Here’s a site that is tracking all of the spending protests tomorrow. And I have to agree with the hilarious irony and stupidity of leftists complaining that these are astroturfed top-down fraud, including at least one in my own comments section. Apparently dissent is only the highest form of patriotism when it’s against George Bush and funded by George Soros.
[Mid-morning update]
Tea Party movement picking up steam. With the usual amusing whine about astroturfing in comments. You’d almost think that these people went to a seminar.
[Update a few minutes later]
The Examiner explains why leftists are upset and (as usual, with accusations of “racism,” “hate,” “lies,” etc.) engaging in projection about top-down protests:
Part of the reason for the mean-spiritedness in some of the attacks from the pro-Obama groups is likely the failure of efforts to turn out large crowds in support of the chief executive’s $787 billion economic stimulus package and $3.6 trillion 2010 federal budget, with its $1 trillion deficit and comparable floods of red ink for a decade thereafter. The recent “New Way Forward” gathering here in D.C., for example, was heralded by organizers as the first of a wave of counter-Tea Party Protests, but barely a dozen people turned out. Similarly, much-publicized efforts to use the 13-million email addresses compiled by the Obama campaign to generate pressure on Congress barely caused a ripple, much less a wave of support for the Obama budget.
It’s easy to understand why they’d be both frightened, and angry. And apparently part of that mind set consists of having one’s sense of irony excised at birth.
[Late morning update]
Speaking of which, Iowahawk has dug up an old script from that old favorite, the Mary Hamsher Moore Show:
MARY: I … I’m sorry Mr. Soros.
LOU: Whatever. Say Mary… you’re all over that internet thing. What do you know about these Tea Party protests?
MARY: I don’t know. I guess it’s just a bunch of retarded wingnuts whining or something. I don’t think they’re anything worth worrying about.
LOU: Nothing worth worrying about? There are 300 of those stupid protests scheduled for Tuesday! If they end up screwing up the next stimulus bill, I’m never going to short the currency markets. I need you to get to the bottom of this.
MARY: Bottom of it?
LOU: Come on Mary, don’t be naive. We both know the money and professional staff and layers of front organizations it takes to build an authentic grassroots movement. Geez, just look at the good cash I’ve wasted on this dump. There’s just gotta be some sort of conspiracy going on behind that Tea Party crap… like…
MARY: … like Fox News?
LOU: Now you’re thinking! I need you to get out there and spread that meme, and start up some counter protests…
…Mary is leading a massive national anti-anti-tax rally of six protesters
MARY (into bullhorn): One two three four, America needs a New Way For. Ward.
PROTESTERS: One two three four, America needs a New Way For. Ward.
MARY(into bullhorn): Nine ten six five, Tea Baggers are just a bunch of phony populist Faux News wingnuts who are pissed off because they’re not the ones stealing.
PROTESTERS: Nine, seven… thirteen….
MARY (clapping): Come on everybody, that’s the spirit! Take one of these preprinted picket signs and official chant sheet. I printed off 20,000 so there should be enough for everyone. Hey, where are you going?
KID PROTESTER: This protest blows. You said there would be free XBox 360s, not these lame Gameboys. Come on mom, I want to go home.
MOTHER PROTESTER: I’m sorry Mary, I know I said we’d stay until the cameras showed up, but it’s cold and you know how fidgety kids get.
KID PROTESTER 2: Mommy, the funny-tooth loud lady is scary.
RHODA MADOW (holding bullhorn battery): Do something Mary! You’re losing them!
MARY: Wait! Wait! Please, don’t leave! This is real grassroots activism in action! Come on, we can’t let the Tea Baggers out-organize us!
PROTESTER 1: Tea Baggers? Lady, we’re getting drowned out by the friggin’ UFO protesters.
Just demonstrating the will of the people. And don’t miss the commercial.
[Bumped]
I think one should pity these NWF folks.
They believe(d?) they were the vanguard of the revolution, and that the election of President Obama heralded the advent of that revolution.
They were in front of the parade of history, only to turn around, and see that no one was behind them.
Small wonder their psyches demand projection as protection.
I think the idea that ordinary working people (TAXPAYERS, no less) are starting to protest against their policies scares the hell out of them. Their emperor has no clothes and we’re calling him on it.
I’m going to the tea party in Bakersfield tomorrow, with my own homemade signs. Nobody paid me or organized me, I just looked up where the closest party is scheduled.