TeaBaggers: Polls Show Tea Party values are NOT shared by "average" Americans

There's a shock!  Where the hell was this information 18 months ago?  Where was this information last summer when the media across the spectrum was treating the Tea Partiers like the God-sent representatives of the people?  Where the hell was this information when it could have been of some use?!

As far as I'm concerned this is just more evidence of the extreme cowardice of the left-leaning media.  They have become so unjustifiably afraid of being bashed by Fox Noise, that they are no longer doing their jobs!

Exibit A: NYT Investigation of incoming GOP Senator drops AFTER election

Exibit B: Tea Baggers are NOT "average" Americans

Two articles that could have been damning to the Tea Party Republicans, and we don't hear about it until after the damage has been done.

WTF!

Common Sense

Tea Baggers: Signs of a Tea Party Implosion?

We all hoped for the day that the Tea Party would fall apart before our very eyes.  Well that day might soon be upon us.  I have noticed a couple interesting signs in the media.

(1) January 13, 2010 - The Washington Independent reported that the American Liberty Alliance, a "gold" level sponsor, had bailed on the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, TN citing financial "controversy."  The details were vague, but apparently many of the high level organizers of the Tea Party Nation had left for the same reason.  hmm... that's weird.

(2) January 25, 2010 - The New York Times reports that controversy has sprang up surrounding the Tea Party Nation's National Convention.  Apparently, some of the more grassroots organizations were accusing the Tea Party Nation of profiteering off the convention.  A number of sponsors including the extreme right organization National Precinct Alliance (an organization bent on taking over the GOP from the "bottom" up).  uh oh, they might be in trouble.

(3) January 28, 2010 - The Star Tribune (Local newspaper of my beloved twin cities of MN) reported that Michelle Bachmann, a key teabag enabler, has backed out of the National Tea Party Convention.  Politico further reports that Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) will also not be attending the event anymore.

Oh dear, what a tragedy!  I hope they will be able to find people to replace those two!  but I guess they still have Sarah Palin.  Who knows maybe we'll all get lucky and it'll be a huge flop, and she will destroy the entire movement under the weight of her sheer stupidity.  Not that we'd ever know because apparently only hand-picked journalists will be allowed inside for her speech (I wonder which ones those will be? The "Fair and Balanced" variety, perhaps?).  She killed an entire presidential campaign, you'd think she'd at least have the decency to destroy this movement while she's at it.

Common Sense

Tea Baggers: Second Civil War?

It's a sad state of affairs when I find an idea advocated by the teabaggers to be at least moderately desirable, although I doubt I would enjoy it for the same reasons.

Apparently, the tea baggers have created flags for a movement called the "second" revolution.  As seen in this article about the Brown victory in MA.

This second revolution involves splitting the United states into 2 countries:  24 Democratic States and 24 Republican States.  Apparently California and New York (Notorious bastions of liberalism) will be split in half and each half free to pick whichever side they want to join.  How nice of them to split let the republicans in the liberal states choose, but I have to wonder about the liberals in Texas.

So, as far as I'm concerned this doesn't sound like too bad an idea.  I would love to live in a country where everyone is as liberal as I am and I would never have to deal with another ignorant neo-con again.  So, for my part, I say lets do it.  Let's split the country up.  All the blue states can be the Democratic States of American (DSA).  We'll have the best schools, the best art, the best health care, better pay for women, affirmative action for minorities, and the freedom to live our lives without government or religious intervention.  Why would any liberal object to this idea????

Common Sense

Tea Baggers: 2 Tea Baggers Instigate Violent Confrontation at Pro-Amnesty Protest

Now it's time to toot my own horn!  I totally called this one.  The tea baggers, so enragged by non-existant tax increases and health reform aggendas that don't effect them, have taken their fight to illegal immegration.  Now this is a legitimate issue, but why do they care?  What does illegal immigration have to do you "Taxed Enough Already?"  the answer is absolutely nothing, and the tea bagger movement has revealed it's true colors as nothing more than a neo-con war machine powered by an uneducated, sadly misinformed lower-middle class.  When did stupidity become a virtue I ask you!

Anyway, I'll hop down from my soap box long enough for you to check out this video of two Tea Baggers instigating a fight with some pro-amnesty protestors:


Pretty scary huh?  This is what our public discourse has dissolved into.  Civil disobedience in favor of the oppressed and unheard is greeted by violence from the angrily ignorant lower classes.  This is why I'm elitist, because to be otherwise would be to legitimize this kind of behavior from the pathetically stupid.

Common Sense

Tea Baggers: It's Official!

So, normally I would just chalk up the Tea Bagger Movement (TBM) to a neo-con attempt at derailing the president, but it has taken on a life of it's own.  That's right, somehow the extreme right neo-cons have managed to spawn something even further right than they are.  The TBM (does that make it sound like an STI? hehe) has begun to border on anarchist with their plethora of anti-tax slogans, pro-Glenn Beck psychosis, and open hostility toward those who disagree with them.

I find myself asking how long it will be before they become violent?  This fear is drawn from two examples from the most recent rally at the capital.  First, the sign comparing health care to the holocaust.  Does that mean you are planning a Tea Bagger D-Day (or T-Day, pun intended)?  are you going to "liberate" the capital through the violent overthrow of the democratically elected Democratic party?  Perhaps a round of Defenestration just for good measure?  Second, Keith Olberman did a pretty good job of covering the hated of these people.

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Pretty scary right.

Well thats not entirely what I want to cover.  The hateful, anti-american, anti-government, anti-responsibility protesters are now an official PARTY!  The Tea Beggers are now a recognized party in the state of Florida.  They are promising to run a candidate against the democrats and republicans in the next election.

Aside from this being a little nutty and sad, is it necessarily a bad thing for Democrats or even Republicans?  I don't think so.  For Democrats it is an opportunity to split the Republican party into two parties, and it also alienates candidates from their extremist base.  For Republicans it might help to free them from the right-wing extremist who have taken over their party.  So, to me it seems like a win-win situation.  If anything this will just help us focus our scorn on the Tea Baggers.

P.S. It isn't live now, but the website for this group is http://www.floridateaparty.us/

Please ridicule at your leisure.

Common Sense