Marathon Pundit: Astroturf-coffee party movement spills tomorrow

Tom Mannis spills the beans on the phony-grassroots coffee party movement in an excellent post. But let's first travel back in time to the first tea parties last February. CNBC's Rick Santilli had an on-air rant from the floor of a Chicago financial exchange which led to the first tea parties eight days later. It was truly grass roots, I heard about it by e-mail. Unlike the upstart coffee party movement, there were no professionally-produced YouTube videos or press releases with sharp graphics to spur action.

Mannis zeroes in on a North Side Chicago coffee party--one being organized by Democratic operative Baxter Swilley, who was the downstate coordinator for disgraced former lieutenant governor candidate Scott Lee Cohen--you know, the pawnbroker guy who abused something stronger than caffeine--steroids.

With child-like simplicity reminiscent of an ABC After School Special, the philosophy of the coffee party movement is centered around cooperating with government. Does that mean I should accept the insanity of paying the nation's highest sales tax, which was forced upon me by Cook County Democrats? Illinois is essentially bankrupt, should I cooperate with the continued mismanagement of this state by the Democrats? Should I acquiesce to having an unpopular health care reform bill becoming the law of the land?

I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Tea Party Express in Rockford on April 6. There will be no astroturf there.

As for the North Side coffee party, will repealing the remainder of the hated Cook County corruption tax be part of their "issues mosaic?"

And finally, American Digest has noticed the acronym for Coffee Party USA is CPUSA. As in the Communist Party USA.

UPDATE 9:30am CST: Publius Forum mows down the astroturf.

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