April 15, 2009 10:11 PM UTC

Teabaggers Foiled By Own Lack of Planning

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• by: Colorado Pols

Permit? What permit? As MSNBC reports:

In Washington, D.C., protesters had planned to dump a million tea bags in Lafayette Square and even promised to put the bags on the tarps and clean up afterward. But their plans were thwarted after National Park Service officials said protesters didn’t have the proper permit to dump the bags, NBC affiliate WRC TV reported.

“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.

A D.C. think tank, the free market Competitive Enterprise Institute, said it would allow the dumping of the tea bags in its 12th floor conference room instead. [Pols emphasis]

At the Lafayette Square protest, someone reportedly threw a box of tea bags over a White House fence, forcing the Secret Service to briefly evacuate the North Lawn area.

A second D.C. rally that had been planned outside the Treasury Department also was foiled by the lack of a permit.

Sadly for the rabid anti-tax teabaggers, this is what it has come to: They can dump their symbolic tea bags in somebody’s 12th floor conference room in D.C. That is, if they haven’t already chucked them over fences like at the White House in between yelling “Death to the President!”

But…but…

“It’s the Reagan coalition reorganizing itself,” Gingrich spokesman Rick Sawyer said.

Uh, yeah. People around the country are having a good laugh at the sexual connotations of your name, while you’re left wondering what to do with a shitload of tea bags. We’ll be the first to say that Ronald Reagan would almost certainly be embarrassed by this bunch.