1 Misunderestimating again.

2 ...we never saw this sort of crude disparagement of motive directed by the media at Obama's Zombies...

Obombies?

3 Finally, a double post.  Very clever to headline it like it's about the UK!

OT, but Desiree Rogers will be stepping down as WH social secretary in March.  Heh heh.

4 this could be interesting

5

I love that sign.

As for the LA Times.  This is nothing but "stuck accelerator" on their way to bankruptcy.  They need to talk to Toyota.

6
_{Dear Mistur Pezident, I am 2 years old living in Mattatusitts. My mommy and daddy have 5 jobs and still cannot pay the bills. Please tell Uncle Harry Reid to use reconsiliashon and bring us health care refowm now!}

7 Hope and Change! Yes we can! We are the ones we've been waiting for!

8 The LAT has little time left.  Like their buddies at the NYT's and ABC, they've got to get the product out before everyone gets laid off.

9 More rubbish from the LAT. I have yet to hear a substantive (or any) critique of what Tea Partiers are for and against. Is there a good argument to be made for spending ourselves into oblivion? There's a lot of chatter about Alinsky's Rules. But the only play in the lefty playbook seems to be attack the messenger. How about attacking the message if you are able? Thought not.

10 tapper tweets

jaketapper    SALAHI 2: THE REVENGE -- WH Social Secy Desiree Rogers to step down, she tells @LynnSweet (http://bit.ly/a2qo45)

11 Its funny, that article expresses EXACTLY how I feel about the lefty, semi-professional 'agitators'.  Bravo.

12 Headline now at Breitbart: Violent Rioters Clash With Police at UC Berkeley.

13 O.T.
Wow did you here Steve Winn on Rush just now? He just threw Obama under the bus and pretty much said we are forked though 2011.

14 unbelievable.

15

The Tea Partier's are disillusioned Baby Boomers?  If we had our druthers we'd send the whole generation to Belgium.

16 Time for TEA!

17 Oh, the injustice of people who have worked and been productive members of society all these years to actually complain!  If they had been smart and stayed on the Government dole all these years they would have been so much better off. ////////

18 How does your creator endow you with possessions?  Don't you earn those through your own hard work?

I understand you may inherit possessions from someplace, but endow?

19 Argh, I wish you'd given this thread to the British Tea Party and not mixed in that garbage from the LA Times.

Anyway, I wonder if they'll sail over in the Mayflower II. One dry foot, guys! Otherwise you can touch down off the east coast of Tamaulipas and then stroll across the Mexican border.

20 I'm glad the Democrat/Media complex makes no effort to understand their opposition.  The crude, juvenile name calling is all they have left. Their behavior screams intellectual bankruptcy.  Kicking these useless phone polishers into the dustbin of history is going to be a pleasure.

21 I'm curious as both parties are quite liberal, how far right will the British version of the Tea Party will end up being? Plus, Europe politics tend to be a bit violent so I wonder if there will be any clashes

22 "Neither "average Americans," as they like to portray themselves, nor trailer-park "Deliverance" throwbacks, as their lefty detractors would have us believe, tea partyers are more highly educated and wealthier than the rest of America. Nearly 75% are college educated, and two-thirds earn more than $50,000."

IOW-- taxpayers.

23
We have ever been at war with the 4th Estate 5th Columnists.

24 I think the English tea party movement is awesome news. The only alternative they seem to have to voice their displeasure with the government is the extremist/nationalist movements, which smack of the disastrous past. This movement gives voice to those who want their country back without joining with an extreme/nationalist group. I hope it takes off (but these are British, after all, and they have let it go soooooo far already, I have strong doubts).

25 Desiree Rogers will be stepping down as WH social secretary in March.

Whatever became of those Wagyu Wednesday snobfests?

26 They seem to be calling them ex-hippies, but I'm wondering how many of the tea partiers are ex-military or married to ex-military. 

27

Nearly 75% are college educated, and two-thirds earn more than $50,000.

Funny how they want to include this.  Liberal always do want to disparage their opponents as slack-jawed poor yokels who don't know any better.  They want to see themselves as the well educated and gainfully employed.  Of course when needed they're ready for their hypocritical 180 as usual.

