If there was ever any doubt that the tea party has no business calling itself patriotic, we got it earlier today. Denver-area teabagger Melissa Brookstone posted a message on Tea Party Nation's messageboard calling for small businesses to stop hiring in order to take a stand against the Obama administration (h/t to PFAW's Right Wing Watch).

This post is absolutely breathtaking in its unhinged nature. It makes the usual teabagger claims that Obama and the Democrats are ushering in socialism. Supposedly, Obama and the Senate are in cahoots with Hollywood, the media and the Occupy movement to destroy free enterprise. It then calls for small business owners to stop hiring until "this war against business and my country is stopped."

So let's get this straight. These people claim to be uberpatriots, and now they want to sabotage the economy? The mind reels.

Update: Since this made the rec list, I thought I'd share some of the comments other Tea Party Nation members have made. Pretty revealing stuff--more after the jump.