... Rick Santelli, News hack extraordinaire over at CNBC, who seems a little fuzzy on US history, called for a ChicagoTea Party, targeting the $75 billion set aside to sort out the mortgage crisis ... Ms. Cox pointed out at the time, he hadn't suffered a similar attack of The Vapors when the Trillions were being ladled into the top end of the big Trickle Down Funnel ...
So immediate hilarity ensued . Libertarians were out rubbing shoulders with Book Burners and frightened creationists. Michelle Malkin got into a terrible row with conspiracy nut Alex Jones, anti-taxers held signs opposing Taxation With Representation, and the only points that most could agree on was that they were unsure about Obama's birth certificate, but positive that he was sending the storm troopers to disarm them and shuffle them off to FEMA camps. The fact that almost every one of 'em got a chunk of Obama's largest tax cut in US history, and that it was the last guys that got us into this mess, does not impress. So I guess my take away from all that was that I just wish Michelle would smile once in while ...
In about the same time frame, we've been dealing with the Temporary Autonomous Zone of Somalia. In this libertarian paradise, there are no taxes, no speed limits, no uniform building code, and there is no Gummint pushing you around and telling you what to do. Of course there are also no police, roads, hospitals, and so forth and a reasonable career move <is> to head out and make your fortune on the High Seas. The down side of this Paradise of Free Will and Self Determination is that your best career option may lead to having a hole drilled in your forehead from a distance by people who are fans of a slightly more regimented regime ...
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