28 We have ever been at war with the 4th Estate 5th Columnists.
Posted by: Dang Straights at February 26, 2010 02:25 PM (fx8sm)

I know the Visitors aren't saints. But they're in power! They are power... You and I are in unique positions, don't you see that? Why not take advantage of...

29 Headline now at Breitbart: Violent Rioters Clash With Police at UC Berkeley.

Posted by: di butler, kinky denture sharer at February 26, 2010 02:19 PM (S3xX1)

The police acted stupidly.  Hell, even I know that.

30 It is fast approaching face punching time.

Get there early - you get the best faces.

31

Breaking:

White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers to step down

White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers told me Friday she will step down next month, after presiding over 330 events in the White House in 14 months.

Rogers is departing after achieving a major goal of President Obama and First Lady Michelle -- opening up the White House to make it the "peoples house."

"As we turn the corner on the first year," Rogers told me, "this is a good time for me to explore opportunities in the corporate world."

Rogers told me it has been "an honor and a privilege to serve this president and First Lady, in what has certainly been a historic presidency."

Rogers, a friend of the First Couple for years, was one of the first Obama administration appointees.

32

The peasants demand a hockey thread!

Posted by: logprof at February 26, 2010 02:28 PM (omtdM)

god I hope we don't lose to Finland. A US vs US Jr. rematch would be wonderful

33 what has certainly been a historic presidency

I love the past tense there.  Gives me a tingle.

34

Sort of on topic: A documentary is coming out called "Generation Zero", and it analyzes the history behind what caused the Baby Boomer Generation to be how they are. By "they" I mean the noisy ones who gave the generation its attention-grabbing black eye. It stems back to WWII and the parents who did without wanting to give their kids a peace of mind, starting in the 50s.

Looks like it'll be very interesting, and the makers are not coming from an apologist angle.

35

Ace's blog has a voracious appetite for italics.

36

What a crock of condescending shit. No wonder the LA Times is on the brink of bankruptcy. May they go under quickly.

And good for our cousins across the pond. If they had started this years ago, they wouldn't be in the mess they're in.

Take back Londonistan.

37 "Oh, and this being England, weÂ’ll be serving actual, you know, tea. I hope to see some of this blogÂ’s readers there."

If I had a ton of money I'd fly in for the occasion.

Instead, I'll have some tea in empathy.

38 what has certainly been a historic FAIL of a presidency

FIFY

39 "...tea partyers also skew toward middle age or older. That's the tell. Most came of age in the 1960s, an era distinguished by widespread disrespect for government. In their wonder years, they learned that politics was about protesting the Establishment and shouting down the Man. No wonder they're doing that now."

Geez, coming from the LAT that is the most absolutely perfect TEXTBOOK example of projection that I have ever seen!

40 The thing that finally pushed me over the edge into action was that after many years, it finally got too painful to continue wearing my dead sister's teeth.

41

...."in what has certainly been a historic presidency."

We both agree it has been historic, but I'm pretty sure we are thinking for different reasons.

42 We'd actually prefer it if you would call it the "The High Tea on The Lawn Movement" rather than that drab, American term, "Tea Party Movement". 

43 opening up the White House to make it the "peoples house."

I just don't even know where to begin with that stupid line.

44 are these baggers having some sort of LSD flashback ? i always thought that they were from the Reagan Disco Rambo era but they do seem to be from the ME gen

45

The tea party is a harbinger of midlife crisis, not political crisis. For men of a certain age, it offers a counterculture experience familiar from adolescence -- underground radio, esoteric tracts, consciousness-raising teach-ins and rallies replete with extroverted behavior to shock the squares -- all paid for with ample cash.

Umm, I think you're thinking of some other group of people.  Unless you consider counterculture experience to be enlisting, esoteric tracts to be country/western and mainline/heavy rock, and rallies to be NASCAR events and church picnics.  Which, now that I think about it, is entirely possible.  Indeed, projection isn't just a river in Egypt.

46 I just don't even know where to begin with that stupid line.

It's from the House Party scripts.  It's a Kid n Play lyric.

47

A documentary is coming out called "Generation Zero", and it analyzes the history behind what caused the Baby Boomer Generation to be how they are.

Yes, more media hype that reinforces the media hype about the baby boomers.  All the crap about the generation being a group of anti-war hippies all hanging out at the piss-filled Height-Ashbury corner is BS.

