Hey Tea Party-Republicans: The Founders Are Not Your Guys

[mgc1961]

This is a Greco-Roman nation, gathered in a Hodenosaunee longhouse.

As they wrap themselves in the Constitution they mean to shred, that is the self-evident Truth the Tea/GOP Party ultimately cannot face.

Our legal godfathers---the ones Glenn Beck loves to conjure---were Deistic liberal humanists whose core beliefs he hates.

They dumped that tea because they despised the corporation that owned it and the idea of empire it (and today's corporate-military right) stood for.

The very first phrase of this nation's defining document, the Bill of Rights, says:

"Judaeo-Christian? Not a chance."

The grassroots farmers that made the Revolution were free-thinking hemp growers. Their favorite scribe, Tom Paine, was the son of a Quaker whose Age of Reason assaulted the church with unsurpassed fury. Today's Tea/GOP would have it burned.

Our greatest genius, Ben Franklin, was a proud and joyous sexual adventurer. His very presence today would induce howls of (envious) outrage from the religious right.

It was Franklin who most loved Native America. He introduced himself to the French as "an American savage." He stamped the Hodenosaunee (Iroquois) gifts of personal freedom and a democratic confederation into the soul of the new nation.


Wanna read the rest of this article? Go to http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/10/02-2

[Bitwit1234]

1. This is what absolutely positively makes me the maddest

who in the hell ever gave, the flag, the constitution, the founding fathers, American pie to the republicans. Real republicans only make up about 30% of the population why do they think their brand of racism, hate, and violence is what America is all about.

[OneBlueSky]

2. love Taibbi's definition of Tea Baggers in the latest "Rolling Stone" . . .

"A loose definition of the Tea Party might be millions of pissed-off white people sent chasing after Mexicans on Medicaid by the handful of banks and investment firms who advertise on Fox and CNBC." . . .

Also . . . "It would be inaccurate to say that the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, is narcissists. They're completely blind to how offensive the very nature of their rhetoric is to the rest of the country. . . It's not that Tea Partiers hate black people. It's just that they're shockingly willing to believe the appalling horseshit fantasy about how white people in the age of Obama are some kind of oppressed minority. That may not be racism, but it is incredibly, earth-shatteringly stupid."