The Coffee Party
Posted on March 2nd, 2010, by admin in UncategorizedThis is silly, but typical.
In response to the Tea Party people there is another new politcial party: The Coffee Party. The Coffee Party looks like an effort to create a movement for what Tom Hayden used to call The Radical Middle. Coffee Party members are upset with politicals but want to foster a spirit of cooperation rather than start over from scratch. They owe more to Common Cause's John Gardner and third party candidate John Anderson and less to Pitchfork Ben Tillman and Sarah Palin or Ralph Nader's strange dream of being governed by the people who appear in Vanity Fair.
Here's a short piece from New York Magazine
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/03/the_coffee_party_is_like_a_cal.html The Coffee Party Is Like a Calmer, More Cooperative, More Boring Tea Party
The Coffee Party Is Like a Calmer, More Cooperative, More Boring Tea Party Where can you turn if you're a citizen who wants to join a beverage-related political activism group, but you're also not afraid of the federal guv'ment taking your guns and old people, and you don't think the answer to every policy dilemma is "patriotism"? Well, the coffee party, that's where! Yes, the coffee party, a rapidly growing group of sensible, rational adults who believe that cooperation and compromise can make America — HEY! OVER HERE! Try to pay attention, please. This is interesting stuff. The coffee party, like all important political movements over the past century, started out as a Facebook group, one which has been gaining membership at a breakneck pace. Its founder, documentarian Annabel Park, seeks to "send a message to people in Washington." Just like the tea partiers! Except, unlike the tea partiers, the message is "that you have to learn how to work together." According to the movement's mission statement: "The Coffee Party Movement gives voice to Americans who want to see cooperation in government. We recognize that the federal government is not the enemy of the people, but the expression of our collective will, and that we must participate in the democratic process in order to address the challenges that we face as Americans. As voters and grassroots volunteers, we will support leaders who work toward positive solutions, and hold accountable those who obstruct them." In the past coffee houses have often been the sites of Bohemian radicalism but this party harkens back to the sensible suburban kaffee klatches of the postwar era. Perhaps George Howell will emerge as their candidate. He's got knowledge and experience of foreign affairs and years of wrestling with north-south issues, global trade, the environment and economic concentration. A party could do worse.
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/03/the_coffee_party_is_like_a_cal.html The Coffee Party Is Like a Calmer, More Cooperative, More Boring Tea Party
The Coffee Party Is Like a Calmer, More Cooperative, More Boring Tea Party Where can you turn if you're a citizen who wants to join a beverage-related political activism group, but you're also not afraid of the federal guv'ment taking your guns and old people, and you don't think the answer to every policy dilemma is "patriotism"? Well, the coffee party, that's where! Yes, the coffee party, a rapidly growing group of sensible, rational adults who believe that cooperation and compromise can make America — HEY! OVER HERE! Try to pay attention, please. This is interesting stuff. The coffee party, like all important political movements over the past century, started out as a Facebook group, one which has been gaining membership at a breakneck pace. Its founder, documentarian Annabel Park, seeks to "send a message to people in Washington." Just like the tea partiers! Except, unlike the tea partiers, the message is "that you have to learn how to work together." According to the movement's mission statement: "The Coffee Party Movement gives voice to Americans who want to see cooperation in government. We recognize that the federal government is not the enemy of the people, but the expression of our collective will, and that we must participate in the democratic process in order to address the challenges that we face as Americans. As voters and grassroots volunteers, we will support leaders who work toward positive solutions, and hold accountable those who obstruct them." In the past coffee houses have often been the sites of Bohemian radicalism but this party harkens back to the sensible suburban kaffee klatches of the postwar era. Perhaps George Howell will emerge as their candidate. He's got knowledge and experience of foreign affairs and years of wrestling with north-south issues, global trade, the environment and economic concentration. A party could do worse.
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