Tea Bagging--Some Final Thoughts

"It's hard to talk when you're tea-bagging"--CNN's Anderson Cooper.

So yesterday, the United States of America was overwhelmed with the Tax Day Tea Party protests. Oh wait...maybe I should say underwhelmed. Just how underwhelmed, well over at FivethirtyEight.com, Nate Silver tabulates the number of protestors from most of the biggest rallies, he comes up with about 262,000 spread over 306 protests. That comes out to about an average of 856 people per gathering, however that is extremely skewed toward the larger gatherings, where a lot of the protests seemed to have been 500 or fewer. Hardly overwhelming. Compare that number from the entire nation and it doesn't even reach the 300,000-400,000 people that jammed 1st-3rd Avenues in New York City on Feb 16, 2003 to protest the war in Iraq, or the 500,000 immigrants that protested planned changes to US Immigration policy in LA on April 10, 2006. Some other numbers from those protests...Dallas, TX=350,000 and Chicago, IL=300,000. The most protestor friendly number of folks that watched Sean Hanniteabag bitch and moan in Atlanta Yesterday is 7,000, though the Fixed News people claimed they were going to get 8,000. In 2006, 50,000 showed up in Atlanta to protest (Pro Immigrants protests that is.)

In other words, after only getting 262,000 throughout the country yesterday I think we can say...Republicans=PROTEST FAIL. The Fizzle in The Drizzle.

So what problem do I have with the Teabaggers? Well, number one, be sure to be sanitary and wash up first, cause....oh wait....

(Actual sign seen in Philly yesterday--"Down With Sodomy, Up With Teabagging.")

Obviously our country is founded on the right of people to protest and freely assemble. So I don't have problem with that. My problem is in the pure douche-baggery and hypocrisy of it all.

For instance, if you're going to protest taxes, don't do it in a public park paid for by tax payer dollars and don't expect the local police force, paid for by tax dollars, to provide security for you.

Also, these people pull out their Colonial American Hats and "Don't Tread On Me" flags, saying they are doing the same thing that our founding fathers did and for the same reasons. Well, history FAIL. The cry of the American Revolution was "No Taxation Without Representation," not "No Taxation." The stamp tax wasn't bad because it was a tax, it was bad becasue the colonies had no representation in British Goverment to vote on it. Unless you are a resident of Washington D.C., you are represented by a congress person and two senators (except for Minnesota where the reputards are still trying to steal an election from United States Senator Al Franken). So you have representation, you just lost. Well, that's the way the cookie crumbles in a republic. As Jon Stewart said, "You LOST. It's supposed to taste like a Sh*t Taco!" Besides, I'd be much more impressed if the Repubs would have protested Bush's MASSIVE spending on an unneeded war, but war is good right, cause we get to kick some ass!

So what are we really fighting about? Obama wants to change the tax rate for 2% of Americans. Oh and FYI, that new rate, which doesn't take effect until 2011, is still ten percent LESS FEDERAL INCOME TAX than the rich folks paid under Conservative Icon/Idol Ronald Reagan. Then Obama wants to take that money and spend it on helping people here in America as opposed to using it to kill people who don't agree with us or look like us. Is that really what Governor Perry of Texas wants to secede from the union over?

Sorry, Governor, you claim Texas has the right to leave the union, well you tried that once in 1861, and it didn't work out so well for you. Besides if Texas were to get a free pass, I know some people down south who probably feel like they got jipped a little bit. So anyway, if you wanna go Texas...go. However it is kind of ironic that while the Governor of Texas bitches about federal spending and says Texas can do ok on it's own, he still has taken federal money and resources over last few months to fight wildfires, put troops on the Mexican border, and help the continuing clean up from Hurricane Ike. Do as I say, not as I do, right Texas? There's plenty of room in hell for liars and hypocrites. I guess everything is bigger in Texas, including the stupidity.

Folks, next time you look at your tax withholding, remember what it pays for. Teachers, Police, fire fighters, social security, roads, bridges, electric grids, military to defend us. We have a patriotic duty to do our part and pay our fair share, not to let some rich old white men teabag us until we throw up.

Check out Lincoln Mitchells piece on Huffington Post here for a great opinion.

One final question:

Who would Jesus teabag?