By GottaLaff
It's been a year since the Tea Tantrumers started their whining, and in that year we've witnessed the birth of:
- Laughably ridiculous attire
- Laughably ridiculous branding
- Laughably ridiculous naivete about the usage of the term "Tea Bag"
- Rampant hostility
- A stunning array of misinformation
- More media coddling and shameless promotion than usual
- Illiterate, vulgar, racist signage
- Disturbing public gun-toting swaggertude
- Corporate ownership of a so-called "grassroots movement"
- Outright lies
- An overwhelming number of white faces at rallies
- Cacophonic outshouting of reasonable speakers who wish to actually communicate at town hall meetings
- Loutish Tea Tantruming politicians who don't seem to grasp the meaning of democracy or the U.S. Constitution
- Half-governors who can't decide whether the GOP should "absorb" the Tea Tantrumers like a big Sham Wow, or whether the Tea Tantrumers should take over the GOP
- Epic humiliation
- ... and unsuspecting members who don't realize they're being exploited and will be discarded like yesterday's shriveled old used tea bags:
Tea Party organizers say hundreds of events, ranging from protests, rallies, candidate forums, grassroots training seminars, and even movie screenings of a Tea Party documentary, are expected to be held nationwide.
Tea Party activists trace the birth of their movement to a couple of anti-stimulus protests across the country in mid-February of last year. Those small demonstrations were followed days later by business news correspondent Rick Santelli’s televised rant on February 19, 2009 about the federal government’s Wall Street bailout. Santelli's outburst inspired anti-big government activists to hold Tea Party protests across the country 8 days later. [...]
As the movement has grown, tensions have been rising among various Tea Party groups. Rival factions are battling over who will carry the movement’s banner, and others worry that powerful groups are "astroturfing" what they think should remain a grassroots group. [...]
Activists in the Tea Party movement tend to be male, rural, upscale, and overwhelmingly conservative, according to a recent national poll. [...] Tea Partiers GOP leanings, the poll suggests, may pose a problem for the Tea Party movement if it tries to turn itself into a third party to compete with the two major parties in this year's general election.
All the ingredients for not-success.
Happy birthday. Enjoy your cake.
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