Bill Maher talks about the hypocrisy of Tea Party members and Republicans who claim to hate big government and socialism in this segment of New Rules noting:
“New Rule, it’s time to stop fighting it and just come out of the closet. And the group I’m talking about is the American public, and the love that they’re denying is their love of socialism.
Now I know that there are few words in America more toxic than socialist, and these days, big government spending is about as popular as Casey Anthony at a Chuck E. Cheese. (audience groans) Yes, Americans say they hate socialism, but when it comes to Social Security, Medicare, unemployment, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, corporate welfare, bailouts, and farm subsidies, what we really say to socialism is, “I can’t quit you.”
Americans don’t want less spending on health care; by almost 2:1 they want more. Only 7% of Americans are willing to do away with either Social Security or Medicare, and even 62% of Tea Party members say those programs are worth the cost. Yet 91% of them say they want smaller government with fewer services. They’re like the guy who’s been to prison and says, sure, “I gargle with a guy’s balls every once in a while, and there’s nothing I love more than ass play with other men, but you know who I can’t stand? Fags.”
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