{"id":13359,"date":"2010-09-09T05:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13359"},"modified":"2010-09-09T07:18:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T12:18:53","slug":"constant-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13359","title":{"rendered":"Constant Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an old saying; &#8220;insanity is repeating the same thing over nad over, thinking you can get a different result&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, a blogger looks at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nooneofanyimport.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/08\/isnt-there-a-saying-about-this\/\">the left&#8217;s attempts to parody, slime and co-opt the Tea Party:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><a style=\"color: #2970a6; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/nooneofanyimport.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/06\/what-is-the-coffee-party-part-2\/\">The Coffee Party<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><a style=\"color: #2970a6; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/dancingczars.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/16\/screenshot-proof-anti-tea-party-teacher-jason-levin-calls-for-politically-motivated-identity-theft-online-at-%E2%80%9Ccttp%E2%80%9D-during-school-hours\/\">Crash the Tea Party<\/a>.\u00a0 (The creator of this silliness\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2970a6; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2010\/08\/21\/crash-the-tea-party-teacher-now-unemployed\/\">lost his job over it<\/a>, by the way.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><a style=\"color: #2970a6; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/theteapartyisover.org\/TPIO\">The Tea Party Is Over<\/a>.\u00a0 (I liked the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2970a6; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/02\/09\/anti-tea-party-web-site-scheme-funnel-funds\/\">original spooky look<\/a> better, though.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><a style=\"color: #2970a6; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/blog\/astroturf-on-heels-of-failed-coffee-party-its-the-other-95\/?singlepage=true\">The Other\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">95%<\/span><\/a> <a style=\"color: #2970a6; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/other98.com\/\">98%<\/a>.\u00a0 (Also covered in my post\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2970a6; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/nooneofanyimport.wordpress.com\/category\/politics\/the-other-95\/\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><a style=\"color: #2970a6; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nowpublic.com\/world\/teabusters-humble-beginning-anti-teaparty-movement\">The Teabusters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><a style=\"color: #2970a6; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/brownbaggers.wordpress.com\/\">The Brownbaggers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Have I missed anything?\u00a0 Good grief, I almost forgot that whole\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2970a6; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/nooneofanyimport.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/12\/the-lefts-worst-idea-yet\/\">F*ck Tea thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Here\u2019s the left\u2019s new plan.\u00a0 They are\u00a0going to track the Tea Party Movement\u00a0with a brand new<a style=\"color: #2970a6; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.teapartytracker.org\/\">Tea Party Tracker<\/a>, sponsored by the NAACP and\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2970a6; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/rogerlsimon\/2010\/09\/06\/holocaust-denial-george-soros-vs-the-tea-parties\/\">George Soros<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\">It\u2019s bound to work this time, right?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\">In going over the &#8220;Tea Party Tracker&#8221;, he notes something that we &#8220;shall issue&#8221; activists noticed \u00a0back in the day; at a &#8220;Million Mom March&#8221; or &#8220;Citizens for a Better Minnesota&#8221; meeting, there&#8217;d be more shooters than gun-grabbers; in some cases, there&#8217;d be no grabbers at all.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Of course I perused the site, and followed the link that promises \u201cphotos of tea party extremism.\u201d\u00a0 This link leads to a\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2970a6; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/1535843@N22\/\">Flickr group<\/a> with a pretty daggum unimpressive collection of extremism.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\">As of today,\u00a0tea party types are the more active members of this Flickr group.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Throw it in, lefties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an old saying; &#8220;insanity is repeating the same thing over nad over, thinking you can get a different result&#8221;. With that in mind, a blogger looks at\u00a0the left&#8217;s attempts to parody, slime and co-opt the Tea Party: The Coffee Party. Crash the Tea Party.\u00a0 (The creator of this silliness\u00a0lost his job over it, by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13385,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13359\/revisions\/13385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}