Anti-tax ‘tea parties’
I’d heard about this a couple of days ago but didn’t see anything come of it in Eugene.
However, I came across this article whilst browsing MSNBC a little bit ago, and this article features some of the best/most hilarious quotes that I’ve seen in a national “publication” in sometime.
Here are my favorites:
“All you have to be is a mildly awake Republican candidate for office to get in front of that parade,” said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform.
Julie Reeves, of Covington, brought her Chihuahua Arnie, who wore a tiny anti-IRS T-shirt. “I want the government to get its hand the hell out of my wallet,” Reeves said.
But unlike many events around the country, politicians were not allowed to speak at a separate rally in San Antonio.
“They are welcome to come and listen to us, for a change,” organizers said in a statement.
Protesters even threw what appeared to be a box of tea bags over the fence onto the White House grounds, causing a brief lockdown at the compound before the package was declared not dangerous.
Kate Maloney held a cardboard sign that read “Pin the tail on the jacka$$” with a picture of Obama on a Democratic donkey.
And finally, what I think is the best one of the article—two reasons, 1. They used Twisted Sister in a protest and 2. Remember when everyone was comparing Bush to Hitler? This one is even funnier.
Other protesters also took direct aim at Obama. One sign in the crowd in Madison, Wis., compared him to the anti-Christ. At a rally in Montgomery, Ala., where Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It” blared from loudspeakers, Jim Adams of Selma carried a sign that showed the president with Hitler-style hair and mustache and said, “Sieg Heil Herr Obama.”
You should actually read the article, it’s pretty interesting in and of itself but I just wanted to point out some of the more notable parts, or at least I thought they were notable.
I wonder how many students we could rally if we held an Anti-iFee ‘tea party’?
I think the name “tea-baggers” was thrust upon them…
…like a teabag.
They called themselves “tea-baggers.”
Did anyone stop to inform them what this really means?
You don’t have to. I saw it on your Facebook profile once or twice…
Nothing like getting a bad batch of cock. Let me tell you.
Ba-dum-sh!
No, cock.
Salvia?
I think they may have got chronically bad batches of what CJ would normally smoke.
I just think it’s rather comical to watch all these people, from the bargain bin Oliver Willis knockoffs over at Blue Oregon all the way up to Nanci Pelosi, spend so many words publicly discrediting something that they insist is purely the product of right-wing talk radio and Fox News and has absolutely no base of popular support whatsoever.
Hmmm…Godwin’s Law is now to be enforced.
They lose.
According to a “senior aide” to a Congressional Democrat, the “Tea Parties” are apparently full of “gun nuts,” “racists”, and “Nazis”, to boot.
You forgot the sarc tag, Vincent.
Though, I did find this interesting: http://tinyurl.com/cx7z97
People always get confused by the term “patriotism”. What most people assume to be “patriotism” is really nationalism … love of your country does not make you patriotic, it makes you nationalistic. The real patriots were people that were pissed at the gov’t, and decided to shoot people because of it. And when there was no one left to shoot, they made their own country, because they were tried of the old one.
Just sayin’…
Way to take issue with his ideas rather than going for lame cheap shots, Miles.
(sarc) Oh…I have been schooled by Kari “The Fat Ass” Chisholm (/sarc)
It’s all orchestrated by Fox News, dontcha know? And the people who attend such events want the US to be like Somalia. Also, they’re a bunch of filthy litterbugs.
In any case, there’s “no greater patriotic duty” than to give your money to the government, so the “Tea Party” people are basically anti-patriots, or something.
More than that. The 250,000 number came from 538.com, which estimated that 300-400 were happening. There were over 800, and they’re saying there’s probably over 1 million who participated. Up in Salem, there were 3,200 registered, and with stragglers they’re thinking about 4,000 people up there at the Capitol.
I believe there may have been about 2,000 – 2,500 at PCS in PDX.
Needless to say, whatever brought them out, it ain’t going away.
Apparently close to 2,000 showed up at the one in Springfield. Nationwide I have heard estimates of 250,000 attendents at rallies in 50 dif states.
It’s the Van Ornum case from last year.
A UO student got tasered?
I can haz link, plz?
While you guys are sipping tea and smokin who knows what the RG posted the video tonight of the UO student being Tasered. The Taser device was actually equipped with a mini-video camera. The video reveals that he was already down and being held before both shots from the Taser. Be warned, you may want to finish your ramen before you watch it-it is kind of sick. Imagine the possibilities of Tasers on campus………