Repression of anger is what it is all about with the Teabaggers. Anger is a retaliation of your dissatisfaction. The seat of your anger is deep within yourself. It can be redirected by manipulative demagogues and media personalities. That is exactly what is happening in townhalls across America today.

 The disruptive protests and the incitement to chaos and violence by media, big moneyed interests, talk radio, Republican politicians and others is so successful because most middle class Bush Base Republicans did not achieve the improvement in their lives they expected after 8 years of almost absolute rule by their conquering hero, George W. Bush.  He failed them.

 Like traumatized soldiers in need of psycholgical help, who might take it out on friends or family, the Bush Base is mad, and they are ready to strike out at anyone.  Anyone that is but George W. Bush. Well, we know they aren't going to get that mental therapy they need, the nation couldn't afford it, even if we had GOP-Dubya-PTSD Camps.

The GOP is aware of this untapped well of emotion, and they want to use it for political purposes.  Which is, of course, the only reason they do anything.  So the seething masses of frustrated Republicans are being let loose to vent on Obama and his health care overhaul plans. Additionally, the claim that Obama is not even an American suits the technique of misdirected anger also. If they can crush Obama then they may be able to gain power again and do it all over.

 That is why Bush Basers say they have a right to shout and disrupt, and why they compare themselves to Democrats who protested Bush. At some level, they too disapproved of Bush, the polls showed it towards the end of his term. But the anger they had built up, and which peaked in 2008 with the collapse of Wall Street and the economy had to be suppressed. Bush was their President. But the anger only grew.

The poison tree that grew from that hate is now being released on the surprised Democratic Party and Obama, who wonder, what did we do?  Well, it isn't what you did, it is what Bush did that planted the seeds of animosity.

 George W. Bush went on vacation instead of preparing the nation to thwart bin Laden's attack on 9/11. He cut taxes but increased spending and created huge deficits. He started two wars and did not finish either one. He tortured people with little result but demeaning the US reputation in the world. Kim Jong Il in North Korea gave Bush the middle finger when he threw out UN inspectors and started popping off nuclear weapons like firecrackers.  Bush sent thousands of Americans to their deaths in Iraq, for which we got little back but getting Saddam's gun to decorate George Dubya's Presidential Library. Now, thanks to what George Bush started, many are losing their homes, their jobs, and any semblance of stability in their lives.

 They know that Bush tanked the economy, and started the massive bailout of Wall Street.

 What did the Bush Base do, were they upset about his failures? Yes. Could they express their anger while he was in office?

 No.

 Could they show their disappointment with how the government under Bush operated and failed them in their often miserable lives?

  No.

 He was their man. They were bitter, yet kept their emotions bottled up. Like a father who mistreats you, abuse in the family is kept to yourself. The same hold true in the paternalistic and authoritarian character of the Republican Party. The propaganda elite of the right knows all this, and they are making ample use of the anger of their base by redirecting it away from themselves