“As the ship lay anchored in Boston Harbor, a party of the colonists dressed as red Indians boarded the vessel, behaved very rudely, and threw all the tea overboard. This made the tea unsuitable for drinking… even for Americans.”
— David Tomlinson
Mary Poppins (1964)
To be honest, I love these people. First of all, they’re so damned entertaining. How else can you talk about “tea-bagging” in polite company? (Click here if you don’t know what it really means.)
Secondly, they’re just the wedge that is needed to drive into the Republican Party. Or better yet, the stake to drive through its heart. As long as they embrace candidates like Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, they’ll draw the more conservative wingnuts into their camp. They could be just the spoilers we need.
Thirdly, they’re such a white organization. Sure, they parade their tokens around whenever Keith Olbermann or Rachel Maddow point this out, but for the most part they’re just undereducated white people.
The cry of the tea party is for fewer taxes and less government. Alas, the fools do not realize that we need taxes to pay for more government, because we have so many stupid people like them who make government necessary. Democracy keeps them in check. We hope.
If I thought that the Tea Party stood any chance of becoming a major political force, instead of just an amusing sideshow for Chris Matthews to chuckle at, I’d be afraid. But I don’t. So I’m not.
- The 2012 Presidential Election
- President Barack Obama
- My US Senators
- Minnesota Governor
- The Tea Party
- The Electoral Process
- My Perfect Voting System
