Desperate times call for desperate measures?

A friend posted a video from Rachel Maddow on Facebook, in which she mocked the conservative movement’s rally for a Tax Day Tea Party. I’m all for mocking conservatives because they tend to do all sorts of things that make mocking them easy. However, not being one to simply point and laugh, I became curious to know what all this Tea Party hullabaloo was about. Maddow was right about the GOP currently being in political exile, so up until now, any mention of a Tea Party was essentially the equivalent of the buzzing of a fly. I didn’t find much useful information on the actual Tea Party website. But on her show the following night, Maddow, also not being one to simply point and laugh, looked into some of the motivators behind the Tea Party and came up with this.

I like having my balls licked as much as the next guy, but it seems as if it’s nothing more than irrelevant conservatives throwing another tantrum over Obama winning the presidency. At the same time they are misguidedly trying to associate themselves with the motives of the country’s forefathers and the Boston Tea Party. And ironically, to do so they use sexual terminology that starkly contrasts with the Puritanical image they like to play up. Things really are changing for the conservative base.

That reminds me: I have to file my taxes.