Here's Your Tea Party--How Do You Like It Now?



from Squids with Lasers


The Tea Party Republican victories in the states have led to this, as accounted by the Rachel Maddow Show, foremost among those paying attention to this ongoing portion of the systematic destruction of the middle class, the dismantling of the Founder's commonwealth and the final solution of corporate greed creating state-sponsored cruelty:

 In Florida, Republican Governor Rick Scott proposing a $1.5 billion giveaway to businesses to be paid for with $3.3 billion cuts in education.

In Arizona, Republican Governor Jan Brewer signing $538 million in giveaways to businesses over the next decade while proposing almost the same amount of savings from throwing poor people off the state‘s Medicaid rolls.

In Michigan, Republican Governor Rick Snyder proposing nearly $2 billion in giveaways to business to be paid for by raising taxes on poor people and old people.

In Wisconsin, Republican Governor Scott Walker signing $140 million worth of giveaways to businesses just before signing a state budget to raise taxes on poor people to the tune of $49 million."

Meanwhile in Washington, GOPers are so corrupt in the pockets of their corporate masters that House GOPers chose a particular regulation to oppose--one aimed at preventing tobacco companies from marketing cigarettes to children and making cigarettes more addictive--after accepting nearly $300,000 in tobacco company cash.

Meanwhile, the Rabid Right's favorite talk radio hosts not only take the talking points devised by Rabid Right think tanks and publications--they're on the take for major wads of their cash.

But that's nothing compared to what DC GOPers are currently insisting they will do: they will bring down the world economy because Democrats want to close tax loopholes favoring corporate jets. 

They refuse to consider raising revenue by ending subsidies to their fossil fuel masters. They won't consider requiring the cringingly wealthy to pay taxes a little closer to the proportion non-wealthy actually pay.

And above all, they will not let it be known that the major cause of the budget deficit now is the Bushwars, and the major cause of the budget deficit for the next decade is the Bush tax cut for the numbingly wealthy.  If Congress cuts not a dime of spending, but the Bush tax cuts expire, the budget will be balanced by 2016.   

All of this enriches the already monstrously rich--and not the tricorner hat-wearing saps with their tragic misunderstanding of American political history.  Is it possible that they will wake up to see whose tea party this really is?

This is the "philosophy" that holds the world hostage, threatening to at the very least deeply wound the American economy, and the federal government's ability to respond to the critical needs of the American people, by refusing to raise the debt ceiling so the government can make good on all Bush's debts-- all for partisan political gain.  The conventional wisdom has it that the Wall Street masters will assert their control in time to prevent catastrophe but I'm not so sure--their greed is so great, and they may be willing to take some losses (with their money, not a problem) for the long-term risk of complete power.