Team Evil: Tea Party and the Party of Fear

After Tea Partiers have been shouting homophobic and racist slurs at Congressmen, can you picture the nightmare if these guys took office?

The GOP is thriving off of them, because Tea Partiers are ignorant enough to believe any lies they put out there, joined by conspiracy theorists like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. Bob Herbert explains it in his OpEd today:

For decades the G.O.P. has been the party of fear, ignorance and divisiveness. All you have to do is look around to see what it has done to the country. The greatest economic inequality since the Gilded Age was followed by a near-total collapse of the overall economy. As a country, we have a monumental mess on our hands and still the Republicans have nothing to offer in the way of a remedy except more tax cuts for the rich.

This is the party of trickle down and weapons of mass destruction, the party of birthers and death-panel lunatics. This is the party that genuflects at the altar of right-wing talk radio, with its insane, nauseating, nonstop commitment to hatred and bigotry....

The G.O.P. poisons the political atmosphere and then has the gall to complain about an absence of bipartisanship.

The GOP doesn't care about uninsured people.

During the widely speculated health care summit on Thursday, Rep. Slaughter (D-NY) told an emotional story about one of her constituents who wore her dead sister's dentures because she could not afford her own. While normal human beings would feel compassion for the woman, see what these Republicans said:

Rush Limbaugh: "So if you don't have any teeth, so what? What's applesauce for?"
Glenn Beck: "I've read the Constitution before. I didn't see that you had a right to teeth."
Jim Hoft: "Will Obamacare buy me a gold tooth in the front of my mouth with a little heart on it?""
Michelle Malkin: "We need trillion-$ Demcare cuz someone had to wear their sister's dentures!"

GOP has not only proved that they don't care about uninsured people, but they don't care about unemployed people either.

My question is why Democrats are still bothering with this bipartisan nonsense when it clearly won't get them anywhere. Rolling Stone contributer Matt Taibbi puts the differences of the two parties into a perfect analogy: 

"They have one major stylistic difference: Republicans are unafraid to exercise power, while Democrats try to run government like one of those pansy-ass T-ball leagues, where every kid gets to have a hit, nobody loses, and nobody has to go home with an ouchie or hurt feelings."