Michael Steele, your hypocrisy is showing

So Michael Steele wrote an "opinion" piece at Politico today. You can read it here: Simple Truths of Obamacare.

In it is the single reason that I cannot take anything the GOP says seriously. Here's the line:

"Are we willing to let a Constitution-shredding Democrat Congress and a President obsessed with the fate of his presidency take us one step closer to crippling our economy and mortgaging our children’s future?"

I have a real problem with this statement. Why? Let me tell you a back story.

I, like many Americans, am an immigrant. I came to the US on an H-1B visa to work, which was changed to a Permanent Residency status through marrying my wonderful wife, and I became a citizen in 2008. So I have a particular sensitivity to immigration related matters, which is where the Military Commissions Act comes into focus. Until the Supreme Court gently coughed and reminded the Bush White House of the Constitution and the 14th Amendment contained therein, The MCA allowed the Government to deem a person, citizen or not, an "Enemy Combatant" and hold them indefinitely without charge or trial.

Just consider that for a second: you, sitting in your living room or office reading this, could have been tapped on the shoulder in the middle of the night and hauled off to Guantanamo Bay for the rest of your life. Even IF you were a Citizen of the United States. In complete violation of the Constitution of the United States. How's that for Constitution shredding!

It is the breathtaking hypocrisy of Chairman Steele to invoke some form of Constitutional moral high ground in the debate over health care without acknowledging that abuse of the Constitution was most egregious under the stewardship of his party. Let's not forget the Patriot Act, the use of rendition and waterboarding by the CIA under the false shell of Yoo-ian Department of Justice "guidance".

This is what I really don't get about the Tea Party activists. You're all mad about the health care reform done in your names and sooooooooo mad about the Constitutional implications, yet it's like collective amnesia is applied to anything that happened before Obama 44 that was even more hurtful to the Constitution. Not to mention the fact that Citizens United vs F.E.C has brought the inevitable end of the individual voice one step closer at the hands of conservative presidential appointed Justices of the Supreme Court. Allowing corporations to assume some of the characteristics of a person is dangerous territory, and if the Tea Partiers think it's hard to get your voice heard, wait until a corporation decides to drown you out.

How about the Bush 43 first and second tax cuts that were passed under Reconciliation and completely unfunded, and are a much higher contributor to the "mortgaging of our children's future" than health care reform? What about that, Chairman Steele? How about acknowledging that while HCR is a problem, so is spending by Congress on BOTH SIDES. Let's not play this stupid game of constructing a false reality where the only bad things that are done are done by the opposing party.

Where is the indignation at those abuses? Where is the outrage?