Does the GOP Know What They're Saying?

By The Rachel Maddow Show

April 10, 2009

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The "Tea Bag" movement spawned by a rant on CNBC by Rick Santelli seeks to protest the Obama tax cuts by imitating the revolutionary fathers' Boston Tea Party, which in fact protested taxation without representation (the opposite of a tax cut). While the logic behind the protest is confusing, the right-wing's complete lack of awareness about the term "Tea Bagging" is even more so. Rachel Maddow and Ana Marie Cox have some fun at the expense of clueless conservatives and point out that at long last Senator David Vitter may have found a worthy cause to champion.

--Gabriela Resto-Montero

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