The great majority of the so-called baby-boomers kept their mouths shut, either went to school, or went into the military.  They did their jobs just like the generation before.

The MSM likes to show parades of anti-war hippies smoking dope and "protesting".  There were actually very few of those and they were financed by the communists in Russia.  

48 do something about jobs but don't increase spending.

Took me a second to figure out why the Times thought this was a contradiction, but then I remembered that liberals believe lowering taxes is the same as spending.

49 Jeezus.  Do they project much?

50 A documentary is coming out called "Generation Zero", and it analyzes the history behind what caused the Baby Boomer Generation to be how they are.

I'll be sure to stay tuned for this deep, incisive, indispensable, fact-packed, original study unless Bugs Bunny is on or I have to wash my hair.

51

330 events in the White House in 14 months.

 

Wow, that's almost an event every day of the week, and the Obamas were off and traveling quite a bit too.  Unbelievable.  I wonder what the total cost of all those "events" was.  I'm sure the MSM will never be curious to investigate (if it was a Republican president, you bet that the MSM would be all over it--painted as "excessive, unprecedented entertaining/spending during the worst economy since Teh Great Depression" and "insensiitive in light of all the Americans suffering under financial duress and making choices of whether to buy food or medicine, not which cocktails will be served or designer outfits to be worn.")

52 21 I'm glad the Democrat/Media complex makes no effort to understand their opposition.  The crude, juvenile name calling is all they have left. Their behavior screams intellectual bankruptcy.  Kicking these useless phone polishers into the dustbin of history is going to be a pleasure.

They're totally unprepared to confront the Tea Party movement. Hope it stays that way.

53 Again, we never saw this sort of crude disparagement of motive directed by the media at Obama's Zombies or any of the leftwing protests.

Yeah, where was this sneering condescension when it was appropriate - like for all those colossally stupid fucking WTO protests, populated by aging hipster clownshoes, wealthy white-bread liberal-arts ignoramuses and shitty little delinquent fuckheads looking for an excuse vandalize property and score some stupid college ass.

54 Ah, Nighthawk got there first. 

55

 Indeed, projection isn't just a river in Egypt.

 

Butt, I love Pwojection!

56 Actually there was significant support for the colonists in Britain during the war, so not as shocking as you might expect...

57 and really the groups that voted for Obama the heaviest were women, Blacks, Jews, post graduate degrees and incomes over $250,000 and the young. Ace why do you hate these people that elected Obama ?

58 oh, and does Chris Matthews ever get tired of molesting the chicken of stupid?

59 63: shit! that was me

60 Whitehouse presser begins in 10min

Happy happy joy joy!

61 @O'Shea

You do know the old saying about assuming something, right?

62 52

Yes, more media hype that reinforces the media hype about the baby boomers.  All the crap about the generation being a group of anti-war hippies all hanging out at the piss-filled Height-Ashbury corner is BS.

I don't think it's about reinforcing hype. What I've seen about it is more of an explanation as to how the fucked-up hippies, not the whole generation, turned out that way and caused the bullshit we're seeing in the world today.

It's not out yet, so I can't endorse it.

63 @59

Actually I was kinda surprised that 43 comments had gone by and nobody had mentioned it yet.  The cluelessness of that piece's author is absolutely breathtaking- it reads like something out of Iowahawk or The Onion.

64 Make with The Hockeh Bloggage!!!!

65 Did the article mention that these people will also vote in massive numbers come November?

66

They're totally unprepared to confront the Tea Party movement. Hope it stays that way.

 

Kind of the Democrat way.  The Dems and Teh Bamster were absolutely unprepared to confront The Republicans (who did their homework, studied the bill, conducted mock debates with eachother--members of the House and the Senate worked together on the Republican side and produced compelling, cogent and well researched arguments).  Liberals are too lazy (intellectually as well as shirking hard work) to be educated and informed.  They constantly rely on emotional tactics, empty rhetoric, political props, and the ignorance of the masses.  Unfortunately for the Democrats, the masses aren't happy with the government and are becoming more informed and educated about the issues. 

67 Come see Baghdad Gibbs

Watch him spin lies to truth..

Behold

http://www.whitehouse.gov/live

68 I don't believe how Totally Opposite this Shit is:  This is a description of the Obama-Clinton-Democrat Left.  This asshole is describing his pals, not us.

God damn these media jerks..........

