"Tea is going in the river, regardless"

Poor Tea Party idiots.

The violent Nazis who have been staging Tea Party mockeries lately (in which they've spit on news crews) are upset because they're not getting the results they hoped for. All the Tea Parties bring to them is ridicule. Poor babies.

But they never learn - because stupid people usually don't.

They're planning on holding a Tea Party farce in Lafayette, Indiana, on Wednesday - in which they plan to block a pedestrian bridge and dump an entire crate of tea bags into the Wabash River.

It turns out though that there's an Allowed Cloud against dumping that many tea bags in the mighty Wabash. That's because the river has aquatic life that could be damaged by the tea bags depleting oxygen.

A spokesperson for the Indiana Department of Environmental Management said, "It would technically be considered an unpermitted discharge." She said the Tea Party organizers would be fined if they put tea in the river.

So guess what? They're going to go right ahead and do it anyway!

One of the organizers cried, "Tea is going in the river, regardless. The amount of hoops you have to go through for this to happen is part of what we're protesting."

Wait a minute! I thought they were protesting taxes paying for the stimulus they hate. I guess they really don't know why they're protesting. How's that for mission creep?

Oh, the stupid. It burns.

The professional right-wing agitators who participate in these things are spreading themselves kind of thin. The Lafayette event happens on the same day the BTPers return to Cincinnati. They were so hilariously ineffective last month that I don't even know if it's worth it for me to take the time to witness their stupid rally again. I might not even bother.

They don't even know what the original Boston Tea Party of 1773 was about! That was about a tax on tea, which was a form of taxation without representation.

The crop of right-wing extremists who organize the current Tea Parties are the ones who don't give opponents representation. They ran every branch of government through most of the current decade, and did they even pay one iota of heed to the public's concerns?

If they're worried about taxation without representation, why don't they care about folks in Highland Heights who have to pay taxes to a right-wing school board that closed the school? Or about Washington, D.C., residents having to pay taxes but not getting any congressional representation?

The current Tea Party organizers are poor students of history.

(Source: http://www.theindychannel.com/news/19149640/detail.html)