From ThinkProgress, April 9, by Lee Fang: "Next week on Tax Day (April 15), right wing activists will converge in cities across the country to protest President Obama. The primary figures organizing the protests, the lobbyist-run think tank Freedom Works and bloggers such as Michelle Malkin, say they are reacting to taxes that are 'too high.' However, previous tea party protests have attracted protesters who called for impeaching Obama while slurring the President’s name as 'Obama Bin Lyin.'"
"Congressional Republicans have enthusiastically embraced the movement, with Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) sponsoring a bill to honor the protests. So far, at least 12 Republican lawmakers and governors have signed on to speak at local events."
These are the "Tea Parties" and the phenomenon is known as "Tea Bagging."
Tea Bagging and Tea Parties, fellow Democrats, are, sadly, the best methodology, the primary means of political dialogue, the highest level of political debate and discourse, that a supposedly serious and major political party has embraced as its semi-official means of expression in opposition to the Obama administration. Personally, I don't know whether to die laughing or just turn off the TV for a few days. For entertainment, watch the delightful discussion on Tea Bagging by Rachel Maddow, here. However, in keeping with the intellectually robust, politically rigorous manner in which the loyal Republican opposition has chosen to institute a lively political discourse upon the major, important issues of the day, I have decided to offer Daily Kos readers this poll: