The Dredges of the Tea Party

One horrible thing that tea lovers like me have had to deal with in 2009 was a bunch of idiots having “tea parties” and teabagging each other because they are crybaby losers. It’s almost enough to make me spit out my earl grey in disgust and break out the lattes. Not really, as I don’t drink earl grey, it’s all about the fancy smoky black leaf Sudanese blend I got from the tea store that closed recently, but regardless, the Tea Party Movement is a fractured mess of astroturfing, grassroots snakes, GOP pandering, and lobbyist takeovers.

There is a lot of in-fighting and rival groups within the teabaggers. HuffPost has a good overview of the various major players. One such player is the Tea Party Express, who you might remember as the dingbats on the bus who were traveling the nation and hanging out in Wal-Mart parking lots so angry old white people could yell. Now the Tea Party Express have done the grassroots thing and spent $1600 for dinner for 6. That’s your Real Patriots right there, ripping off their fellow man for steak that better be panda for that price. They’ve also managed to give almost half of the $2 million they raised this year($857,000) to consulting firm Russo Marsh or people connected to it. So dig deep, teabaggers, consulting firms need your moolah to buy more panda steaks! BTW, Grassfire.org help sponsors the Tea Party Express, and they employ the Shirley & Banister Public Affairs PR firm as well as front the astroturf group Resistnet.com, who you may have heard of on TarsTarkas.NET at some point…

On a final note, you can watch this abomination: Tea Party: The Documentary Film.

I know we review bad movies on TarsTarkas.NET, but I haven’t found a way to watch it without giving them money yet.

Just wait until the Alice in Wonderland film gets released and the teabaggers hijack the Mad Hatter images like they’ve hijack the Joker Obama photoshop. Ah, teabaggers, so predictable, so baggable…