Meanwhile, In Our Alternate Universe

by digby

Have you heard that Bill Clinton was directing a clandestine counter-tea party operation while he was getting stents put in his heart? Neither have I.

Taylor Marsh caught this:

Big Government has learned that Clintonistas are plotting a “push/pull” strategy. They plan to identify 7-8 national figures active in the tea party movement and engage in deep opposition research on them. If possible, they will identify one or two they can perhaps ‘turn’, either with money or threats, to create a mole in the movement. The others will be subjected to a full-on smear campaign. (Has MSNBC already been notified?)

Big Government has also learned that James Carville will head up the effort.

Obviously, there is no love lost between Obama and the Clinton machine. It may at first seem odd that Clinton would rush to Obama’s defense, but the tea party movement poses a threat far beyond the immediate goals of the Obama Administration.

Right. Bill Clinton sees the fearsome teabagging threat and is assembling his army of socialist street thugs to counteract it. This is because:

The tea party movement could evolve into a new political realignment, one founded on a belief in limited government and less government interference in the economy. The Progressive agenda, which has been painstakingly built up over the last three decades, could be left in tatters.

This bold new idea of limited government is taking the country by storm. Why has no one ever thought of such a thing before?! The sheer creativity of it is mind boggling. Why the next thing you know they’ll be promising lower taxes and a strong national defense and then where will we be?

This is just going to kill our decades-in-the-making huge government socialist utopia. Thank God our Dear Leader Bill Clinton is on the case.

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