Get ready. The mouth-foamers are preparing to take the tea party to the Capitol. When debate begins Thursday in Congress on the health care reform bill, Reps. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) want their odious, easily duped, irrational and not so bright supporters there to disrupt the proceedings.

In case you missed it, Bachmann revealed late last week that the right — with the help of the anti-reform group Americans for Prosperity — is calling for a big rally in D.C. this coming Thursday to protest the reform proposals.

“This is it for freedom,” Bachmann said. “If you believe in liberty, and if you’re rejecting tyranny, this is it.”

What’s up with this “tyranny” crap anyway? Do they even know what the word means? American Heritage Dictionary:

1. A government in which a single ruler is vested with absolute power
2. The office, authority, or jurisdiction of an absolute ruler
3. Absolute power, especially when exercised unjustly or cruelly
4. a. Use of absolute power
4. b. A tyrannical act
5. Extreme harshness or severity

Collins English Dictionary:

1. a. Government by a tyrant or tyrants; despotism
1. b. Similarly oppressive and unjust government by more than one person
2. Arbitrary, unreasonable, or despotic behaviour or use of authority
3. Any harsh discipline or oppression
4. A political unit ruled by a tyrant
5. (Historical Terms) (esp in ancient Greece) Government by a usurper
6. A tyrannical act

These same ninnies were fine with George Bush knowing which library books you checked out, and secret searches of your house by Dick Cheney but they think that providing access to health care is…TYRANNY?

Expect the usual shouting, pushing, waving of misspelled signs, and reddened white faces we came to know this summer whenever anyone tried to get worthwhile input on the kind of health care reform we would all like to have.