Teabagging the white house?

[Daydreamer]

Teabagging in the government?

Good quotes include "Well who wouldn't want to T-bag John McCain, that's all I'm gonna say."

[Null]

I remember this on The Daily Show, like three weeks ago.

[Kuya]

I thought i was watching The Daily Show for a moment there.

[_chuchu]

I thought i was watching The Daily Show for a moment there.

They do look somwhat related :>. "Can't be a teabagger by choice." "People have been teabagging for a long time." "Social and fiscal teabaggers starting to move apart from one another"

[ZarakiKujata]

well it makes sense Ana Marie Cox would have such a daily show style talk about teabagging, she is the founder of wonkette.

[Myst]

that made me smile

[Day]

http://roanoketeaparty.com

Tea too expensive round these parts ya'll, so gathur up ur best fishin' bait, n head on down to the river for our first ever "Didn't take the bait" party.

Someone kill me.

[Dimmauk]

David Shuster: GOP "Going Nuts" For Teabagging, But They "Need A Dick Armey"

David Shuster: GOP "Going Nuts" For Teabagging, But They "Need A Dick Armey"

April 14, 2009 at 06:03 PM

Media Monitor Julie notes that making fun of the Tax Day Teabaggings is not just for Rachel Maddow and Ana Marie Cox anymore, and sends along a clip from last night's Countdown, in which David Shuster and Lawrence O'Donnell trotted out their own teabagging material for the MSNBC audience. They had the natural advantage of being familiar with the equipment used in a good teabagging -- steeped in it, if you will -- but the resulting conversation...well, let's just say that it proved somehow even more unsubtle that the Maddow/Cox version, thanks to the use of words like: "lick," "teabag mouthpieces," "nutshell," "uprising," "firm," and "David Vitter" who has "tight lips." It just goes on and on. And yes, props for this line, David Shuster:

And in Cavuto's defense, if you are planning simultaneous tea bagging all around the country, you're going to need a Dick Armey.

Also, O'Donnell has a number of very well thought out points about how this "teabagging" movement is, at its core, ridiculously incoherent in its politics.

Anyway, now the stage has been set for Chris Matthews to attempt to claim teabag supremacy.


This made me LOL the other day.

[Olo401]

So yeah.. They want to protest the high tax rates that were originally put into place by Reagan/Bush41. Fine by me.. Makes perfect sense, except the part where they blame Obama whose only tax increasing act so far was to add 40 cents to tobacco products.

But what do you expect when the Republofascist party steals a legitimate protest idea from the Libertarian Party and Ron Paul supporters and twists it for their own stupidly partisan ends?

[Beckwin]

if the Republicans were medieval Japanese, they'd all have killed themselves by now.

[Olo401]

The thing that will probably piss me off the most about this shit today is that these lame hypocritical attempts by the corporate right-wing in this country to simulate "grassroots activism" will get tons of media coverage while the war and party RNC convention protests from 2004-2008 that drew over a million people (or the illegal police tactics and abuses that ensued each time) received no mention at all in the mainstream press.

[Absolutely Virtue]

http://roanoketeaparty.com

Tea too expensive round these parts ya'll, so gathur up ur best fishin' bait, n head on down to the river for our first ever "Didn't take the bait" party.

Someone kill me.

Thanks for this. My wife is originally from Roanoke, and it's going to be awhile before I let her live this one down.

The clowns organizing the protest in DC had planned to dump 1,000,000 teabags in Lafayette Square, the park right next to the White House (and just a few blocks from my house). Only when they showed up they were told they didn't have a permit, and would be thrown in jail if they went through with it. The best part is that they had already bought all the teabags. Fail more. Just one more thing for a bunch of old white people to get pissed about.

What a joke. Let's blame the whole thing on Obama. Those tens of billions of your tax dollars Bush spent in Iraq? Don't mind that, it was just an investment in freedom.

[thatwasnifty]

The clowns organizing the protest in DC had planned to dump 1,000,000 teabags in Lafayette Square, the park right next to the White House (and just a few blocks from my house). Only when they showed up they were told they didn't have a permit, and would be thrown in jail if they went through with it. The best part is that they had already bought all the teabags. Fail more. Just one more thing for a bunch of old white people to get pissed about.

Ugh. I work downtown. I hope this doesn't fuck up my commute home more than Metro already does on its own.

I wonder if they bought American tea or tea grown in another country.

[Absolutely Virtue]

Ugh. I work downtown. I hope this doesn't fuck up my commute home more than Metro already does on its own.

I wonder if they bought American tea or tea grown in another country.

It's all cleared out already. There were only a few hundred of them at the most, and they're gone. No worries. Just billions of soaking wet fat tourrorists on the Orange Line, standing in car doorways and on the left side of escalators.

[Beckwin]

http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/13/corporate-lobyists-raising-money-for-tea-parties

right-wing corporatists funding and organizing an anti-tax/anti-corporatism "movement" for their own political gain (get more typical GOP corporate cronies back into office in 2010). I almost feel bad for those suckered in by it, but then I just giggle at teabagging jokes.

[Kuya]

On related news, it seems the right wing has recently discovered that allowing government the freedom to spy on civilians is a bad thing.

The Department of Homeland Security is warning law enforcement officials about a rise in "rightwing extremist activity," saying the economic recession, the election of America's first black president and the return of a few disgruntled war veterans could swell the ranks of white-power militias.

A footnote attached to the report by the Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis defines "rightwing extremism in the United States" as including not just racist or hate groups, but also groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority.

"It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single-issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration," the warning says

For Michelle Malkin's bawwwing over it and declaring leftwing conspiracy.

[archibaldcrane]

The thing that will probably piss me off the most about this shit today is that these lame hypocritical attempts by the corporate right-wing in this country to simulate "grassroots activism" will get tons of media coverage while the war and party RNC convention protests from 2004-2008 that drew over a million people (or the illegal police tactics and abuses that ensued each time) received no mention at all in the mainstream press.

You...realize of course that noone is covering this because of faux-grass-roots activism, media bias or anything else.

Anything else other than the fact that they get to say "teabagging" over and over and over. I just wonder what percentage of the news audience is completely oblivious to the joke - it has to be sizable.

[Beckwin]

just to show that teabagging is nothing more than typical right-white raaaage/stupidity:

http://washingtonindependent.com/388...arty-round-one

http://i44.tinypic.com/14buo82.jpg

[Rhinox]

Where's Pohi and the boards Ron paul supporters? I'd assume they would be pissed off at the Republican party piggy backing on Libertarian core values and taking all the credit.

[Azkarin2]

Isn't this whole protest over the massive bailouts that have been passed? Not so much over the increased tax laws (which AFAIK haven't been anything substantial) but the increased taxes that will come as a result of the bailouts.

Also, one of the articles on CNN got all high and mighty over the use of the term tea party. His entire article bashed the Republicans for not realizing that they had representation with taxation. Is it really that big of a deal if the term is used and isn't 100% similar to the original use? It has to do with taxes so it is slightly relevant and the dude seemed to have completely missed/ignored that point.