You Might be a TEApublican

While President Obama was preventing Bush's Great Recession from becoming the country's second Great Depression, the Republican party under the leadership of Mitch McConnell and John Boehner became the party of obstructionism with the stated goal of keeping the country from succeeding as long as Barack Obama is President -- a position contrary to their oath of office.

In contrast to the stagnation and obstructionism of the Republican establishment, the Tea Party came along with an agenda of its own, albeit, a regressive one. Although the Tea Party initially claimed not to be associated with existing parties, it soon became clear that it was taking over the Republican Party, perhaps because of a leadership vacuum.

The result is the TEApublicans, defined by a friend as: " Formerly reasonable Republicans who have drunk the "Kool Aid," or should I say,  the poison tea of the Tea Party."

You might be a TEApublican if:

1. you believe a zygote is a person.
2. you believe a corporation is a person.
3. you believe government should not regulate what happens in corporation board rooms, but should regulate what happens in people's bedrooms.
4. you purchased a copy of Going Rogue even though you didn't read it. Not to worry, Sarah Palin didn't read the whole thing either.
5. you believe a woman should undergo a vaginal ultrasound probe before she can have a legal abortion.
6. you believe democracy can survive without a system of free public education.
7. you were invited to go hunting with Dick Cheney, even though you were smart enough to turn down the invitation.
8. you favor adopting GOP-sponsored election procedures to keep citizens from voting.
9. you think that Catholic bishops are experts on healthy human sexuality.
10. you know the code words that appeal to racial fear and prejudice.

Also, you might be a TEApublican if:

11. you listen to Rush Limbaugh, watch Fox News and think you are an informed citizen.
12. when you go on vacation, you haul your dog on top of the car.
13. you explain that you like Michigan because it has the right-sized trees.
14. you would like to build a Berlin-like wall separating us from Mexico.
15. you think it is religious freedom for one church to dictate what kind of health care its women employees receive.
16. you agree with Santorum that the "right to privacy doesn't exist...in the U.S. Constitution."
17. you think sex is all about procreation.
18. you think congress should not remove the cap on Social Security payments, thus preventing any SS shortfalls.
19. you call it is a "subsidy" when wealthy agricultural and energy corporations receive billions of government money, but you call it "crippling welfare" when a working mother receives a few food stamps to feed her children.
20. you want your congress person to abdicate her/his responsibility and sign Grover Norquist's pledge to not raise taxes, come hell ot high water

If you find you are a TEApublican, you have my sympathy; but don't give up hope, there is a twelve-step program for that.