In Defense Of The Tax-Day Tea Parties  —  The of tea-party enthusiasm on the American right has provoked a fairly typical reaction from the organized American left.  It's a fake.  It involves tea bags and (a) Dick Armey.  It's got the consistency of astroturf, not natural grass.

CNN Reporter at Chicago Tea Party: It's “Anti-CNN Since This is Highly Promoted By the Right-Wing, Conservative Network Fox”  —  CNN correspondent Susan Roesgen could barely get through her live shot at the Chicago tea party this afternoon.  Over shouts of, “You're not a reporter,” …

1 Million Tea Bags, But No Place to Dump  —  Permits end dumping before it starts  —  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.

Anti-tax ‘tea parties’ vent anger across U.S.  —  Obama aims to ease dread of deadline day, vowing ‘simpler tax code’  —  Protestors take part in a “tea party” Wednesday in Lafayette Park, across from the White House in Washington.  —  Tea activist  —  April 15: Tim Phillips …

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties  —  Rain-streaked tea bags hung from the umbrellas and eyeglasses of protesters as Tea Party Day got off to a soggy start along the East Coast on Wednesday.  —  On a day when the government deadline for filing income tax returns offered some Americans …

Left Behind?  —  Glenn Reynolds today pens an op-ed hailing the “tea-party” “movement” as a post-partisan, spontaneous uprising of ordinary folks against the establishment of both parties.  He makes no mention of Pajamas Media's heavy investment in the events, nor Fox News' endless touting …

Fox anchor rants about fascism during tea party coverage  —  Fox Business Network anchor Cody Willard didn't appear to be very “fair and balanced” as he let out his opinion of Democrats' economic policy during a tea party protest in Boston.  “When are we going to wake up and start fighting …

Massive: Tax Day Tea Party USA  —  I just have one word: Wow.  More than 800 tea parties across the country.  Here's your first photo/vid round-up from the events across the country, large and small, every corner of this great nation (hit your refresh button often...I'll keep updating):

Anti-Obama Taxpayer Tea Parties steeped in insanity  —  What, exactly, are the protesters protesting?  The marginal tax rate rising 3% for millionaires?  —  The Web is buzzing with information about how to throw an anti-Obama Taxpayer Tea Party, something organizers hope will be held today from Santa Monica to South Carolina.

Gov. Perry talks succession for Texas at a tea party: “Texas Can leave Union If It Wants To”  —  All the insane talk coming from the Limbaugh National Convention is spreading into the fabric of the entire GOP.  Listen to Texas Gov. Rick Perry say: … These republicans are talking treason in my mind.