69 If you want to see "typical self-absorbed, privileged children used to having their way -- now -- and uninhibited about complaining loudly when they don't", watch the video at #12.

70

god I hope we don't lose to Finland. A US vs US Jr. rematch would be wonderful

Israel has a hockey team?

71

Dear Baby Boomers,

FOAD.

Sincerely,

72

@62  --  I don't know about ace but I hate them because their stupidty is personally costing me.  I am being harmed by their (and your) incompetence.

 

How's that hope'n'change working out for you oshea?  Does his "confident smile and kind eyes" still inspire you?

73 Heard Daniel Hannan on Beck discussing the tea party this morning.  Considering the taxes the Brits pay, it's about damned time.

Oh, and O/T:  Desiree Rodgers, WH social secretary "stepping down" per CNN a second ago.

74 Hey LA Times, how's that business model working out for you?  Disparaging most of the populace not bringing in the cash?  Shocking.

75

How's that hope'n'change working out for you oshea?  Does his "confident smile and kind eyes" still inspire you?

 

I've got two words for you:  Trouser Creases!

76 Hey LA times jerks - I still want to see the Khalidi tape.

77 Someone should create a sign that says something like, "I've been wearing my dead sister's dentures since the ripe age of 17 due to our national dental plan".

78 Hockey thread up for those that are interested.

79 oh, and does Chris Matthews ever get tired of molesting the chicken of stupid?

Posted by: The Lady Who Wore Her Dead Sister's Dentures at February 26, 2010 02:48 PM (wnU1W)

I feel sorry for Mr. Tingles.  He's trying, he's really trying, to take the biggest loudmouthed lunatic award from Olbie but, Chris, it just ain't gonna happen.

80 As Derbyshire says, there's a class war in this country, but it isn't between the rich and the poor.  It's the rich and the poor against the middle.

81 Projection is not just a river in Egypt.

82 I've got your British Tea-Party candidate right here:

Euro-MP Nigel Farage welcomes the "President" of "Europe", Herman van Rompuy, to the European Parliment:

You have the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk. And the question that I want to ask, that we're all going to ask, is: Who are you? I'd never heard of you, nobody in Europe had ever heard of you... You come from Belgium, which is pretty much a non-country...

83 I am fascinated by this overwhelming compulsion by the libs to define us, as if we are from Mars. It is like they are studying a fucking lab specimen.

84 that tastes so crappy, I spit it out immediately

85 @94 Thats good stuff

86

bwahaha.

 er wow. so the ones they were formally claiming racist whites are now old school hippy dissenters?  ok than,  hippies are racist.  amazing they are now own

so now they should work on figuring out  who the teapartiers are now that they've found out who they are. (through that crazy tactic projection)

i'm so confused!

87

tea in empathy

Isn't that a Rolling Stones song?

88 re 98.says to myself . don't try to erase and add text it never works!

89  I probabably didn't characterize it well, but read this: Generation Zero

90 Is anyone here to remember Joe Pine?  Didn't he have a TV show in 1968 where he would bring on one or several freaks and tear them to shreds?

 I remember watching some hippy babbling The Usual Garbage while his hippy-chick kept saying, "Kahuna Sam speaks wisely". 

We're not the "Woodstock Generation".  Fuck those freaks:  In August 1969 ( during that mud-fest 'concert' ) there were more men serving in Vietnam--about 550,000 that month-- than the total alleged attendance at Yasgur's farm

We're the Vietnam Generation;  a few of us changed the world while most of us watched.  Most of us lived normal lives and now that we're getting old we don't want everything we worked for--AND EARNED--these past forty years to be pissed away by the dipshits who we've always tolerated but never took seriously

Only now these Dipshits are running the government........

91 "is anyone here OLD ENOUGH to remember Joe Pine....."

92 Wrong link. Look at this one: Generation Zero

93 Ace, you should see the WaPo's piece on "Coffee Parties" today, it's a soft-focus hagiography of "just folks" who want to counter the tea Parties. It's exactly the counterpoint to the LAT piece you discuss. Makes your point rather well, I should think.

And the Dana Millbank "gosh darn it, Obama really schooled them mean old GOP SOBs" wishful-thinking piece on the front page.

They have a narrative and their sticking to it. You just saw everything wrong, evil wingnuts!

