"Tea partiers" are planning a "National Day of Strike" on January 20th to celebrate the first anniversary of President Barack Obama's inauguration. The "strike" is a boycott of those businesses which support the "socialist agenda" of the Democratic party, says organizer Allen Hardage, who added that the idea for the boycott came during a meeting of "Tea Party leaders" who were "frustrated that, despite a huge turn out over the last year, Congress is ignoring them, and most of the main stream media is biased in their mocking and marginalizing them." Sounds good! I just wonder who's gonna do the important work of showing up at town halls and ranting about death panels and comparing the President to Hitler while everyone else is busy striking.
I sincerely don't get it. Haven't "tea partiers" already been boycotting "socialist" businesses for, like, their whole lives?
This is just so weird. There's such a long, easily accessible (and Googleable) tradition of these types of boycotts simply having no impact whatsoever.
The Teabaggers really are retarded if they think this will be anything but a non-event.
David Brooks wrote his usual equivocating bit of mush today about the Tea Party people. Apparently they're against the "educated" class. Whatever the hell that is (people who believe in gravity?)
Anyway, the comments are just precious. Every tea bagger with access to a keyboard wrote in about their freedumbs and rites and libertees.
Then one guy wrote "Oh, just say it like it is-it's the educated against the morons...and the morons are winning.".
I love that guy.
The funniest thing about Brooks' latest is that at the end he kinda tacks on "Oh, by the way, I don't like the tea partiers" after writing a whole column praising them.
I don't think he wanted to admit he was part of the evil "educated class".
No harm in a bit of anticipatory ass-kissing, in case the Teabaggers successfully overthrow the government.
Yeah, that's my take as well. It's a wasted effort -- working at Thuh Noo Yawk Tahms is sufficient to put him on the list of "up against the wall when the Teavolution comes," anyway.
@brent_cox: "I for one welcome our tea-bagging overlords..."
I really don't understand how it became acceptable, or even admirable, to be against education.
Some people *really* like the thought of Jesus riding dinosaurs.
"National Day of Strike." Granted, for those of us who use mainstream / socialist grammar, it would be either "National Strike" or "National Day of Striking," but whatevs. This thing is shaping up to be one excite story. Could turn into a real box match. I'll stop now.
Don't stop now! It was just get good!
Also, "damn these democrats and their socialist ways the only solution is to have a strike"? Someone needs to sit these teabaggers down and give them the talk about where strikes come from.
"When labor unions and Karl Marx love each other very much..."
The should just rename it Socialism: DO NOT WANT. Also, I mean, it's not a strike? It is a (hedging, totally insignificant, restrictively time-stamped) boycott? Pat Buchanan will be our president in 2012.
I guess that's the only kind of strike you can have when you still want the trains to run on time, ha ha. Ugh.
They like "strike" because it makes it sound like they contribute something more to society than "Dancing with the Stars" Nielsen points. Also, "boycott" smacks of that unpleasantness in Montgomery, and nice upstanding teabaggers don't like to be associated with *those* people...
Bowling sucks.
Maybe Keith Olbermann will do it.
Does that mean the teabaggers will be off the Internets that day, with Microsoft and Cisco having left leaning social policies like they do?
"A Day Without a Teabagger".....can a man dream?
Up yours. The socialist businesses are off that day.
Wonder what Karl Marx would make of the proletariat having a revolution in support of the ruling capitalist class?
Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your healthcare!
So are we celebrating Bill Maher's bday that day or not?