The President Fears Teabagging

Stay classy, Mr. President...

Three days after he decried the lack of civility in American politics, President Obama is quoted in a new book about his presidency referring to the Tea Party movement using a derogatory term with sexual connotations.


In Jonathan Alter’s “The Promise: President Obama, Year One,” President Obama is quoted in an interview saying that the unanimous vote of House Republicans vote against the stimulus bills “set the tenor for the whole year … That helped to create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party to where it now controls the agenda for the Republicans.”


Tea Party activists loath the term “tea baggers,” which has emerged in liberal media outlets and elsewhere as a method of mocking the activists and their concerns.

I wonder if President would approve if the right regularly started referring to left-wing groups by using the term "douchebags." Allahpundit has a pretty good point about this...

How many prominent Democrats, I wonder, have yet to use “teabagger” in one form or another? Kerry and Schumer both used it in fundraising e-mails to appeal to the lefty base before the Massachusetts special election, and we’re bound to hear it again as the rhetoric ratchets way down before the midterms. Can it be that … Joe Biden is the tactful elder statesman on the left these days?

It's more likely Biden's advisors are trying to keep him from saying something about it, because he'd be just as likely to say something like, "C'mon, you teabaggers! I'm begging you -- teabag me!"

And in yet another shock, Robert Gibbs doesn't want to discuss the use of the term with the President. No balls, I guess.