Does the GOP Know What They’re Saying?

Does the GOP Know What They’re Saying?

Does the GOP Know What They’re Saying?

Maddow and Ana Marie Cox marvel at conservatives’ lack of self-awareness or acquaintance with an urban dictionary.

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The “Tea Bag” movement spawned by a rant on CNBC by Rick Santelli seeks to protest the Obama tax cuts by imitating the revolutionary fathers’ Boston Tea Party, which in fact protested taxation without representation (the opposite of a tax cut). While the logic behind the protest is confusing, the right-wing’s complete lack of awareness about the term “Tea Bagging” is even more so. Rachel Maddow and Ana Marie Cox have some fun at the expense of clueless conservatives and point out that at long last Senator David Vitter may have found a worthy cause to champion.

Gabriela Resto-Montero

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