Tag Archives: Tea Party

In what organizers billed as a “Tea Party Woodstock,” thousands of teabaggers gathered in the Nevada desert outside Las Vegas this weekend to scream about overthrowing the government and listen to Sarah Palin.

What’s with the leather Harley jacket? Palin says the controversy over her gunfire rhetoric is just a “ginned up controversy invented by the lamestream media.”

Alabama “militiaman” and popular teabagger blogger Mike Vanderboegh calls for his followers to smash Democratic offices. Some are blaming him for the incidents that have already occurred. “To all modern Sons of Liberty: THIS is your time. Break their windows. Break them NOW. If you wish to send a message that Pelosi and her party [that they] cannot fail to …

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“He’s got every right to do what he did and some may say I did too, but what I did was shameful. I haven’t slept since that day. I made a donation (to a local Parkinson’s disease group) and that starts the healing process. I wanted this to go away, but it won’t and I’m paying the consequences.” – Ohio …

Sarah Palin thinks it time for a third party. Would viable Tea Party candidate would siphon support from the GOP or drive them further right? Probably both.

Because it’s the Democrats’ “totalitarian tactics” that are making people “act crazy” and shout racist and anti-gay slurs against members of Congress. And totally not because the teabaggers actually are the kissing-cousins of the KKK.

Don’t hold your breath, Congressman. Freepers react:-“Someone should have thrown a high heel at Barney. Maybe an Air Jordan at Lewis.”-“You freaking libtards keep pushing this… and you are gonna WISH all we were doing was calling you names! It’s almost time, and thank god our side is armed and ready.”-“Two scum destroying the USA. Keep shoutin’!!!!!!”

A huge crowd of Tea Party protesters attempted to “storm” the U.S. Capitol and Congressional office buildings this afternoon, prompting DC police to close the buildings. Teabaggers also hung “Don’t Tread On Me” and “American Revolution II” flags from the outer balcony of the Capitol. Reactions to the building closures on Free Republic: – “Looks like the commie ‘RATS are …

“If Brown can’t stop it, a Browning can!” Teabaggers continue to threaten violent revolt over health care reform. Via ePluribus Media: This is the type of violence that the Republicans and their anti-American supporters have been striving for ever since the Obama Administration took office with the pledge to clean up the GOP’s mess. In attendance and apparently proud to …

At the behest of wingnut Rep. Steve King (R-IA), teabaggers are flooding the office buildings of Congress today. And things are getting very ugly. Things seem to be getting pretty heated in the Capitol with crowds of anti-Reform/Tea Party activists going through the halls shouting slogans and epithets at Democratic members of Congress. As our Brian Beutler reports, a few …

NewLeftMedia lets the teabaggers speak for the themselves. The results are as you’d expect.

A man with Parkinson’s disease attended a teabagger rally in Columbus, Ohio yesterday, holding a sign asking attendees to consider people with debilitating illnesses as they protested health care reform. Watch how they treated him.

At a Tea Party rally in Washington DC today, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) declared that demonic forces are behind the health care reform bill. Speaking shortly after he riled up a crowd at Tuesday’s Tea Party protest, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.) declared that “demons” – yes, demons – have invaded the capital (and likely the souls of Democrats), forcing lawmakers …

Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has launched Liberty Central, a Tea Party activist group. The move is raising eyebrows about the supposed impartiality of the Court. The group plans to issue score cards for Congress members and be involved in the November election, although Thomas would not specify how. She said it would accept donations from …

Former SNL cast member Victoria Jackson, who has starred in nothing but her own child-voiced mind since she was fired from the show 18 years ago, has become a darling of the Tea Party crowd for her Obama=Hitler, Obama=Communist ukulele shtick. If you stand it, here’s her latest.

In response to the Tea Party, a Facebook-generated movement calling itself the Coffee Party says that the federal government isn’t the enemy. Fed up with government gridlock, but put off by the flavor of the Tea Party, people in cities across the country are offering an alternative: the Coffee Party. Growing through a Facebook page, the party pledges to “support …

Tea Party dimwits in New Jersey are attempting to recall Sen. Robert Menendez. Even though a member of Congress has never been recalled. Ever. From the wingnut Newsmax: Republicans’ chances to retake the Senate are limited by the fact that only a third of the chamber is up for re-election this year, but some conservative activists are pushing to force …