Thursday, September 27, 2012
If you have been paying attention
By now you know that Republican/Teabaggers and,indeed, all Conservatives in the US live by their own set of facts that are generally impervious to reality. Those fact sets also apply to history. Jack Hitt, writing in the New Yorker has compiled a timeline of important dates in Republican/Teabagger history. Here are a few as an appetizer.
1500s: The American Revolutionary War begins: “The reason we fought the revolution in the sixteenth century was to get away from that kind of onerous crown.”—Rick PerryYou don't need to be a historian to weep at the Stupid.
1607: First welfare state collapses: “Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow.”—Dick Armey
1775: New Hampshire starts the American Revolution: “What I love about New Hampshire… You’re the state where the shot was heard around the world.”—Michele Bachmann
1776: The Founding Synod signs the Declaration of Independence: “…those fifty-six brave people, most of whom, by the way, were clergymen.”—Mike Huckabee
1787: Slavery is banned in the Constitution: “We also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States.”—Michele Bachmann
1801: “Thomas Jefferson creates the Marines for the Islamic pirates that were happening.”—Glenn Beck
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