Teabagger and small business owner Mike Vines apparently did not know that he would get in trouble with fellow right-wingers when he applied for a Small Business Administration (SBA) guaranteed loan to expand his business called Escape Massage Parlor in Midlothian, Virginia. The loan guarantees were part of Obama's stimulus program. Of course being a teabagger means Vines is most likely lacking in a normal intellect so the irony would be lost on him of having to apply for a loan guaranteed by the federal government.
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When Henrico County businessman Mike Vines applied for a loan to open a second spa, he never imagined his transaction would become fodder for a national radio show.
But that's exactly what happened yesterday when a guest host on conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh's radio show accused the co-owner of Escape Massage of taking federal stimulus money.
Vines, who describes himself as politically conservative, said he was shocked when angry callers began barraging his two places of business yesterday afternoon.
"I didn't know what had happened, but all of a sudden we were inundated with calls," he said.
Reading from a list of stimulus-money recipients that is circulating online, Mark Steyn, who was filling in for Limbaugh yesterday, said the "Escape Massage parlor in Midlothian, Virginia" had received $168,300 in government aid.
But Vines said the money actually came from a loan he and partner George Nuckolls obtained through M&T Bank to open a therapeutic spa in the Westchester Commons shopping center in Chesterfield County. The partners also own a spa in western Henrico near Short Pump Town Center.
Vines, who said he has attended Tea Party rallies protesting the government's stimulus program, first heard about federal money going to a massage parlor yesterday on Fox News' morning television news program.
When right-wingers cast such a wide and ignorant net of hate, some of their own are bound to get hit with friendly fire. That's the problem with attacking government institutions that people take for granted that affect and help so many of our lives. Almost all teabaggers suck at the government teat, they're just too stupid to know it. Now, if the Rush Limaugh Show had done some actual journalism and called Mr. Vines ahead of time maybe they would have discovered that he's one of them. Would they have mentioned his business on-air then? Probably. All they care about is winning their war against Obama and a Democratically controlled government. To them one individual teabagger can go to hell.