VIDEO--Rep. John Culberson on Hardball: Obama, Pelosi are "trying to turn America into France"

By GottaLaff

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Tweety let Rep. Culberson get away with saying that the Tea Tantrums were "a spontaneous horizontal reflection of the mood of the American people" (at about 8:05). My jaw dropped... and not just because I had no idea that an uprising could be horizontal. In fact, I had no idea that Rushpublics ever got horizontal at all. But that's another post for another time.

In the blink of an eye, Culberson went on and on ad absurdum about wanting the government out of Texans' lives. There go all those durn Texan libraries, fire and police stations, schools, etc., etc. And this blowhard even brought back that old chestnut, France. Yes, France.

Indeed, we are at a tipping point, he ranted. I'll have him know I haven't been tipped once.

But Tweety did have his moments, starting at about 7:20 and notably at about 10:22 ("You say you love the country, but you can't wait to leave it").

See "Tantrums, Tea: Backfiring".