HuffPo Blogs Worth Reading

Thursday, April 16th, 2009 by admin.

Quite a few brilliant analytical articles appeared on Huffington Post in the aftermath of yesterday’s teabagging by the reality-challenged right-wingnut brigade. Here are a few:

Sharing Tea Bags with Right Wing Extremists by Bob Cesca

One of the very bizarre accusations overheard at the tea bag protests Wednesday was that President Obama is somehow a “fascist.” At the same time, and often in the same protest, he was also accused of being a “communist.” Of course it’s ideologically impossible to be both, in the same way it’s impossible to be both informed and a FOX & Friends host, but then again I’m expecting too much logic and message coherence from people who spent all of Wednesday protesting against socialism and wealth redistribution while gathered in publicly funded — dare I say “socialized” — parks and town squares. Click to continue…

The Five Strands of Conservatism: Why the GOP is Unravelling by Drew Westen

In one sense, it isn’t hard to see why the Republican Party seems to be coming apart at the seams. When you get caught gutting the regulations that had kept us for 70 years from another stock market crash like the crash of 1929 and another collapse of the banking system like the one that occurred during the Great Depression, and when your policies throw millions of people out of their homes, jobs, retirement, and doctors’ offices, the next bottle of elixir you sell is not likely to fly off the shelf, especially if it’s the same whine in a new deCantor. Click to continue…

Reporting from the Tea Bagger Hate-Fest in Sacramento by Joseph A. Palermo

The hatred was palpable today on the State Capitol’s steps. Hatred for taxes, hatred for government, hatred for state workers, hatred for teachers, hatred for Democrats, and hatred for all of the straw men that leap from the imaginations of talk radio jocks. But the most hated figure of all at today’s “Tea Bag” anti-tax rally in Sacramento was President Barack Obama. Click to continue…

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