please, stop.

I would not call myself a "fan" of the so called tea party ideology. Primarily, because I do not know what it is. However, the mob seems vaguely reminiscent of the swell that rose after September 11th making claims about freedom and it not being free. I am sure my, and other's patriotism was called into question a few times as well.

After spending the last decade fighting two wars we have yet to "win", it seems we don't really want to pay for them and that we actually thought that freedom might kinda sorta been free. I refer to: ceiling, debt.

However, maybe what annoys me more than the tea party, is the anti-tea party party. Seems the solution to the shouting is to meet it with yet more shouting --

Polls show that disapproval of the Tea Party is climbing. In April 2010, a New York Times/CBS News survey found that 18 percent of Americans had an unfavorable opinion of it, 21 percent had a favorable opinion and 46 percent had not heard enough. Now, 14 months later, Tea Party supporters have slipped to 20 percent, while their opponents have more than doubled, to 40 percent.

- From something called Crashing the Tea Party (how clever) in the NYT

How freaking petty this particular paragraph is. In one year and some change teap arty supporters have gone from 21% to 20%.

That is not a change, that is called a margin of error. To me, any rational thinker will look at this and say, "Gee, this is virtually unchanged. I bet the statistician sneezed."

Further, it does seem like the unfavorables are increasing. But why, WHY!, do you need to say "have more than doubled"? The data is right there. We can see it. When you say have more than I am thinking, "Shit, what? 50, 60, 70 %?" No. Doubled plus 4%.

Which, I might remind you, if there were errors in the FIRST sample (which there almost certainly were) and the number looked more like 19, 20, or 21 % then the unfavorables would have SIMPLY (or worse) LESS THAN doubled.

Please. Stop this. Many of us aren't complete fucking morons. We know the tea party is toxic (see the 40% unfavorable rating?). We don't need you to rub our nose in it.

We have decided to ignore the tea party, and that should probably include ignoring the anti-tea party party, too.