Tea Party Fail: What Happened To The Million Teabags?

As many of you know, the centerpiece of yesterday's Teabag LARPing Performance Art Fair was to be the unveiling of one million teabags, which were to symbolize one million symbolic teabags, fighting socialism. These teabags could not be dumped in the muddy waters of the Potomac, to the delight of kayakers, because that's illegal. So the teabaggers were going to take their act to Lafayette Park, and dump all of them on a tarp -- by which we mean an actual tarp, not a Troubled Asset Relief Program. That would have been far too clever a joke for these people.

But! The State got up to straight up TRAMPLING of the RIGHTS, and put the kibosh on the teabag display. Which left the bags back in the inside of a truck, borne back ceaselessly into the past or something.

And so, that left people with one unresolved question: What happened to the teabags? Did they end up on a cross country jaunt? Did they get sent to the Dharma Initiative? Did anyone come to the realization: "Hey! I bet we could make tea with these things?" As it happens, the press stayed on the case.

From today's Washington Post:

Finally, the truck's driver, who had been wandering around town for hours after an overnight drive from Georgia, found a place to unload the cargo: 12 floors up in a downtown advocacy group.

That's right. One million teabags finally found a home in a conference room at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, JUST AS NOSTRADAMUS SAID THEY WOULD. The Post got a picture of the greatest political demonstration to ever take place in a downtown conference room.

Gaze on that image, and tell me if your patriotic heart doesn't swell with, "Seriously, guys, you need to move these things by three so we can go over the new HR policies."

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Comments

[bonum]

06:58 AM on 04/17/2009

the Republicans lost, BIG TIME, and they are such sore losers. I find it fascinating that the Republicans have confused tyranny with losing! Then again, I'm assuming that they would understand the nature of a Republic and the democracy of this country, but that is assuming much.

Jon Stewart was right: The Republicans have confused tyranny with losing

it's amazing to watch the Republicans throw such remarkable temper tantrums!

now, if only they would just hold their breath and pass away, that's would be awesome

[tlgeiger62]

06:56 AM on 04/17/2009

And after all, in order for a successful teabagging to occur, one must follow the appropriate steps for the proper conclusion.

[sean6886]

01:15 AM on 04/17/2009

Was Faux covering this? You know...the dropoff of the all important 1 million teabags.

[BuzzingAlong]

12:06 AM on 04/17/2009

I sure hope that no charity or food bank takes these tea bags as donations.

I would not trust the right-wingers to not tamper with the tea bags by injecting some substance that would make people ill.

[NotesFromME]

11:44 PM on 04/16/2009

To think, the Republicans once ruled the universe and talked about a permanent majority. Eight years of Bush and they are reduced to being a flock of jibbering idiots.

[JScott]

10:36 PM on 04/16/2009

Soon up for auction on E-Bay.

[FebM]

10:17 PM on 04/16/2009

Anyone needs an order for teabags? I mean there is business and big bucks to be made here

[just4shiggles]

09:46 PM on 04/16/2009

Teabagging, evacuations, bomb dismantling robots, extra police etc.... that's some wasteful spending that they can get behind!

[apoyo]

09:13 PM on 04/16/2009

They should have donated them to a soup kitchen.

It would have been the Christian thing to do.

Otherwise it is just more wasteful spending and stupid to boot.

[serindipity803]

11:22 PM on 04/16/2009

Too authentic - these 'christians' have no clue what it even means.

[BuzzingAlong]

12:08 AM on 04/17/2009

No. No. No.

How could you trust that the right-wingers have not tampered with the tea bags by injecting some substance that would make people ill?

[Islandtime]

08:57 PM on 04/16/2009

RepubliKlans should be accustom to failure at this point.

[Godiva]

07:38 PM on 04/16/2009

All those folk talking about wasteful spending. Well they had money to buy all those tea bags. Geesh. Is that a duh moment or what?

[eus]

06:27 PM on 04/16/2009

This is so wasteful! Just another example of how clueless some Americans are. If they were more creative, they'd invent virtual tea bags.

[Phxflyer]

06:18 PM on 04/16/2009

Democrat as an adjective . . . why do republicans hate the English language and America?

[Joseph Upton]

05:26 PM on 04/16/2009

The REAL hatred, mean spiritedness and ignorance today is coming from the democrat left.

[questionsquestions]

05:34 PM on 04/16/2009

Ah, HuffPost. I always find the best comedy here.

[jamie461]

05:37 PM on 04/16/2009

No, it isn't. Actually everyone is just laughing at you wingnuts. You set yourselves up for it by all this talk of "tea bagging." You all are having a big temper tantrum, nothing more.

[2nd-mpj]

04:54 PM on 04/16/2009

If they are still boxed they might still be good to use the way they were intended: for a nice, civilized midmorning or early afternoon break. However, I don't know that I would want a cuppa made from one of those being dumped on a table in the image above. But there is another option.
Teabags are great for composting ... and in this case that might be the most appropriate usage.