NYT: Tea Parties? Obama Passes the Sugar

From the New York Times’ The Caucus blog: 
With his conservative critics staging “taxpayer tea parties” to protest his fiscal policies, President Obama marked the April 15th tax-filing deadline on Wednesday by delivering a sales pitch for what he called ‘’the most progressive tax cut in American history.’’
Mr. Obama made middle-class tax cuts a central theme of his [...]

April 15, 2009
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Detour: If teabagging isn’t your thing, just wait for the bukkake against regulation

One would think (hope?) that the party of Larry Craig, Mark Foley, and Ted Haggard might try to be smart about branding their political protests. Santorum anyone? The GOP is also the party of Sarah Palin and Glen Beck so their per capita IQ rivals the Detroit City Council. All over the country literally dozens [...]

April 15, 2009
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The Second Rule of Tea Parties Is You Don’t Talk About Tea Parties

From the Washington Independent

April 15, 2009
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Please tell me this is not serious: Greenville S.C. Tea party at Chiefs

Greenville S.C. Tea party at Chiefs

April 13, 7:21 PM 

GREENVILLE S.C. A grassroots movement is afoot all over the country on tax day April 17th.  Despite what the left wing liberals would lead you to believe, this is not about Obama, Democrats, or republican beliefs. This is about government spending that has been out of hand for the last thirty [...]

April 14, 2009
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SFGate: Some get the tea, others get the bag

**WARNING: Thougtful analysis ahead**
In December 1773, Bostonians held a Tea Party in Boston Harbor to protest excessive British taxes. “No taxation without representation” was their message. On Wednesday, April 15, Americans will hold rallies across the country to protest onerous taxes. Organizers have a motto for their Tea Day - “taxed enough already.”
Big problem: There [...]

April 14, 2009
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Wichita Eagle: Anti-stimulus ‘tea party’ to feature senator, hot dogs

Do they have irony in Wichita? It seems they do, if this Wichita Eagle headline is any indication. Mmmm, populist outrage and processed meat. NOM.

BY DION LEFLER
WICHITA - More than 750 people, including U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, are expected to gather near the Wichita airport post office on Wednesday for a taxpayer “tea party” to protest [...]

April 13, 2009
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Media Matters: USA Today pushes the “bottom-up” tea party myth

Continuing the parade of unfortuante and possibly unintentional sex puns, Media Matters declares this morning that daily advertorial newspaper USA Today is perpetuating the myth that the teabagging craze is a “bottom-up” grassroots movement. If you ask us, that’s just nuts.
For weeks, the right-wing activists promoting the so-called “tea party” tax protests have been complaining that the [...]

April 13, 2009
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