A bit of history ...

Might help the teabaggers to actually read it before making fools of themselves in public:

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On Dec. 16, 1773, colonial dissidents famously protested British taxation without representation by dumping shiploads of tea into Boston Harbor. According to John C. Miller's Origins of the American Revolution, British hawks responded exactly as Palin now recommends: by focusing on ego, power, and dominance. They called the Tea Party a "wanton and unprovoked insult" and proposed "to blow the town of Boston about the ears of its inhabitants." King George III declared, "We must master them or totally leave them to themselves and treat them as Alien."

The British hawks, like Palin, saw self-restraint as wimpy and dangerous. If Britain retreated from the tax policies that had provoked the Tea Party, they warned, the colonists would take this as "Proofs of our Weakness, Disunion and Timidity." Miller writes, "Few Englishmen believed that the mother country could retain its sovereignty if it retreated in the face of such outrage: it was now said upon every side that the colonists must be chastised into submission."

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Was a time the "sun never set on the British Empire". The British sowed the seeds for their downfall centuries before and caused problems, the effects of which we feel to this day. If the Palins and Bachmanns of the Right get into power here, the downfall of the American Empire will come faster and be more far-reaching than anything the British of the 18th Century could accomplish.

Great thanks to our pal Maru for the link.