HuffPo just put up an item on an anti-Tea Party group.
The Tea Partiers are being countered by a start-up group called "The Other 95%," which descended on D.C. on Thursday to protest "right across from Tea Party rally."
Their site - The Other 95%. As if the Tea Partiers represent only 5% of the population, despite much recent polling proving that assumption false.
They claim to be just a bunch of happy go lucky apolitical types, I guess.
We’re not trying to start a movement or a party; we’re just standing up for the truth, and thanking President Obama for looking out for average Americans. We are not tied to any Party or candidate. We think President Obama should do more to ensure that corporations and wealthy pay their fair share.
But the site appears to be registered to Andrew Boyd. He does seem to have a pattern of getting busy in election years.
Not that he's political, or anything. Though you may recall the activist's last failed project.
Andrew Boyd, Cultural Activist and Founder, Billionaires for Bush
VITALS 41 years old. Author and troublemaker. Born and bred New Yorker. Dedicated straphanger.
Yeah, he's apolitical-
"The critical moment in my career came after several years as a student activist. I was feeling limited by the all too predictable forms of social movement organizing--pamphlets, rallies, teach-ins, etc.--and began to experiment with public performance art, guerrilla theater and cultural interventions. (Including taking over a campus military research lab dressed in lab coats, dark sunglasses and walkman headsets; launching an experiment in free bicycle transportation by exorcising the commodity value out of the bicycles in a mass public ritual; and inserting into campus publications extreme pro-imperialst rants on US Central America policy written by a mysterious Capt. John Early.)"
http://www.dailyafflictions.com/who.html
Posted by: Reaganite Republican | Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 06:26 PM
It would be more accurate to call his group The Other 35%.
That is, until they endorse gun control, at which point it would become The Other 20%.
Posted by: Ken | Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 08:58 PM
Rush made a great point today. For years the politicians have been afraid to cut spending becaus eof the backlash form those impacted. what the TEA party represents is the backlash for those paying for those benifits. th epoliticans it appear shave been worried about the wrong backlash.
The key to slashing spending is the same that they used for sin taxes. cut the programs that impact a small minority of the state first. Christie is doing it right. By goign after the teacher union he is slecting the calf from the herd. He is making it a fight of the people vs some greedy teachers.
If it works you can be sure he will attack the next special interest group. One at a time
Posted by: unseen | Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 10:30 PM
The other 95%--declaring one's self the majority worked for the Bolsheveks.
Posted by: tehag | Friday, April 16, 2010 at 02:01 PM