“MY FRIENDS, THIS IS ONE INSTANCE WHERE BIG GOVERNMENT IS JUSTIFIED, SINCE THE CONSTITUTION AND DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE GUARANTEE EVERY AMERICAN THE RIGHT TO LIFE, LIBERTY … AND THE PURSUIT OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.”

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Jon Perr has some instructive, actually “10 Lessons for Tea Baggers.”

Your Total Entertainment Guide, at BartCopE!

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BuzzFlash’s Mark Karlin hits the same note with No More Code Words: Racism is Public Again.

Robert Reich and the Truth About the Public Option, at One Good Move.

Dan Kurtzman’s Political Cartoons of the Week. 

“HOLY SHIT, YOU MEAN IF WE STAY UNDER BRITISH CONTROL, WE’LL ACTUALLY HAVE COMPLETE HEALTH CARE COVERAGE ONE DAY? FUCK THIS, WE’RE GOING HOME!”

“A SPOKESPERSON FOR THE TRADE ASSOCIATION ISSUED THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT: ‘WE’RE SEEKING NOT ONLY ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS IN DAMAGES, BUT AUTHORIZATION TO DRESS UP LIKE NATIVE-AMERICANS AND DUMP THE REPUBLICANS RIGHT INTO BOSTON HARBOR’.”

“BY THE TIME WE GET FINISHED KILLING THE GOP’S FUTURE AS A SERIOUS PARTY … JONESTOWN IS GONNA’ LOOK LIKE A TEA PARTY.”

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Lisa Casey weighs in on the “Classy Conservatives.”

Dan Kurtzman has the Teabagging Humor Roundup.

“IF PAT BUCHANAN GOT THE BUTTERFLY BALLOTS IN 2000, WHY CAN’T I GET CREDIT FOR BIGELOW’S CONSTANT COMMENT.”

THE RICH PHONIES WHO DRINK TEA WITH THEIR PINKIES OUT,

LEADING THE POOR SCHNOOKS WHO HAVE TO USE THEIR TEABAGS MORE THAN ONCE.

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Conservatives Hope Tea Will Spur the Second Coming of the GOP, at BuzzFlash.

Who says consumer purchases are down? Guns Galore at All Hat No Cattle.

“HERE’S MY LATEST RIDDLE: WHAT KIND OF BAG DO YOU CALL A MAD ELEPHANT WIELDING A TEABAG?  DON’T WORRY, THIS IS NOT REALLY A CHILDREN’S STORY.” 

More on the Mad Teabaggers by Meg White at Buzzflash.

“HOWEVER, WE MUST CAUTION YOU TO AVOID SENDING IN EARL GREY, SINCE IT’S OBVIOUS THAT OUR PARTY COMPLETELY LACKS ANY GREY MATTER.”

Background at HuffPost.

Lisa Casey on the Baghdad protest.

The Daily Show’s Full Metal Budget, at One Good Move.

Hitchens vs. Blackwell, on a Christian Nation? – at Crooks & Liars.