Tancredo The Racist, again.

Tea Party folks keep insisting that they are all about taking on bloated government, self-serving moneymongers and various other phonies in Washington and on Wall St. So why don't we hear outrage from them when attendees riddle their gatherings with hate? Everybody knows about those signs held high by xenophobes and Nazifiers and birthers and deathers. Is there any outrage at all?

Last night I watched news footage from the Tea Party convention in Nashville. Former Congressman Tom Tancredo was delivering a not-very-surprising racist rant to the convention audience. He attacked what he calls "the cult of multiculturalism" in the USA and said that because "we do not have a civics literacy test before people can vote in this country, people who could not even spell the word 'vote,' or say it in English, put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House, name is Barack Hussein Obama."

The ensuing applause was as sickening as the rant.

By the way, about 600 tea-baggers paid $549 for admission to the convention. (I don't know if they charged the more than 150 reporters who showed up.) Tea-baggers who cannot afford $549 can be present for Sarah Palin's keynote tonight for only $349.