Wasilla, where crazy is the new black, will host the next wingnut teabagging protest.

Once again the right wing leaps to attack the Obama administration over policies that have been implemented to repair the horrendous damage done to our country and our financial institutions by the Bushies. The ability to see that their President was ultimately responsible for this crisis seems to be denied to these simple, simple people.

But now they have taken it to even more bat-shit crazy heights. Just check out this "We the People Stimulus Package" that is featured on the Alaska Tea Party official website:


1. No legislator shall be in office for more than two (2) years term limits. (Go on.)

2. All legislators must pay into the Social Security yearly from their wages.

3. No legislator shall be able to give themselves raises, the American people will vote for these raises on the legislator’s record. (This way well organized voting blocs, like the ones put together in churches, could manipulate politicians by keeping them from earning more money if they did not jump through their particular hoops.)

4. All legislation shall be posted on the internet for five (5) days, the legislator has forty eight (48) hours to read said legislation before voting and a three (3) day cooling off period after legislation has been signed to recall said legislation before moving to the President for signing.

5. Any government official whether the President or the Janitor does not comply, honor, pledge the Constitution of the United States will be thrown out of office and newly elected will replace them. (I am curious as to WHO determines this.)

6. Any legislator that breaks the law, ex: (tax evasion, lobbying, conflict of interest) will not be rewarded with monies or committees. (Well I agree with this one as it will have the effect of keeping the Republicans from getting the huge amounts of money from the special interests that they use to outspend their Democratic opponents at every turn.)

7. The American people would have the right to throw any legislator out of office if anyone of them does not read legislation before voting on them. (Once again who determines this, and how?)

8. No government official shall start a war if they do not intend to win a war. (Somebody get George Bush to read this immediately!)

9. We need to abolish the Electoral College and the American people would determine who will be the President. (Damn I actually agree with this one. Oh well, I guess they ALL can't be crazy.)

10. All candidates for government service must go through a mandatory universal service either in the Armed Service or through Community involvement before being vetted for candidacy. (Well this is a silly and unnecessary requirement for public service.)

11. English would be our main language in the United States. (Sorry No hablo inglés.)

12. No more amnesty programs for illegal immigrants. All will abide by United States immigration laws or will be arrested and deported back to their countries. (It looks like Lou Dobbs had a hand in this document.)

13. Any immigrants in this country or coming to this country will abide by the laws of the United States of America. (Is that not the case now?)

14. The words “In God We Trust” would never be abolished from our monies, schools, government installations. (Ah now we get a little red meat for the Christianistas.)

15. The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag will be restored back in our schools. (Pledges do not make people more patriotic. And for a group of people who seem determined to keep government OFF of their backs, the idea of having the government force their children to pay allegiance to them seems counter intuitive. Or am I missing something?)

16. Our constitution would never be amended; the founding structure would be forever the same. (Yeah why should we be allowed to bear arms anyway? Or have freedom of religion? Or a free press? Or allow women to vote? Or have the right to a speedy trial by a jury of our peers? No the Constitution was just perfect the way it was originally written. Are these idiots serious?)

17. The fair Tax would be instrumented to everyone.

18. Our military personnel active or veteran status would be afforded complete health care with no stipulations. (I would support this too.)

19. Christianity will again be restored as our main religious entity. (Okay now you lost me. Freedom of religion is the very foundation that this country was built on and it is completely unconstitutional for ANYBODY to insist that one religion be considered more important than any other.)

20.Big government will not be allowed, no handouts and accountability and transparency will be the law of the land. (Once again this is something that should have been addressed when George Bush was President and created numerous unnecessary agencies as well as increasing the size of our government to levels never seen in this country before. The problems they are talking about are NOT the result of the new administration, no matter how much they may want to believe that.)

The funny thing about this document is that if you take the time to read it you will find that it contradicts itself a number of times and essentially makes no good sense whatsoever. But hey, it was good enough for the Alaska Tea Party website and I am sure it will be good enough for the low hanging fruit that attends this rally.

After all, it is only Wasilla.

P.S. I believe it is important to point out that not ALL Wasillians are crazy. Just most of them. For instance my friend Phil Munger, of Progressive Alaska, is decidedly NOT crazy. Of course, as he will often point out, he does not live in Wasilla proper.