Just Who, Exactly, Is Delusional?

August 9, 2011 by Robert Ringer


The Tea Party sent Republicans to Washington for the express purpose of cutting government spending.

Isn’t it remarkable how the left is railing on and on about how the Tea Party members of Congress held the debt-ceiling talks hostage by demanding that there be no tax hikes? They have even referred to them as terrorists and suicide bombers, malcontents who ignored the heartfelt pleas of that paragon of unity, Barack Obama, to tone down the rhetoric after the Tucson shootings.

But something doesn’t quite ring true here. If the Tea Party contingency sabotaged the debt-ceiling talks, why would a majority of Republicans be so mad at them?

Democratic nonsense aside, the truth is that Republicans:

1. Raised the debt ceiling enough to take the pressure off Obama until after the 2012 elections,

2. Were not able to assure that there will be no tax hikes in the near future (trust me, there will be),

3. And rather than cutting spending, merely slowed the growth of spending (as Republicans have been doing for decades) from an Obama baseline that would have been unheard of even in the George W. Bush years.

Nevertheless, along comes a real radical, MSNBC’s Martin Bashir, and conducts an anti-Tea Party interview with a left-wing shrink by the name of Stanton Peele. Peele (with the utmost objectivity, of course) told Bashir that Tea Party conservatives are “delusional,â€