Tea Bag Fizzles

The Teabaggers called for a national rally on the Mall today to pressure the GOP House not to cave on budget cuts. Christianists Mark Pence and Michelle Bachmann appeared with a handful of teabag representatives. The high estimate for this mega rally was 200 people, including representatives. That's excessive. The teabaggers "persuaded" Fox News to cover the rally live because it was such a major event. Fox News people tried to explain that the weather was the reason for the poor turnout. As a comparison, we might want to remember that over 100,000 citizens of Wisconsin could come out in a snowstorm. And Fox News had called them a "rent a mob".

It could be that the teabaggers days as a populist movement are nearing an end. The CNN poll showed that teabaggers are getting high negatives from the American public, which seems to be experiencing a serious case of buyers' remorse. But the teabaggers are promising to primary any GOP members who don't toe the budget cutting line. Jon Karl, an executive assistance of mine from the stone age,did a piece on how the teabaggers in the House have reaped millions in government subsidies for agriculture. Karl should do a follow-up on all the tax breaks and subsidies those free market advocates--the Koch Brothers--get. They are the original welfare queens.

The Best sign of the rally was "Save America, Close It Down." While it looks like some sort of budget deal will be made for the rest of the year, we still have to face the vote on raising the debt ceiling. The teabaggers are gearing up to block raising the debt ceiling so that America can officially become a banana republic. Even now the teabaggers' budget illiteracy staggers me. Several teabag representatives actually said that a government shut down would have no effect on anyone. Michelle Bachmann tried to spin it by saying that it was a government "slow-down." No, dear,the government really does shut down and only pays the interest on its debt. As foreign policy analysts have been warning, a government shutdown would have a seriously negative effect on our national security and foreign affairs. But that doesn't seem to matter.

Old Swizzle Stick Boehner has been trying to rally his troops by saying that he has the Democrats where he wants them. The Democrats in the House have proposed that if there is a government shutdown that congress should not get paid. But within the Beltway,Boehner seems to be in a difficult situation. The Republicans on the QT have asked Democrats to get them out of a jam because their teabag caucus is utterly insane and they can not control them. The GOP even gave Harry Reid a secret letter putting this in writing.

Meanwhile, the daggers are out for the Tan Man. Little Ricky Cantor is salivating to do Boehner in and seize control. That's why he's playing games with the teabaggers. Cantor was remarkable this week in his statements on Social Security. He said that there are too many seniors who depend on Social Security now for income so they had to keep it but it's not in the future for the America we intend to create. It would be fascinating to get any of these guys to talk candidly and openly about the America they would create. I am sure it's nothing I would want to see.

Since we are approaching tax day, the day when teabaggers erupted in the past, we should note that the teabag rallies this year are being called off. I guess they all got a nice tax refund courtesy of President Obama.