Tea Bagging for the Money Shot

Sadly I could not participate in the Republican Tea Bag protests today. There was one scheduled in my hometown and when I drove past there were a handful of people holding up signs about taxes and socialism. I'm sorry I couldn't join them.

But others around the country have snapped flattering photos of our very patriotic citizens, who for some reason didn't care one bit when George Bush and the GOP ran up the largest deficit in human history.

Personally I'm not sure we can find anywhere else in the world two finer physical specimens to represent patriotism and capitalism. It's obvious they are not simply protesting taxes, which no one likes to pay; but are protesting a very popular American president while calling him a Marxist/Maoist/Socialist and calling for the deaths of Democratic and democratically elected members of Congress.

My only enmity is do they not understand that it was George Bush and not Barack Obama that increased the size of government more than any president since FDR. It was Bush who more than doubled government spending in less than 8 years, that issued 8 multi-billion bailouts, that created the largest deficit in world history, and who also instituted the largest prescription drug program ever. It was George Bush that spied on American citizens and rounded people up all over the globe and threw them in a concentration camp. It was George Bush that issued thousands of signing statements directly removing himself from obeying laws. Are Tea Baggers really that dumb? If they are so concerned with taxes, spending and big government, where have they've been the last 8 years?

In case you haven't caught on, they aren't against big government or out of control spending. They're against anything that doesn't look and act like them.