and regulators are a huge chunk of the budget, right? The Tax and Spend It All on Me Crowd frequently reminds us, usually in high-pitched squeaky voices, that the private sector is where smart, upstanding CEOs can do anything. They even have big paychecks to prove it.
Since the Supreme Activist Court (SACOTUS) took it upon themselves to give corporations Constitutional rights far and away more important than the rights of all individual citizens combined, it makes sense that corporations would be the very picture of responsible citizens in thanks. And smart as whips too.
So, corporations are just terrific, and honest, and thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent. We know this because Cryin’ John Boehner and the boys tell us so. So, how about we just trust them to do the right thing? No need to regulate when the free market unfailingly leads companies to the path of righteousness and honor.
We’d cut thousands of regulators in a jiffy. Legislators would have absolutely nothing to do except rubber stamp appropriations bills for the War du Jour. And lobbyists? Well, they’d become pro bono advisers to a micro-government that runs as smooth as BP oil rushing out of a broken wellhead. Yeah, THAT’S the ticket!
Um, only one small fly in the ointment on that one. Forget I mentioned anything.
- More politics (omnipotentpoobah.com)
- What’s Michele Bachmann up to? (salon.com)
- Michele Bachmann: Scalia Will Teach Constitution Class (huffingtonpost.com)
- The Tears of John Boehner (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
- You: Democrats target John Boehner (guardian.co.uk)
- Big barriers to small government (orgtheory.wordpress.com)
- Most Teabaggers Don’t Really Want Small Government (redstateprogressive.com)
- An Actual Small Government Conservative (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com)
- Tea Party Could Sink the Tax-Cut Deal in the House (thedailybeast.com)
- More on small-government Joe Miller’s personal cops handcuffing a journalist (americablog.com)
- Janine R. Wedel: Shadow Elite: The Small Government Lie – How Both Parties Stood By As Our Government Burned (huffingtonpost.com)
Conservatives are Going Commie
NEO-COMMIES? - The Repulicommies must be stopped in the name of Tailgunner Joe!
The American right has a problem with the concept that Nazism is an extreme right-wing position and communism is an extreme left one, often leading them to claim Obama is both. (Note to Wing Nuts: Man up, pick the correct epithet, and stick with it will ya?)
Given this confusion, it isn’t surprising the party of the elephant that forgets everything has apparently gone so far right it’s preferred policies are now simpatico with some well-known leftist countries.
For proof of this 379 degree ideological turn, consider this:
- The godless commie mayor of Moscow agrees with Pat Robertson that holding a gay parade is a “satanic act“.
- The equally godless Red Chinese agree, going all Mao on a Mr. Gay China Pagent’s ass – which begs the question whether Mao was a pitcher or catcher – but that’s another post. It must be odd for Westboro Baptist Church members and opponents of gay marriage to wake up with an opposite-sex commie hogging all the covers in their arrow-straight connubial beds.
- And, it turns out the secret detentions and waterboarding so beloved by the American right are as left-leaning as the jailers at the former Soviet Union’s old Lubyanka Prison. St. Ronnie of Reagan must be turning in his Christians-only grave.
- Espionage may be a non-ideological activity, but what if this rumor about the Landrieu phone bugging is true? All those worker’s paradises were real big on the whole “let’s tap as many phones as we can” thing, just like our former Puffinstuff-in-Chief and, distressingly, The Messiah™.
With conservatives embracing so many communist positions, I’m worried for my country. What’s next, Mitch McConnell coming out in support of healthcare reform? Michael Steele quiting the Republicans to lead the Wobblies? Sarah Palin changing her school-marm do? It makes me question their patriotism and I’m left with only one shocking question.
Conservatives, as budding communists why do you hate America so much?
- DOSSIER: Illinois’ Gay Marriage Law a Ploy? … Delays By ELCA? … Straight Muslim’s Gay Movie Gig (queerty.com)
- NIMBY to the Hateful (coming to Silicon Valley!) (svmoms.com)
- Right-Wing Fearfest: Beck says ‘free speech is under attack,’ then Limbaugh tells him Obama brings ‘totalitarianism’ (crooksandliars.com)
- Robert Boston: The Most Dangerous Man in America? (mikedelongsantafe.blogspot.com)
- David Neiwert: Historians vs. Jonah Goldberg (huffingtonpost.com)
- Pat Robertson: Gays want to destroy marriage (bilerico.com)
- The Tim Tebow Super Bowl Ad: College Great Fumbles Before First Pro Snap (bleacherreport.com)
- Cronkite, Communist (talkingpointsmemo.com)