94

could the LAT be more dismissive?

yes, they are just getting started...

95

"Actually there was significant support for the colonists in Britain during the war, so not as shocking as you might expect..."

True enough.  But we kept most of them out of the limelight.

96

Wrong link. Look at this one: Generation Zero

That trailor doesn't look like anything to do with the Baby Boomers. It may be a good show IF it lays ALL the blame on the democrats.

97 LA Times has also been swinging for the fences lately on the glories of illegal immigrants and the racist, xenophobic assholes the rest of us are for "hating" on them.  Check out these two recent columns:

A complex tragedy at the border

Latin American immigrants are frustrated too

98
50 years of protest history from the Left: not a problem. 1 year of protesting from the Right: social crisis.

99

109

Wrong link. Look at this one: Generation Zero

That trailor doesn't look like anything to do with the Baby Boomers. It may be a good show IF it lays ALL the blame on the democrats.

I can't link any more than I have (just read the whole page). But Breitbart introduced it at The National Tea Party Convention.

100

Ace, you should see the WaPo's piece on "Coffee Parties" today, it's a soft-focus hagiography of "just folks" who want to counter the tea Parties. It's exactly the counterpoint to the LAT piece you discuss. Makes your point rather well, I should think.

I love thisbit:

It is not Us against the Govt. It is democracy vs corporatocracy . . .   I wish people who thought like that would swear off accepting paychecks from or doing any sort of business with evil corporations.  Oh, wait, she is:   "It's like trying to perform surgery in the dark," says Park, 41, a documentary filmmaker. She's exhausted, overcommitted, passing whole days on Facebook, not collecting a paycheck, hopping between conference calls, sending e-mails at 4 a.m., smoothing out conflicts over strategy.   Hmmm... and all for a "movement" that replicates about a thousand other "Progressive movements."  DailyKos, MoveOn.org, International ANSWER, the DNC... any of these ring a bell?

101 Some socks just suck.

102 why do you hate black people ace WHY WHY WHY ooops sorry lady about running over your dog.

103

"is anyone here OLD ENOUGH to remember Joe Pine....."

He was awesome. Only a fellow Moron would remember him.

104 That linked Spencer and Ellis article is bullshit in every possible way.

Hippies try to maximize the association between them and the rest of the boomers in order to imagine that they have more people on their side.  Every time somebody repeats this false generalization, it helps hippies.

I'm not a boomer, and I would be happy to see all hippies suddenly disappear.

The dipshits who wrote the article *need* to believe that the tea partiers are just a bunch of mostly harmless hippies who protest primarily to dodge life's obligations (military service, gainful employment, not sitting around smoking dope all day and treating life as some endless summer of love, etc.) and will latch onto whatever bullshit leftard cause comes available.

Spencer and Ellis are whistling past the graveyard.

The truth is too scary for these dipshits to face.  The tea partiers are people with legitimate beefs and deeply rooted support in the founding principles of this country.  These protesters are primarily people who take life's obligations seriously but still find it necessary to protest to be heard.

The hippies have been vandalizing the bedrock foundations of this country.  The tea partiers are the bedrock foundations of this country.

105

Uh, the reason why "the poor" don't attend tea parties is because 1)they like their welfare just fine, more please; 2)they have to freaking work two, three jobs (apiece) in order to keep their families fed, housed, and clothed thanks to all the freaking taxes getting hoisted onto their backs (and a general lack of paying jobs), aka. they don't have time to attend any tea parties (and/or the tea parties are too far away and gas costs money) -- if they think they're going to make a populist, anti-tea party cause the commies are stupid: the little people have noticed the price of food, et. al going up and employment going down (plus the jobs they do have don't pay for as much), by leaps and bounds just in the past year -- and a few of them have connected it with Washington.

That's kinda great: British tea parties; think it could spread to the continent?  Now that would be something!

 

106 Is it March Madness yet?

107

But Breitbart introduced it at The National Tea Party Convention.

OK, I didn't go down the page before only watched the trailor.  I guess this paragraph is what you are talking about.

Thanks to the cowards in DC, the corrupt in the business world, and the stupid, spoiled Baby Boomers whose selfish grasp of entitlements have left tens of trillions of dollars of deficits and unfunded mandates on their children and grandchildren, it is the Middle Class getting royally screwed here.

