The Truffle

From Balloon Juice , a story involving a teabagger trying to free another teabagger from jail and conduct a citizens' arrest. Actually, Commander Guy has the whole, complete story. Oh yeah, and the perpetrator of this wingnut jail break informed law enforcement in advance. I guess it's more exciting than standing around with misspelled signs.

Poetry that doesn't scan, that is. From The Stranger , some tea partier channels his/her inner Allen Ginsberg: I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW BLIND OBAMA YOU HAVE WAKEN UP A SLEEPING GIANT WE THE PEOPLE UNITED WE STAND AS ONE NATION TO SAY NO YOU MUST GO WE THE PEOPLE SAY NO YOU MUST GO IMPEACH OBAMA AND BRING HIM TO JUSTICE IMPEACH IMPEACH BRING HIM TO JUSTICE WITH ALL THE OTHER TRADERS TO WE THE PEOPLE AND THE CONTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WHO STAND TOGETHER AND WILL NOT FALL PLAY WE MAY BUTT WHEN NEEDED WE COME STAMPEDING PROWD AMERICANS READY TO FACE ANY ENEMIES FOREIGN OR DOMESTIC WE THE PEOPLE SAY THE CONTITUTION IS IN OUR HEARTS ONLY A TRUE AMERICAN KNOWS ITS TRUE PATH AND WILL DEFEND UNTIL DEATH YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOW'N FREEDOM WILL STAND FOR THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE Well, despite the line about bringing Obama to justice "with all the other traders," at least this person can spell "impeach." Then again, perhaps this particular te...

Via Balloon Juice comes this tale of rich conservatives with sour grapes--erm, I mean, right-wing populists : I stopped by Freedom Plaza on Tax Day to check on the progress of the nation's populist revolt. On the stage, I saw the great populist leader himself: Grover Norquist, who, after getting two Harvard degrees, developed his common-touch lobbying for the tropical island paradise of the Seychelles. Norquist spoke from a lectern bearing a Tea Party emblem and a simple message: "The people speak." And which people might those be? The people of the Seychelles tourist industry? Or the people of British Petroleum, Fannie Mae, the Distilled Spirits Council and the Interactive Gaming Council? Norquist represented them all, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. It gets better from there. Seriously, these teabaggers are being played like a cheap kazoo.