……the Tea Party has its share of faux populists. They march under slogans such as "can you hear us now?" and "we the people," but their demands on Tax Day were more those of the angry affluent than oppressed commoners. (Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 4/16/10)
Unsure of exactly how to demean Tea Party members, liberals have switched from labeling them stupid, to calling them angry white males, to - the latest insult - they're rich!
To be sure, great efforts have been made recently to demonize the Tea Party movement. But polling suggests that the Tea Party movement has not been diminished but, in fact, has grown stronger. The Winston Group found, in three national surveys, conducted from December through February and published April 1, that the Tea Party movement is composed of a broad cross-section of the American people -- 40 to 50 percent of its supporters are non-Republicans. Indeed, one-third of self-identified Democrats say they support the Tea Party movement.
(Patrick H. Caddell and Douglas E. Schoen, Washington Post, 4/16/10)
Meanwhile, it turns out some of them are actually Democrats!
The Tea Partiers assembled peaceably and made no secret of their grievances so they appeared to have met the Constitutional test of First Amendment protection. The New York Times estimated that "5,000 to 10,000 people attended" the event on the Washington Mall. If it had been a pro-Liberal-cause demonstration, the Times would have estimated the crowd at between 750,000 and 17 million people… (Rich Galen, Townhall.com, 4/16/10)
Good point, remember the "millions" who used to routinely gather to protest the Bush war in Iraq?
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