Are we headed for a huge explosion or a piffling deflation of all this pent up rage?

[Kablooie]

The tea bag vileness is pushing it's big, red, shiny head out of it's sheath in order to ... what?

If the insurance bill passes will they explode?
Will we see this psychosis detonate into serious, suicide bomber-like, security issues?

Or will they just timidly sink back into their dangling, wrinkled sacks and go dormant until another attempt help human beings is proposed?

[The Magistrate]

1. Piffling Deflation, Sir, In My View

There is no stomach to these people, really....

[Kablooie]

2. I believe you are right. They are text book cowards.

[Monk06]

5. I second your piffling deflation sir. The Rs were counting on a victory to carry forward to Nov.

Now they will have to come up with some other
imaginary issue to take to the tea bagger
lumpen proletariat

[nutsnberries]

3. i've been wondering the same thing but

not in those same words. :blush:

I've been seeing extreme rage these past few days in a couple of people I know and I'm wondering what the next couple of weeks hold.

.

PSA: If you experience a teabagger that lasts more than 4 years, consult your doctor.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. Stupid people do stupid things...

I fear for my country, for democrats, left leaning independents...really for us all.

[Political Heretic]

6. No explosion from them, but I would expect some cowardly acts of violence.

Not unlike the 90s brought is OK City or the pile of militia groups in stand offs with the feds, I wouldn't be surprised by something similar.

[Raine]

12. or people flying planes into the IRS offices

like that guy did a couple of weeks or so ago.

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. They didn't get this worked up over Bush's gazillion dollar war. Who cares what they think?

[dkf]

8. Teabaggers are only part of it.

The economy is bad enough to affect and anger enough people on all sides of the equation. If you are happy with your life and your future you are very fortunate. I'm fine now but I see a future of no retirement and no health care especially with so called health care reform institutionalizing dependence on insurance companies to get access to health care.

Obama has set us on a very bad path. I see short term positives for the truly needy but doom in the long term.

[cherokeeprogressive]

9. Your post leads me to believe that you're of the notion that anyone opposed to this legislation is a

"teabagger". I can assure you that's not the case. Your post makes it seem like ONLY "teabaggers" oppose the passage of this bill.

Here's my take on it, given the events of the recent past. . .

The bill passes.
Once the pressure of that vote is off, there will be an avalanche of truth and disclosure.
True costs will be revealed. (I don't think the CBO has given an "official" tally at this point, but I can be wrong).
Who got what in exchange for their vote will also be revealed (things like the Dennis Kucinich Federal Building) and their cost will be added to the count of the paragraph above.

Under normal circumstances, the voting public would do its normal thing, and forget about these revelations in short order. The M$M however, will not let them die, and for that reason, what happens in November is anyone's guess.

[Kablooie]

20. Not at all. There is much reasonable anger over the bill. I understand.

But then there's the totally emotional anger that doesn't come from any specific aspect of the bill.

It's become hysteria over Obama and the Democrats doing anything at all. They claim that there should be no regulation of health care insurance at all.

That is what the teabags are about. Preventing the government from doing anything.

[Blix Krieg]

10. Oh Good Christ

To Hell with that pack of Riff Raff,

Let them go ahead and start some shit.

And then watch the Boot on their miserable worthless throats.
The Goddamn US Press need their asses kicked for promoting
this entire farce. Its media driven. Anything for ratings.

If one of them approach me, I will release my
Dobermans on them. You won't want whats left.

[MrModerate]

11. People are cranky over lots of issues, many of them associated with . . .

A collapse of the world economy that hit the people who caused it very lightly and everybody else like a ton of bricks. But teabagger rage is substantially overrated and overestimated. Even though the media tried to make the rabble in DC yesterday look like a mob, there weren't really that many -- and this was H-Hour for these nuts.

Teabaggers overwhelmingly come from the overwhelmed class -- those for whom the rapidly intensifying complexity of life in the 21st century is more than they can handle. They're ready grist for the Republican hypocrisy machine because they're mad as hell and they don't have a clue. When this phony crisis passes, they'll wander off, waking with rage hangovers, and then go back to their lives of quiet desperation.

The 'Licans'll try to whip them up with some other phony frenzy in a few months -- hoping they'll be Loud n' Obnoxious (TM) again by November -- but it seems unlikely they'll be able to dredge up even as much energy as this time.

Meantime, serious people will still be worrying about a jobless recovery and compromised banking reform.

[pampango]

16. You're right. The teabaggers overestimated, but letting the MSM hand them a "victory" by defeating

this bill won't help us put them out of their misery.

Exposing them as not only overestimate, but ineffective whiners will go a long way to further marginalizing them.

[DFLforever]

13. They'll get all worked up once more over immigration

But the Republicans won't encourage it like they did with HCR. It's an issue that hurts as much as helps the GOP.

[pampango]

17. They've already made immigration a part of their HCR hysteria. ("You lie!")

I wouldn't be surprised if the teabaggers get even more riled up about immigration reform. To the extent that racism plays a roll in their opposition to Obama, it will come into play more with IR than it has with health care.
I think the republicans will let Rush, Glenn and Lou fire up the "base" while they try not to alienate Hispanics any more than they already have. In the final analysis though, repubs will try to kill IR just like they did in 2007, perhaps even vote unanimously against it given how they treat any reform coming from Obama now.

[CBR]

21. The immigration hysteria will be 10x worse. nt

[PinkFloyd]

14. I think they'll do something

I could easily see some wacko who believes every word of people like Glenn Beck and goes to all the teabag events, just go off the deep end and shoot some people or blow up a building. Everytime I see the teabag crowd they look even more crazed than the last time I saw them.

[tkmorris]

15. Your imagery is... droll

I will say this however. Usually this sort of thing is just a lot of noise. They SOUND nutty but it's all a charade; they know it's just theater. This time though is a bit different, I really think more than a few of them are going have their little heads pop. We've already seen a few isolated incidents. I expect they will increase in number.

[Turbineguy]

18. If I believed

what Fox News puts out I'd be angry, but mostly scared shitless. They know that wallstreeters stole half their wealth. They think Obama will give the rest away to the poor. At least the rich can give you a job mowing their lawn or cleaning their toilets. What can the poor do for you?

[Vinca]

19. Considering they're all gun crazy, the opportunity is there for

big problems in the coming weeks. If right wing radio and Faux eggs them on, nothing would surprise me.