Tales From The Other Side: We Are So Screwed, Tea Party Debate Edition

We Are So Screwed, Tea Party Debate Edition:

from Lawyers, Guns & Money by Scott Lemieux

Applause lines:

• The uninsured should be left to die.


• Said uninsured parents should have daughters who die unnecessarily of cervical cancer.


• A Fed Chairman who tries to fulfill his mandate by reducing unemployment is guilty of treason.

Boo lines:

• Muslims are not collectively responsible for 9/11.


• The children of illegal immigrants should not be denied the chance to go to college.


• We should not pass an extraordinarily regressive tax cut.

In summary, the candidates were involved in escalating wingnuttery contest it would be hard to imagine even ten years ago, and were considerably to the left of the audience even so.