As self-professed Christian fundamentalists, sometimes it is a little hard to square Tea Party activists like Congressman Joe Walsh, who walked away from $100,000 in child support, while threatening to tank our economy over the debt ceiling because he didn't want to pass this nation's debt onto his children. Why didn't he pay his child support? Did his kids have a "spending problem?" Like our country?
It is also a bit of a stretch to self-identify, as a fundamentalist Christian, when the average Tea Party activist can't even name four of the books in the New Testament, much less read any of them.
To understand the Tea Party, you need a "Tea Party 10 Commandments."
1) Thou shalt have no other gods before me, except the "hallowed job-creators," which use their 1950's tax rate to create jobs in India and China.
2) Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in Heaven above, or that is in the Earth beneath, or that is in the water under the Earth. Yikes! Where do I go to get my full back tattoo of Sarah Palin removed?
3) Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh hiss name in vain. Us Tea Party minions go out there and Lord it up to get elected. Once elected, most of our energy is spent protecting the interests of the wealthy. You didn't hear about Jesus doing that in the New Testament, now did you?
4) Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy. Catch up on your Rush Limbaugh programming to get your marching orders for next week.
5) Honor thy Father and thy Mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. We can do this by eliminating the inheritance tax, but Medicare must be replaced with a voucher system with radical cuts to Social Security coupled with privatized accounts. Those old buzzards sure are pricey to maintain!
6) Thou shalt not kill. Outright. We believe in slow starvation through malnutrition. We believe in shortening life through the unavailability of medical treatment for multiple, simple diseases of poor people.
7) Thou shalt not commit adultery. Unless she has big hair that looks like cotton candy.
8) Thou shalt not steal, unless it is from children, the elderly, the poor, the middle class, small businesses, and the future.
9) Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Unless it is calling our president a "nazi," a "muslim," a "communist," a "terrorist," "anti-american," "anti-military," and "author of a death panel in the health care bill."
10) Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thy neighbor'a wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is his neighbor's. Great! We can covet collective bargaining. We can covet minimum wage. We can covet decent insurance. We'll take all these things and more away from people because the profits say so.
It is also a bit of a stretch to self-identify, as a fundamentalist Christian, when the average Tea Party activist can't even name four of the books in the New Testament, much less read any of them.
To understand the Tea Party, you need a "Tea Party 10 Commandments."
1) Thou shalt have no other gods before me, except the "hallowed job-creators," which use their 1950's tax rate to create jobs in India and China.
2) Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in Heaven above, or that is in the Earth beneath, or that is in the water under the Earth. Yikes! Where do I go to get my full back tattoo of Sarah Palin removed?
3) Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh hiss name in vain. Us Tea Party minions go out there and Lord it up to get elected. Once elected, most of our energy is spent protecting the interests of the wealthy. You didn't hear about Jesus doing that in the New Testament, now did you?
4) Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy. Catch up on your Rush Limbaugh programming to get your marching orders for next week.
5) Honor thy Father and thy Mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. We can do this by eliminating the inheritance tax, but Medicare must be replaced with a voucher system with radical cuts to Social Security coupled with privatized accounts. Those old buzzards sure are pricey to maintain!
6) Thou shalt not kill. Outright. We believe in slow starvation through malnutrition. We believe in shortening life through the unavailability of medical treatment for multiple, simple diseases of poor people.
7) Thou shalt not commit adultery. Unless she has big hair that looks like cotton candy.
8) Thou shalt not steal, unless it is from children, the elderly, the poor, the middle class, small businesses, and the future.
9) Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Unless it is calling our president a "nazi," a "muslim," a "communist," a "terrorist," "anti-american," "anti-military," and "author of a death panel in the health care bill."
10) Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thy neighbor'a wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is his neighbor's. Great! We can covet collective bargaining. We can covet minimum wage. We can covet decent insurance. We'll take all these things and more away from people because the profits say so.