Email received earlier from Tea Party Express is full of so much projection that IMAX would have a hard time containing it on screen:

President Obama Needs to Stop Being Petty and Start Acting Like a Leader

President Obama is more concerned with pulling political stunts and inflicting as much public pain on the American people than leading the country through this difficult time. Instead of negotiating and trying to find a solution to the government shutdown, he has refused to negotiate and has instructed his department heads to make the shutdown as painful as possible for Americans.

That’s how it starts off.

Where does this email go wrong. Let me count the ways.

The President isn’t being petty when demanding that Congress do its job and pass appropriations and deal with the debt ceiling. It’s in their job description. Right there in the Constitution in fact. Article 1, Section 8 in fact (for starters).

Political stunts? So far, the GOP has been more concerned with photo ops out on the Mall, or complaining about closed national parks than actually helping all the people who the GOP furloughed.

They were more concerned that the Congressional gym remained open than food inspections or NOAA or NASA. Petty? That’s a classic definition of not being able to think or sympathize with anyone outside the core group of TP extortionists.

Refused to negotiate? Well, we’ll give the TP on that one. The President isn’t going to dismantle a program he enacted because the TP extortionists are holding it and the nation ransom in exchange for passing a budget.

But here’s the thing.

The GOP knew they never could get the President to delay, destroy, or defund Obamacare, but they inserted poison pill provisions into all their negotiations and bills anyways. They wanted to try extortion when repeal votes and litigation couldn’t destroy Obamacare.

In fact, it’s the Speaker wjho decided to blow up a proposed budget deal in July. Speaker Boehner admitted that the GOP decided to cast its lot with the very same TP that is now claiming all that follows is the President’s fault. That’s right. We could have had a budget deal in July but instead we’ve got a shutdown and the GOP will be getting no defund/delay/destroy in exchange for harming taxpayers across the nation all because the GOP decided to throw a collective hissy fit.

The Tea Party engages in DARVO to such an extent that they can’t even get one paragraph into their mailer without being seen as complete hypocrites and exposed for the bunch of lying sad sacks that they are.