Hmmmmmmmmm . . . I’m pretty sure I side with Glenn Beck on this.

May I raise a practical question at this point? Are these the kinds of “moderates” we’re supposed to be trying to win over? These? These? Also, are we going to do “Stonehenge” tomorrow? Face it: At some point you just have to point and laugh at midgets clad in tights dancing around a wrongly-scaled hunk of styrofoam to the plaintive pluckings of a lyre. And fuck ’em if they can’t

Perhaps if the protesters had been more careful about what they wore, or more precise in the language they used on their signs… (h/t N O’Brain)

From C-Span’s Washington Journal: Tea Parties are merely ineffective “ad hoc photo ops,” opines his waxy-faced rice paperedness — with all the confidence one expects from a Vanity Fair writer trying to fathom a culture in which Wal-Marts thrive and sidewalk fish markets are as distant a memory as Mr Wolcott’s once-discernable jaw line. Most telling bit: This can’t be a burgeoning movement because people simply weren’t angry enough! Sadly,

Or, when is a contrived mea culpa nothing more than a passive-aggresssive attempt to prove oneself correct and insightful in the long term? Well, there still isn’t much organization and little professionalism, but it turns out that I was the one lacking realism. I failed to grasp the excitement this idea generated and how it would animate the grass roots to actually get out of their chairs and do something

“reports” on the Tea Party in Montpelier yesterday, being a companion piece to happyfeet’s comment, here. This morning, after driving Aidan to school, I heard VPR’s mention of the Tea Party rally at the State Capitol.  Top billing was given to some approximately twenty people who were from S.O.S., Save Our State, who handed in fake tax returns suggesting that higher taxation would result in fewer essential state programs and