DISGUSTING TEA PARTY RALLY

The Fresno Bee reports that an estimated 4,000 people attended a Tea Party rally in Fresno yesterday. Of course, you don't know how many of these people are the usual band of reactionaries, or how many went out to observe a freak show. It's a little like a traffic accident for some people. They just can't help looking at the carnage.

I loathe conservatives. They are racists, economic imperialists, nationalistic jingoists, and major league hypocrites. They gripe about "socialism," but have no problem with using Social Security, Medicare, and other government programs. They drive on tax-payer funded roads, use public water and sewage systems, buy food and medications regulated by the FDA, and on and on it goes. As the old saying goes, it's better to be silent and thought an idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

THE GOP'S INSIDER KNOWLEDGE

When GOP pundits like Limbaugh, Hannity, and Beck talk and when GOP politicians talk about such issues as job losses, character assassination, and creating large budget deficits they speak from personal experience. They have been so adept at all of those things. No one is better at destroying jobs and making life more miserable for most Americans than Republicans. No one can smear quite the way Republicans can. And Reagan and the two Bushes were champions at creating budget deficits. This is a commentary by Tiny Dupuy at www.trueslant.com:

When Republicans warn that a policy is a job-killer – Americans should listen. If any group of lawmakers and thinkers know about killing jobs it’s the Grand Old Party. In 2008, the final year of the Bush Administration, after two terms of careless deregulation implemented with bastardized pseudo-free market battle cries, the economy lost 2.6 million jobs. An annual job loss not equaled since 1945. When it comes to job extermination the GOP’s display case has a full assortment of trophies. So, of course Republicans are now the best authority on how not to kill jobs. Basically, don’t do what they did.