To be fair, I’m sure many of them were there just to learn about this strange alien ideology the teabaggers are always railing against, not because they are sympathetic to the ideas of positive rights, political correctness, a heavily progressive income tax, public sector unionization, government redistribution of wealth, an egalitarian-based civil society, or the Balkanization of the population into manageable (and often competing) identity groups — leaving the technocratic

Kudos to me — and to Mr Ross for recognizing my enormous and often unappreciated talents.  He is to be commended. But not as much as I.  Because my awesomeness preceded his recognition of same. Still, nice gesture.

Just so we’re clear here, LaTourette is admitting it was TEA Party conservatives who prevented the Republican Party from surrendering to a Marxist class warfare paradigm in exchange for funding the government for what, two days? Cool. You’re welcome, bitch. **** update: Writes Ed Morrissey: That’s not to say that LaTourette doesn’t have a genuine beef, either.  Steve Doocy defends the Tea Party opposition to Plan B as a response

This is one sure way to know you’re living in a post-constitutional police state:  when some bloated legacy pol believes it within his power — or the government’s power generally — to seize private property protected under the Bill of Rights simply because he doesn’t care for its aesthetics.  In fact, even by floating the idea of confiscation of firearms, what the left is admitting here is that to them