Thursday, March 31, 2011

Headline of the day

Courtesy Jim Treacher at the Daily Caller:

The schism in the Coffee Party is so bad, they split up into two different booths at Denny’s


Our previous thoughts on this curious faux-roots political organization, here.

When it formed about this time last year, the Democrats had control of the Oval Office and both the Senate and the House and with the resulting progressive agenda being advanced through the corridors of power, we just could never figure out what this crew was supposed to be all about.

Oh, that's right... civility. They were going to bring civil discourse to the public arena.



We are writing to you because it is our belief that much can be learned from the experience of the Interim Board, and the dynamics on the Board which we believe seriously impeded our process. We would like to identify some issues which, from our point of view, have become problems within the Coffee Party, and which, if not corrected, will hinder its success,” wrote ousted board members Bahiya Cabral-Johnson, Teri Torres-Hart and Sabina Virgo in an open letter.

Painting a general picture of organizational chaos, they pointed to a lack of civility in the organization, a lack of democracy and a lack of consultation
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Bummer, dudes.

3 comments:

SarahB said...

Internal strife after getting NOTHING done? Awesome. Tea Party has it's own internal drama...but we get s*$! done anyway...because it's a REAL movement.

B-Daddy said...

Top down astro-turfing populist wannabes, good riddance. Sorry to sugar coat it.

Brian Brady said...

They have to micromanage and plan...everything