Can you feel the excitement, the anticipation, the sheer thrill of telling the Administration to take back their damn tax cuts?
Yeah, me neither. More wingnut teabagging news:
- Jed Lewison invokes his special magic to let us know exactly what is at stake (again, NSFW,people):
- The Tea-Tantrum Movement — which is what Andrew Sullivan calls these shenanigans:
…What it looks like to me is some kind of amorphous, generalized rage on the part of those who were used to running the country and now don’t feel part of the culture at all. But the only word for that is: tantrum.
These are not tea-parties. They are tea-tantrums. And the adolescent, unserious hysteria is a function not of a movement regrouping and refinding itself. It’s a function of a movement’s intellectual collapse and a party’s fast-accelerating nervous breakdown.
- And what is a wingnut event without its astroturfing? Yes, they think that astroturf = grassroots, but you aren’t meant to pay attention to that:
Despite these attempts to make the “movement” appear organic, the principle organizers of the local events are actually the lobbyist-run think tanks Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Works. The two groups are heavily staffed and well funded, and are providing all the logistical and public relations work necessary for planning coast-to-coast protests…