When I listened to the video below I must admit that I first laughed my ass off. I then got pensive because the fact is that if Moderates and Progressives decide to stay home we could be governed by these guys for at least two years.

If you ever wonder why Republicans always cut education first, just listen to our politicians from Red States. It is evident their cuts work.

It is scary that many believe that all Red Staters are science denying religious bigots. We are not. If our education funding continue its decline, we will.

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What Happens If The Tea Party Wins

IAN MILLHISER – Think Progress / Video Compilation Published: Friday 16 September 2011

A brief compilation of leading lawmakers declaring that virtually everything is unconstitutional.

Be­fore Pres­i­dent Obama en­tered the White House, there was a wide­spread con­sen­sus — even among lead­ing con­ser­v­a­tives — that the Con­sti­tu­tion leaves most de­ci­sions to We the Peo­ple and the lead­ers we elect. The elec­tion of a cen­ter-left pres­i­dent eager to move the na­tion in a pro­gres­sive di­rec­tion, how­ever, killed many con­ser­v­a­tives’ be­lief that democ­racy is a good thing. As an al­ter­na­tive, Tea Partiers em­braced ten­therism, the be­lief that every­thing from So­cial Se­cu­rity to Medicare to child labor laws to the Af­ford­able Care Act vi­o­lates the Con­sti­tu­tion. Watch a brief com­pi­la­tion of lead­ing law­mak­ers de­clar­ing that vir­tu­ally every­thing is un­con­sti­tu­tional above.

A new Cen­ter for Amer­i­can Progress white paper — writ­ten by an au­thor who should be very fa­mil­iar to the read­ers of this blog — out­lines ex­actly what would hap­pen if the right suc­ceeds in im­pos­ing its con­sti­tu­tional agenda upon the na­tion. The core of the paper is an ex­pla­na­tion of every­thing that will cease to exist if the Tea Party gets it’s way:

• So­cial Se­cu­rity and Medicare
• Med­ic­aid, SCHIP, and other health care pro­grams
• All fed­eral ed­u­ca­tion pro­grams
• All fed­eral an­tipoverty pro­grams
• Fed­eral dis­as­ter re­lief
• Fed­eral food safety in­spec­tions and other food safety pro­grams
• Child labor laws, the min­i­mum wage, over­time, and other labor pro­tec­tions
• Fed­eral civil rights laws

In­deed, as the paper ex­plains, the Tea Party’s em­brace of the un­con­sti­tu­tional doc­trine of nul­li­fi­ca­tion threat­ens the very union it­self. You can read the paper at this link.

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