Failing Socialist News-hacks in U.K. Slander Tea Party Conservatives While Awaiting Dental Care and X-Rays

London's predictably Marxist Guardian newspaper is doing its level best to tar the Constitutionally-grounded Tea Party movement in the US. Its smears are simplistic and painfully revealing, as the Guardian fears nothing more than a return to Reagan-era conservatism for the GOP. The non-bylined capsule summary of the movement is reminiscent of a Michael Moore trailer only without the funny.

A collection of tax-hating gun nuts and single-issue cranks who bombard the White House with teabags

Appearance: Annual Picnic for the Disgruntled.

What is it? A loose coalition of disaffected American conservatives gathering sporadically to protest big government generally, President Obama specifically and socialism, vaguely. Initially they objected to the government's fiscal stimulus package, but the movement has grown to encompass an amorphous range of gripes both national and local.

Amorphous gripes like a "Health Reform Bill [that] Makes Bernie Madoff Seem Like A Piker".

Like the rating agency Fitch stating that the "US Will Hit 94% Debt to GDP Ratio Next Year, Surpassing the Level Where Debt Starts Reducing Economic Growth."

Like an economy so abysmal even the AP is ripping the failed Stimulus package as "unemployment [remains] unchanged by [the] projects -- and that "more than 6 jobless workers [now] chase 1 [job] opening."

These are amorphous complaints, you see, according to the brain-trust at the Guardian.

What's it got to do with tea? The name echoes a seminal moment in American history when colonists chucked a shipment of tea into Boston Harbour, in protest against taxation by the Crown without the consent of their own elected representatives.

Does the Tea Party movement go in for similar direct action? They have a form of protest called teabagging – putting a teabag in an envelope and sending it to the White House...

Note the typical accuracy level of the modern Left. The only teabagging I'm aware of has nothing at all to do with the Conservative Tea Party movement.

I may disagree with their politics, but if it's a genuine grassroots movement who am I to say they're a bunch of morons? Critics contend it's merely an "astroturf" movement, funded by rightwing thinktanks and heavily promoted by conservative media outlets such as Fox News, masquerading as a populist uprising.

Has it got a future? In February the first Tea Party National Convention is being held in Nashville, with the aim of uniting disparate organisations under one ideological banner.

What sort of person could unite this rag-tag collection of tax-hating gun nuts and single-issue cranks? Sarah Palin will be the keynote speaker.

Do say: "OBAMA: SOCIALIST PIG"
or, alternatively,
"OBAMA = HITLER"

Don't say: "Mine's milk, no sugar, thanks."

Gee, the only person I ever saw holding an Obama as Hitler poster turned out to be a paid Democrat union hack.

And the only racists around the Beltway appear to be Harry Reid and Joe Biden.