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’?
