Think Again: More Tea Party Fiction
Jefferson wrote a version of the bible leaving out all the miracles and angels.
These twits are in denial big time.
Since they're down to 8%, it's a turd we can easily flush.
The number of Americans who call themselves members of the Tea Party is down to just 8 percent, according to a recent Rasmussen poll. This is just one-third of the number of Americans who claimed membership in April 2010, shortly after the passage of the Affordable Care Act. Twenty-four percent was never a very high number, particularly given the breathless press coverage the movement inspired. This is, after all, a country where the majority rules. But the decline to 8 percent -- a far smaller percentage of Americans than even those who claim to believe in UFOs -- is entirely predictable in hindsight, considering just how much nonsense one had to believe in order to take seriously the absurdities that Tea Party leaders spouted. The movement's leaders spewed so many simultaneous falsehoods and contradictions that it was a full-time job merely to try and track them.
Among the most recent trees to fall in the forest of Tea Party fiction is the work of alleged "historian" David Barton. His most recent book, The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson, alleges to "correct the distorted image of a once-beloved founding father" and insists that America's third president was an orthodox Christian who did not believe that church and state should be separated. Barton attempts to argue that America's founders hoped to create a Biblically inspired theocracy, rather than the increasingly democratic republic that most of us studied in grammar school. According to Barton, the United States was founded not by secular-minded Deists but instead by evangelical Christians eager to erase the line between church and state so that they could lay the foundation for a Christian nation.
Jefferson wrote a version of the bible leaving out all the miracles and angels.
These twits are in denial big time.
Since they're down to 8%, it's a turd we can easily flush.