What If You Gave A Tea Party And Nobody Came And You Had To Pay $784,000?

But first, a programming note:
Our computer is down, so I am stuck using some Fred Flintstone, mother-effing laptop thingy, and being a creature of habit and inhumanly stubborn, I don't like using it so there will be fewer posts over the next couple of days. Until my computer comes home or I stop being a baby.
I'd bet on Option One!
Anyhow.........
Boy, talk about your bad party planning.

A judge has ordered Judson Phillips, the founder of the Tea Party Nation, to pay $784,000 to a Las Vegas hotel for rooms he booked but never used.

Suh-nap!

See, Phillips was gonna have a Tea Party at the Venetian Las Vegas Casino Resort and booked some 1,600 rooms for the event. But, sadly, or actually laughably, Phillips had to cancel his event at the last minute because, yeah, um, no one really wanted to come.

And now a judge has ruled that Phillips owes the resort $748,000, including the $554,000 hotel bill and $194,300 in accrued interest.

Ouch.

Sadly, and, again, actually laughably, this isn’t the first time a Republican group has found itself in a bind over an unpaid hotel bill. In February, the Charleston Place Hotel sued a South Carolina—oh dear, right here in my own backyard—political consultant and the Southern Republican Leadership Conference for an unpaid bill. The SLRC,in typical GOP style, said the hotel was attempting to double-bill a number of guests.

What’s the issue? Republicans can’t get their act together and plan a convention, or they just have a problem paying the bills?

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