Go for it, Democrats!

I wholeheartedly encourage Obama and the Democrats to embrace the "Occupy" movements taking place in cities across America. George Soros' MoveOn.org and some unions have done so. Rich Lowry opines that this movement is the "Left's Pathetic Tea Party." He contrasts the Right's Tea Party with the Left's:

The Right’s tea party had its signature event at a rally at the Lincoln Memorial where everyone listened politely to patriotic exhortations and picked up their trash and went home. The Left’s tea party closed down a major thoroughfare in New York City — the Brooklyn Bridge — and saw its members arrested in the hundreds.

Read Lowry's piece here: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/279057/left-s-pathetic-tea-party-rich-lowry

Tom Maguire writes that the "Occupy" movement is the perfect metaphor for Obama:

With no goals the protestors become the perfect metaphor for Obama, a Progressive Adrift. But can they get behind just one sensible goal and rally themselves and the nation to their cause? No way. If they pick one hobbyhorse to ride, the protestors are implicitly rejecting twenty others. For example, if they limit themselves to calling for more taxes on the rich, they are implicitly turning their back on gay marriage. Can't have that! But calling for taxes on the rich and a push for gay marriage risks abandonment of everyone on death row. Can't have that! But a push for taxes, gays, and death row inmates means that Gaia will be left to choke on greenhouse gasses. Can't have that!

The link to Maguire is here: http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2011/10/occupy-this-blog.html