Fresh from ignominious defeat on health care reform, teabaggers now resort to violence and threats of violence to show how angry they are.
Attacking Democrat offices and homes of Democratic representatives or their relatives seems to be national pastime. It's like spring training for the November election.
Sarah Palin told her Facebook followers to "reload" and put cross-hairs on legislative districts of Democrats.
It wasn't enough to spit on at least one legislator as he walked toward the Capitol to pass health care reform. Or to call another one a faggot and another a nigger.
Physical violence says so much more. It achieves so much more. Or, at least it does to teabaggers.
Egged on by Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Fox News, teabagging anger is reaching new heights, or lows, depending on your point of view.
Yes, there is anger over health care reform. Of course, teabaggers don't have any idea what health care reform is, they just know they should be angry about it. Their "leaders" on radio and cable tell them so.
It's good for the cause, the cause of perpetual agitation.
When the fury over health care reform dies down a little, there will be other issues to get cranked about.
Palin's followers are ticked at her already because she's campaigning for John McCain who is in a nasty primary fight with a teabagger in Arizona. And McCain tried to show his street cred by announcing that Republicans will not cooperate with Democrats for the rest of the year.
Talk about taking your ball and going home. That's considered wimpy by teabagging standards. Where's the violence in that?
Republicans/teabaggers now want to repeal health care reform. That's the sum-total of their 2010 political campaigns. It may work, but it hardly suggests a worthwhile objective. Besides, the center plank of their platform is anger and it's a wobbly plank at that.
Good thing that Starbucks allows customers to wear guns while ordering hazelnut lattes. Now, teabaggers can forget about tea and just have a good-ol' shoot 'em up while hopped up on caffeine at their local chain coffee shop.
With that in mind, maybe it's time to remake "Blazing Saddles."
A little humor right now could go a long way.
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