"Teabaggers on the federal dole...you just can't make this shit up."

[ProSense]

Teabaggers on the federal dole

by BarbinMD

First we had the teabagger living on government disability checks who was inciting people to protest health care reform by throwing bricks "through the windows of Democratic offices nationwide," and now this:

When Tom Grimes lost his job as a financial consultant 15 months ago, he called his congressman, a Democrat, for help getting government health care.

Then he found a new full-time occupation: Tea Party activist. <...>

Mr. Grimes, who receives Social Security, has filled the back seat of his Mercury Grand Marquis with the literature of the movement, including Glenn Beck’s “Arguing With Idiots” and Frederic Bastiat’s “The Law,” which denounces public benefits as “false philanthropy.”

As we say all too often these days, you just can't make this shit up.

Please mock.

And John McCain is making a fool of himself.

[opihimoimoi]

1. Their Tribal Traits of Delusion manifests itself thusly...an example of InSanity vs Truth Reality

Clarity

GOP Exploiter using Hypocrisy

[BrklynLiberal]

2. So damn typical..like the old lady teabagger on SS & Medicare with the sign "Keep the govt out of

my health care!"

[theoldman]

3. They do make this shit up.

It comes from a few twisted minds and is then spread to deluded brains.

[depakid]

4. The odd hing about 21st Century America is that these contradictions aren't simply tolerated-

and ignored by the mass media- but are tirelessly legitimized.

In sane nations, these sorts of people would be ridiculed so mercilessly that they wouldn't ever want to leave their houses.

[Still Sensible]

5. Of course this is consistent

as far as they are concerned. This clown's rationalization can be summed up as follows: "I'm a hardworking American, but this bill is nothing but handouts to freeloaders!"

That's what this has always been about--aggravated by a strong segment of intolerance that Obama is president. The racist element that joins the fray is just another faction that gravitates to the anti-government crowd. Hell, fiscal conservative republicans is an oxymoron after the deficit growth under Reagan and the Bushes. The real thing they are fiscally conservative about is making sure that common people don't get government money. If it's corporations, defense contractors, bankers, Wall St., that's okay.

That's what the fight has been about for decades. And every alliance the monied class has formed in the fight has been nothing more than to roll back anything that benefits the common person-and particularly the poor--in favor of making the rich richer. The decades long successful campaign that used real, but anecdotal evidence of welfare cheats or welfare queens to paint most welfare recipients as lazy freeloaders was incredibly successful. The unreal atmosphere that has been created (that even led to the campaign to "end-welfare-as-we-know-it" in the 90's) was a major thrust that Reaganism wrought.

And the republicans pulling the strings know it! They know that the psychology is many people will rationalize it in exactly this way. They'll pass off the benefits they or those they know receive as the help they deserved, or in fact have earned as hardworking folks... all the while voting for republicans and railing against anything that in their minds allows people they consider inferior and undeserving to get something for nothing.

The cognitive dissonance is incredible, the hypocrisy is unbelievable. But it is real.

[Carni]

6. "his Mercury Grand Marquis with the literature of the movement"

He must have been a really shitty financial consultant!

Mercury Grand Marquis? LOL!

[Saphire]

7. here's another example..

Searchlight, Nev. (March 27) -- Missy Montgomery leaned over to her blind, wheelchair-bound Vietnam veteran husband as former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin climbed the dais on Saturday and planted a huge kiss on his cheek. "What was that for?" asked a happily bewildered Don Montgomery over the din of cheering thousands. "That's for the fact that we're taking our country back, starting now," his wife grinned, loping her arms over his shoulders.

[SpartanDem]

8. This is nothing new

the selfish idiots of the right wing have always somehow been able to justify government helping themselves, but when it helps other people it's nothing more than a handout to the lazy.

[vaberella]

9. It's like watching the Onion in live action. n/t

[Jakes Progress]

10. Happens in your home town too.

I spent last night in a little pub with some friends. There we encountered a table of libertarians who were spouting the teabagger rant of the day. This along with a heavy dose of grousing about the government taking over. We know these guys. At least two of them are late 30s to early 40s who have been out of work for over a year. They never apply for jobs seriously. They make a big deal about how they are going to stay on unemployment relief for as long as they can. Another has a government job. One of the ones without a job has used the local emergency room twice this year for minor problems - and never paid anything he was supposed to even at the reduced rate charged. His words were that the government owed him.

I have a feeling that if all hypocrites were to vanish tomorrow, the teabagger movement and probably the republican party would disappear overnight.

[Historic NY]

11. He get disability because he can't work, but he run a web site...

hands out literature, and considers his new FT job as a teabagger activist. Isn't he working? Someone should point that out to SS.