"Teabagging The Establishment"?
That's a word some are unwittingly using to describe the tax protests going on today. Um...if the tea parties actually include teabagging demonstrations (see reference #2), that'll really be something to see.
"Teabagging The Establishment"?
That's a word some are unwittingly using to describe the tax protests going on today. Um...if the tea parties actually include teabagging demonstrations (see reference #2), that'll really be something to see.
I suspect that not everyone who's using it isn't doing so unwittingly. I know very well what it means and take a good amount of puerile delight in discussing teabagging my representatives.
Elle at April 15, 2009 10:21 AM
Wasn't there an expression like that used by some soccer-mommy writer in the LA Times last year? I forget the details.
Crid [cridcridatgmail] at April 15, 2009 10:46 AM
The deficit increased just under $5 Trillion under Bush2, not $3 Trillion as Bob Krumm reports.
Eric at April 15, 2009 11:01 AM
I don't understand why people use "teabagger" as an insult when it describes an act of asserting superiority or "counting coup" over another. It seems much more degrading to me to be on the receiving end. Maybe the people using it as an insult are implying that only missionary-position sex is morally acceptable.
Pseudonym at April 15, 2009 12:06 PM
My take on it is that the majority of the protesters are pissed off with BOTH the Democrats AND the Republicans. But of course, the easiest tact for the current ruling party to dismiss the protesters is to assert that they're just Republican lackies.
Side issue: Did you happen to notice the Homeland Security report released a week ago entitled, Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment".
Do you think the timing is pure coincidence?
Robert W. at April 15, 2009 1:44 PM
I saw that report. I was amused to learn that I am a right-wing radical (along with everyone else not on Team Donkey).
Reports like that make me feel much better about endorsing the dissolution of DHS.
Pseudonym at April 15, 2009 5:51 PM
Took my boy to the beach- we had about 500+ people in a TeaBag party in Coeur D Alene!
Eric at April 15, 2009 8:55 PM
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