Wonkette
- THIS WOULD EXPLAIN THE SHIFT TOWARDS CONFISCATION: See, it’s just like in our imaginations: “Local reports indicate that the practice of mailing actual tea bags to legislators has repeatedly raised security concerns, and sometimes forced the evacuation of congressional offices in anthrax-like scares.” Did you know that the actual “Republican Party” sanctions this? [HuffPo]
According to Wikipedia, the result of the original Boston Tea Party was as follows:
Parliament responded in 1774 with the Coercive Acts, which, among other provisions, closed Boston’s commerce until the British East India Company had been repaid for the destroyed tea.
Will trade with the South be closed after Wednesday’s tea parties? We shall soon find out.
loquaciousmusic: Apologies, I should have said “one of the results.” Because, you know, the other result was the American Revolution, which was kind of messy.
I imagine that the Republican Party would just quote Barry Goldwater on this one: “Extremism, in the defense of liberty, is no vice”.
Of course the Republicans endorse this. Anything to get out of the office, away from all that work they aren’t getting to do. And they were getting pretty tired of setting fires in the bathrooms.
WHAT???!!!
I NEED my chai, man. STOP THIS MADNESS NOW EVUL PUBTARDS.
BillyClubb: “Let my teabags go”.
I can’t figure out if these Republitards *don’t* understand the gay double-entendre of the word teabagging… or if they *do.*
Code Pink seems sane to me now,
Kim Jong-Il seems sane,
Pumas seem sane,
9-11 inside-job-conspiracy-theories seem sane to me now,
Teabaggers have raised the bar for stupid so high that average idiots simply cannot compete.
The Atkins diet seems sane, I could go on all day.
Call it “confiscation” or “expropriation” or “nationalization”….
The fact remains that the forcible seizure of our teabags is unconstitutional.
And it often hurts.
I’m all for the exercise of political speech, I just wish it was thoughtful, informed speech. But hey, why break with over 200 years of national discourse?
memzilla: If teabagging doesn’t work maybe they can organize gangs of activists to go around banging on doors for signatures. Hmmmm, what would a good catch phrase for that be?
Well, at least it keeps a certain segment of the population away from their other hobbies, including ham radio, driftwood sculpture, or torturing small animals.
So a bunchof stupid white guys are being led by a bunch of rich white guys in tax protests intended to emulate tax protests from the 1770s which were led by a bunch of rich white guys?
Brilliant!
Hey, hey, hey, the Atkins diet works. It may not be as good as other low-carb diets, but the research evidence is in that low-carb > low-fat: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/11/051116090318.htm
Giant Robot: Patriotism! Coercive Patriotism.
The Republican Party objectively supports terrorism.
HA!
“The protest movement that culminated with the Boston Tea Party was not a dispute about high taxes.”
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party]
So from what I’m reading about the original Tea Partay, evil business peeps saw the gumment undercutted their ass and got all pissy about missing out on some moneys and saw an opportunity in the not-so-evil desire of the people to protest the Parliament that was way over yonder to quit being dicks. Evil business peeps are also cowards and should be shot like pirates.
I’m still reading so I could be wrong.
Help! Glenn Beck is surrounding me!
Zadig: I was thinking more of “gang banging”…
Lazy Media: Atkins just tricks you into eating less. It’s like creationism - if you can get stupid people to out-breed smart people you end up with more evidence against evolution.
Giant Robot: but for your COUNTRY, dammit!
Giant Robot: Atkins just tricks you into eating less.
Sounds like a plan. (A weight loss plan, in fact.)
So, wait, people shouldn’t email tea bags to their representatives because it would … scare them?
Giant Robot: Hmmmm, I know,I know ACORN!!! And having helped out at the ACORNs in 2004 I know that knocking on doors is not for Freedom Workers because 1)they will not pay poor people to knock on doors because they hate the minimum wage and hate the illegals who work for less than minimum wage 2)they will not knock on doors themselves as they might get shot because like minded real patriots shoot strangers knocking on doors as they well know 3)it would take a million years to cover enough territory to find even a handful of tea bag crazies because they are sprinkled one here one there sparse and rare like.They must be baited and then trapped like Promise Keepers.
Atkins is making me think about bacon.I think I’ll burn some calories cleaning my desk and then get a bacon cheese burger without the bun. That’s a win for me.