Ah, gotta love those Constitutional conservatives. The Constitution says what they say it means and nothing else. I wonder which amendment talks about “decadence?”
It’s a new day in America, where the teahadist wing of the Republican Party has taken over the House of Representatives, so of course in the coming months we can expect a speedy return to “fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government and free markets,” right?
Not so fast:
The Tea Party Patriots, one of the the largest Tea Party umbrella organizations, with over 1,000 local chapters, hosted a press conference this morning to offer its reactions to last night’s elections and its vision going forward.
Co-founder Mark Meckler tried to pre-empt expectations among the faithful that Washington would shrink and the federal deficit would close overnight, instead alluding to a “forty-year plan” that the group was busy working out with its members. The plan, according to Meckler, was a highway with four lanes, only one of which was explicitly political. The other three were educational, judicial and cultural.
“All civilizations and empires have fallen because their cultures became decadent,” Meckler said. “We need to lift up conservative culture, family values and wholesome things by supporting conservative musicians, writers, artists and producers.”
The Tea Party’s biggest stars are Sarah Palin and Christine O’Donnell – just your regular run-of-the-mill culture warriors rebranded as “Constitutional conservatives.” The message hasn’t changed, only the name of the groups saying it.