Tea Partay?
By Mary Hannington
From Sybil Vane over at Bitch PhD:
Mr. Vane has this coworker who regularly sends out to a handful of coworkers emails that present her hyperbolic and hysterical fiscal conservatism in reductive bullet points. Copied and pasted from some mass email type thing. E.g. "The free market did not create massive budget shortfalls, big gov't did! The free market did not create ineffectual public schools, big gov't did!" The sort of thing that Mr. Vane generally ignores, because there's really only one confrontational type in the family, but the other day she sent one that was all about big gov't and the big banks and the Fed, etc. So Mr. Vane, who has just finished reading Ron Paul's End the Fed [which yes I know, is it's own thing], writes her and says, "You might be interested in reading this, I feel like you might be surprised to learn about the connections between the Fed and some of your favorite old timey free market capitalists." And so she writes back and says, "How could I take anything that guy says seriously, he doesn't even believe he is who god made him to be."
And so Mr. Vane thinks, ummmm, ok. I mean, Ron Paul is a Bible thumper, right? Whatever, this woman is clearly loony.
And then 2 hours later she emails him to say, "Oh man, I have to apologize, I was telling my husband about the book you recommended and he pointed out that I was thinking of Ru Paul."
And apparently poor “Tea Party Paul”, Ron not Ru, is being asked to leave the “party” by the anti-incumbent Tea Party movement.
This despite the fact that Paul’s fundraiser held on the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party is said to have started the whole Tea Party movement in 2007, though others argue it was CNBC’s Rick Santelli’s rant calling for a “tea party” in Chicago.
Tim Graney, who is running against Paul in the next congressional election, formerly of the Katy Tea Party Patriots, said that the sentiment is false. Graney and another Republican candidate for congress, who sponsored a local tax day Tea Party rally last April said and that Paul had nothing to do with the Tea Party foundation and is not paying attention to his district and earmarking bills.
Paul shot back that the earmarks don’t matter because he votes against all appropriations bills anyways.
Still there is Tea Party favorite Paul’s son Rand, who was endorsed by Sarah Palin at the Tea Party Convention in Nashville. An event attended by a crowd of 600, who were described as white, older and mostly southern.
BUT all is not warm and tea-like in Tea Party town.
Outside of the Republican Party 42% of adults have never even heard of the Tea Party.
Still others cry “Amateurs!”
There is a 20 year old planning to run on the Tea Party ticket in 2010 in Boston and a math teacher, who organized “porkulus” (a combination of the word “pork” and “stimulus” coined by that clever drug addict and radio announcer Rush Limbaugh) protest in Seattle and Mark Meckler, a California attorney and now a national Tea Party figure, who felt that Rick Santelli “was speaking directly to me.”
His group, Tea Party Patriots, suggest “Stand up and shout and sit right back down.” as a way to disrupt your representative’s speeches.
According to Meckler they are a “non-partisan” group and are endorsed by other such non-partisan folks like Michelle Malkin, Parcbench, Freedom Works, Red State and Red County.
Despite the fact that liberals have argued that conservative PACs like Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks were behind all these parties and used professional PR firms to create the feel of a grassroots movement Tim Philips of Americans for Prosperity assures us that the Republican party is too “disorganized” to pull that off.
Abundant groups of Tea Partiers have turned up like 9-12 Delaware Patriots, the Louisiana Tea Party Federation and Lewis & Clark Tea Party Patriots, who have recently called for their Democratic senator to be hung.
There is even a Tea Party Blog, where hilohaw is planting an avocado tree in Hawaii to honor of the Tea Party movement. She compares the ten years the tree will take to mature and the tens years it will take to tap oil resources and calls for us to start drilling now! She says it would be okay to put up some windmills and solar panels too.
Speaking of trees… Tea Partier Fred Neff says, “…liberals use Science to cut away at the Tree of Liberty.” He goes on to explain how Science manipulates us.
And mach1, who hopes the Tea Party will blossom like the tree says, “Go Tea Party Go!” He is clearly of the anti-incumbent Tea Party variety and suggests, ““Vote out the incumbent” should be the mantra - even if the other choice is a complete nut case. A nut case is better than the self-serving leaders we have now.”
The Northwest Side Tea Party of Cincinnati meets at Clippard Industries next to the Sunoco every month.
Tea Party Nation of Tennessee is expected to make a profit in the high “two figures.”
And last time I checked the Tea Party Patriots (Official Home of the American Tea Party) had almost 30,000 members, who are all presumably standing up and shouting and sitting right back down all across this great nation of ours.
