Yeah, I know you don't like to leave the intertubes too early -- the bridge you and your significant other (yeeeeaaaah) sleep under gets damp at night.

Old fogey? What are you, 14 going on 90? In any event, it's right next to the Ctrl button -- when the sun comes up in the morning you may be able to see it better. (Oh, and if three billy goats wander by tomorrow, I'd just leave them be.)

You're right that it's too bad that you weren't ever able to string together five coherent words that might have actually addressed the issue -- but it's good to know that you know as well as, well, everyone else, that your position (and this funny little protest) is silly, stupid, and an embarassment.

Now nighty-night little darlin'.

Sleep well, darlin'.

Hope you wake up in the morning and find that missing shift key...and figure out how to make a reasoned argument about something other than yourself. (Though your trolling cries of "you don't know me!" are so, so very informative for all of us.)

Love ya!

"there is no changing my mind with the nonarguments anyone has posited here..."

Uh-huh. Best argument I've seen you make all night.

"but clearly, my mind has changed since the election."

To paraphrase my earlier post -- bullshit.

"and yes. i claim victory. victory for reason and common sense."

Really? Just reason and common sense? Not also Truth, Justice, and the American Way?

(Oh, wait, you mean you don't actually have to use either reason or common sense to claim to speak in their names? In that case:)

Signed,

Americans for the Preservation of Reason, Common Sense, American Values, Goodness, Freedom, and Puppies

(Now who could argue with that?)

I've yet to see an infantile response TO one of your posts. But, ok, let me see if I can summarize your argument:

1. You earnestly believe that your local event is a grassroots response to some perceived overreach by President Obama (notwithstanding that it's part of a national Republican strategy planned before Obama was even elected...).

2. You think the important issue here is "who said what first." (In fact, the important issue in Greenwald's column was whether we can take seriously positions that change depending on whether one or the other party has control.) You think the "teabagging" jokes originate from Democrats (rather than a poorly thought-out idea that naturally lent itself to humor)...and deeply care about that for some reason.

3. You believe that President Obama, by moving only incrementally away from prior administrations' wasteful "lower taxes while increasing spending" approaches, is betraying the American people. (Even though unlike previous administrations he's forced into it by an economic crisis that really allows no other response.) Of course, given your belief that lowering taxes while increasing spending will bankrupt our country, I have to assume that you railed against Bush regularly, calling him a betrayer of the national trust and joining protests against his "bankrupting" of America, including burning those chintzy tax rebate checks...I mean, a girl's gotta be consistent, right?

4. And, of course, you're declaring victory. (Yeeeaaah, let me know how that works out for ya.)

I, like TreeRol, call bullshit on the idea that this has anything to do with people fed up with high or wasteful taxes.

First off, bullshit on the idea that this is a "growing movement," that "more and more" people are joining, etc. That's just the old Karl Rove bullshit of claiming victory -- even when you're getting rolled -- as a substitute for having actual ideas or support.

Second off, bullshit on the idea that this is grassroots. These events are so astro-turfy, I think I saw Craig Biggio playing second base.

And, of course, bullshit on the idea that this is about taxes or government waste. Taxes are going down for most people -- particularly the middle class -- because of Obama. Government waste went waaaaay up during Bush II, and the bailouts these bozos are supposedly railing against were initiated by Republicans. But nobody was protesting until the Republicans lost power... Funny how that works.

Come on, Americans are not stupid -- they know this isn't about taxes. This is about sore losers, mad that the elected government suddenly isn't "their team." The teabaggers didn't mind being taxed by Bush -- but by Democrats?! Oh my! Bush burned through money like a coke addict on an eight-year bender, with nary a peep from the right -- but Obama might also actually have to spend a little to get us out of this economic mess?! Lordy, get me the smelling salts!

Everyone can see through that transparent bullshit -- they know that these "tea parties" are about Republican strategists trying to engineer a political strategy to tear down and undermine the democratically-elected government, in the hopes of winning a future election (even if they harm the country in the process). I have faith that the American people know bullshit when they smell it, and that this will simply go to widen the Republican Party's "credibility gap."

And, look, I'm no flaming liberal here -- I'm a conservative, a Federalist, and a strong believer in small, efficient, serious government. But this stunt is stupid, it's embarassing, it's damaging to the Republican Party, and it's deserving of all the laughter that it generates. (Teabagging! Dick Armey!)