Do They Not Know What Teabagging Means?

I'm all in support of protests. I'm a liberal, protests are our bread and butter whether they work or not. But anyone giving up their free time to go do something is to be commended. Even when it's worthy of ridicule. Again, I'm a liberal, we eat ridicule for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and a midnight snack. But conservatives aren't so used to this type of protest and its accompanying ridicule.

So I say good luck with your tea parties, but don't expect much. Not because you aren't sincere or because you're a small minority, but because protests in general don't garner much attention until they are constant and sustained. You're new at this, take a lesson. Just because you decided to start screaming when a Dem goes on a spending spree while staying silent when a Repub does the same thing, don't start crying when the world doesn't stop and stare at you.

Andrew Sullivan sums it up best, in my opinion:

As a fiscal conservative who actually believed in those principles when the Republicans were in power, I guess I should be happy at this phenomenon. And I would be if it had any intellectual honesty, any positive proposals, and any recognizable point. What it looks like to me is some kind of amorphous, generalized rage on the part of those who were used to running the country and now don't feel part of the culture at all. But the only word for that is: tantrum.

And on the same note of "rage on the part of those who were used to running the country and now don't" I encourage you to watch the great Jon Stewart's take on the conservative "rage." It's not tyranny, it's called losing. Hey, I do sympathize (sort of). I know rage and being discounted by the majority of the country. And like I've said before, you may be right in some ways in the end, but it doesn't matter. It won't make you feel better. This country will swing right and left and back and forth as we take our halting steps towards constantly trying to evolve and perfect our country. No ideology is 100% right, but all are often right for certain moments. The right wing's ideology failed us and maybe if they showed the slightest bit of intellectual honesty in admitting how and where it failed, there might be an opportunity for discourse about how to tailor plans between the liberal and conservatives to right it. But lacking that, we're going to move ahead.

At least you're in good wingnut company; the far left is none too happy with Obama either, albeit for different reasons (national security, war spending). When did anyone think this guy was an ideologue? He's not. He's a pragmatist and you're never going to be totally happy with a pragmatist's decisions because they won't adhere to one fixed ideology. Yes, Obama leans liberal on several issues, so did Bill Clinton. But they are also both people who will switch that position—particularly on the economy—depending on the situation at hand. Cutting government made sense in Clinton's era, expanding it makes sense now. That's the history of this country. But for conservatives, it seems history began on Reagan's inauguration day and nothing before matters and nothing but the resurrection of his body like Jesus Christ (hey, had to get an Easter reference in somewhere) will satisfy them for the future. Again,pace your rage or you will have a very long 4-8 years. Don't burn out too early.

Oh, and happy zombie weekend!