Taxpayer Tea Parties steeped in insanity

[Why Syzygy]

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-cooper15-2009apr15,0,3158535.story

What, exactly, are the protesters protesting? The marginal tax rate rising 3% for millionaires?

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. (...)

And now this. Whip out your Lipton and don your tinfoil hat and join the protest against ... against ... against what exactly? (...)

So, if you'll excuse the mixed metaphor, what's the beef behind today's protests? The Obama administration is cutting taxes for all except the very richest of Americans. Reduced withholding is already showing up in millions of paychecks.

Then again, this rash of tea parties is being organized not only by the pseudo-journalists at Fox News (with Glenn Beck, Neil Cavuto and Sean Hannity actively stoking the flames) but also by FreedomWorks, a conservative lobbying outfit headed by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey. I suppose it was Armey's constitutional if morally dubious privilege to have built an entire political career out of defending the wealthy.

But are common folks actually going to dump Earl Grey into Santa Monica Bay because they are outraged, simply infuriated, by the marginal tax rate rising 3% for millionaires?

Or maybe they'll do it for some other reason. The FreedomWorks site says the Tea Party movement began in reaction to President Obama's corporate bailouts and ensuing yawning budget deficits. These same conservatives, however, were mum when George W. Bush erased our budget surplus and put us deep in the red by drunken spending on a pointless war in Iraq and by, yes, granting massive tax rollbacks for the loaded country clubbers who fund the GOP (and Armey's FreedomWorks). Another bothersome detail: The bailouts were also initiated by Bush. (...)

[lamp_shade]

1. GREAT !!

[Why Syzygy]

4. It's so funny!

:rofl: .. Then you go look at all those serious protesters. :rofl:

Can't help but think it is pent up frustration from the Bush bonanza.

[FiveGoodMen]

2. K&R

[tularetom]

3. Teabaggers are you gonna believe faux snooze or your lying paycheck?

And the trust fund babies of America thank you for protesting to lower their taxes.

[NJmaverick]

5. Well done! N/T

[Why Syzygy]

6. *kick*

:kick:

[Maraya1969]

7. This part seriously made me LOL

"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. (...)"

[4_TN_TITANS]

8. "..excuse the mixed metaphor, but what's the beef behind..."

:rofl:

[Why Syzygy]

9. "pseudo-journalists at Fox News"

has got to be one of the best lines.

"Tea Party" is barely a blip on news.google.

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. So many infuriated (and infuriating) comments on wasteful spending over there. Where have

these people been the last several years as we've been sucked dry by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?! Funny as they just showed up now after the economy nearly collapsed due to repealed regulation. *shaking head*

Stop calling liberals fascists, retards, etc etc. If you'd actually listen to some of our ideas you would see they have merit.

[Fire1]

11. Nah, it's steeped in racism.

[Why Syzygy]

12. Which can also be filed under "insanity". nt