The Constitutional Heretics Challenge The Teabag Priesthood

The Constitutional Heretics Challenge The Teabag Priesthood

by digby


I'm sure you will be stunned to hear this, but it seem the Tea Party doesn't actually know what's in the constitution. So the Constitution Accountability Center has very helpfully gone to the trouble of writing a series of papers to explain it to them:

Our Strange Brew series is being launched today with the release of a new CAC Issue Brief entitled “Setting the Record Straight: The Tea Party and the Constitutional Powers of the Federal Government.” This Issue Brief, written by CAC’s Chief Counsel Elizabeth Wydra and CAC’s Human and Civil Rights Director David Gans, takes on the Tea Partiers’ central claim: that our country’s Founders established a sharply limited, weak national government, incapable of addressing national problems like the health care crisis in America. ..

Here are some of the topics we will cover in the Strange Brew series:



I'm sure it will all be well refudiated by the Teabag priesthood. Only they are competent to read the sacred texts. But still, the heretics should be heard.


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