The Call: A New Republican Landscape

I think this should be the theme song for the Tea Party (mostly baby boomers who probably heard this song in college – which is an oldie to me).
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Amazing guitar on this song.
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“Everywhere is freaks and Hares
Dykes and fairies, tell me where is sanity
Tax the rich, feed the poor
Till there are no rich no more

{Refrain}
I’d love to change the world, but I don’t know what to do
So I leave it up to you

Population keeps on breeding
Nation bleeding, still more feeding, economy
Life is funny, skies are sunny
Bees make honey, who needs money, Monopoly

{Refrain}

World pollution, there’s no solution
Institution, electrocution
Just black or white, rich or poor
Them and us, start the war”

Wow.

Now I know how it must feel to be an only child.

Not one other comment, huh?

Patrick: You are not alone.
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The Tea Party is solely owned by the ultra-conservative branch of the Republican Party. They are backed by the fanatic theocratic and corporate interests in the party backed by astroturf funding and the Fox/hate radio megaphone. Pretty powerful. The only Reps not brought into the fold so much are the neo-cons. But they will soon join the fray.
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Most of the powers behind the tea party are not new people involved in the political system. Even O’Donnell has been around a long time. It is the nightmare dream of the Birch Society come to fruition.
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Here is the picture of the Rep Party as it stands now:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100918/ap_on_re_us/us_gays_in_montana
Make homosexuality illegal. The mullahs have spoke
and choose to keep it on the Montana party platform.
That adds nicely to the current Rep Senate candidates that want women made pregnant by incest or rape to be forced to have the babies. It fits nicely with the daily intolerance we hear from them.

Now, how does one effectively ban a sex act?
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You can ban gambling and effectively stop large gambling operations consistently and smaller games with some success since it involves the gathering of a fairly large number of peopl.
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You can ban substances simply by searching for the banned substance with some success.
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Sex acts involve people and nothing more.
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How did they attempt to ban it in the past? Did they go from bar to bar and if they found more two or more men with effeminate mannerisms and shut it down? Did they put cameras in hotel rooms to make sure that is just heterosexual sex happening?
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Did they have undercover cops pretending to be gay and arrest gay men as soon as they took their pants off? If so, how hard would be it to get cops to be assigned to the gay busting division?
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As it is, I am surprised that it wasn’t until 2003 when SCOTUS banned laws forbidding homosexuality.
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Some states not long ago had bans on oral sex. So, how could that ever be enforced? Would you have a camera in every bedroom to make sure that a man and woman are doing that favor for one another?
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Montana is a little bit backwards I would say.

Patrick, enforcing it is sort of like DADT. It depends on someone ratting out another. Oscar Wilde spent time in prison because of that system in England at the time.
And, since the right loves to be the arbiter of morality, I can just see neighborhoods of morality informants.

” Oscar Wilde spent time in prison because of that system in England at the time.”
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That’s ironic considering that prisons are so famous gay sex. (In all seriousness, of course, I know that being locked up would be terrible for anybody.)

Anyone know if Christine O’Donnell is okay with chimps (real ones, not Republicans) masturbating?

I mean – what else are they going to do all day?? Drink blood on Satan’s altar?

hey pat and apr,

As a child of Montana, I just figured I’d let you know that we actually have paved roads and don’t ride horses to school.

That’s been (as is states in the article) a provision of the state GOP since 1997 when it was struck down in a SC ruling.

It’s not the law. It’s the largely forgotten and completely ignored provision in the minority party’s handbook… yes, Montana is a swing state with a Democratic governer, Democratic senators, and a Repub Rep.

But if you want backwards and crazy, plenty of our neighbors would more than fit the bill…

North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho… and not too far away is Utah….

To be fair. considering I have not been to Montana, I should say that many in the Republican Party of Montana sound a little backwards.
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I guess it is totally unfair to characterize large populations by a small number of people as conservatives do NYC.

chohkmah: You are right. I was making a comment about the Montana Rep. party that won’t remove the offensive plank from their platform.
I love your governor and know that Montana is no longer a confidently red state.
Hey, eastern Washington state, where I lived for awhile, would be another candidate for crazy right wing.
However, western Washington state is just the opposite.