An exercise for the student: picture the American mainstream media reaction if somebody at a Tea Party rally had been photographed crapping on a cop car. The mainstream media reaction on this? Last time I looked, nothing. The article I linked was from a British paper.

The Democrats are trying to construct their own “Tea Party” phenomenon, but are handicapped by the utter ignorance of what the Tea Party is, how it developed, and more importantly, what it represents. They are also handicapped by fact that the Left has no brain.

I strongly urge the Democratic Party to publicly embrace these people. Better bring a moist towelette, though.

You won’t find pictures like this from any Tea Party rally. Nor will you find records of arrests, assaults on police, massive piles of trash, property damage, or shitting in public.

These are the shock troops of the Left, the mindless myrmidons they need to try and gain power when the legitimate processes aren’t working for them any more. Oh, yes, I remember the 60s and 70s. It was not conservatives burning the cities.

Besides, I’m already familiar with their song. I’ve been hearing it since 1964.

Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor addresses the Value Voters Summit in Washington, DC, Friday. The Value Voters Summit, sponsored by the Family Research Council, is an annual gathering of the religious right; it provides Republican politicians and presidential candidates an opportunity to display their conservative bona fides.

By msnbc.com’s MIchael O’Brien and NBC’s Carrie Dann

The second-ranking House Republican castigated “Occupy Wall Street” protesters on Friday, just as Democrats begin cozying up to the weeks-old demonstrations.

House GOP Leader Eric Cantor decried the protests that started several weeks ago in New York, and have spread to major cities across the country. Cantor said in a speech at the Values Voters Summit in Washington that he is “increasingly concerned” about the “growing mobs” represented at the protests.

Cantor’s remarks, some of the harshest by a Republican toward the “Occupy” demonstrators, comes amidst a growing political divide over the protests. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi backed the demonstrations, saying, “God bless them for their spontaneity.” And other Democrats have been even more open in their embrace of the movement, which has also attracted support from organized labor.

Organizers behind the movement, which expresses outrage toward the conduct of corporate America and seeks campaign finance reform, have hoped it develops into an analogue for the Tea Party on the left, which has helped fuel a Republican political resurgence over the past two years.

“Some in Washington have actually condoned the pitting of Americans against Americans,” Cantor said of the protests after accusing the Obama administration’s policies of being an “assault on many of our nation’s bedrock principles.”

Other political leaders have been more coy in their approach toward the demonstrations; President Obama nodded toward the protests as a sign of broader frustration over the state of the economy.

As for Republicans, Mitt Romney accused the protesters of engaging in “class warfare,” but has otherwise stayed silent about the demonstrations. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called them the “Obama demonstrations,” while Texas Rep. Ron Paul encouraged the protests.

“If they were demonstrating peacefully … and making a point, and arguing our case, and drawing attention to the Fed–I would say, good!” he told the libertarian magazine Reason.

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