"The Tea Party in Space" - I swear it's not from the Onion

[maxrandb]

The TEA Party in Space Platform is grounded in American exceptionalism and the TEA Party core values of fiscal responsibility, limited government, and free markets.


Our goal is nothing less than the expansion of American civilization into the solar system. Fifty years ago, the United States was in a Space Race with the Soviet Union. Our nation applied the strategy we had developed in World War II – a “crash” federal research and development program that spared no expense to accomplish the short-term goal of landing an American on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth. America can no longer afford the big government “crash” model. We must return to traditional American free-market principles to expand permanently into space. It was American individuals and businesses who pioneered the wilderness, built a continent-spanning nation, and created the most prosperous economy in the history of humanity.


(Excerpt) Read more at teainspace.com ...

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I love how they admit that it took large infusions of government resources to accomplish our NASA missions, but "hey...we can't afford that shit anymore, we should just let the Koch Brothers do it" with, of course, some government subsidies thrown in for good measure.

So who wants to be the first Tea Bagger to start colonizing and conquering space?

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[hifiguy]

2. Sending the baggers to the moon, and permanently,

might well be worth the cost.

[maxrandb]

13. The moon is too close

We could make it a perfect Porn movie and call it; "Teabaggers in Uranus"

[Atman]

3. I'm 100% in favor of sending the Tea Partiers to the moon.

On second thought...I'd never be able to lay out on my dock at night, gazing at the moon, knowing Michele Bachmann was up there staring back at me.

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[CatholicEdHead]

6. Made me think of this early Futurama episode

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60BjkUtqxPE

With the usual anti-intellectual bent of the Tea Party.

[maxrandb]

8. It made me think of this classic Star Trek scene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igiQoi0ZOQU

Hairy Balls in Space!

[Atman]

9. Hehe...Harry Baals...

http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20110208/LOCAL/302089963

[Confusious]

10. We could drop them off on mercury

They wouldn't know the difference.

[maxrandb]

11. I'll send them to the moon

but only if we use the Ralph Kramden launch method

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pWk_P65dPo

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Please, please, let them go several light years away from me.

[rpannier]

5. It was American individuals and businesses who pioneered the wilderness, built a continent-spanning

slaughtering thousands of people who were already there in the process

[maxrandb]

7. Yep,

I guess the government had nothing to do with building railroads, or sending troops to wipe out Indian tribes, or subsidizing land drives, or providing telegraph and mail service, or establishing an Army to protect the western settlers, or supporting the Lewis and Clark Expedition, or constructing roads, bridges, aqueducts, damns, ports, canals, etc.

That was all just "rugged individualism" and "American exceptionalism".

[anarch]

12. Heute die Welt, Morgens das Sonnensystem