The Big Rift
by digby
The leader of the Republican Party and the leader of the Tea Party disagree about Louise Slaughter's comments at the health care summit yesterday.
Limbaugh:
"If you don't have any teeth, so what? What's applesauce for?"
Beck:
"I've read the Constitution ... I didn't see that you had a right to teeth"
There you see the big split between the two factions. Limbaugh is making the GOP conservative argument that one should be self-sufficient and eat soft food if they can't afford to get your teeth fixed. Beck is making the teabag constitutional argument that if something wasn't specifically written into the constitution then no government official is allowed to even discuss it.
Will they ever be able to find common ground?
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