Tea Party Logic

One of These Things Does Not Go With The Other

The folks who brought you the government shutdown -- Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and the former half-term Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin -- showed up Sunday, October 13, to protest the fact that the government (specifically, the World War II Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial) were shut down. Not a word, by the way, about the 9 million Moms and their babies who are part of the WIC program and who will have to get by with less food.

Once they were done grandstanding at the Lincoln Memorial, the group headed to the White House to demand the impeachment of the President over, presumably, the closure of the Lincoln Memorial. And to make sure that the world understood how much they cared about the Lincoln Memorial, how much they cared about everything that Lincoln stood for, they brought along this guy:

There is, of course, no better way to show your support for Abraham Lincoln than to wave the flag representing those states that seceded from the Union, in order to protect their "way of life" (translation: slavery) and waged war upon the nation led by Abraham Lincoln. This is, of course, just as logical as everything else the Tea Party (translation: fake grass-roots party created by the Koch brothers to agitate against higher taxes on billionaires) does, like protesting the fact that their taxes are the lowest they've been in decades.

Oh, wait; they actually think their taxes are higher. Could they possibly be protesting against the color of the skin of the man who occupies the oval office?