 |
| For more cartoons by Mike Luckovich, click here. |
By Samuel Warde
Below are 12 ridiculous quotes with
reliable sources from leading Tea Party members, all signs you might be a
member of the Tea Party.
1.
You think Minimum Wage created unemployment:
“Literally, if we
took away the minimum wage-if conceivably it was gone-we could potentially
virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer
jobs at whatever level.” — Michele Bachmann
2. You believe gay marriage is a
threat to national security:
”Isn’t that the
ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?” — Rick Santorum on
supporting a Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage
3. You think the ’60s caused AIDS:
“We had the 60s
sexual revolution, and now people are dying of AIDS.” — Christine O’Donnell
4. You think the liberal media is the
greatest threat to America:
”The greatest
threat to America is not necessarily a recession or even another terrorist
attack. The greatest threat to America is a liberal media bias.” — Lamar Smith
5. You think science supports
Intelligent Design:
“There are hundreds
and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in
intelligent design.” – Michele Bachmann
6. You don’t believe in global
warming:
“I absolutely do
not believe in the science of man-caused climate change. It’s not proven by any
stretch of the imagination…It’s far more likely that it’s just sunspot activity
or just something in the geologic eons of time. Excess carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere ‘gets sucked down by trees and helps the trees grow.”’ – Ron Johnson
”Carbon dioxide is
portrayed as harmful. But there isn’t even one study that can be produced that
shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.” — Michelle Bachmann
8. You believe the framers of our
Constitution eliminated slavery:
“…the very founders
that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more.” —Michele Bachmann speaking
of the Constitution
9. You think it arrogant to be
educated:
“President Obama
wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob.” — Rick Santorum
10. You think the BP oil spill was an
unavoidable act of God:
”From time to time
there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be
prevented.” — Rick
Perry
11. You don’t believe geography is
important:
”Juarez is reported
to be the most dangerous city in America.” — Rick
Perry (After an aide
informed the governor of his mistake, Perry clarified that Juarez indeed
belongs to Mexico, not Texas.)
12. You don’t think American History
is important:
“He who warned uh,
the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms, uh by ringing
those bells, and um, makin’ sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send
those warning shots and bells that we were going to be sure and we were going
to be free, and we were going to be armed.” — Sarah
Palin