Tea party animals

The ebbs and flows of the Tea Party ferment are hardly uniform. It is an amorphous, factionalized uprising with no clear leadership and no centralized structure. Not everyone flocking to the Tea Party movement is worried about dictatorship. Some have a basic aversion to big government, or Mr. Obama, or progressives in general. What’s more, some Tea Party groups are essentially appendages of the local Republican Party.

From a long piece in the New York Times. Which, of course, is a liberal, commie rag, so take it for what it's worth.

Seriously, though: There is a lot that is interesting to me about the Tea Party. The movement has something in common with the anti-war movement of the late 1960s, for sure -- people are taking it to the streets and whispering about revolution.

But while 'love' was a big part of the message in the '60s, the Tea Party has tapped into something quite different. It seems to me that the common denominator in the Tea Party is anger. These people are mad as hell.

Also, they're picking up steam.

UPDATE: My father, who is up from Long Island this week, says the Tea Partiers and hippies may be some of the same people.
"It's just that now they're messing with their money," he says.