The Tea-ed Off Right

Today is the deadline for State and Federal taxes, and we'll no doubt see wingnuts demonstrating in front of Fux News cameras all day long with their tea bags swaying. It's been a classic case of "astroturfing" -- phony grass roots activity, sponsored by elites to appear genuine -- with corporate types and right wing foundations kicking in funds, providing public relations and logistical support, and, in the case of Fux News, actual promotion 24/7. The vast majority of the turnout will be the Bushit deadenders who were missing in action during the years when Dumbya and his Rethug Congress ran up the national debt and created huge deficits, while cutting taxes for the very rich. Ironically, the majority of the public believes that the income taxes they pay are "about right" or "too low."

So let the wingnut teabaggers stamp their feet and have their demonstrations. They're still working out their anger over their defeats in 2006 and 2008.

(P.S., as many observers have noted, the right wing tea baggers should check the Urban Dictionary before deciding what to call themselves. Bwahahahaha!)