Lockjaw

Lockjaw has to set in after Tea Bagging for so long. Town halls turn violent in St. Louis yesterday while the White House gives advice on how to handle the town halls and the mobs. I don't see either side backing down any time soon.

One of the things I want to point out is just how silly it is for Democrats to focus on the people, power and money behind the Tea Baggers. Does it really matter who is organizing these things? Whether it's Fox News or Micheal Steele, to me it doesn't matter. What matters is what's creating the anger and in turn the opposition to health care reform.

Doesn't it create some sort of irony that most of the Tea Baggers disrupting town hall meetings are Medicare recipients. Just like Republicans in Congress who pretend to oppose government health care but enjoy that very system themselves, many of the Tea Baggers already partake in government funded health care. So what are they protesting? This complete hypocrisy is what the White House and health care reform proponents should focus on rather than who is propping it up.

As well, the focus should also be on what is driving Tea Bagger anger. These are people who firmly believe that President Obama is a foreign-born, socialist, Nazi enemy of the state. They really believe he is destroying the country and that he must be stopped. If I watched Fox News and listened to Rush Limbaugh all day long like these people do and all I heard was utter and constant lies, I'd be just as fired up as them. Remember these people are conspiracy theorists whose ideology is completely built around lies. Their anger is real. Falsely directed, but real.

And Maddow completely drives my points home.



Dang she's good.