UPDATE! 

EAT ME, OLBERMANN… I HAD IT FIRST.

Sanford, Perry Named “Worst Person In The World” On Countdown (VIDEO)

Governors Rick Perry (Texas) and Mark Sanford (South Carolina) were selected as the tonight’s “Worst Person(s) in the World” because they’re hosting a conference call to organize and promote Tear Party 2.0. Olbermann explained that he made his selection to point out the irony inherent in a movement claiming to be “ordinary Americans, unaffiliated with any party, certainly not the tools of big government governors,” being organized by two governors.

Right? Boys, better talk to your hairdressers; your not-so-grassroots are showing.”

I have blogged about this before.  I will blog about it again.  

There are some who want you to believe that tea parties are some grass roots effort to contain government, but I find it whiny sore-loserdom, brought to you by the good people at Fox News, who need an angle.  

THIS.

WAS NOT.

A “MOVEMENT.”

UNTIL THE DEMOCRAT WON. 

So, I find these tea party folk mostly to be a bunch of people who hate  the fact there is a Democrat in office, even though the republican they backed was tossed out by a solid majority of smart, introspective, fed-up Americans.   Obama supporters WERE the tea party.   They tossed out the party in power.  THAT is revolution, folks.

It’s not their fault that the horse you backed (McCain / Palin) sucked.   Put on your big boy pants and deal.

Just like the other side did for eight years.

So – I am reposting my tea party post. Here’s why:

Hoping to recapture the grassroots energy of last month’s “tea parties,” Republican Govs. Mark Sanford of South Carolina and Rick Perry of Texas will host a tele-town hall Thursday that’s being dubbed “Tea Party 2.0.” 

Wow.  The guy who said he didn’t want the stimulus and took it, combined with the southern gentleman playing footsie with secession.  Excellent choices, tea folk.  Really showing off your independence and libertarian roots.

The Republican Governors Association said it is expecting 30,000 people to participate in the town hall, which will take place roughly one month after the much-publicized anti-tax tea party rallies held in hundreds of locations across the country on April 15, the tax filing deadline. 

Sanford and Perry will each speak for several minutes before opening up the town hall to up to an hour-long question and answer session. 

Yeah.  Can’t wait to hear the intelligent, challenging questions that will come from the choir.  ”On a scale of ‘I hate Obama’ to ‘I don’t believe in Democracy unless my guy wins’ how would you rank our current president?” 

Look – I think anybody who disagrees with Obama has every right to stand up against him.  But please… PLEASE, stop trying to convince me it – and this – is  anything but partisan.  

If you don’t lie to me, I’l respect your opinion a little bit more.

But for now, here’s my feeling, a month ago:

April 15:  The tax day tea party movement is gaining steam, as TV celebrities and political figures try to glom onto what might be a burgeoning populist groundswell. Neil Cavuto and Sean Hannity of Fox News will join events in Sacramento and Atlanta. Newt Gingrich will be in New York. And on Friday Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) proposed to make a law honoring April 15 as National Tea Party Day.              

Before they register that displeasure, Vitter wants them to register as Citizen Co-Sponsors of his effort to “force the Senate to recognize this day as a formal protest by the people against these policies.”

An organizer of the tax day protest outside the Treasury Department in Washington, D.C. told the Huffington Post that several Republican politicians — it now seems Vitter might have been one of them — had asked to speak at the event, only to be rebuffed because, as the organizer puts it, “We’re not a function of the Republican party.”

Newt Gingrich might be an unwelcome guest at the event in New York if anybody reminds protesters that the former congressman flip-flopped to support the bailout of the financial industry.

CNBC’s Rick Santelli, the man whose barely-intelligible cri de coeur brought this whole thing about, will not be participating in any tea parties on tax day.

Oh, now you want fiscal responsibility? Now you want a tea party? 

Ah, I get it. Taxation without representation. Very clever.

In other words, now that a Democrat is in the oval office, you have a problem paying taxes. Not your president. Not your government. Hence the tea party. You’re rebelling against an unfair rule.

Hey, so you know what?  EAT IT.            

Honestly – I’ll go back to a more civil discourse after this but this is ridiculous.

In 2007, I paid my taxes. I had a good year. And that money disappeared every time somebody farted in Iraq.

But instead of whining like a child because I wasn’t getting my way, I expressed my displeasure with my vote. 

Cut to 2009, and now a bunch of “super patriots” are trying to start a movement. Why? Because they don’t have the patience, tact or humility in their loss – a loss that’s not even 100 days old yet, by the way – to try to convince people as to WHY their side deserves another shot.

Nope, they want to tip over the table and start over.

Like the infants they are.

You don’t get line-item vetoes on the stuff the government pays for. If you want to enjoy things – like national security, or a paved road, or a park, or public schools or anything else that comes along with living in a civilized nation where people are taxed to pay for things that a country needs – then you have to put up with the fact that government is going to make decisions you don’t like.              

You know, like a lot of people did the last eight years.

Like I did for most of the last four.

See… I didn’t want to take my football and go home just because I had a problem with what my government was doing, because I believed in democracy. And when your side loses in a fair election, it’s still democracy. 

Tea parties. I swear to God.

Growing up, I always thought “tea parties” where for babies.

 

 

 

 

 

You know what? I still do.