Tea Party to Be Opposed by Star Wars Bar Scene of Liberal Groups

Every manner of liberal debauchery will be joining together to oppose the Tea Parties:

If imitation is the highest form of flattery, the "tea party" movement must be honored.

In an effort to replicate the tea party's success, 170 liberal and civil rights groups are forming a coalition that they hope will match the movement's political energy and influence. They promise to "counter the tea party narrative" and help the progressive movement find its voice again after 18 months of floundering.

The large-scale attempt at liberal unity, dubbed "One Nation," will try to revive themes that energized the progressive grassroots two years ago. In a repurposing of Barack Obama's old campaign slogan, organizers are demanding "all the change" they voted for -- a poke at the White House.

But the liberal groups have long had a kind of sibling rivalry, jostling over competing agendas and seeking to influence some of the same lawmakers. In forming the coalition, the groups struggled to settle on a name. Even now, two of the major players disagree about who came up with the idea of holding a march this fall.

This has already been tried once in the form of the "Coffee Party", a very small group that was going to be the liberal counterpart to the Tea Parties and went absolutely nowhere.

This new group has a major disadvantage - a completely disaffected liberal electorate. One reason the Tea Parties took off so quickly is there was a highly motivated and angry electorate, many of whom had never been politically active before, ready to rumble. That's not true with the liberals. They seem to have given up on Obama and facing an electoral wipeout in November aren't too motivated to do anything but take another hit on the bong.

This liberal alliance will quickly crumble.  Liberal groups have never been able to work well together - they're too obsessed with their own individual issues and don't like anything that takes the spotlight off their group.  It'll be like herding cats.