Wow. Did you know that there’s an immigration rally in Washington today, the day the Health Care Bill might be passed?
Day laborers on foot from Long Island and Californians who sold tamales to pay for their trip are expected to rally on Sunday in Washington, D.C., with tens of thousands of immigrants, many […]

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Sweet.
As our Brian Beutler reports, a few moments ago in Longworth office building, a group swarmed a very calm looking Henry Waxman, as he got on the elevator, with shouts of “Kill the bill!” “You liar! You crook!”
Not long before, Rep. Barney Frank got an uglier version of the treatment. Just after Frank rounded a […]

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Ilargi, nail, head:
But is that true? Did deregulation really cause the crisis? I don’t believe it did, I think deregulation is just a consequence of what lies beneath and beyond. It’s no secret for anyone with a working brain that banks need to be cut down at the ankles; what remains hidden is the part […]

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So liberal, this piece on the Tea Partiers by Will Bunch. So liberal it makes me want to throw up:
The piece by Michael Bader makes the point that I completely agree with, which is that people who’ve lost their job or who are frightened by conditions in America right now deserve empathy — these are […]

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Great, great call by Taibbi:
the Tea Party movement contains a lot of people who are far more impressed by what they can see with their own eyes than with what, for instance, they read about. I’ve been to Tea Party events where global warming was dismissed by speakers who, without irony, pointed to the fact […]

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Via Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Institute, a very sympathetic study by the Sam Adams Alliance on just who the tea partiers are.
We have said, in this space, that the tea partiers are disaffected conservatives. Guess what the study shows?
Wait for it:
A striking 85.7 percent said “No” when asked if they were in favor of moving in the […]

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Kunstler:
I am personally not confident that we will do anything to address the failures and inequities of so-called Health Care. As a general thing, I have to say that this recent exercise only seems to prove the now permanent impotence and impairment of the federal government. In The Long Emergency we have entered, real governance […]

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Jeebus H. Criminy.
The Tea Party movement has become a platform for conservative populist discontent, a force in Republican politics for revival, as it was in the Massachusetts Senate election, or for division. But it is also about the profound private transformation of people like Mrs. Stout, people who not long ago were not especially […]

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I suppose if you went to anti-war rallies circa 2002 you saw just as many misspelled signs, right? Amazing how many tea party types have trouble spelling “amnesty.”

Favorite, tho, is this one:

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Tea partiers versus Sarah Palin?
In a lengthy statement — entitled “Warning: Tea Party In Danger” — posted yesterday on the TeaParty.org homepage, Robertson instructs his felllow Tea Partiers to “[b]e alert to turncoats and deceivers being herded into the Tea Party by usurpers from the weakened Republican Party for the sole purpose of capturing our […]

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Kunstler, dead on this week:

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You watch this stuff and it strikes you that a significant percentage of the teabag crowd, no idea just how many, were the people who had those “Thank you, President Bush” signs stuck in their lawns about this time last year.
And at about 3:27 Brad asks the question I asked in the print edition last […]

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OUTRAGE!!!
Update: Hm.

You remember when that MoveOn ad compared Bush to Hitler, the absolute firestorm that erupted when right-wingers snarled, How dare you compare the president to Hitler?
It’s apparently OK now. Good to know.

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So there’s this big teabag protest going on down in DC today, more of what we’ve seen. But this photo in particular, from the Washington Independent, really struck me:

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Hm. Immigrants to rally tomorrow for changes to U.S. immigration policy; lower turnout expected than in past years due to swine flu concerns, but I’m struck by this line:
Thousands were expected at events in Houston, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and other cities — mostly in the late afternoon, when workers finished their shifts. But […]

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It’s amazing to me how quickly the tea party business dropped almost completely off the radar screen.

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Funny.

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We read Matt Taibbi today for the rude invocation of Michelle Malkin and the teabags. We stay for the realities of what the federal government has long done with your tax dollars, in which the teabaggers don’t seem particularly interested…
What’s hilarious about the teabaggers, though, is how they never squawk about waste until the spending […]

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I suspect these folks were funnin’ with the protesters. But what do you want to bet, they didn’t get it:

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Stolen from Atrios, and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve run into this mentality. I’m related to this mentality, fer chrissakes:
She said she retired on disability from M&T Bank three years ago after undergoing knee replacement and back surgeries. She lives on her Social Security and disability benefits. Last year, she petitioned the […]

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