See web-only content: http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/04/teabagging-in-a-nutshell/203115/ Die-hard libertarian Radley Balko passes along the video above and remarks: 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. This article available online at: http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/04/teabagging-in-a-nutshell/203115/
Die-hard libertarian Radley Balko passes along the video above and remarks:
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.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/04/teabagging-in-a-nutshell/203115/
