Posts tagged as "Tea Parties"
How to Vote in Wisconsin Today
Big changes, civic-minded cheeseheads. We hope you're planning to vote, even if you're one of the 20,000-odd out-of-state students at UW-Madison. The polls are open-and they'll remain open until 8 p.m. (For all you coasties, that's 9 p.m.!) Vote your peer-pressured conscience! You can find your Wisconsin polling place here. Not registered? Not to worry, you can register at the polling place. The ballot you receive will be in English-only, because this isn't the frickin' U.N. And now: to the candidates. READ MORE
Tea-V Party Tonight!
"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.
A Primer for the Coastal Elite: What Do The Tea Party Folks Want?
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
"Tea Parties" Reconsidered
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
Hoisting Some Tea At The Party
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! READ MORE
Elections have consequences
Here's about as representative a quote as we could find from a participant in the "tea parties" that took place yesterday: READ MORE
Teabaggers: Also be careful if they ask you about docking.
This is from a flier distributed by one of the groups responsible for organizing today's "tea parties." It's good advice!
"Tea Parties" are all the RAGE
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. READ MORE
Protest them all, let God sort them out.
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.
