Reflections on the Tea Parties

April 12, 2009, 8:26 am
Filed under: Economy, Government Spending, Protest

A couple of remainders on the dueling Tea Party movements on the Right and Left:

1. Instapundit has great side-by-side photos of last month’s recent free-market Tea Party in St. Louis and yesterday’s lefty “Nationalize the Banks” event. Knee-jerk ideological or partisan sniping aside, I think we can all agree that the grassroots energy has dramatically shifted to the free-market side in recent months, which is significant. The big question remains how much this will affect the policy battles ahead.

2. It’d be a lot easier to take the lefties seriously if they didn’t throw out non-sequiters like Fox News supposedly bankrolling the Tea Party movement or silly “teabagging” puns. Ha ha ha ha ha – teabagging. Yes, we know what it means. Got it. Absolutely hilarious. Now let’s all graduate from 7th grade and discuss how our kids and grandkids are going to pay off the $4 trillion in additional debt we’ve just run up in an attempt to ~~save~~ nationalize our economy. I admit it’s not fall-on-the-floor funny like teabagging puns, but at some point it’s an issue we should probably discuss.