Ethics

Balko on the Tea Bag Protests

By Ed Brayton

Balko pretty much nails the tea bag protest rallies:

My friend Tim Lee pithily observed on Twitter that the tea partiers are in a lot of ways similar to the anti-war protesters from several years ago. I tend to agree with them, but they make it very difficult to take them seriously. And like the anti-war folks, they're letting their cause get hijacked by a variety of other causes, too, including anti-immigration and anti-gay protesters, and, now, many of the mainstream GOP hacks that had no problem growing the federal government back when they were in power.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 16, 2009 (boomark / email).