Comments on: Glenn Reynolds Puts the InstaCurse on the Teabagging Movement http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/glenn-reynolds-puts-the-instacurse-on-the-teabagging-movement/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 18 Feb 2012 07:02:22 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: becca656 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/glenn-reynolds-puts-the-instacurse-on-the-teabagging-movement/#comment-1880130 becca656 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:33:24 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/glenn-reynolds-puts-the-instacurse-on-the-teabagging-movement/#comment-1880130 <p>Yet more headcounts:</p> <p>Boston - a few hundred<br /> Des Moines - 1,000<br /> Atlanta - they say only ‘thousands’ but that’s where Hannity is doing is show tonight, so probably not a great sample.<br /> Lansing MI - 4,000<br /> Hartford CT - 3,000<br /> New Haven CT - 1,000<br /> Montgomery AL - 1,000<br /> Frankfort, KY - 250</p> <p>Yeah, 250. Not a typo.</p> <p>I’m not willing to write this all off, but it isn’t the Million Man March, folks. Seriously.</p> Yet more headcounts:

Boston – a few hundred
Des Moines – 1,000
Atlanta – they say only ‘thousands’ but that’s where Hannity is doing is show tonight, so probably not a great sample.
Lansing MI – 4,000
Hartford CT – 3,000
New Haven CT – 1,000
Montgomery AL – 1,000
Frankfort, KY – 250

Yeah, 250. Not a typo.

I’m not willing to write this all off, but it isn’t the Million Man March, folks. Seriously.

]]> By: schlitzstop http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/glenn-reynolds-puts-the-instacurse-on-the-teabagging-movement/#comment-1880129 schlitzstop Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:03:24 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/glenn-reynolds-puts-the-instacurse-on-the-teabagging-movement/#comment-1880129 <p>Putz might be right about this idiocy impacting the 2010 and 2012 elections, though not in the way he envisions. Anytime you get the 28-percenters fired up it causes Republican primaries to turn into arguements of who’s more batshit-crazy, which leads to Democrats having an easy time in the general elections.</p> Putz might be right about this idiocy impacting the 2010 and 2012 elections, though not in the way he envisions. Anytime you get the 28-percenters fired up it causes Republican primaries to turn into arguements of who’s more batshit-crazy, which leads to Democrats having an easy time in the general elections.

]]> By: TheLurkingMod http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/glenn-reynolds-puts-the-instacurse-on-the-teabagging-movement/#comment-1880121 TheLurkingMod Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:15:42 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/glenn-reynolds-puts-the-instacurse-on-the-teabagging-movement/#comment-1880121 <p><strike>TBagg</strike> TBogg is upstairs at the top of the front!<br /><a href="http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/how-very-grassrooty/" rel="nofollow">How very grassrooty</a></p> TBagg TBogg is upstairs at the top of the front!
How very grassrooty

]]> By: becca656 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/glenn-reynolds-puts-the-instacurse-on-the-teabagging-movement/#comment-1880120 becca656 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:09:42 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/glenn-reynolds-puts-the-instacurse-on-the-teabagging-movement/#comment-1880120 <p>Just passed by the breakroom, where they run Faux News. Cavuto is in Sacramento. Screen logo says the Sacramento Tea party is drawing a huge crowd, but states no number.</p> Just passed by the breakroom, where they run Faux News. Cavuto is in Sacramento. Screen logo says the Sacramento Tea party is drawing a huge crowd, but states no number.

]]> By: MrThinlySliced http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/glenn-reynolds-puts-the-instacurse-on-the-teabagging-movement/#comment-1880116 MrThinlySliced Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:26:51 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/glenn-reynolds-puts-the-instacurse-on-the-teabagging-movement/#comment-1880116 <p>Acc to UT’s publicly available records on salaries, Reynolds knocks back about $143000 a year with a LIGHT teaching load. When I was in grad school there, you could live in Knoxville like a friggin king for $30000 as a single guy. The place is wicked cheap and, surprisingly, a pretty cool town (music and what not). The undergraduate part of the university is pretty much an appendage of the football team and the law school produces pretty good trial lawyers, but that’s not what the ENDOWED chair that Reynolds has (someone oughta look into who endowed that chair) is there for. It’s no Georgetown when it comes to conny law.</p> Acc to UT’s publicly available records on salaries, Reynolds knocks back about $143000 a year with a LIGHT teaching load. When I was in grad school there, you could live in Knoxville like a friggin king for $30000 as a single guy. The place is wicked cheap and, surprisingly, a pretty cool town (music and what not). The undergraduate part of the university is pretty much an appendage of the football team and the law school produces pretty good trial lawyers, but that’s not what the ENDOWED chair that Reynolds has (someone oughta look into who endowed that chair) is there for. It’s no Georgetown when it comes to conny law.

