I am so sick of hearing about this allegedly awesome tea party.  Time Magazine has just published a longish article on the subject of Why The Tea Party Matters, thus demonstrating that a) the general consensus is the tea party does not matter; b) to the extent it may matter, it takes three long internet page-jumps to explain why it matters; and c) Time Magazine no longer matters.

I know, I know, Scott Brown.  But you know what, even Scott Brown doesn’t care about this dumb tea party.  As far as I am concerned, a bunch of ill-informed, reactionary white people does not make a revolution — that’s just business as usual.  You can’t invite a couple of xenophobic teddy bears to the tea-table and call it a legitimate national movement.  That’s just a xenophobic teddy bear you’re pretending is your friend, and the whole thing is weird, frankly.  In fact, it’s embarassing.

So please, let’s get back to the time when we made teabagging jokes and appreciated how funny it was that Fox News managed to galvanize a few hundred people around probably one of the few Historic Events they managed to learn in spite of the American education system.  Whatever we do about this super-lame garden party of sorts, let’s just make sure we don’t take it seriously.  After all, dumb things we start to take seriously have a bad habit of becoming real.

-AS