Michael Ryan Promotes Psychotic Tea Partiers

Re: "Don't miss this Party," from the April 14th edition of the Augusta Chronicle.

Mr. Ryan is promoting a local meeting of those psychotic tea partiers scheduled for the Augusta Commons.

Over the past week, he's desperately been trying to portray these extremist nuts and ignoramuses. He cited one Rasmussen poll that showed more Americans agreed with the Tea Partiers than with President Obama. However, he didn't say with what issues they agreed with them. In fact, according to mediamatters.org, a Fox poll showed that Obama is far more popular than the Tea Party. Obama has a 50% favorable rating compared to 36% for the Tea Partiers. I invite the Tea Party to field a presidential candidate. Wow, what a landslide victory for Obama that would be.

Here's some facts about the Tea Baggers:

28% think Obama is the anti-christ. There is no such thing as the anti-christ. People who believe in the anti-christ are irrational to say the least, and in my opinion borderline psychotic.

Most don't believe Obama was born in the U.S. despite obvious proof. This demonstrates close-mindedness to the truth.

90% don't know that for most people, Obama has lowered taxes or kept them the same. This is a movement about taxes whose members are almost entirely ignorant about current tax events.

How embarrassing for them?

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A lot of letters to the editor from people upset about the new Health Care Reform Law throw the word, socialist, around quite a bit. None of them demonstrate any understanding of what socialism is. The Health Care Reform Law is not socialist because it keeps private insurance alive.

A letter from Hardy Wylie, one the Chronicle features in April 11th, was laughably amusing. He opposes the new law. Then he wrote that meaningful health reform should have tort reform, insurance coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. Medicare and Medicaid fraud reform, limitations on payments for illegal immigrants, and no abortion funding. All of this is covered in the Health Care Reform Law that he rails against.

What an ignorant moron.

Robert Shmuck, oops I mean Smock, wrote a bunch of ridiculous lies again. He claims opposition to health care reform was from a majority of the people. This is untrue--it was a plurality. Then he claims it was unread. What B.S. Congress wrote it so obviously at least some of them read it.

Randall Hatcher perhaps wrote one of the stupidest letters of the week. He called the Health Care Reform Law socialist which I explained it how it wasn't. Most of the Health Care Reform Law consisted of republican ideas. Republicans opposed it because democrats were for it, and the former had the goal of destroying Obama's presidency by blocking reform. Hatcher falsely claims Medicare and Medicaid are financial wrecks and will be broke by 2014. And he falsely claims that Europeans come to the U.S. for health care. Very few do so. Almost all European countries have higher rated health care than ours.

And of course yesterday, the Chronicle featured a homophobic letter from Denis Thomas. I wouldn't be surprised if Denis Thomas was a closet homosexual.

Mr. Ryan should be ashamed of himself.