]]> By: cinnamonape http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/glenn-reynolds-puts-the-instacurse-on-the-teabagging-movement/#comment-1880115 cinnamonape Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:18:25 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/glenn-reynolds-puts-the-instacurse-on-the-teabagging-movement/#comment-1880115 <p>“Hey, you crazy coots get off of my tax-supported socialist sidewalks and parks!”</p> “Hey, you crazy coots get off of my tax-supported socialist sidewalks and parks!”

]]> By: cinnamonape http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/glenn-reynolds-puts-the-instacurse-on-the-teabagging-movement/#comment-1880114 cinnamonape Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:15:26 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/glenn-reynolds-puts-the-instacurse-on-the-teabagging-movement/#comment-1880114 <p>Actually the East India Company got a tax reduction to put the un-taxed smuggled tea out of business. Boston and New York were exclusive ports for EIC tea and other goods (including linen and wools). Sam Adams and other Boston traders were thus unable to import those commodities legally. Nonetheless, they did, through smuggling.</p> <p>The reduction of the tea tax was intended to lower the price of British tea to out-compete the smuggled tea. The Bostonian merchants first organized a boycott of Britrish tea, and when that was less than effective actually threatened to destroy the British tea if it was off-loaded in warehouses on land. Warehouse owners were threatened, and so refused to accept it. The tea sat in the harbor for months. </p> <p>Eventually a plan was developed to use a military barracks as a warehouse, and the “Sons of Liberty” decided to dump the tea into the harbor before that happened. </p> <p>It was really an attack on corporate monopolies undercutting the prices that local importers and produces could compete with more than a tax revolt per se.</p> Actually the East India Company got a tax reduction to put the un-taxed smuggled tea out of business. Boston and New York were exclusive ports for EIC tea and other goods (including linen and wools). Sam Adams and other Boston traders were thus unable to import those commodities legally. Nonetheless, they did, through smuggling.

The reduction of the tea tax was intended to lower the price of British tea to out-compete the smuggled tea. The Bostonian merchants first organized a boycott of Britrish tea, and when that was less than effective actually threatened to destroy the British tea if it was off-loaded in warehouses on land. Warehouse owners were threatened, and so refused to accept it. The tea sat in the harbor for months.

Eventually a plan was developed to use a military barracks as a warehouse, and the “Sons of Liberty” decided to dump the tea into the harbor before that happened.

It was really an attack on corporate monopolies undercutting the prices that local importers and produces could compete with more than a tax revolt per se.

]]> By: Beerfart Liberal http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/glenn-reynolds-puts-the-instacurse-on-the-teabagging-movement/#comment-1880113 Beerfart Liberal Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:09:41 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/glenn-reynolds-puts-the-instacurse-on-the-teabagging-movement/#comment-1880113 <p>78 degrees; no humidity (35%) not one single, solitary cloud in the sky where I am. Gorgeous day for teabaggin’ in the park.</p> 78 degrees; no humidity (35%) not one single, solitary cloud in the sky where I am. Gorgeous day for teabaggin’ in the park.

]]> By: Jo Fish http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/glenn-reynolds-puts-the-instacurse-on-the-teabagging-movement/#comment-1880112 Jo Fish Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:08:08 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/glenn-reynolds-puts-the-instacurse-on-the-teabagging-movement/#comment-1880112 <p>Yes, it’s all due to the undue influence of the Flying Spaghetti Monster’s anti-wingut Weather Machine doncha know?</p> Yes, it’s all due to the undue influence of the Flying Spaghetti Monster’s anti-wingut Weather Machine doncha know?

]]> By: MysteriousTraveller http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/glenn-reynolds-puts-the-instacurse-on-the-teabagging-movement/#comment-1880111 MysteriousTraveller Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:59:34 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/glenn-reynolds-puts-the-instacurse-on-the-teabagging-movement/#comment-1880111 <p><a href="http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200904150038?show=1" rel="nofollow">Ask and Media Matters has.</a></p> Ask and Media Matters has.

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