Tea Party blames unions for Newtown shooting

Time for the Tea Party to recline its shit-caked jaws to an unopened position, methinks.

After Friday's school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, we try to find solutions. But the Tea Party predictably tries to affix blame. Tea Party Nation's Timothy Birdnow has posted a piece on the group's website somehow blaming the shooting on labor unions. It is unclear how.

The article also blames "sex" in movies and TV shows - a complaint that has been an evergreen of right-wing outbursts almost since movies and TV were invented. Birdnow complains that young people's "passions are eternally inflamed, and they wander the Earth with no outlet for their overstimulated glands", and he demands government censorship of entertainment. The piece also cites the lack of corporal punishment in schools as a supposed cause of the shooting. This despite the fact that America is one of few countries that still has paddling in schools - and countries that have abolished it very rarely experience school shootings.

All that from the "small government" Tea Party.

Looks like another Congress full of no solutions. Might as well make it 10 Congresses in a row, I guess. Somebody needs to tell the Tea Party they lost the popular vote for Congress.