The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

While even the most ardent of Obama supporters can't deny the healthcare.gov website has had its share of problems, a recent report has showcased that right-wing cyber attacks may have played a factor in said problems. When questioned by the House Homeland Security Committee, acting assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Cyber-security and Communications - Roberta Stempfley - claimed that the website had been the victim of at least 16 attacks this year, including one which has been referred to as a DDoS or Distributed Denial of Service attack. A DDoS attack provides a website with more traffic than it can handle, which results in it being non-functional for most users. Unfortunately, a number of right-wingers have spread information about this attack tool, and called it, "Destroy Obama Care!" The right-wing "patriots'" mission includes this note: "This program continually displays alternate page of the ObamaCare...

I'm having trouble understanding the Tea Party philosophy. Let's think about this for a moment. Tea Party politicians, speakers, and leaders, as well as their voters, speak anti-government rhetoric like a preacher nicknamed motormouth speaks about Jesus. When it comes to taxes, I hear Tea Partiers regularly stay, "Stay out of my wallet!" When it comes to social issues, especially gay rights, I often times hear them say, "Stay out of people's bedrooms!" What do they think about global warming? "It's a plan by the government to take control of our lives and take away more of our rights!" Gun-control legislation? It's more of the same - "It's all part of a big government plan to strip us of our rights by taking away our guns!" In other words, the government to the Tea Party is much like a monster in the closet to a 5-year old, the devil to die-hard Christians, or Jesus to the NRA. Taking all of this into considerati...