Frank Rich comments on Independence Day and the unfinished business of our nation in regards to race.

I’ll take it a step further. We have a minority of angry racists who have taken over one of our major political parties. Why? Because a black man is president.

Don’t give me any nonsense about deficits or stimulus, etc. Reagan and Bush the Lesser singlehandedly covered more than half our national debt. The same angry teabagging bastards who lament the stimulus voted for both those nitwits.

No, it’s the color of the man’s skin that bothers them.

Listen to the talk. They “want their country back”. Which country? The White One.

Anyone opposed to them isn’t American. Is a socialist. Or a Nazi. Or a communist. Or not Christian enough.

Barack Obama is the most Christian president we’ve had since Jimmy Carter. Come to think of it, Republicans hate him too.

That say a LOT more about the conservatives than about the two presidents.

As for their other views, these are the same folks that want to deport 12 million people because businesses – their base – can’t stop hiring illegals. They want to build a wall a la 1950s East Germany as a solution to bad business practices.

In Aryzona, we are 24 days away from racial profiling by those wearing a badge.

That’s the Republican Party for you. Even worse than I ever truly imagined.

A local commentary to be sure but can be applicable to any generic Tea Bagging Traitor running for office wherever you are.

The full Angle interview is here.

Here’s some other food for thought:

The next time you are talking to a racist Tea Bagger foaming about illegals taking jobs away from stockbrokers or something and how basically brown people are “taking their country from them” or something, remind said traitor that their boy Ronnie gave three million illegal Mexican migrants amnesty back when he was trying to bankrupt our nation.

Just saying.

Paul Krugman points out the sick thought pattern that conservatives consider rational: that the unemployed want to sit at home collecting 60% of their former pay.

Bob Cesca tackles the issue as well, including this quote by Atrios:

Our elites are populated with significant numbers of people who truly believe that the biggest problem this country faces is that poor people have it a bit too good.

It’s all very depressing.

Republicans, until proven otherwise, are vile, evil elitist bastards who care nothing about their fellow Americans in need.