Krugman gets to the heart of the Tea Bagger problem.

“(T)oday’s G.O.P. is, fully and finally, the party of Ronald Reagan — not Reagan the pragmatic politician, who could and did strike deals with Democrats, but Reagan the antigovernment fanatic, who warned that Medicare would destroy American freedom. It’s a party that sees modest efforts to improve Americans’ economic and health security not merely as unwise, but as monstrous. It’s a party in which paranoid fantasies about the other side — Obama is a socialist, Democrats have totalitarian ambitions — are mainstream. And, as a result, it’s a party that fundamentally doesn’t accept anyone else’s right to govern.

“In the short run, Republican extremism may be good for Democrats, to the extent that it prompts a voter backlash. But in the long run, it’s a very bad thing for America. We need to have two reasonable, rational parties in this country. And right now we don’t.”

Well, at least one Republican thug is sorry for being a cretin. I’m sure his mind is still convinced he’s right, but at least he realizes that throwing money and yelling in the face of a guy with Parkinson’s is uncivil.

I’d be sorry for all the bad press he’s getting but he did bring it upon himself. Hell, he even lied about being in the video.

Compassionate conservatism. Even when they’re sorry it takes a long damn time to get there.

I feel bad for any small town about to be overrun by thousands of lunatics. Too bad Searchlight, NV is the one in the crosshairs.

More on the upcoming Tea Bagger occupation – and possible vandalism – of Searchlight, NV.

And I thought these morons were FOR small town living.

Hugh Jackson on the tea bag invasion as well as the Health Care Reform fallout.

Could she get any crazier? is what we all ask about Palin.

The answer, as always, is yes.

Look at this little bitch.

He wants to tar and feather you if you don’t agree with turning over the country to corporations and letting churches take over the rest of government. He wants you to beat any women who wants to think for herself or, god forbid, do anything they feel is necessary with their bodies. He wants you to homeschool and then not teach your children anything of import, much less factual.

In short, he’s a right wing Republican.

Think you can take him? I know I can. These are the pricks who like to start fights and then let others do their dirty work. But unlike foreign wars, only the old, infirm, and uneducated will fight a war for Republicans to destroy our nation. No inner-city kids looking for a way out. No minorities at all in any numbers to make a difference. Well, in Florida maybe. But women? Forget it. Immigrants already have you guy’s number.

Who is gonna fight your revolution jerk? You? I highly doubt it. Outside of white supremacists and NASCAR morons, you’re SOL.

So bring it if you feel that strongly. I’d love to see my side mop the floor with you bastards.

Or, as one commenter noted:

More of these in the article and soon in the comments.

Much of what you need to know about the morons in the Tea Bagger Party can be found in the following paragraphs in this article:

More than 90 percent of Tea Party backers interviewed in a new Bloomberg National Poll say the U.S. is verging more toward socialism than capitalism, the federal government is trying to control too many aspects of private life and more decisions should be made at the state level.

At the same time, 70 percent of those who sympathize with the Tea Party, which organized protests this week against President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul, want a federal government that fosters job creation.

So, they only want the government to repress women, minorities, gays, “furners” and anyone who doesn’t like NASCAR or sleep with their cousin.

Oh, and to bomb brown people periodically.

And, oh yeah, and they all want a government-funded job.

But they don’t want to pay taxes to fund said job. Gotcha.

Thanks for Paul Krugman for calling out the fearmongers.

Instead, the emotional core of opposition to reform was blatant fear-mongering, unconstrained either by the facts or by any sense of decency.

It wasn’t just the death panel smear. It was racial hate-mongering, like a piece in Investor’s Business Daily declaring that health reform is “affirmative action on steroids, deciding everything from who becomes a doctor to who gets treatment on the basis of skin color.” It was wild claims about abortion funding. It was the insistence that there is something tyrannical about giving young working Americans the assurance that health care will be available when they need it, an assurance that older Americans have enjoyed ever since Lyndon Johnson — whom Mr. Gingrich considers a failed president — pushed Medicare through over the howls of conservatives.

And let’s be clear: the campaign of fear hasn’t been carried out by a radical fringe, unconnected to the Republican establishment. On the contrary, that establishment has been involved and approving all the way. Politicians like Sarah Palin — who was, let us remember, the G.O.P.’s vice-presidential candidate — eagerly spread the death panel lie, and supposedly reasonable, moderate politicians like Senator Chuck Grassley refused to say that it was untrue. On the eve of the big vote, Republican members of Congress warned that “freedom dies a little bit today” and accused Democrats of “totalitarian tactics,” which I believe means the process known as “voting.”

Footnote: Charles Grassley is now taking credit for the bill’s passage, trying to snow job people into forgetting how much against it he was, and probably still is.