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	On Tea Bagging

RayWatkins

4-16-2009 9:03 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ed9e83d0-b5ed-40bb-be60-3966a939b002/E1EDEDE5-19F6-4407-A0E4-A6FDB73A3E18/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.progressivehistorians.com/2009/04/on-tea-bagging.html" href="http://www.progressivehistorians.com/2009/04/on-tea-bagging.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.progressivehistorians.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.progressivehistorians.com/2009/04/on-tea-bagging.html"><DIV>Today is the day that millions upon millions of Americans will spill into the streets, follow the throng down to the local street corner, drop an envelope in a box, and file their tax returns. Well, except for those who filed online, I suppose.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.progressivehistorians.com/2009/04/on-tea-bagging.html"><DIV>Some smaller subset of Americans will also gather to hold what they are calling modern-day tea parties.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.progressivehistorians.com/2009/04/on-tea-bagging.html"><DIV>I'll refrain from making crass <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGNWCwCrUKk">sexual innuendo</A> (<A href="http://www.dailykostv.com/w/001140/">I will</A>, <A href="http://www.dailykostv.com/w/001142/">seriously</A>.), and I will refrain from pointing out the <A href="http://savetherich.com/">pseudo-spontaneous nature of these protests</A>. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.progressivehistorians.com/2009/04/on-tea-bagging.html"><DIV>I'm not going to get into how this is really <I>not</I> a populist movement, but rather something being fed and <A href="http://teaparty.gop.com/Default.aspx">promoted by the GOP</A>, and the <A href="http://www.veteranstoday.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5745">same people who screwed the country for the past eight years</A>. And I won't point out that despite what <A href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/04132009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/tea_parties__real_grassroots_164143.htm">Republican mouthpieces say</A>, <A href="http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2009/04/in-a-drivelly-press-release.html">populist organizing isn't new</A> (except maybe to them).</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E1EDEDE5-19F6-4407-A0E4-A6FDB73A3E18/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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