The New Republic

This reminds me of a teabagger elected here (NC) recently, Renee Ellmers. She was one of the typical shrill voices against the health care bill but when a reporter asked about her own gold-plated Congressional plan she got defensive that medical care was expensive and couldn't do her job with out it (yeah, right, tell that to the uninsured you witch). Along with that same story I read about some teabaggers recently elected complaining about them not getting their Congressional medical benefits until they took office, not as soon as they got elected. Typical elitist hypocrites. My wish is the red states feel the brunt of budget cuts first, some real pain (like closing every military base in those states for starters).

- tmmats

July 7, 2011 at 5:37pm

As I've pointed out before, Republicans are still waging war against the welfare queen. But God help you if you try to touch THEIR benefits. This kind of stuff really does turn my stomach.

- GSpinks

July 7, 2011 at 6:11pm

If there's a deal on the debt ceiling, the teabagger element can claim that cuts meant that the lights were out in their offices, so they didn't know what they were voting for.

- ironyroad

July 7, 2011 at 7:27pm

Nota bene, Allan. The Republicans are only against the government they are against, which does not make them small-government politicians. GS, so often your remarks are really dated. On August 22, 1996, Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act (PL 104-193), ending welfare as we knew it. You may have heard about this legislation. It sucked the air out of the welfare queen meme, though you seem not to know it. The term is still bandied about, but its visibility and prominence is much reduced, compared to, say, the Reagan years.

- liberalref

July 7, 2011 at 7:32pm

Cutting the salary of someone else is not the same as cutting your own salary. When the Republican legislators announce that they plan to cut their own salaries, then they will lead by example. But hypocrisy is there trademark. After 6 years of recklessly driving up the national debt, the Republicans now talk about how terrible it is and how terrible Obama is because the debt has grown since he became president. They speak with forked tongue.

- Nusholtz

July 7, 2011 at 8:19pm

Nush, as we all know the federal deficit and the debt only matter to the GOP, who also alarms the press about the graveness of it all, when there's a Democrat in the White House. The GOP doesn't care about the deficit/debt when a publican is in the Oval Office. The press ignores the issue or plays it down until the GOP starts screaming. And boy can they scream and suddenly they come across as the "responsible ones", always keeping spending in check. Never mind they got us in this mess by being reckless. Liberal main stream media? As Doctor Evil would say, "Riiiiiiight." This is when they deserve the label 'right-wing patsies'.

- tmmats

July 7, 2011 at 11:31pm

This is REALLY nuts: Jim Demint says he's willing to accept "serious disruptions" in the economy rather than compromise on the debt ceiling: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/170085-demint-would-accept-serious-disruptions-to-economy-to-win-debt-debate Sheese. Nice to know these guys have our backs.

- Sophia

July 8, 2011 at 12:31am

No shit, libref. That's what makes their strategy so absurd. The only difference is now they don't use the words "welfare queen". "Parasite" seems to be a favorite word among those who even give it a name; many just keep railing against the same "injustices" as before, lamenting how poor people are living off the government, etc, etc.

- GSpinks

July 8, 2011 at 11:29am