You may remember that one of the prime movers behind the Great Teabagging of America (besides the people who funded the astroturf groups. And Fox news. And talk radio.) was a blog called Smart Girl Politics which is kind of like a meeting place for the Fashion Bug coordinating sets set who gather to talk conservative politics and exchange recipes. For treason.
One of the guiding lights at SGP is Director of Congressional and Candidate Outreach Rebecca Wales who, when she’s not outreaching to congressionals and candidates, well…let’s just say Rebecca is more of an "idea person" than a "follow through person":
WASHINGTON — It was a great idea, really. Take a million tea bags and dump them in Lafayette Park to protest government spending. Hip, hip, hoo-ray!
But a funny thing happened en route to a visually pleasing Tax Day protest. The National Park Service said the tea party protesters didn’t have the proper permit to dump their bags.
So instead of a raucous visual demonstration, all that was left were images of the tea party packing up their boxes of tea on a cold, soggy day in D.C.
Doh!
"We have a million tea bags here, and we don’t have a place to put them because it’s not on our permit," said Rebecca Wales, lead organizer of D.C. Tea Party.
Fight the power, folks, but next time check your permits before acquiring 1 million tea bags.
Okay. That didn’t go very well.
So maybe Rebecca should go on Pajamas TV and present a well-researched and thoughtful Smart Girl response to the nomination of Sonia Sotomayer to the Supreme Court.
It’s like watching a tweaker trying to place an order at Sonic.
Really. Roger Simon needs to start charging for this shit.
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Well, they do capitalize “Smart”, so maybe it’s a Maxwell Smart-kinda “Smart”.
Ya know, between that Young Con rap thing on Youtube and now this, Conservatives may want to think about staying away from video cameras, because it always seems to turn out so wrong…
And Kathleen, gurl, I would rethink the whole sleeveless thing until you introduce your triceps to a Nautilus machine.
I got thru 3 minutes of PJTV. I’m bored, but not bored enough to listen to 14 minutes of that earnest little conservative twit.
“Fashion Bug coordinating sets set”. Ha! You’re a hoot tbogg.
I am still amazed that a protest meant to harken back to the Boston Tea Party was ruined because the organizers didn’t have permits. In other words, the modern rebels just didn’t really want to do that rebel thing without full governmental approval.
If King George had thought of that, we could be driving on the other side of the road.
It’s SotomayOr, gotdammit. She’s going to be the MAYOR of SUPREME COURT CITY.
Yikes Stripes! I made it through about six minutes of the “broadcast” and couldn’t bear it a moment longer. Do you get a free subscription to Tiger Beat if you join SGP? and then we get a Tweet to all go over to Kelly’s house to do each other’s hair and eat Rice Krispie Squares?
You’re right TBogg, Roger Simon should be charging admission to this circus.
I think that “smart” here is more vaguely aspirational than actually goal oriented.
I watched about 15 seconds of the video and it left me wondering when the “Smart Girl” was going to show up.
If you have to name it “Smart” in order for people to even consider that as an aspect of what you are selling, then it isn’t “Smart”; it’s stupid, with a side of pathetic.
“Um..like.. I don’t know.. it’s like amazing that he…picked….like ….her, because….ummmm… like….oooooh I found a shiny penny!”
I kept banging the side of my laptop because I thought it was freezing up sporadically, but it was actually her brain.
Rebecca obviously suffers from hyper-eloquence.
Fourteen minutes? I’m sorry – I just can’t watch these bozos anymore. I barely got past “America’s slide toward socialism” (the first six seconds or so) before the gag reflex kicked in. I’ll take everyone’s word for it that she’s an idiot. Jebus – they’re all idiots.
My dearly departed had a name for her: yammering fool. I must not click on wingnut links, I must not….
Seems like hard core conservatives in general have a “follow through” problem. I worked for a retired Lt. Col who was about as Rush Limbaugh-y as it is possible to be. He always had grand plans and extreme project ideas, but he consistently failed to make accommodation for actual funding or project execution (I felt I had a certain ‘insiders’ view of the debacle in Iraq after watching this military genius operate). Naturally, when the plans failed, it was everybody else’s fault. He seemed totally unable to grasp the actual work and planning part of a project–like he expected a completed product to miraculously appear on the basis of it being such a “great idea.” It was weird, really. Another example of the right living in an alternate reality, I guess.
Pretty pathetic, but it did make me laugh once or twice, which is more than I can say for the Mike Judge clip (or any other Konservative Komedy, for that matter).
as always, self-awareness is not a common rightwing trait.
Hmph! The “smart” girl has obviously never read Matt Groening, who has clearly established that the proper term is “D’oh!,” not “Doh.”
She needs to partner with the Charlie Daniels Band.
It’s always the women you go after, isn’t it, TBogg? Is that your official job designation at the Lake or did you just have a mean mother?
ok, I’m with Glix at 15 seconds. Did anyone make it through the whole thing? Anyone that’s not so stoned that they can remember? Because if not, we should all head directly to the tip jar because tbogg is awesome! Just think how many almost this bad things he had to watch to find this one.
From looking at their websites they seem somewhat organized.
Anybody know if they are getting wingnut welfare?
Did the host on that PajamasTV clip get paid? If so who paid him?
Redstates’ Erika Erickson is another frequent victim of TBogg’s misdirected anger toward his mom. I wonder, is it all women or just smart girls that disquiet him so?
I think I made it through all 15 minutes, but I got confused because I was waiting for some brilliant insight or a bit of wisdom amid the orgy of self-congratulation for choosing to become Smart Girls, whatever it is they mean by that phrase, and then either I passed out from holding my breath or the clip ended, or both.
Smart girl fail
TBogg is a mean mother, although the full title is Mean Mother-(Shut your mouth!)-Hey, I’m Just Talking About TBogg.