Tea Party News

Teabaggers To March Inside The US Capitol?

I can’t imagine anything going wrong with that. What could possibly go awry?
Idiots.

NY-23 GOP Civil War

Quitter Sarah Palin has endorsed the Conservative party candidate in NY-23 while Newt Gingrich and the GOP establishment has thrown their support to the Republican candidate. WAR!
Keep it up guys.

The Right Speaks

Ah, the base.

Conservative Fantasies About 9/12 Spread

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A Texas congressman sent a letter Wednesday to Metro General Manager John B. Catoe Jr. demanding an explanation for why the transit agency didn’t do more to prepare for the massive influx of conservative activists at Saturday’s march on the Mall.
Rep. Kevin Brady (R) said an 80-year-old woman and her 60-year-old daughter were forced to [...]

OMG Scary Black People On Train

While I was going down to the Teabagger’s protest on Saturday I noted on Twitter that the ones I was on the subway with were noticeably prickly around some black folks also riding the train.
Here’s a post from conservative Dan Riehl to confirm that the sentiment wasn’t isolated.
Riding out of DC on the Metro, 9/12, [...]

Fox News’ Ever-Evolving Position On Protest, Via The Daily Show

Glenn Beck 9/12 Logo Based On Commie Designs

Of course, pretending to not be a communist would be the perfect cover for a communist, right?
Unity and resistance are what the fist represented in 1917, when it was first employed by the Industrial Workers of the World, a union organization founded by socialists. And in the 1940s, when it stood for various nations’ [...]

They Keep Pretending

Nick Gillespie, writing at Reason:
First, the crowd was truly huge. Second, the crowd was from all over the place (both geographically and ideologically).
Yes, it varied from the center-right to the far right. The teabag movement is obsessed with pretending that it has no party nor ideology when that simply isn’t true. It is a very [...]

The Opposition Is Stupid

Gawd. Say no more. (via Sarah L.)

More Right Wing Math Follies

Conservatives claim that the protest they had in Quincy, Illinois (where the feature attractions were Instapundit and Andrew Breitbart, God help them) was attended by 12,000. The police say… 2,000.
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The way this false estimate came into being is relatively simple: Matt Kibbe, the president of FreedomWorks, lied, claiming that ABC News had reported numbers [...]

Photos: Teabaggers In The Wild

Some shots I took from the annual meeting of Fear Of A Black President:
Conservatives demonstrate the respect they have for the American flag.

Birthers, HOLLA

This woman was explaining to this man that we need to be praying for the rapture. I am not joking.

This picture says EVERYTHING about this protest.

I’m sure Oprah is taking notes.

I will [...]

Michelle Malkin, Freedomworks Caught Inflating Teabag Attendance

Whoops. Only off by 1,930,000.
Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks, the group that organized the event, said on stage at the rally that ABC News was reporting that 1 million to 1.5 million people were in attendance.
At no time did ABC News, or its affiliates, report a number anywhere near as large. ABCNews.com reported an [...]

Preserving A Factoid About The 9/12 Tea Party Protest

There will be official leaders of the Republican party in attendance. Slated to speak are people like Rep. Mike Pence. So, when the images and video come back (I’m planning on going down there myself, follow my Twitter for updates) I don’t want to hear about how it was just regular people in attendance or [...]

House To Spank Joe Wilson

Children with no manners need punishment.
House Democrats will move ahead with plans to pass a resolution admonishing Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) for heckling President Obama unless he apologizes from the well of the House, in keeping with the information I picked up yesterday.
‘There was a violation of the rules of the House,’ said Brendan Daly, [...]

Shaun Conley: Johnstown Colorado Tea Party Organizer Issues Racist Threats

Shaun Conley Of Conley Plumbing In Johnstown Colorado decided to leave a racist, threatening message on my blog. Here is the message plumber Shaun Conley Of Conley Plumbing In Johnstown Colorado left:
The socialists will pull the first trigger. We rightwing extremists will pull the last.
Signed,
Bitter Clinger.
PS: Massa Obama must be proud to know that the [...]

Franken Talks To Teabaggers

In the teabagger’s credit, they gave the junior Senator from Minnesota time to talk and seemed to at least be listening to him. That’s the exception to the rule.

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Teabag Mob Shouts Down Wheelchair Bound Woman

The modern state of conservatism.

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Tea Party Protester In Obama Mask Whips Elderly

This is what they’re reduced to.

Pastor Of Obama Rally Gun Nut Prayed For POTUS To Die

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Chris Broughton, the man who brought an assault rifle and a handgun to the Obama event in Arizona last week, attended a fiery anti-Obama sermon the day before the event, in which Pastor Steven Anderson said he was going to ‘pray for Barack Obama to die and go to hell’, Anderson confirmed to TPMmuckraker today.

Maurice Schwenkler Arrested For Attacking Democratic HQ In Denver, Not Connected To SEIU

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At least two people smashed windows bearing health-care reform posters at the Colorado Democratic headquarters in Denver in what party officials are calling an act of political vandalism.
Police say the windows were broken at about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday. A policeman on regular patrol witnessed two people smashing windows with hammers, stopped, then pursued the suspects [...]