Teabagging Alan Grayson

[peace frog]

Barack Obama, the Fed, Hitler, Marxism, the government seizing control of health care, ACORN. Somehow all of this came together at a town hall meeting held in Tavares, Florida, on Monday night by Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fl.), when dozens of Teabaggers, those rightwing activists associated with the so-called Tea Party movement, showed up to slam Grayson and vent their anger at a political world—that is, their version of it.

Two weeks ago, Grayson argued on the House floor that Republicans' health care plan amounted to "don't get sick," and if you do, "die quickly." Grayson quickly became a hero for Democrats, and a target for GOPers. He later explained that he was being facetious, but the dozens of protesters outside this event were not the least bit amused. And despite the Beltway blather, it wasn't really Grayson's comments that had the protesters fired up. They had been mad long before Grayson said what he said.

Jason Hoyt, Jim Jones, and Tom Tillison, three of the protesters, each explained that they weren't there to protest Grayson's comments. They were angry about Grayson's support for H.R. 3200, the tri-committee health care reform bill that may soon pass the House of Representatives. All three said they had attended the Glenn Beck- and Fox News-encouraged 9/12 demonstration in Washington, DC last month, before Grayson made his famous speech. 9/12 is sort of the Teabaggers' Woodstock: everyone says they were there, and even though the reasonable crowd estimates were around 70,000, Jones assured me that two million people showed up. (That's just not true.)

Chuck Colley, who said he's new to the Tea Party movement, told me that the President, who he called "Ali Baba," is "ruining this country" by creating problems "so he can invoke more government." Obama "wants to be the Marxist leader of this country," the "Hitler," Colley said.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/10/teabagging-alan-grayson

[oldtime dfl_er]

1. "invoke more government"

why would anyone expect these people to make sense? but that's patently incoherent.

[14thColony]

13. Like pushing "play" on a defective tape-recorder

They try to repeat talking points that they only semi-understood in the first place, and couldn't possibly explain. But they have a script of bad adjectives and basic phrases to use and they try to stick to them as best as they can remember/process/comprehend. Like listening to a 3yr old trying to repeat a fairy tale back to you, only way less cute and endearing.

It would take at least a week just to explain to them that being a 'Marxist Nazi' is about as possible as being a 'Christian Atheist.'

[imdjh]

2. At least the world wide jewish banking conspiracy appears to have subsided.

[hobbit709]

3. "the Marxist leader of this country," the "Hitler," Colley said.

Hitler was a Marxist-who knew.

This kind of stupid should be excruciatingly painful.

[peace frog]

6. You want stupid?

Come on down to sunny Florida, we have more than our share of idiocrats. Be a pal and take a few home with you.

[hobbit709]

10. We got enough idjits here in TX

[peace frog]

11. Well shucks then

Think I can find any takers? Nah, didn't think so. ;)

[Enthusiast]

12. Nope, we have our share

in Ohio.

[14thColony]

14. Tell me about it

I bet Adolf got his ass kicked right out of the German Marxist Club right after he rounded up every socialist and communist in the country then invaded the USSR for the express purpose of ridding the world of communism. I wonder if the other Marxists made fun of his bunt cake at the previous year's German Marxist Club bake sale.

[safeinOhio]

4. I've noticed that all of the right wing nut jobs are mind readers

They are all ways talking about what Obama and the left "really want to do". What their untold plan to do something is. If you take away this mind reading stuff, they really have nothing.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Teachers are socialist s ??? Who knew?

"While most Tea Partiers were careful about what they said to reporters, they didn't always keep their muttering to themselves. "He's a teacher," one said of Jenner (who is). "That explains his socialist tendencies."
Guess that explains why the Teabaggers are so dumb. They avoided teachers.

[Joanne98]

7. I hope he told them to STUFF IT!

[Thickasabrick]

8. I loved this article in that it pointed out how uninformed the teabaggers

are.

K&R

[vinylsolution]

9. Does anyone have video or transcripts....

.... of Grayson's town hall meeting?

I'm sure we'd all love to hear what he actually said to the teabaggers.

I doubt any of these bed-wetting weenies had the cojones to stand up to him!