The Stupidity of Teabaggers and the 9/12 Project

This morning, I watched some of the spontaneous revolt that’s taking place in Washington, D.C. Actually, it’s not spontaneous. It’s all part of the 9/12 Project. Now, I’m sure that there are skeptics among you who think that calling it the 9/12 Project is a subtle way of endowing the event with the imprimatur of 9/11, and avoiding the crass use of 9/11 as a marketing tool. Well, you are wrong. It is not subtle at all.

Glenn Beck of Fox News is the chief

promoter of the 9/12 Project

These teabagging ‘patriots’ are now using a 9/11 to promulgate their agenda, regardless of the consequences. Most of them say: “We just want our country back!” This is usually followed by a plea to “Restore the U.S. Constitution back to the founders original intent.”

Now, I’m no Constitutional scholar. But, for shiggles sake, let’s take a moment to reflect on what would be lost if we did restore the U.S. Constitution to the date of ratification on June 21, 1788. The first casualty would be the Bill of Rights. In case there are any Teabaggers out there who don’t know, the “Bill of Rights” is a name commonly given to the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The reason they’re called amendments is because they WERE NOT INCLUDED IN THE U.S. CONSTITUTION IN THE FIRST PLACE! Thanks to the Teabaggers, we would lose:

1st Amendment: Freedom of speech, Freedom of the press, Freedom of religion, Freedom of assembly; and the Right to Petition.

2nd Amendment: Right to keep and bear arms.

3rd Amendment: Protection from quartering of troops.

4th Amendment: Protection from unreasonable search and seizure.

5th Amendment: Due process, Double Jeopardy, Self-incrimination, Eminent domain.

6th Amendment: Trial by jury and rights of the accused; Confrontation Clause, speedy trial, public trial, right to counsel

7th Amendment: Civil trial by jury.

8th Amendment: Prohibition of excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment.

9th Amendment: Protection of rights not specifically enumerated in the Bill of Rights.

10th Amendment: Powers of States and people.

Any Teabagger with a modicum of American History knowledge must be aware that the creation of the Constitution was a negotiation between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists. I would also hope that their teachers explained the amendment process. Compromise was used to establish the U.S. Constitution. Once the Constitution was ratified, the Bill of Rights was proposed to the states and subsequently ratified in 1791. Unwittingly, many of the rights that are embraced by the Teabaggers would be forfeited under a return to the founder’s original intent.

Taken to its logical argument, the restoration of the U.S. Constitution to the founder’s intent is nothing more than an advocacy for a wholesale revolution. The right wing’s sudden defense of the U.S. Constitution is odd, given their silence during the shredding of the same document by the Bush Administration from 9/12/2001 to 1/20/2009. Could there be another cause? I wonder what that could be?

Teabagger in Madison, Wisconsin

Health Care Reform and the Public Option

This is Republican Congressman, and right wing nutjob, Addison Graves Wilson, Sr. Of course, professionally, he's known as Joe Wilson. Joe the Congressman. I guess Addison Wilson wasn't a southern enough name to get him elected. How much you want to bet that if he was Beauregard Wilson, or Eb Wilson, he wouldn't have changed his name to get elected. But I digress.

This man will never vote for health care reform. Let me repeat that: This man will NEVER vote for health care reform. Never. Ever. Now, take a look at Chuck Grassley, or John McCain, or James Inhofe, or Orrin Hatch. Like Wilson, these Repubicans will NEVER, EVER vote for health care reform. NEVER.

So, can someone explain to me why the Democrats should negotiate with these people? There should be a minimum of consultation that ensures the Democrats abide by the rules of the Congress. There should be a vote, that the Democrats will win, and we should move on.