Now it's a contract from America?

The teabaggers and their corporate backers have now released an astroturf, pseudo-manifesto of their demands on a country of 304 million that was endorsed by a whopping 450,000 medievalists out there. This rehash of supposedly principled policy reforms with self-righteous "responsibility" type recommendations is incredibly vague at points, harmful to most of the people and planet should not to be taken seriously by any member of the reality-based community.

First, where was this outrage when Bush was hugely increasing the size, scope, and reach of the Federal government? Deficits did not bother the everpresent angry white people who have coalesced into the teabaggers. Doubling the national debt for the benefit of the corporate class, privatizing the military in our disasterous colonization of Iraq, and the devestation of schools across the country was shrugged off. Perhaps the results of a recent poll and analysis of tea party supporters sheds light on things. Supporters of the english only crowd (with the great mastery of the language) seem to include frustrated or cast-out members of the business class who thought if only the gravy train kept running long enough, some of those earmarks and no bid contracts might just trickle down to them. Now the biggest fear seems to be that the goodies will bypass the petty predators and go right to the poor (read: blacks).

It must take incredible discipline to not see how ridiculous it is to demand "free-market" fealty from Democrats while ignoring it from republicans. Everything they want has been tried, failed miserably and done incredible damage to real people's lives. See: The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too by J.K. Galbraith or America: What Went Wrong? by Barlett and Steele for some of the grisly details.

Here's my two cents, for what it is worth. Direct action is rarely effective, take the anti-war protests. If millions of people in this country couldn't stop a war of conquest by protesting, why the hell should we take 450k whining, selfish, failed yuppies seriously? Democrats who cave to this nonsense do deserve to be voted out, this country faces too many real problems to be distracted by a statistically insignificant, if loud, opposition group. Ignore this manifesto and the its supporters, ignore the obstructionist opposition party that simply wants to seize back power by any means neccessary and remember that the majority wants government of, for, and by the people.