We'll Protect You

I saw a blurb somewhere today to this effect: A tea party wacko promised any Democrat who'd vote no on health care reform that "We will protect you" in the next election.

That messes up my thought processes in certain ways. Because it's my general opinion that Democrats ought to be supporting Democratic legislation. And that Democrats ought not be overly worried about the votes of those citizens who won't vote for them anyway.

So what are we left here? A wacko promise of protection for people they wouldn't vote for anyway, if they will vote against what their natural constituency wants and against their party's president, platform, and principles. Right there you can see how wacky these Tea Party wackos are!

Here's the way it was when we suffered the Bush years: We didn't want him as president and we didn't want a Republican Congress. But we suffered with it, with the idea that they were going to get what they wanted (more or less) because they weren't that concerned with what we -- who wouldn't vote for them under any circumstances -- wanted.

It's mind blowing that the Tea Party wackos -- and other Republican extremists -- think this, that they lost the election in 2008, therefore they should be entitled to whatever legislation they want. Their thought, they win they win, they lose they win.

We'll have to remember that!