"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. @9:30 AM 21
A Primer for the Coastal Elite: What Do The Tea Party Folks Want? @2:07 PM
Those who watched and mocked the national Tea Parties back in April would find a different bunch of tea partiers today. The truly lunatic fringe of opportunists is now largely gone. But owing to the froth kicked up months ago, the movement's name, "Tea Party," still has currency and momentum, so why not use it? It's a branding conundrum the United Negro College Fund surely appreciates. A day after one of North Dakota's largest-ever tea parties, at the courthouse in Grand Forks, the only thing I can say with certainty about the movement is that it's mostly about making funny signs and producing lots of unintentional irony. And anger. Plentiful, seething, soul-rooted and only vaguely-focused anger. And maybe racism. But not really that much racism! READ MORE 63
"Tea Parties" Reconsidered @1:21 PM
You know, I lean left, but I consider myself a fairly rational person who does a decent job of not being blinded by his biases in the face of overwhelming evidence which contradicts my own political beliefs. So I saw this thing on Reason—a publication I enjoy even though there's a lot of it with which I disagree—about how the "tea parties" were a lot more successful than those on the left were prepared to give credit for. And I thought to myself, okay, maybe I was wrong, I should read it and see what they have to say. READ MORE 8
Hoisting Some Tea At The Party @8:44 AM
Young bearded writer Alex Pareene answers the question I'd been idly asking my T.V.: who really was at those tax day protests? Turns out? Everyone!
If you throw an anti-war rally, only people who don't want there to be a war will show up. But if you just throw a "shit sucks" protest, everyone has a reason to attend! An anti-taxes, anti-Democrats, anti-Obama, anti-government, anti-Wall Street protest means, hey, somebody around here must be against something you're against.
Elections have consequences @9:53 AM
Here's about as representative a quote as we could find from a participant in the "tea parties" that took place yesterday:
"This is a matter of liberty. We're here to break the chain of taxation without representation," said Abraham Mudrick, who traveled from Oregon to DC — which he called "the belly of the beast" — for the event.Although Mudrick acknowledged taxpayers are represented in Congress, he said, "My elected officials aren't doing what I want."
You know, because he's black. @4:35 PM
Wonkette has pretty much owned the coverage thus far of today's "tea parties," but the Washington Independent, where this photo comes from, is doing a pretty good job as well. You may also enjoy this video! READ MORE 0
Teabaggers: Also be careful if they ask you about docking. @2:47 PM
This is from a flier distributed by one of the groups responsible for organizing today's "tea parties." It's good advice! 2
"Tea Parties" are all the RAGE @11:22 AM
Happy New Birth of Freedom Day! All across the country on this April 15th, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people are gathering together in COMPLETELY SPONTANEOUS AND NOT AT ALL DIRECTED BY REPUBLICAN-AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS solidarity to protest the fact that a black guy is now running the country and even though he's inherited a stunning array of challenges, the majority of Americans are still behind him. Because they've been brainwashed by the liberal media, which is both omnipotent and terrifying in its ability to spellbind our gullible majorities and also almost extinct because its socialist bias drives readers away.
Are you attending a "tea party" today? We want to hear your story! Actually, no we don't. We'll just watch Fox News, the official sponsor of principled dissent. 5
Protest them all, let God sort them out. @2:31 PM
We'll let Wonkette sort out the backstory on this one. My question: You think that's actual doody, or just Photoshop? Because I could see it going either way with these folks. 3
"Tea Party" people are just like Rosa Parks! @2:06 PM
I'm not sure which of these quotes from "tea party" "activists" is the more offensive, so decide for yourself! READ MORE 1
