Heh. WP's Milbank skewers Dick Armey/teabagger version of "history"

[yellowcanine]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/15/AR2010031503730.html?hpid=opinionsbox1




Milbank nails Armey for claiming that the Jamestown Colony was "socialist."

Also, relates how a questioner debunks the Armey/teabagger version of history regarding Hamilton and the Federalist Papers. Apparently teabagger hero Hamilton (by virtue of having written the Federalist Papers) would not have made a very good teabagger, given that Hamilton advocated a strong central government, a national bank, presidents and senators who served for life and state governors appointed by the president. Dang, those funny facts keep getting in the way of teabagger "history"!

[chelsea0011]

1. Jamestown? Weren't they there to find gold? They were capitalists.

[yellowcanine]

4. Don't know about the gold but it was a private company, the London Company, which later

became the Virginia Company. Basically it was a bunch of colonists backed by venture capitalists.

Meant to add a link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown,_Virginia

[zipplewrath]

2. "Tea baggers" are anti-federalists

Truth is most right leaning folks, including a fair amount of libertarians are basically frustrated anti-federalists. I find much of Ron Paul's stuff to be basically anti-federalist in nature. They lost the argument 220 years ago, and they've been losing it ever since. But they keep arguing.

[yellowcanine]

3. Yep. The Federalist Party was basically formed in support of Hamilton's positions.

Not to mention that it was Hamilton who successfully argued that the Constitution allowed the assumption of a national debt - presumably one of the main grievances of the teabagger crowd. As Milbank says, history is not a teabagger strength.

[wizstars]

5. When goofy ideas get to $50 a barrel.....

(to paraphrase a Clinton press sec.)... I want the drilling rights to Dick Armey's head.

[yellerpup]

6. Nice catch!

Even if you told 'em, they wouldn't believe you. :kick: & R