Post-Its at the Pump (AKA "gas roots activism")

This is a very typical TEA-party action.
It doesn't rely on media access. It's easy, costs almost nothing, is non-destructive, legal, and creative. It's fun, and it engages the regular everyday working people we know and love. It's a simple means of getting a simple message out, which makes it effective.

The materials? A Post-It note, a marker, your creativity, and a gas pump.

I read about this at Breitbart's BigGovernment, where James Simpson tipped us off to it. I needed to get a half tank before prices shot up some more by this weekend, so I contributed the couplet above.



If you want to take part, please observe the following guidelines:

• Don't cover up any warnings, advertisements, calibration stickers or keypads.

• Keep the language clean.

• Don't vandalize gas station property by writing on the pumps themselves! This is illegal and destructive. TEA party activists are famously respectful of both public and private property and the concerns of small business owners (as many gas station franchisees are).
• Have fun! As Saul Alinsky pointed out, " A good tactic is one your people enjoy."
  

Redial "D" for....

Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), extreme far-left ideologue, is now comparing half of Americans to fleas.

In elevated rhetoric spewed during the budget fight, Senator Schumer said that “What we have here is a flea, wagging a tail, wagging a dog. The flea are the minority of House Republicans who are hard right, the tail is the House Republican caucus, and the dog is the government,” Schumer explained. “That flea is influencing what the dog does ... and it is sad.”

Yes, Senator, it is sad that you and Senator Harry Reid would rather shut down the government than stop forcing taxpayers to fund abortions, especially when they are performed on underage sex workers and girls who have statutorily raped. It is sad that your extreme far-left ideology compels you to defend choice not when it pertains to healthcare or firearm purchases, but to abortion, even that of minors transported across state lines in order to escape state laws requiring parental consent.

It is sad that when your party held control of the Presidency, the House and the Senate, you chose in 2010 to forgo passing a budget altogether. And now that Americans have risen up, angry at the irresponsible and dangerous spending habits of the past two years, you take umbrage.

Senator Schumer, you serve us. We are your masters. We will wag you, until we bag you.

April 9, 2011 Google results for "Schumer douchebag": 173,000 and rising

Whew!

People of Wisconsin, aren't you glad that someone who makes up her mind before all the facts are presented is NOT going to be a Supreme Court judge?

It's YOUR fault gas prices are so high.

I'm so glad that Obama is here to clear up my confusion. I seem to have the wrong opinions about everything.

I've been under the mistaken impression that gasoline is at the highest level in two years as the result of 1) uncertainties regarding the supplies of crude coming from the middle east given the social unrest in at least seven countries, 2) growing demand here as well as in India and China, and 3) the absence of any real effort at producing oil domestically.

But I'm just silly!

Today in Pennsylvania, Obama had to take some time during his speech to clear up some misconceptions held by a citizen in attendance. The citizen, like me, was also concerned about high gas prices and asked Obama about it. Obama sprang like a cheetah and cleared away the mists clouding that man's mind about what was really to blame:

“”If you’re complainin­g about the price of gas and you’re only getting 8 miles a gallon, you know,” Obama said laughingly­. “You might want to think about a trade-in.”

See, rather than complain about the price of gas caused by these various policies, we should be altering our lifestyles, even if it means going into debt to purchase a new car. Or, if the gas mileage is pretty good, maybe we should all be riding motorcycles. It's our fault for not doing enough. It's our fault for griping when we could be buying new GM hybrids. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. Thank you, Obama. Thank you, thank you.

Anyway, later on people had heard that Obama's wisdom had been dispensed as coolly and refreshingly as a Slurpee, and they looked for his sermons on the interweb, finding it not. For lo, it had been scrubbeth-ed away! But the cache of the Instapundit restoreth what was, what is, and what shall be:

A great clip for when we make one big trade-in come 2012.