Lady Liberty's Lamp writes:
This has been quite a weekend to top the ride we have all had since the nomination and election of our first black president.It’s bad enough our country has been left a mess by past administrations, but now seeing an infantile uprising of those who supported Bush, the war, deregulation of our banks (and so on…) shows that the opposition is not quite done trying to drag our country back to Jim Crow times and into the ground.
First let’s start with the tea baggers. A spoiled, whiny, childish group of over-indulged middle class white people who are angry that their party lost the election– and to a person of color no less!
This has made them ready followers for corporate insurance interests during this much needed overhaul of our health care system. Last night there was a vote and they lost, 220-211. During their “Code Red” rally over the weekend they started to lose it and got desperate with reports of racist and homophobic outbursts at black and gay elected officials on Saturday. But, what would Sunday bring? IMMIGRATION RIGHTS! ...>more
