Friday, October 22, 2010

Glenn Beck and the wingnuts...

...aren't just unhappy with President Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi; now they're mad at Woodrow Wilson. That's right; in a piece in Slate, "Hating Woodrow Wilson," David Greenberg writes:

The craggy-faced Virginian who became a leading political scientist and university president; the celebrated governor of New Jersey who, as president, led the nation to victory in World War I, is faulted for the income tax, the Federal Reserve, bureaucrats, socialists, eugenics, and even the rise of Nazism.

The first graduated income tax was established under Abraham Lincoln in 1862. And the first Central Bank was chartered in 1791 by Alexander Hamilton in the administration of George Washington. 

Does that mean Honest Abe and the Father of our Country are next on the tea partiers' list?

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