I'll have to take exception to Mr. Nolte's bullshit.  This is NOT a baby boomer "entitlement" thing.  The bullshit with the explosion of entitlements started with the "greatest generation" and commie lover FDR.  They further exployed under LBJ when the "baby boomers" were still in school.

In addion, he says the video hits Republicans and Wall Street.  So I have to throw the BS flag on the video as well. This financial collapse is totally owned by the Democraps in congress and Bill Clinton.

108

I'll have to take exception to Mr. Nolte's bullshit.  This is NOT a baby boomer "entitlement" thing.  The bullshit with the explosion of entitlements started with the "greatest generation" and commie lover FDR.  They further exployed under LBJ when the "baby boomers" were still in school.

In addion, he says the video hits Republicans and Wall Street.  So I have to throw the BS flag on the video as well. This financial collapse is totally owned by the Democraps in congress and Bill Clinton.

Posted by: Vic at February 26, 2010 03:54 PM (QrA9E)

True dat--but of course these days, The Truth Shall Make You Irrelevant

It was the 'greatest generation' ( a post WWI baby boom ) that created the welfare state in the 1960s--when those born in the 1920s were in power.  It used to be that old people were disproportionally poor--but not since the "Great Society", which transferred wealth from the young and middle-aged to the old, and from the middle class to the non-working poor.  Now, the unmarried young are disproportionally poor

If you are a 'boomer' from the late 40s-early 60s, it was your parents that created the Welfare State and omnipresent government.  And it was some of us who allowed a few of us to create the "Me State" and turn the culture into rancid Crap

109 They called the colonists who wanted no taxation without represenation - rebels.  Some of those colonists, Loyalists, were on King George's side. They looked down their noses at the dirty rebels too.  Except it got easier for a loyalist to look down on rebels, when the loyalist was swinging from a tree . . .

110 We got to be able to do something to the MSM?  We already don't buy their product, and they are going broke.  But that don't seam to bother them!  They are fine with that!

111

Again, we never saw this sort of crude disparagement of motive directed by the media at Obama's Zombies or any of the leftwing protests.

Maybe that's because they were right (facts notwithstanding).

112 "Nearly 75% are college educated, and two-thirds earn more than $50,000."  ie, they are taxpayers.

113 I have tried very hard not to allow myself to be consumed by hatred for these lying sacks of shit, but I'm fast losing my ability to remain above it. No lie too big or too outrageous for these scumbags; now they are trying to say that the right is actually made up of the types of people who have clearly been leading from the left for decades -the spoiled-rotten, elitist, pampered, draft-dodging pukes of the sixties. Wrong, motherfuckers!

The people who make up the ranks of conservative protesters are the same ones who have been filling the volunteer military - particularly the combat ranks - for years, the ones who have carried the burdens that leftist swine like Ted Rall and Michael Moore have deemed beneath them, even as they sneered and spat on those like myself who shouldered the load. You filthy pigs who still suck Stalin's dick know how much you are hated and despised by all but the leeches on the fringes of society. How brilliant of you to understand the contempt in which you are held, and to now try to paint us as you. Of all the lies you twisted, sick fucks have ever told, this might be the most brazen.

Of course, there might be a reason for this, one that makes this sort of ultimate projection almost understandable. Maybe, deep down inside, you know what you are. And maybe you have just enough of a conscience to hate yourself for it.

114 126  That's doubtful...unless too much self love can go right around to self hate.  I think they're grasping for insults and are too dumb to come up with something original (plus they're trying to make points with "the little people" -- if they call the tea partiers wealthy boomers, then the "little people" will blindly believe it, no?  idiots).

115 Just replace "tea partiers" with "progressive activists" -- then the article almost makes something resembling sense. Ah, projection...the favorite hobby of the commie left.

116

an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals

I thought tea partiers were beetle-browed knuckle-draggers who's fear of a brown President caused them to scribble protest signs replete with misspellings while clinging together in protective packs as they grunt their disapproval and despair at losing their idyllic 1950's culture to the "Other".

I sure wish they'd pick a caraciture and stick with it.

117 'Speaking truth to power' was just peachy-dandy until we became 'the power'. Now you can just f*ck off.

118

can't find the exact quote--think it was in the Discourses--but IIRC, it was Plato that opined that

revolutions are most always fomented/perpetrated by the imperfectly socialized offspring of the rich.....

