01.06.11
The Ted Nugent Constitution
Today the Post ran an op-ed by a Nation contributor, making a joke of the GOP farce called “the reading of the Constitution.” It’s here.
It’s essentially the Ted Nugent’s Rural White America Constitution.
Excerpted:
We, the Real Americans, in order to form a more God-Fearing Union, establish Justice as we see it, Defeat Health-Care Reform, and Preserve and Protect our Property, our Guns and our Right Not to Pay Taxes, do ordain and establish this Conservative Constitution for the United States of Real America.
Congress shall balance the Federal Budget, preferably by eliminating the Departments of Labor, Energy, Education and State.
The preceding provision shall not apply to spending for the Department of Defense, appropriations for which shall increase three times as quickly as the growth in gross domestic product …
2. The right to bear Semi-Automatic Weapons, AK-47s or Bazookas shall not be infringed by background checks, safety locks, age limits or common sense.
3. The right of Corporations, Hedge Funds, Business Leaders and Lobbyists to spend endless cash on campaigns and influence-purchasing shall not be infringed. The so-called right of Unions to associate shall be denied as fundamentally un-American and contrary to the agenda of the Chamber of Commerce.
For Nugent, I’d specifically have substituted “Machine Guns” for “Bazookas” in the 2nd Amendment.
Moving along, CNN’s Anderson Cooper stupidly put him on a panel yesterday.
Roseanne Barr was the only person with the nerve to stand up to his bowdlerized Ayn Rand for outdoorsmen shtick. In the last year you couldn’t find anyone with the stones to do so in the mainstream media.
It’s here.
The salient bits with the standard black-people-in-the-cities-are-parasites and rich-people-make-all-the-jobs bits:
NUGENT: No, you need to try to help people by scolding them to help themselves. If you keep rewarding them for sleeping in then they’ll never get out of slavery. Why would you support slavery?
BARR: I’m scolding you because you’re blaming the people at the bottom who have nothing whatsoever..
NUGENT: I’m blaming people who refuse to be productive.
BARR: Why don’t you blame the people who have the blame? Why aren’t you ever…
NUGENT: Why do you want to [blame] people who have jobs and produce things?
BARR: I want to blame the Koch brothers and the billionaires and all the people who robbed the taxpayers of this country, absolutely.
NUGENT: The government is the one who’s robbed the taxpayers [of] this country.
BARR: What would we do without government? Expect the rich people to take care of the poor? Are you crazy?
NUGENT: The rich people are the ones providing jobs.
BARR: No, they’re not. There are no jobs. There are no jobs and rich people…
NUGENT: Rich people who put all their lives on the line to get creative.
BARR: Rich people don’t pay squat and it’s proven.