TeaParty morons couldn't articulate their constitutional objections to Obamacare

[There Is No Spoon]

This is classic. At last month's tea party protests during the Supreme Court arguments on the Affordable Care Act, tea partiers were asked what specific constitutional provisions were being violated.

Despite having their pocket constitutions firmly at hand, they couldn't seem to articulate their constitutional objections to the Affordable Care Act at all. Among the responses were some truly ignorant ones, like "the commerce clause was added to the Constitution" (it wasn't), or that the Constitution didn't specifically mention health care. Hey, it doesn't specifically mention nuclear weapons either, but I don't see them out there protesting against those.

The response that chuffed me the most was the lady who, when confronted with the facts about the commerce clause, said "Well, we probably shouldn't argue about that anyway, since neither of us really knows." Hey, lady! Yes, one of us knows, and anyone who cares to know can easily find the answer by going to look at the images of the original constitution and looking carefully for traces of 18th century correction fluid. Hint: there isn't any.

What this video proves is what we've been saying all along. There is no "Tea Party," per se. There are just lots of Republicans who respond to fearmongering and manufactured nonsense in order to fight anything, even if they don't know what they're fighting. I'm sure they're trying to be good citizens and participate in their democracy, but really, it does help to do that armed with something besides the feeling that it's a bad thing because a Democrat did it.

... http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/tea-par...re-edition

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Friggin' hilarious - these people are the finest ignoramuses (Koch bros) money can buy.

[azmouse]

The scariest thing about the teapublicans is their level of uninformed stupidity could ruin the very country they like to claim they love.

[Peacetrain]

TINS this is not my observation..but someone on one of the talking head shows mused and quite correctly that the tea party people who were elected in 2010 have done nothing.. but collect 170,000 dollars a year salary from the tax payers and free meals and travel to protest the goverment.

Our local canidates running against these guys need to be holding "their" feet to the fire

[janedrake]

(05-04-2012 08:29 AM)Peacetrain Wrote:  TINS this is not my observation..but someone on one of the talking head shows mused and quite correctly that the tea party people who were elected in 2010 have done nothing.. but collect 170,000 dollars a year salary from the tax payers and free meals and travel to protest the goverment.

Our local canidates running against these guys need to be holding "their" feet to the fire

Amen, Peacetrain! I've long been saying that these teabagger loons have done absolutely NOTHING to justify their salary, perks and benefits paid for on the taxpayer dime. In fact, they've done worse than nothing - they've done real damage to the country. And we still see tight races all over the country because apparently Americans feel we haven't yet suffered enough!

[There Is No Spoon]

(05-04-2012 08:29 AM)Peacetrain Wrote:  TINS this is not my observation..but someone on one of the talking head shows mused and quite correctly that the tea party people who were elected in 2010 have done nothing.. but collect 170,000 dollars a year salary from the tax payers and free meals and travel to protest the goverment.

Our local canidates running against these guys need to be holding "their" feet to the fire

Buncha freeloading teabaggers at the gov't trough - you know it!

[jaxx]

I wonder if they bussed the teabaggers in to protest like they did in 2010? None of them appear to be smart enough to read a drivers license test.

[Brewman_Jax]

Sure they can, but they want to say more than just "I'm NOT gonna do because that democrat muslin soshulist in the White House said so!" and sound like a whiny 5-year-old that doesn't want to come in because Mommy called.

[Ikonoklast]

Why is it that those that blabber on endleslsy about their great love for the Constitution have no clue as to what is actually in it?