Kaminsky seems a bit worried his teabaggers might not be the sharpest, most tolerant folks.

Go figure.

This reminds me of that Jackass skit about Mianus.

Netroots interviewers might also ask questions designed to show you are uneducated and ignorant.

Ya just can't make this stuff up.

Now Sean Hannity will demonstrate "tea bagging" on Glenn Beck. First Sean drops to his knees ...

My video-game addicted son told me that gamers use the term teabagging in a virtual version of its sexual meaning. So most of the millennium generation has been laughing at the wingnuts, too. ;D

In 1967, I joined others to celebrate my birthday at Cattleman's Steak House in Phoenix. Sitting at a table next to us was Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-AZ)who had some rather stark comments about the American electorate. He said, "The masses are asses. I wish it were not true, but down through U.S. history they have been easly led to believe lies, distortions, myths and propaganda. They have been too trusting of politicians and too apethetic about holding them accountable. It is hard for me to respect voters, and most within the Beltway do not."

A perfect example of Goldwater's disdain are those "Conservatives and Independents" joining so-called "grassroots" teaparty protests against taxes and government spending. If there were ever "asses" in the Goldwater sense, these people qualify.

The original event they celebrate was motivated by taxation without representation. These people have representation, mostly radical conservative Republicans who under Bush spent more money than all other president's in U.S. history added together and gave more than two-trillion dollars in tax cuts to the top one-percent of the wealthy in the country.

The protestors rant against bailing out Wall Stree and the banks, without realizing that the term "bailout" does not mean that taxpayers will not be paid back in the future with interest. A good case in point is Goldman S., which plans to pay back all funds they borrowed by July.

Nor do they understand the ramifications of failing to "bailout" failing companies. If Bush and Obama and has not acted, the unemployement rate at this time would be in excess of 20 percent according to members of the Federal Reserve, Treasury Department and the majority of leading economists. Hence, most of these misguided protestors could not have protested because they would be jobless and without funds for travel. They would be members of the 45-Million Unemployed Club.

Of, course, they have forgotten that Obama signed the biggest tax decrease in history, providing 95 percent of Americans tax relief in three areas - - payroll deductions, significant IRS 1040 off-the-top special item relief and tax table deductions.

These protestors have not been told by radical conservatives that the Obama budget just passed had more than three-trillion dollars in cuts - - the first installment of a process to cut the federal red ink by more than two-thirds in eight years.

Finally, these protestors have thrown Bush and Obama into the same black pot of blame to be boiled in the oil of propaganda. The same radical conservatives responsible for tax-and- spend policies that caused the red ink and economic downturn in the first place now take no responsibility. Nor do the "asses" who voted for them over and over again and believed their lies even care.

As Goldwater said, "The masses are asses." God help us if this tell-lies-until-they-become-truth practice and voter dim-wittedness continues.

I believe there next protest will be centered in Cleveland & has something to do with steam.

This is not about party affiliation or current tax rates it is about how wasteful the government is with pouring money into failing industries. That is not American it’s socialistic. We left England for religious freedom, not absence of Religion. We formed an independent country because the controlling government treated us unjustly by overtaxing and walking all over our liberties. Both republican and democrats have committed these sins. I believe that they really don’t care who is in office. As long a they can keep people occupied with trashing the other party then no one is able to devote their attention to the real problems this country is facing. Our political parties are much like the unions. They served a purpose but now are antiquated and bloated with special interests. If this country is going to survive we need to be serious about changing how the government operates.

Some people say that without the bailouts job losses will increase and the economy will collapse. Well I agree that it will hurt a lot but the pain will be much shorter than trying to spend our way out of this mess. I would rather a short term painful sickness as to a long term chronic disease that slowly kills me. Unfortunately too many people are not willing to listen to the cold hard truth. We have been spending money and watching TV for the past 30 years while the world around us has changed dramatically. The USA is a modern day Rip Van Winkle and it’s time to wake up.