skippy the bush kangaroo: if it pisses off the hardly-ever-right wing, it must be good

Tuesday, March 02, 2010

if it pisses off the hardly-ever-right wing, it must be good

normally we'd dismiss any too-cutesy political pun we didn't make ourselves, but the coffee party warrants a second look:

the slogan is “wake up and stand up.” the mission statement declares that the federal government is “not the enemy of the people, but the expression of our collective will, and that we must participate in the democratic process in order to address the challenges we face as americans.”

local chapters are planning meetings in cities from washington to san antonio to los angeles (where there have been four in the last month.) the party (coffeepartyusa.org) is planning nationwide coffee houses for march 13, where people can gather to decide which issues they want to take on and even which candidates they want to support.

this summer, [founder annabel park] said, the party will hold a convention in the midwest, with a slogan along the lines of “meet me in the middle.” the party has inspired the requisite jokes: why not a latte party, a chai party, a red bull party? but ms. park said that while the coffee party — and certainly the name — was formed in reaction to the tea party, the two agree on some things, like a desire for fiscal responsibility and a frustration with congress.

“we’re not the opposite of the tea party,” ms. park, 41, said. “we’re a different model of civic participation, but in the end we may want some of the same things.”

of course, the idea of maturity and moderation just irks the hell out of the wingers:

the coffee party is a political parasite which presents itself as something it is not. as reported in the ny times, park presents herself as not hostile to the tea party movement, and in fact, hopes to bring some tea partiers into her group…

in fact, a simple internet search (which the ny times apparently is not capable of doing) reveals that park organized the coffee party for the specific purpose of undermining the tea party movement.

park is a former strategy analyst at the ny times who was one of organizers and operators of the united for obama video channel at youtube…

heaven forfend that a democrat be discouraged w/the government procedure and want to start a grass roots movement to fix things! that's the wheelhouse of the teabaggers!

or maybe the hardly-ever-right wing is mad because they can't think of a sexual innuendo to go with coffee, a la "teabagging."

as usual, they are not thinking hard enough.

posted by skippy at 11:35 AM |

2 Comments:

Can you be in the coffee party if you drink tea? I've been drinking tea all my life and believe me I'm annoyed that my beverage of choice has been taken over rightwing loonies. I wonder tea drinkers could sue...maybe a class action...

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