T-shirts from I'm Voting Tea Party
There’s a whole series of ’em.
“Why I’m voting Tea Party?”
- “Obama won’t let me hunt the homeless for sport. That’s why I’m voting Tea Party”
- “Obama won’t teach my kids that the Earth is flat. “
- “Obama wants the government to take over Social Security.”
- “Obama doesn’t realize fire departments are socialism.”
And more.
The danger is, maybe Tea Party people are buying them, for real. It was here in Dallas I ran into the Tea Party group who complained, back to back, that the nation isn’t following the Constitution, and they hated that the government was taking the census. (Yeah, that’s right: The census is required by the Constitution.)
Why are you voting Tea Party?
Tip of the old scrub brush to Our Man in Beijing, Kenny.
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub 
Would you like us to list the ways they are hypocrites, Amelia?
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I don’t realize that Sarah Palin, Jan Brewer, Michele Bachmann et al. are huge honkin’ hypocrites, so that’s why I’m a WOMAN proudly voting TEA PARTY!
hrm… is that Latin? Lie-brul commies not speakin’ Eeenglish.
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They’re mocking “intelligent design,” we think. Go see, Nick.
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Ellie writes:
Controversy over what, Ellie?
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Ed, you really should check out some of the other offerings on that website. The “Teach the Controversy” ones are very interesting…and tempting.
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You know, back many years ago, when C-SPAN was new, I watched a Congressional debate over modernizing the collection of census data; predictably conservative Republicans wanted to continue using the tried-and-true methods employed since 1790. (I don’t know if they absolutely insisted census-takers ride horseback and use quill pens, but that seemed to be the spirit of the thing, anyway.) Much to my amazement one newly-elected Congressman rose to denounce the census itself in impassioned terms as an example of needless government intrusion into the lives of citizens, an instance of big government at its worst. I got the impression that he thought it was some Democratic program introduced by the likes of FDR or LBJ–a big-spending big-government liberal. He seemed quite pleased with himself when he finished his prepared remarks, though I don’t think I was the only person flabbergasted by them. A bit later on somebody yielded time to this guy, and this time he apologized, again much to my amazement. It seems that one of his colleagues had informed him that the census was required by the constitution and that its primary purpose was to determine how many representatives were allotted to each state. He had not been aware of this before, and he acknowledged that as a freshman congressman he had a lot to learn. I liked him a bit better for admitting his error, but hey, I learned about the purpose of the census in fifth grade, and at that from a teacher who would almost certainly be part of the tea party movement were she still alive today.
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