Battle of the Bags: Dueling Tea Parties Add Insult to Hilarity in Nevada Primary Race

In the GOP primary race for US Senate candidate, it’s Bag-on-Bag Action, The Way Men Like It.

Meanwhile, erratic, meddling Tea Party-Pooper Glenn Beck has already signed with Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks, which is widely considered to be the Place Where Grassroots Movements Go to Die.

Why do they call themselves “Tea Parties,” when all they do is drink each other’s milkshakes?

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 06/08/10 at 12:43 PM • Permalink

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I’m waiting for each faction to send in their crack suicide team.

Comment by Tom65 on 06/08/10 at 12:58 PM

In the GOP primary race for US Senate candidate, it’s Bag-on-Bag Action, The Way Men Like It.

Gratuitous imagery aside, is it too early or too late to start calling them handbaggers?*

Handbagging became a technical term for asserting oneself, if not literally whacking one’s opponents. Most famously used when Mrs Thatcher reportedly banged her hands on the table in a European summit, demanding the UK be given a rebate on its contributions. She got it, and the UK still has it. It’s worth £2bn a year. That was some handbag.

Related British usage: “It’s handbags at dawn,” “Ooooh, handbags!” etc. etc.

* Ah. I see that doesn’t really help either, does it? Alert Somerby.

Comment by YAFB on 06/08/10 at 01:18 PM

Now THAT’s a flag I’d be proud to march behind—

Umm, beneath.

Any old hoo, this graphic MUST be disseminated nationwide!

Comment by Mrs. Polly on 06/08/10 at 01:28 PM

@YAFB—On a related note, I have often invoked this quotation—variously ascribed to both Disraeli and Welsh MP Navckid Keyd—as a tonic for friends who have grown disgusted with Washington’s addiction to earmarks:

Say no more, Gov’ner. You’ve got to grind, grind, grind at that grindstone… Though childhood slips like sand through a sieve… And all too soon they’ve up and grown, and then they’ve flown… And it’s too late for you to give - just that spoonful of sugar to ‘elp the medicine go down - medicine go down - medicine go down. Well, so long, Gov’ner. Sorry to have troubled you.