I have had that snippet laying around since not long after patty hearst..misplaced, i guess

119 Clearly projection. While this article may describe Cindy Sheehan and Medea Benjamin it does not describe actual tea party participants.

120

More likely to be white and male than the general population, tea partyers also skew toward middle age or older. That's the tell. Most came of age in the 1960s, an era distinguished by widespread disrespect for government.

Erm...

40-somethings right now were BORN in the 1960s.  What, did we come of age during potty-training?  Or has "middle-aged" turned into the same group that gets their Denny's meals at a discount?

And this author has the audacity to claim that Teapartyers' math doesn't add up...

121

It seems that they are hating on the boomers.  Also

trying to tie the tea partiers to the boomers.  Which if I was a tea partier, I would be very offended.  To me a baby boomer has always been a hippy.

 

122 Boomers are the ones who caused the mess that inspired the Tea Party movement.

123

You latecomers hatin on the boomers need to go back and read my posts at 52 and 120.

And quit believing the MSM. 

124 Yeah, #83, and the last act of the Revolution was when the Loyalists found out that Sam Adams meant every last word of the phrase "you are no longer our countrymen" as they STFU, fled to Canada, or burned with their families in what was left of their homes. We'll need that endgame again in this country.

125 On that CoffeePartyUSA thing? Check this out.

Per the WaPo article, Park worked on Jim Webb's 2006 campaign, and she's worked on political activism & documentary films with boyfriend Eric Byler.

A quick whois query of coffeepartyusa web names brings up....

coffeepartyusa.org

Registrant ID:CR41943366
Registrant Name:Eric Byler
Registrant Organization:Real Virginians For Webb
Registrant Street1:14461 Sedona Drive
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Gainesville
Registrant State/Province:Virginia
Registrant Postal Code:20155

See for yourself, before they deep-six it.

126 Another way to look at it would be that the folks who are actually paying the bills are tired of their money being wasted, and their children's and grandchildren's inheritances being squandered to buy the votes of those who are willing to let us pay for them.

Being male, not 4F and unwilling to run to Canada during the Vietnam era, I'll just ask, what's  my fair share?  You've had 10% of my life, and more of my money.  Slavery has been abolished, so presumably you can't have it all.  How much do I have to give?

127 I don't want to disparage the Brits' Tea Party effort,but they've been seen throwing the tea back onto the ship...

128 139--they are tax farmers, and you are the crop
meanwhile, the preparations continue:
torches...check
pitchforks...check
rope....check

129

have all you tea baggers been holding out on me? this is like the 400th time i've seen a reference to this ample cash stash thats being spread out in inbred land. i might come out of the survival bunker for some of that.

they should rename that rag the baghdad times...they will be sitting on a heap of flaming wreckage that used to be california and be telling us that california has become the liberal paradise they prayed  worked so hard for. 

130 "We got to be able to do something to the MSM?  We already don't buy their product, and they are going broke.  But that don't seam to bother them!  They are fine with that!"

Yeah, I keep hearing that these companies are up to their eyeballs in debt, audience plummeting, in dire straits and showing no signs of changing course and, yet, nothing ever happens.  It's all going in super-slow motion.  Should be interesting to see how this Comcast/NBC situation pans out.

131

LOL- this is something that got my goat repeatedly during the last campaign and the Bush years- the left is actually very effective at making its shrill, socialist/commie die hards look like "normal folk" and the media is all too willing to play their little fucking game-

Without fail there would be a cute little piece on 60 minutes, or that cunt Brian Williams about the anti war "grannies", sure, just your ordinary apple pie bakin' small town america granmas sick of that imperialistic war monger, Booooosh.

Until you hear they are all retired womyns studies professors from berkeley.

Fuck.

132

More likely to be white and male than the general population, tea partyers also skew toward middle age or older. That's the tell. Most came of age in the 1960s, an era distinguished by widespread disrespect for government. In their wonder years, they learned that politics was about protesting the Establishment and shouting down the Man. No wonder they're doing that now.

But most of them never took part in a protest in the 60s, whereas the sort of patchuli soaked reactionary leftist who threw baggies full of piss at the cops are now in the White House.

 

 

133 The LAT must be in even worse shape than I thought to be floating these turds in their punch bowl.

134 sock off