Tea Bagger "Die In" Is Full of Stupid People

There's something quite telling in all of this.

Tea Baggers formed some sort of "Die In" this morning on Capitol Hill. The dying part was metaphorical of course. Just like the Freedom Fighting part is too. As nutjob Michelle Bachmann put it, the Tea Baggers are the modern day "charge of the light brigade." Everything they do has to do with fighting for freedom against the enemy. Literally everything. Never mind the fact the "light brigade" was handily defeated, it's the comparison to war, battle and toughness the GOP loves.

The telling part is this little Tea Bagger quote from some people from Georgia.

Die-iners hailed from as far away as Washington state. Georgia had a large contingent, though unlike others in the group, they didn't go to visit their senators during the office storm. Instead, they tagged along with the lone tea partier from Connecticut on his way to visit Joe Lieberman.

"We're lucky -- our politicians aren't the bad ones," Joy McGann of Atlanta told TPMDC. "We figured we'd go with this man from Connecticut -- he's alone and he needs the help."

Really? Your senators aren't the bad ones? They haven't done anything you are supposedly now protesting?

Georgia senators Chambliss and Isakson were both elected in '02 and '04, respectively. Both are Republican. Both voted with George W. Bush and the GOP almost 100% of the time. In fact, the budget deficit more than doubled during Chambliss and Isakson's terms in office. On average, from '03-'09, the deficit grew by more than $600 billion/year-- the largest in American history. They also enabled George W. Bush to not only fiscally wreck the country, but to increase the size and role of government by enacting the largest expansion of Medicare in history, spend more than a trillion dollars on foreign countries, instituted 8 tax payer funded government takeovers of private business and nationalized the insurance and lending industries including 234 private banks. But these guys aren't the bad ones? What possibly are you protesting? What a joke.

You people should turn off your Fox News teevee sets, turn down your drug addicted hate filled talk radio and wake up. The world is really passing you by.

*editor's note:

This post has been edited from its original publication. Thanks to commenters for noticing the error.