Today in Hypocrisy

You can't make this stuff up.

Apparently, the folks who went to Washington to complain about all of the government spending are upset that the government didn't spend enough to make it easier for them to complain about government spending.

You have to read this from the Wall Street Journal. Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) has a bit of a beef with our nation's capital and its woeful lack of amenities for him and his crew of nutjobs and racists. There weren't enough trains! Oh no!

It gets better. The stimulus package had millions for improvements for the Metro. Guess who voted against it? Oh, here it is.

"We shouldn't be giving people free stuff! Hey, where's my stuff?"

I Refuse to Make Any Teabagging Jokes

Sorry. Over it.

Here's a photo from Salon's Mike Madden, currently tweeting (hate...that...word) from D.C.'s Lafayette Park, where a bunch of idiots are pretending that returning the marginal tax rate on the very wealthiest Americans to 10% lower than it was during most of Ronald Reagan's presidency is some kind of unprecedented tyrannical socialist crime against America, worthy of not just protest but revolt.

The vast majority of the people at these protests actually had their taxes lowered by Obama. So maybe they're really protesting the higher rate they have to pay today. See? It's all just a big misunderstanding. Wait 'til next year.

The whole concept behind these "protests" is ludicrous, of course. And it's a pretend "grassroots" protest (aka Astroturf), which was actually orchestrated by Fox News and Dick Armey, who never met a rich person he wouldn't defend. I'm sick of it already and I don't feel like getting too far into it.

But I did want to comment on the particular stupidity of this sign. So there's this quote from the unassailable Abraham Lincoln juxtaposed with a non-quote from Barack "Don't Forget the Hussein" Obama, president of someplace called "Ameristan" (xenophobic much?). See, he wants all yer munny fer his stinky gov'nt.

But wait, what was Lincoln's full quote again? Oh, yeah. "[A] government of the people, by the people and for the people". Whoops. They skipped the government part there. That changes things a bit. Or it should, anyway. See, America is governed by its people. That's the whole freaking point of what Lincoln said. I know that in practice this isn't always true. And the right has done a great job of turning "gov'nt" into the hated other, rather than something we (should) own, even while running it themselves. (A neat trick, that.)

But really, people. We still have a representative government. And right now, it's doing what the people elected it to do, for the most part. The whole premise of this sign is either wholly ignorant or wholly dishonest. Either way, it's false.

Screaming your head off that this is some form of fascism because Glenn Beck told you to just makes you look really really stupid. Get over it, people.