Tea Totaled

You know it's bad for the Teabaggers when Glenn Reynolds' op-ed in the WSJ (declaring of course that American politics will be changed forever after today) has three blatant lies in the just the first paragraph.

Today American taxpayers in more than 300 locations in all 50 states will hold rallies -- dubbed "tea parties" -- to protest higher taxes and out-of-control government spending. There is no political party behind these rallies, no grand right-wing conspiracy, not even a 501(c) group like MoveOn.org.

Republicans are most certainly behind it, FOX News is behind it, and FreedomWorks is behind it, asshole.

Reynolds goes on from there to describe how using THE INTERNET, circa the Left 2002, they will recreate the entire political landscape and overthrow Obama unfair taxation, because all taxation is unfair and so is the government and we're all angry and stuff.

No really, that's the entire thing. Giving the fringe nutbars a national platform to hate on Obama is their key to attracting moderate, independent voters that for some reason inexplicable to the teabggers are siding en masse with the Dems. They honestly believe they are right, and if the rest of America can just be made to understand how terribly evil the government is, why we'll all go back to letting the GOP run everything.

Magical thinking. The last three years simply don't exist to these people. They dismiss the progressive movement of the last two elections as "Bush is gone. How could anyone like Obama?" They've already set themselves up as victims should the protests fall on their face. They can't lose, they figure.

Only the 2008 elections kind of proved they already have lost.

[UPDATE] Marc Cooper in the LA Times lets the teabaggers have it right between the eyes.

The Web is buzzing with information about how to throw an anti-Obama Taxpayer Tea Party, something organizers hope will be held today from Santa Monica to South Carolina. But no need to burn up your bandwidth reading complicated instructions. Here's a simpler recipe:

Go to a hobby store. Buy a scale model of a U.N. One-World-Government Black Helicopter and a tube of glue. Toss the model kit. Sniff the entire tube of glue. You're all set for the party.

Nice. Once again, where were you Tea Party guys when Bush did all the things you despise Obama for?