So Much for the Small Government Crowd

It's worth mentioning a few more notes about the latest national survey to gauge the public's view of government and its role. Below I mentioned that the public overwhelmingly favors government services. Social Security, Medicare, unemployment benefits, etc., all get exceedingly high marks from the public. But that's only because the tea baggers aren't getting their voices heard, right?

Wrong!

Regular readers already know that tea baggers are some of the biggest recipients of government welfare social services.  Their biggest candidates for office who daily espouse hatred for social programs, make a living off of Big Government.  Rand Paul in Kentucky has made millions from Medicare.  Sharron Angle in Nevada has lived her whole life on tax payer funded jobs and from a government-run health care program.  In tea bagger language that would mean she's lived her whole life living off the government's tit.  Since she's a Republican and a self-described tea bagger, it means she's a Super Great Patriot.  Even Joe Miller in Alaska has admitted that his wife once received unemployment benefits, not to mention that Alaska is the largest recipient of federal funding of any state in the Union.  Certainly a disdain for Big Government that have not.  What they are, however, is Republican and yet another poll totally backs that up.

The WaPo-Kaiser-Harvard study found that self-described tea baggers really do like government too.

89% of tea baggers think government should be involved in fighting terrorism
56% of tea baggers think government should regulate environmental standards
52% of tea baggers think government should be involved in reducing poverty (that's huge!!)
46% of tea baggers even think government should regulate Wall St.!!

These are supposed to be our anti-government crowd???  How in the world can they ever be taken seriously when talking about shrinking government and cutting spending.