Nebraska Tea Partier Continues Trend

             The Tea Party, since it's inception, has consistently taken extremist positions.  They have held up racist signs at rallies, and even at one rally one Tea Partier taunted a man with Parkinson's disease - http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20001186-503544.html.   Another example is Mark Williams, the former leader of the Tea Party Express, writing a racist letter pretending to be an African American writing to Abraham Lincoln - http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010-07-18/news/27070288_1_mark-williams-mosque-ground-zero.  And now Jon Bruning, a Tea Partier from Nebraska, has done it again, this time comparing welfare recipients to raccoons.

              Jon Bruning is currently running for the U.S. Senate trying to unseat Ben Nelson.  And he was caught on video showing what the Tea Party really thinks.  Without being specific, just like Ronald Reagan and his race baiting welfare queen story, he says a local construction process was stopped because they would have hurt beetles.  So biologists use rat carcasses to attract the beetles and then take them away from the site so they are not hurt.  This story doesn't sound believable at face value, but putting that aside this isn't the main problem with what Mr. Bruning said.  He says when this process occurs, raccoons find out that the beatles are inside the carcasses, and it is free food.  So the raccoons will eat them and mess up the whole process.  AND THIS IS WHAT HE COMPARES WELFARE RECIPIENTS TO, saying "And it's like grapes in a jar. The raccoons, they're not stupid, they're going to do the easy way if we make it easy for them -- just like welfare recipients all across America. If we don't send them to work, they're going to take the easy way out."  Perhaps Mr. Bruning should try living on minimum wage and in poverty while trying to take care of kids and paying for utilities, car insurance and payment, and food.  Maybe then he will see that people are not taking the EASY way out.  The easy way out is to not force people to challenge their beliefs, and to play on existing stereotypes to try and win over opinions of the uninformed or misinformed, and that is what the Tea Party's MO is.