Susan Cunningham sent me this rant about teabaggers in Union, MO–you know the ones who don’t want our president in the school via TV–who want to preach their craziness in the local school, but without paying the rental fee for the auditorium.

I’m doing a slow burn and need to vent.  I just heard that our local tea bagger group has requested that the Union School Board waive the fee for use of the new auditorium at the high school so they can have an “educational” event to teach people how government works !!  If they have to be given credit for one thing, it’s that they certainly have a lot of nerve.

These are the anti-tax folks who are carrying petitions to abolish property taxes.  They preach smaller government, fewer taxes and then have their rallies in public parks and their protests on public street corners.  Yikes !!

Look at the website for Franklin County Patriots (arghh……patriots my ass) and you’ll see that this is NOT some rinky dink local group.  Look at the product line they offer.  Where do they get the money to mail invitations to their rallies?  Look at the links they provide – Glenn Beck, of course, is right up there with other right wingnuts.  

And there’s SO much more to this than anti-tax fever.  The gal who arranged for us to watch the President’s pep talk to school kids at the coffee house in Pacific the other day told one of our Franklin Co Dems after the rest of us left that she thinks Obama is the anti-christ.  She doesn’t believe his birth certificate is real.  She’s convinced that some prophecy is coming to pass.  (I saw an ad on TV for some kind of prophecy program coming up.  Just what we need.  More nonsense.)

Yes, the money to defeat health care/insurance reform is coming from major vested interests.  But this is about more than social policy reforms.   These kooks are dangerous, and we’re just making jokes about them.  We think that, if we don’t take them seriously, they’ll just go away.  No they won’t.  They hate President Obama enough to destroy our country.

They have the power to block the president’s address to school kids in millions of school districts across the nation.  And they have the nerve to want to use the auditorium in a PUBLIC school, paid for by us “socialists” for their anti-government (read anti-Obama) message.  THEY ARE NOT PATRIOTS.  THEY ARE ANARCHISTS.

I’ll bet they are getting their funding and marching orders from the same corporate powers that used other social issues in the past to enflame anti-reform passions.  People who get their information from hate radio and faux news can easily be convinced of anything, no matter how absurd.  But we can’t just keep laughing at them.  This is not a laughing matter.

Someone with a bigger megaphone than mine will have to rouse those of us who want to protect our country and our president from these extremely dangerous people.  I’m very disappointed in what passes for “liberal” media such as MSNBC.  They give air time to the kooks which, as George Lakoff keeps telling us, just reinforces their message.  While we’re doing a “reality check” on today’s lies, tomorrow lies are already heading out the door.

We must go on the offense and “call them out.”  They want to dismantle the social safety net that keeps millions of us from sleeping under bridges.  Where would many of us be without Social Security and Medicare?  I remember the national outcry when Bush tried to privatize Social Security.  That’s the kind of organized effort we need right now.

Meanwhile, I’ll do what I can to keep the local tea baggers from using a public school to preach their anarchist dogma.

Susan says she and other Franklin County Dems will be at the school board meeting this Wednesday to protest against allowing “the tea baggers [to use] a public school to spread their filth.” Right on, Susan. Let the school board know that if they kept Obama out, the least they can do is keep The Crazy away.

It’s Joe Keaveny. Luckily for him, he was the only candidate able to vote for himself.

Wasn’t even written about 9/11. But it came out the next year, and since I listened to it all the time back then (and still do), it still has a lot of resonance for me. And that’s aside from the beautiful, melancholy sound and the lyrics like:

tall buildings shake

voices escape singing sad sad songs

tuned to chords strung down your cheeks

bitter melodies turning your orbit around

Crossposted from Hillbilly Report.

9-11 should not be a political statement for anyone. It should be a sad day of remembrence that many people died because of hatred and incompetence. However, since the very day it occured it has constantly been used as a hammer to pound the agenda of a miguided bunch people with an unenlightened vision of the world down everyone else’s throat.  

Before going any further I think it is important to note that here at Hillbilly Report we simply do not condone the use of the Hillbilly Heroin. It makes you into Rush Limbaugh.

Now, these very people and their “leader” cannot simply commemorate those who died and honor their families, but they must continue trying to use the tragedy to try and score shameless political points like their President that thankfully has since been retired to Texas did in response to the incident.

Just listen to Oxymoron Rush Limbaugh spouting out some more of his mindless drivel for the masses:

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What I would like to ask Rush Limbaugh is why would the President not ask that Americans honor the victims of 9-11 by giving service to their communities?? I mean, a whole lot of the people that died on that day and in the aftermath were their giving service to their communities by trying to help others. Men and women of our armed forces that have died in the corresponding wars were there giving service to their nation. Does Rush Limbaugh think that everyone is this nation sits on their fat, lazy butt eating Oxycontin like M&Ms spouting lies about and insulting everyone else?? Of course he cannot understand the concept of a “day of service” because he and the folks that think like him simply do not believe in serving anything but their own selfish interests and failed vision of a pre-enlightened world. The truth of 9-11 is that thankfully in this world there are people who unlike Limbaugh believe in risking themselves for the greater good of their neighbors and country.

And what is the other truth of 9-11 that Limbaugh and his ilk seek to avoid?? The true fact of the matter is that they used 9-11 over and again in the years following it to stifle discussion, silence critics, and steal away generations of Constitutional protections. They shamelessly misled the American people into going to war in the wrong country and wasted thousands more lives and at or over a trillion dollars in national treasure. With Limbaugh as the fattest, ugliest cheerleader to ever don a mini-skirt singing their praises, they made 9-11 a publicity stunt.

And what is yet another truth that Limbaugh refuses to acknowledge?? A Republican Adminstration that is supposed to be “tough on terror” was completely and totally incompetent and that incompetence contributed greatly to the events themselves. When their fearless leader was handed a memo warning of the attacks before the attacks he could not even come off of vacation to WORK and stop them. When they actually occured, he appeared as a deer in the headlights and gazed stupidly into space showing no strength or decisiveness whatsoever.

Then, cheered on all the while by Limbaugh that leader led us into the wrong country to punish the wrong person and settle a personal agenda instead of avenging American victims of the attacks. Now, years later a new leader is still mired in and trying to leave Iraq, while deciding whether to finish the job his predessesor should have long concluding bringing the mastermind of those attacks to justice.

In response to their own incompetence and absent vision, and once again encouraged by Limbaugh, they then preceded to stifle critics by calling them cowards, and traitors and stole generations of Constitutional protections from American citizens to try and cover-up and justify their own shameless and inexcusable incompetence.

Before Limbaugh or any Republican or Democrat for that matter who enabled George W. Bush should remember before critisizing anyone else about their response to 9-11 and how they choose to honor the dead of that event is that another hard truth of this passing of the 9-11 anniversery is that Barack Obama has now kept our country safe longer than George W. Bush.