On July 30th, Conservatives are "Going Galt". On that date, we are asking Conservatives all across the nation to "Call in Conservative". On July 30th, Conservatives will not work, we will not buy.i expect that almost no conservatives will actually heed this call and stay home from work. but in the spirit of the going galt idea, i am tempted to imagine what would happen if people actually paid any attention to the tea party folks and a bunch of conservatives really did stay home from work.
what would probably happen is that a lot of conservatives would get fired. i don't usually talk about my life as an employment lawyer, i certainly can't talk about specific cases, but employers tend to be extremely unsympathetic when it comes to political stunts like these. if you want a lot of conservatives to join the growing ranks of the unemployed, you should be encouraging them to "call in conservative." after they're all on unemployment insurance and other government benefits for a while in this crappy job market maybe they'll start to rethink their knee-jerk hostility to government programs.
that's why i sometimes suspect that the "tea party movement" is really the brainchild of leftwing double agents, sleeper cells planted deep within right blogistan. how else can you explain it? otherwise, you would have to assume that the leaders of this movement aren't thinking about the obvious consequences of their actions. they couldn't be that stupid...
