Apparently teabaggers are up in arms because of a 2-month-old quote by president Obama where he used the term “teabaggers.” Jake Tapper gives us the quote in question:
Three days after he decried the lack of civility in American politics, President Obama is quoted in a new book about his presidency referring to the Tea Party movement using a derogatory term with sexual connotations.
In Jonathan Alter’s “The Promise: President Obama, Year One,” President Obama is quoted in an November 30, 2009, interview saying that the unanimous vote of House Republicans vote against the stimulus bills “set the tenor for the whole year … That helped to create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party to where it now controls the agenda for the Republicans.”
John Cole explains again, for 1,345,679th time that teabagger is a term that they came up with themselves. They even sold buttons about how proud they are to be teabaggers. But yes, liberals and others use the term mockingly to describe them. Hey, they’re the ones that called themselves after a sexual act.
This outrage is getting rather old though. In case you don’t remember, teabaggers are the ones who carried around signs equating Obama to Hitler. They are the ones who call Obama a socialist, a tyrant, a fascist and usurper. They are the ones who go around making billboards that say “Where is the Birth Certificate?” For years before that even Republican leaders don’t even use the term “Democratic Party” instead use the ungrammatical “Democrat Party.” Republicans even circulated a petition in their own party to rename the Democratic Party to the “Democrat Socialist Party.”
So really, pardon my lack of civility if I use the term teabagger to mock you. This the atmosphere you created. If it offends you, good, you deserve it. Once you discover that you have value for political correctness (calling people by the term they prefer to call themselves) then perhaps we can have a conversation about who’s respectful and who’s childish.