Will the teabaggers "put it on the line" in the next election?

[jmowreader]

The teabaggers are, currently, pissed at the non-teabag Republicans for their role in raising the debt ceiling. According to teabag ideology, they were supposed to kill the ceiling increase to force the government to "live within its means, like a family does." (The fact most families make house payments is lost on them.)

My thinking on this is, they MIGHT be pissed enough to band into a loose conglomeration, put the intra-tea-party squabbles aside, and run a slate of candidates against the mainstream Republicans in 2012. My bet is it'll be a Goodhair Perry-Michele Bachmann presidential ticket. (It won't be Bachmann-Perry because Bachmann is female and the Dubya Bush Edition Bible they all read (it contains Leviticus 18.22, all the smiting, and nothing else) says women are supposed to be subservient to men.)

We'd be looking at a platform with five planks:

cut taxes, spending and regulations
anti-gay and anti-Muslim laws (they wouldn't just go back to Don't Ask Don't Tell, they'd go back to the era of open witch hunts)
repeal the healthcare reform law
eliminate every program they can't privatize
and repeal the lightbulb law.

So whatcha think--will they do it?

[Jim Warren]

1. My take.........

The so-called tbaggers are over-estimated, a paper tiger, a chimera, blowing in the wind of change and when dire changes come they'll disavow ever being interested in tea and hard to find.

[KansDem]

2. Where was this "concern" about "living within one's means" when Bush had the ceiling raised...

...What? Seven times?

Oh, that's right: Bush was a "good ol' boy...a real 'Murikan who liked to give out nicknames and we all wanted to have a beer with him.

And if you listened to NPR's Cokie Roberts during the campaign of 2000, you also learned he was "charming." :puke:

Their hypocrisy knows no boundaries...

[jmowreader]

3. You're pretty shortsighted...

Where was their concern about living within your means when Ronald Reagan was tripling the national debt?