Teabaggers Planning A Spontaneous Eruption For Mid-October

Earlier today, Noah examined John Cleese's take on the jaw-dropping degeneration of the Republican Party in America. The fact that the party's congressional leadership is now trusted by approximately 12% of the voters, though, doesn't mean that the GOP is just going to slink off and die quietly-- or even change their ways and become a more positive, less obstructionist, force for good governance. The most vital piece of the current party base, the teabaggers, looks like it plans to make a bad situation-- for respectable Republicanism that can successfully appeal to mainstream voters-- far worse.

Last night, in an emergency conference call, nearly 100 national and local Tea Party Patriot organizers around the country unanimously supported a recent proposal to hold new week long rallies in over 650 cities around the country. The rallies will target local and national offices of representatives and senators. Despise concerns expressed about overexposure and weather, all organizers agreed that we must do this to send a unified message; "We are still the silent majority and we will hold elected officials accountable for their votes." The October Surprise as it is being called will focus on health care legislation, cap and trade and the November elections. The October Surprise is intended to get the media saying, my god they're back, bigger than ever and where are they coming from?

Several approaches were proposed to the rallies which are going to target local offices for national elected officials. Some will hold drive by rallies and others will hold sign waving rallies. And in a ploy for media attention one proposal suggested Patriots camp out on the steps of our elected officials offices until the vote and encourage them to mark against nationalized health care. The idea is to work in shifts either via tent and 24/7 for the duration, or just show up during office hours for the whole day the entire week of Oct 19-23. This extended presence will demonstrate that we have the passion and give the local media easy access to American's who hold our viewpoint. It is intended to make the Tea Party message the primary viewpoint for local audiences as the vote nears.

...Right now to the outside world it seems that the Tea Party movement has burnt out, but we know better. We are just average American's who go about our business living our normal lives, we are the silent majority. We follow national events on television and on the radio so keenly it would appear as if our very existence depends on it, and in very real ways we know that it does. But history has proven that we always step up when we are called. And as tired and frustrated as we are, like a weary soldier in battle we will pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and continue to fight and continue to BE HEARD. No one said this was going to be easy and we are prepared to continue the fight.

Along with the October Surprise rallies, many others ideas were proposed. One that was enthusiastically supported included citizen investigations into elected officials campaign contributions using publicly available websites, public documents and any insider knowledge that can be found. The thought is that with over 30,000 willing volunteers and a subdued media, we can drum up better pictures of our elected officials and their motivations than we are currently getting from the press. The early list of elected officials includes both republicans and democrats who will have key votes on health care. A committee was formed to begin training Tea Party Patriot volunteers on how to use the internet to dig for information and how to share it. Bloggers across the country are standing by to analyze revelations of importance.

Bloggers standing by to analyze bribes from Big Business is actually common ground that all Americans-- normal and teabagger-- can admire. If allowed to proiceed with any degree of vigor, it will certainly separate sincere teabaggers from the Astro-Turf organs that have been behind their movement 'til now. Normal Americans, on the other hand, do get nervous when the gun nuts and right-wing terrorists are given permission to come out of their caves.

A TEA Party set for Hudson later this month will feature hot drinks and political speeches-- and guns.

TEA stands for Taxed Enough Already, and the Hudson Open Carry TEA Party is scheduled for Oct. 17 in Lakefront Park. Organizers tout it as a picnic to celebrate their rights to demonstrate and to carry arms.