Earth Calling Right Wing Bigots

On what planet do right wing haters of President Obama live? Let's examine the right wing's response to the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

First, conservatives claimed the president was lying and bin Laden was still alive. Next, they claimed the president was lying and that bin Laden had been killed months earlier but Obama covered it up until he could use it to distract from the birther issue. Their next ploy was to concede bin Laden was dead but claimed Obama was hiding the deaths of his wife and children by not releasing photos. Then, they claimed that burial at sea was to cover up the fact that bin Laden had been tortured before he died. Glenn Beck, a hero to the most extremist conservatives, claimed the burial at sea was a deliberate "show of respect" so that bin Laden could "get his 72 virgins in heaven." Bill O'Reilly, who has repeatedly lied about his "working class" roots, led the charge of "Obama is taking credit for the Navy Seals and really had nothing to do with it" nonsense. Finally, they went fully psycho and tried to credit George Bush for Obama's success. And let's not forget the Freudian Fox "News" headlines: "OBAMA bin Laden Dead"

Right wing extremists claim Obama is responsible for civil unrest in the country. However, the civil unrest in this country was instigated BEFORE Obama took office, before he even was nominated, and it was instigated by the racist right playing the full deck of race cards starting with the birthers and going on to the "secret Muslim" connection, the attacks on Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the nonsensical "palling around with terrorists" attacks, and so forth. It is conservatives who continually play the race card at the slightest opportunity, or often out of thin air, and the only thing the right's disgusting bigots ever say is "President Obama is playing the race card." I have a tip for them and one that might keep right wingers from getting beaten to a pulp in a bar fight one day ---> CALLING A RACIST A RACIST IS NOT RACISM!!! NO ONE has ever called someone a racist for opposing President Obama's POLICIES. It is in the opposition to President Obama's EXISTENCE that right wingers manifest their racism in virtually every statement they make that is based on the President's skin color.

Finally, another topic dear to the hearts of right wingers is the U.S. poverty level and the War on Poverty. They make grandiose claims about the failures of the programs but fail to mention funds for the programs were cut by Richard Nixon and subsequent conservative presidents. The fact is the two presidents who saw the greatest DECREASE in the national poverty level have been Lyndon Johnson and Bill Clinton. They showed a small rise under Reagan and are skyrocketed thanks to George W. Bush.

It's bad enough to be a right wing bigot but to be a completely uneducated right wing bigot is worse.

Adam And Teddy

I feel compelled to warn conservatives this isn't a story about two homosexuals but is an economic story. The moral is modern-day "conservatives" are , based upon the words of two men greatly revered by conservatives, actually modern-day economic extremists.

"The necessities of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess. A tax upon house-rents, therefore, would in general fall heaviest upon the rich, and in this sort of inequality there would not, perhaps, be anything unreasonable. It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion." (Emphasis added)

"I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in another tax which is far more easily collected and far more effective - a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, properly safeguarded against evasion, and increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate." (Emphasis added)

The first quote comes from Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book Five-Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth (1776). Smith argues not only that the rich should be taxed in proportion to their income but further argues they should be taxed at an even higher rate.

The second quote is from Theodore Roosevelt's The New Nationalism. Roosevelt supported, in direct opposition to modern-day Republican and tea party economic extremism, a progressive income tax. He also argued that inheritances should be taxed to ensure major wealth was not passed on to descendents who hadn't earned it by competing in the free market.

When do modern-day right wing economic extremists begin to claim Adam Smith and Theodore Roosevelt were socialists?

The bottom line is modern-day economic extremists, found among Republicans and their allies in the tea party, have a radical agenda for corporate feudalism in America.