What are those two Post articles? The site won’t let me view them.

There will be no tea-bagging going on near the empty, shell offices of corporations in the Cayman Islands today.

From the WSJ article:

So who’s behind the Tax Day tea parties? Ordinary folks who are using the power of the Internet to organize.

I actually was under the obviously mistaken impression that only their editorial page was in the tank for the reichwing. Looks like the news side is also. Ordinary folks my a$$.

Obama: Economy Gaining Traction
Weak Retail Data Signal Confidence Remains Off-Kilter

At Summit of Americas, U.S. May Face World of Blame for Economy

You have to register on WaPo’s homepage.

There’s another WSJ article out this morning on the Bush torture memos. I did a post about it this morning on my blog.

Mr. President, Don’t Let Former Bush Officials “Take You For a Buggy Ride”

Sorry for the shameless promotion but it’s a new blog and I need visitors. LOL

I think this is prolly the first thing by Reynolds I’ve actually read, although the first couple paragraphs were enough. What a crock. This clown really does live in an evil parallel universe.

pmorlan, if you go to your profile page and add your blog’s url, it will show up linked to your name whenever you comment.

… morning all.

Thanks, Selise. I’ll do that.

the leaders and promoters are the usual right wing suspects. but that doesn’t preclude ordinary folks from showing up.

I overlooked the byline. Glenn Reynolds? Instapundit. OMG, no wonder it is a “grass roots” thing. LOL.

It’s fine if they show up, if they agree with the nonsense. But casting it as grass roots “just folks” is dishonest.

Here are accessible links to the WaPo items listed above:

http://mobile.washingtonpost.c…..#038;all=1

http://mobile.washingtonpost.c…..#038;all=1

here, they are pl;anning a series of 10 teabagging days. i think that’s a national thing. grassroots, of course. all these people just happened to schedule additional rallies on additional days-all the same, by coincidence. i doubt these “regular people” are going to be up for 10 protests in a year. and many of them are likely to get pissed off with being inundated with e-mails about this shit.

Good golly. I just can’t believe that. they’ve never been dishonest before.

Did you get the donation request for Marda Permaculture Training Farm from starhawk yesterday?

If there is anyone in this country who isn’t aware that fox is the propoganda wing of the gop, today should disabuse them of that notion.

I’m in the SW end of the state for a few days and saw some signs up in store windows yesterday about the local tea party which will be held in front of the old courthouse. Think I might just mosey through town and have a look-see for how many local crazies turn out. I also plan to make a mental note of the stores with the signs……they’ll not be seeing any of my business in the future. Not a very democratic attitude on my part? Naaaaaaah. *G*

There’s something particularly unhinged about FL Rethugs. Every day I see competition for Tommy Frank’s statement about Doug “Armchair Warrior King” Feith.

Selise, you were talking about my profile page here, right? (sorry I haven’t been to bed yet and I’m rather sleepy).

Not a very democratic attitude on my part?

Democracy’s all about choice, right? *g*

I have to admit, accept for the blogs and a very few braodcasters, their tea bagging marketing scheme was very well concieved and executed

today, on cbs radio, and obviously without a ballanced point from the other side, they interviewed “tea baggers” who were doint the “we don’t want to spend our kids money, we are in a crisis, now is not the time to expand government”

pretty darned effective for someone who is not getting the other side of the story

It would have been a nice movement for us when bush gave all our money to the wealthy and when reagan did the same

It would have been a nice movement for us when bush gave all our money to the wealthy and when reagan did the same

then again we had plenty of actual grass roots movements that didn’t get coverage at all, and those that were covered were hardly a snip on a broadcast

Competition? Among themselves. The bad, nasty stimulus prk is the only reason this state is comming anywhere close to having an education budget. So lemme get this right. Keeping schools open and teachers employed is unconscionable generational theft and bad for our kids. lemme think about that again. Maybe one of the teabaggers can explain it to me later.

i completely agree that this is not a grassroots organized event. actually wasn’t really disagreeing with you – just trying to draw the distinction between the people who are promoting it and the people who might attend because i think it’s potentially an important distinction that is sometimes overlooked (not saying by you).

