Tea Party fizzles while Coffee Party rallies?

The Coffee Party--We're Chock Full O' Nuts!

This article is a pretty desperate attempt to compare a molehill to a mountain.

Even funnier that someone is supporting our government's effort to be $1.3 trillion in the hole. Are these people insane? How anyone in their right mind could support the amount of spending going on in DC is beyond the rational person to understand.

The Coffee Party? have they fielded even 50 for any event yet? 25? When they get to 3 digits, let me know. Our steering committee meetings for our small Tea Party group dwarf the Coffee party meetings the press advertises. In the meantime, we Tea Party types will continue to have our rallies of thousands and tens of thousands all over the country. However, they are becoming far less important that our political actions at this point. Sign waving is coming to an end; work for fiscally conservative candidates is underway. And some of us have been quite successful at the primary level already.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ....this sure is good comedy. For a second there, when I read the headline, I thought I was reading something from The Onion.

The Tea Party is for freedom and fiscal sanity.

Those who oppose these things are for...what? Slavery to the state and reckless government spending until our dollars are Monopoly money?

The left supports radically increased taxes, deficits and debt and believe the obvious negative effects of such a fiscal policy will never manifest simply because that would prove that the Tea Party is right.

The left is coming out of the closet and finally admitting that they seek an unprecedented transfer of wealth from 'rich' people and 'evil' corporations to them and their fellow lefty voters. You know,'Obama gonna pay their mortgage' and all that... And they stomp their feet and throw an hissy fit that because the middle and right don't accept that ever-growing government control over our lives is what is best for us.

What's profoundly funny is that leftist citizens are actually setting themselves up to be Tea Bagged long, deep and hard by the government, over and over again until they are no longer of use to those in power. Oh, they don't see it quite that way of course - because they've been told not to.

But their willing march away from freedom perfectly fits the historical record because that is exactly how inevitably repressive leftist governments assume, then grow their power. They convince the gullible that their promises of unicorns, rainbows and pax nirvana (universal health care, equality of outcome for everyone, the wealthy taxed out of existence, yada, yada, yada...) can be achieved simply and easily by massive redistribution of wealth and exchanging a relatively free economic system for the idea that a handful of elites in government know best what is right for all of us and giving them the power to act accordingly.

Because after all, the left just knows without thinking that allowing people their inalienable rights of self-determination ( you know, freedom, liberty, and other quaint non-progressive concepts that were written about by a bunch of old white men in the dim past...) just won't do because it is racist, sexist, and other 'ists', not to mention downright scary, and worst of all inevitably results in some people making more money that others. And that just cannot be tolerated.

What about the obvious and inherent racism in the Coffee Party? I mean just look at that picture. Nothing but a bunch of white people.

Now why would anyone believe this article?  We all know from past events that the media prefers to reflect lower numbers than the actual turnout.   So.... this is a very bias AND superficial article.  When are people going to stop ready this stuff?

Five people in the photo! Thats a bunch! Good luck with that!

Anybody find the morality preaching of the left to be getting old?

It used to be the left accused the right of preachiness. . . but now, I wonder, can the left see how they practice this morality preaching? Social justice! Social justice! while at the same time spouting insults about intelligence levels, education levels, job status, race, gender, etc. This was not Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea of social justice that lefties seem to be embracing as their operating morality.

"Social justice"as the left preaches has nothing to do with justice for all human beings. Somebody has been listening to false prophets instead of paying attention to the facts. Lefties, if you buy "social justice" as your operating morality, you better be certain you're not oppressing someone, anyone - even if it's the opposition. You will come out of the mix as a total hypocrite.

If I am not mistaken, the coffee party is being organized by an out-of-work former NY Times, Obama 2008 organizer. Enough said.

18,000 showed up in Dallas. My guess is that it was small was because traffic is horrible at that point. One rally was held due to many security threats. Smaller local rallies would have been my preference.

I can understand why the tea party rallies are getting smaller and smaller...the more intelligent tea partiers are realizing that the things they are protesting have not happened and that in fact, their fears are more likely to be realized by the Republicans, so thank goodness the Democrats are in charge.

April 15 has become a kind of May Day for the Tea Party movement, prompting protests across the country both last year and this to insist that we've been "taxed enough already.......So what do we know about how much Americans have been taxed under Obama?...just focusing on developments since the Tea Party movement emerged fourteen months ago, roughly 98% of Americans received a break on their Federal taxes for 2009.

A second clear grievance is a broader one against tyranny. As I wrote last Fall, when it comes to things that most people think of as manifestly tyrannical forms of government abuse of power - like warrantless surveillance of individuals, torture, and other clear violations of due process and people's basic rights, the Tea Party movement should have become upset at the prospect of tyranny in America long before February of 2009.

But what about other clear forms of tyranny and abuse of power, including instances where large private corporations rip-off ordinary taxpayers while government either turns a blind eye or actively abets the abuse? Indeed, the Tea Party movement has decried Wall Street bailouts. But the movement's rejection of bailouts has not been accompanied by any policy agenda to stop such things from happening again. Where, for example, is the Tea Party insistence on significant regulatory reform to mitigate abuse by large corporations?

Whether their grievances are a proxy for other concerns, people can decide for themselves. I've already made quite clear my suspicions in this regard (and the New York Times recent poll of supporters does show that Tea Party identifiers are about twice as likely as the average respondent to say we spend too much time worrying about Blacks). Regardless, it's hard to conclude that the movement is anything but a fraud given the vast disconnect between the movement's supposed principles and the targets of their intense anger since their inception.

Why the Tea Party is a Fraud