This year's most double entendre-rich protest movement arrived in front of the White House this morning without the benefit of the objects of ridicule themselves. As the Post reported earlier, the so-called Tea Party protesters were greeted with bad news while they set up for planned protests at Lafayette Square and the U.S. Treasury building today: they didn't have permission to dump a million tea bags in the park, and they lacked a permit to demonstrate in front of Treasury. No massive public teabagging allowed, after all.
Still, the Lafayette Square event began on time, drawing at least 500 people in the first hour, despite the rain. DCist stopped by to survey the scene, which took on the tone of an anti-Obama, pro-capitalism protest, with relatively few actual teabags in sight. The rally is planned to continue until 3 p.m., but it's an awfully cold and wet day for teabagging outside, so we'll have to check back later to see how long the protesters make it. In our experience, teabagging isn't an activity many people can keep up all day.
The hypocrisy of the right astounds me.
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