Tea Bagging

[den]

When I first heard of the Republicans doing mass tea bagging, I wondered about it.

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[roycalbeck.livejournal.com]

Except of course that this is about as much of a "Republican movement" as the ANSWER protests were a "Democrat movement".

Yes, the conservative bloggers and such are hyping it up. And the liberal bloggers and such are working overtime to dismiss the whole thing out of hand. Reality, as in most cases, remains somewhere in the center.

Those who're smugly insisting this is a "Get Obama" thing: most of the actual hoo-rah is anger over the bailouts --- you know, the same stuff liberals were castigating Bush for just a year ago. The fact that the people shouting anger at "corporate welfare" are wearing Colonial-era costumes instead of tie-dyed t-shirts makes not a bit of difference.

One added concern of course is the worry over the exploding deficit, which WAS a problem for liberal bloggers and such a year ago...when Obama was not in the White House.