Sometimes you come up with a better title after having already posted a piece and, well, since I liked this one so much I thought I’d devote a separate post to to it.
Blogger’s prerogative, you know.
Since Democrats multiplied the number of petitions their outfit Organizing for America gathered to support the president’s budget by three, let’s use their system to determine the number who attended tea parties. With a party turnout estimates ranging from 341,472 to 551,000, looks like we’re at somewhere betweeen one and one-and-one-half millions participants in the rallies.
That ain’t no astroturf.
Obama Administration rushed report on Right-Wing Threat Assessment over objections of civil liberties lawyers. Gee, it’s almost like they were in a big hurry to smear the right before the Tea Parties or something.
I’d be curious to know how many of us wanted to show up but had to work or were sick.
While I support this grassroots movement and their goals, unless this turns into an electoral movement designed to drive out the incumbocrats from congress in the 2010 elections it will be just sound and fury signifying nothing.