“Come on, shake your body baby,
do the conga
I know you can’t control yourself any longer
Feel the rhythm of the music getting stronger
Don’t you fight it till you’ve tried it
Do the conga beat…”
So, while the teabaggers were snortin’ and complain’, yesterday; cashing their Social Security checks to travel to Washington and complain about socialism, the President of the United States was seeing beyond the stars and shakin’ his booty with the cool kids in Miami at Gloria and Emilio’s place.
The juxtaposition pretty much says it all.
“I’ve been a little amused over the last couple of days where people have been having these rallies about taxes,” the president said, noting the numerous tax cuts pushed by his administration. “You would think they’d be saying thank you.”
Yea, well…don’t look for it to happen ‘cause gratitude is not a big effen deal among the bagger crowd.
In fact, anger is the predominate emotion among teabaggers according to a poll conducted by the New York Times and CBS. (Yep, those socialist-communist-Kenyanian-Rastafarian-Zorastrian-Baptist news organizations.)
So, while the President was expressing his vision for future space exploration while at the same time signing a long-overdue executive order granting gay couples family rights in hospitals, the teabaggers were just angry.
According the Times/CBS poll, 18 percent of Americans identify with the anger of the baggers, even if only 4 percent have ever actually attended a rally or given money to the bagger anger exposition.
Most of them are old, white, married; richer and better educated than the general public and really, REALLY hate “big government” but love their Social Security and Medicare. (That “educated” part kinda gets lost in the tautology of anger.)
Most said the taxes they paid this year are fair. Most sent their kids to public schools and most say they don’t think Sarah Palin is qualified to be president. (Okay, so education helps a little.)
Most of ‘em still love George Bush and don’t see any connection at all between his administration and the economic downfall. Most of ‘em just don’t like Obama. Hmmm…wonder why?
“I just feel he’s getting away from what America is,” said a retired medical transcriber to the New York Times. “He’s a socialist. And to tell you the truth, I think he’s a Muslim and trying to head us in that direction, I don’t care what he says. He’s been in office over a year and can’t find a church to go to. That doesn’t say much for him.”
To quote the immortal philosopher Steven Wright, “Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car.”
Come on, shake your body, baby…do the conga.
