No Shit (Triumphalist Edition)

The absurdity/idiocy/sheer ridiculousness of the usual white middle class teabaggers bemoaning "Taxation W/o Representation" has seemed so transparent that we haven't bothered to mention it (and as always, why bother?) but Think Progress's Matt Yglesias sums it up, & has (Ta da!) facts & figures, which is more than we usually produce, so we'll copy it just for you. Matty doesn't need clicks, does he?

Very curious account of a Nebraska Tea Party:

Hundreds of Nebraskans chanted no taxation without representation in protest of increased government spending spawned by the stimulus bill at the state capitol Saturday

The tea party style protest is intended to mimic Revolutionary War era protests where citizens believed they were being unfairly taxed.

Here in Washington DC, your humble blogger and about 600,000 other people are living and paying taxes to a United States government that does not allow us to elect representatives to congress. Whether you think that’s fair or not, what we’re doing is paying taxes without representation. The 1.8 million Nebraskans are very much represented in congress. There’s Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, Rep. Lee Terry, and Rep. Adrian M. Smith in the House of Representatives along with Senators Ben Nelson and Mike Johanns. Indeed, with a mere 0.6 percent of the nation’s population, Nebraska gets to elect fully 2 percent of the Senators. If anything, Nebraskans have taxation with over representation.

Here's the big secret, suburban scumbags: You get to vote. You get to petition your representative (or spam her to death w/ your pre-written e-mails) whether or not your candidate won. But if your opinions & ideologies are those of a pathetic, marginalized minority that's regularly trounced at the polls, you just don't get quite as much "representation" as you think you deserve. Democracy, it's called. We know you don't really favor it, so shut up about it. No more entitlements, as you like to say. (Or used to.)

P. S.: Stop whining that "half of America voted for McCain." They didn't. You lost. Get over it.

P. P. S: Nyah nyah nyah!!