Attention, all you folks who want to tear down the wall between church and state...

Those of you who want religion in your government, please help me out with this question. Do you want the government in your religion?

Is your brain smoking yet?

A thorn in the side of good government

If there's anything a conservative can't stand, it's a shakeup in the social order. As I've mentioned before, the fact of a black man in the White House must feel like the end of the world to some of them. It's no wonder that the opposition has done all in its power to bring about the failure of the Obama administration. If they can prove that it was a mistake to elect a black man president, perhaps we won't be foolish enough to try that trick again!

Of course, today's conservatives not only want to impede any progress that might be made today, they seek to undo things that happened a long time ago: civil rights legislation, the New Deal, the north's victory in the Civil War. In their fantasies, someday it will be proven that the Earth is 6,000 years old, and that the sun revolves around it.

In any case, now that the Republicans have regained control of the House of Representatives, men like Lamar Smith now have subpoena power, and have promised to pester the Executive Branch for the next two years, at least. Again, in their fantasies, they would love to impeach Barack Obama. For what, I don't know, but they've been dying for revenge since the Nixon resignation.

It is my most fervent wish that Barack Obama be reelected in 2012.

By their fruits ye shall know them...

Remember the good old days when the people on the Right called us bleeding hearts? That epithet at least was based on reality. Nowadays, the teabaggers call liberals Nazis.

But consider the teabaggers' behavior. You might recall that, during the health care debate, the teabaggers had a strategy of attending town hall meetings and shouting down any argument in favor of government involvement in health care insurance. In fact, no argument even needed to be made before the teabaggers began shouting. Their intent was to disrupt.

For all their talk about freedom, their behavior showed their lack of belief in democracy.

Of a piece with that behavior was their habit of bringing sidearms to Barack Obama's speeches. Their claim was that they were making a statement about their Second Amendment rights, but the truth is that wearing their guns was an attempt at intimidation. Again, very undemocratic behavior.

The teabaggers would like to "take their country back" from a government that was elected by a wide margin, democratically. If things don't go their way this time, they warn, well they just might spill blood. More than a tinge of terrorism in their threat.

Recently, one Tim Proffitt, a member of Rand Paul's organization, in an attempt to control an anti-Paul protester, stomped on her neck while another "man" held her down. This behavior, I suggest, is a further step toward brown shirts, truncheons, and jackboots.

Of Tim Proffitt and his victim, Lauren Valle, who is the lover of freedom and democracy, and who is their enemy?