in the run up to the iraq war, i attended lots of ANSWER organized protests. even was the local point person organizing transportation to DC for one of them, although i’m no fan of ANSWER and disagree with many of their positions (and from everything i’ve heard, their style of organizing).

i actually think most of the people who showed up in DC at those big rallies weren’t very fond of ANSWER. but they were doing the organizing for DC protests when no one else was.

in the same way, i’d think that people who are legitimately pissed off about the economic situation and seeing their tax money being given away to the banksters might decide attend in some numbers to a protest organized by people who call themselves conservative when it is a democratic administration which is stealing their money to give to the banksters.

all around a potentially dangerous dynamic that i hope goes nowhere.

Ain’t it just!

The teabag astro-inturfment is a not very well disguised war cry. The hate stoked by the crude Palin/McCain machine during the latter half of 2008 is being stoked further by the moneybags who didn’t vote for Obama. The militias are coming out of the closet, every single flaming queen among them. I say, they should wage less war, more teabagging.

hope you are right about ordinary people not falling for it.

yes, was only just reading now though.

Selise, never mind my earlier question. I finally found the profile area. I think I’m going to bed now. LOL

By the way I love your blog and I’ve added it to my blogroll. I’ll check it out in more detail later today. Thanks again for the help.

yes, on your profile page. the link is on the right in the tool box area. i should have included the link in my first comment, but didnt’ remember it. here it is now:

http://firedoglake.com/wp-admin/profile.php

lol! you’re faster with no sleep than i am with sleep.

later. sleep well!

Damn, hit reply when I didn’t have anything to say. Doh!

Off to swim in the great feed the poor tax the rich capitalist cesspool.

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste

I mean, alot of people are showing up. This time. But there are alot of assholes out there and Obama’s poll numbers are high.And tehy’re really not focused too well. I think alot of people are still asking “Who are these people?”

actually was under the obviously mistaken impression that only their editorial page was in the tank for the reichwing. Looks like the news side is also

we’re through the looking glass here. as I read it I thought of how nice it would be to have Op/Ed page writer Thomas Frank smack Reynolds around and lo and behold …

Here He Is . . .

“And when Dick Armey suggests that Wall Street is the one that’s really down with the common people, you’d better believe it. The man is plastic populism to his styrene soul”

Mornin’ All

Tea-bagging? What, in broad daylight, in public?!! Quick, somebody call Larry Craig! He’ll want in on this!!

bush’s poll numbers were higher when i showed up at my first anti-war event (i was middled aged and never thought i’d ever do any such thing – how times have changed *g*).

the reason i’m not taking this lightly is that people DO have something to be pissed off about. 30 years of stagnant wages (of course no one has told them why that might be other than overspending Ds) and now a D president is giving away massive amounts of money to the banksters

hell, it pisses me off too.

although, i have a different analysis than the one the right wing idiots on the tube are giving.

Teabaggers are a funny lot…are they in the dictionary yet?

have a good day. i’m off for coffee.

they sure are here. the paulistas and the ‘no government in my house’ peeps.
along with the ‘they’re regulating my home garden’ house bill./s
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joe the plumber is appearing at one of the rallies. don’t know which state.
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where were all of these bitchers a few years ago? enjoying their nirvana i guess.

Morning all – I would like to find out if there is a ‘tea party’ event near me, so I could take a camera and write some observations. I followed a link from FDL yesterday, it took me to Freedomwatch, but they wanted a name, email, etc to be filled out before they would provide any further info on locations. I’m not giving those assholes any personal information.

Does anyone know how to find the locations of these parties without having to give out personal information? Thanks.

I’m surprised BT didn’t mention Rick Perry, the manikin we use as a governor, trying to play Jeff Davis or Gen. P.G.T. Beuregard. All the dip had to do was turn down the stimulus in it’s entirity and then run for reelection. Instead, the governor of the state which plagued the nation with Tom Delay, George W. Bush, Dick Armey, and Phil Gramm railed against the federal government imposing on the rights of Texans. Once again, I’m embarrassed and ashamed. Daily KOS has the clip.

yes

you can do your own search-i’m not linking directly if ya don’t mind.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/