Here’s Teabagger candidate Marco Rubio, yukking it up at CPAC.
“The president couldn’t find anywhere to set up a teleprompter to announce new taxes,” Rubio said of the snow accumulation.
Noted Tim Mak,
Doesn’t stop Rubio from using a tele-prompter himself though.
That aside, watching Rubio’s and DeMint’s CPAC speeches is literally like stepping into a timewarp. It is as though the years 2001-2009 never happened.
The words “Bush” and “Cheney” were not uttered. There was no acknowledgment that under conservatives, the country collapsed into the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. There was not a single mea culpa, not a hint of regret that the wars conservatives launched have still not ended in victory. Low taxes and less regulation were repeatedly cited as the answers to all our problems — despite the fact we’re coming off three decades of lower taxes and less regulation. There were endless complaints about the deficit, and no admission that conservatives are responsible for most of it. There were no answers for stagnant middle class wages, no concerns that about half of America’s children at some point depend on food stamps. Just endless refrains that Americans should have the freedom to make lots of money.
In a nutshell: “Freedom, freedom, freedom, socialism, socialism, socialism, tyranny, terror, taxes. In conclusion, America fuck yeah!”
Surreal.
