DC teabagger party shut down by Secret Service; Package thrown over White House fence

[Richard Tafoya]

Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/15/million-tea-bag-protest-i_n_187243.html

The second tea party protest in Washington, D.C., outside the White House, was just shut down by police. A Secret Service agent told Huffington Post's Arthur Delaney that a demonstrator had thrown a package over the fence onto the White House lawn.

EARLIER:
The Tea Parties here in Washington DC are off to a roaring start, right? Ha, ha: No. Right now, the Tea Parties are contending with a number of terrible struggles, which this report from Fox News documents.

In the first place, the big event of the day was to be the dumping of one million teabags. The Washington Post notes that this was originally supposed to happen at the Potomac River (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/14/AR2009041402883.html) but was shifted to Lafayette Park because of issues of legality. And seriously, why anyone thought it would be legal to further pollute the Potomac is beyond me.

But! As it turns out, the alternate plan - 1. Take a million teabags to Lafayette Park, 2. Dump them on a tarp, 3. Yell at them, 4. Clean up the teabags - also isn't happening, because of permit issues.

According to reports, the truck filled with teabags pulled up to Lafayette Park, but didn't have a permit, and so they were loaded back on to the truck and driven off to an undisclosed location.

Also, the plan to have a second rally in front of the Treasury Department was scotched after the Secret Service said, "Uhm, no."

[Java]

So now there's one million tea bags in an undisclosed location, and how much were all these tea bags worth? Clever hoist!!!

[pinky]

Maybe Dick Cheney likes tea? :devil:

[DoubleEdgeSword]

What is this protest all about anyway? No taxation without representation? That was the idea behind the original Tea Party, but of course, everyone has representation these days. We have a representative government. So, are these guys just mad because they lost?

Or is this about paying higher taxes? Because I don't understand that one either. Nobody's paying higher taxes. In fact, most people got a break on their taxes this year, didn't they? I did. And my paycheck is a little larger because not as much is being taken out. And the U.S. still has some of the lowest federal income taxes in the world, so... it can't be that, right?

Maybe it's President Obama's recovery plan? Well, if they don't like his plan, maybe their time would be better spent writing their representatives and asking them to come up with a better plan. I mean better than just cutting taxes and doing nothing; after all, the last eight years of that pretty much set us up for this mess.

So, what exactly are they protesting at these Tea Parties?

[Richard Tafoya]

Since the lobbyists took over, it's oddly become a protest on the tax increases to the rich. Most of the people participating are gettign tax cuts, but still protesting their supposed tax increases, because the tea party kits being distributed are created by lobbyists who are opposed to tax cuts on the wealthy and being embraced by wealthy TV and radio hosts.

[DoubleEdgeSword]

Oh, I see. So, they're protesting a tax that hasn't taken effect yet and won't affect them anyway. Basically, they have no idea what their protesting. They're just listening to Rush and reading what the lobbyists hand them.

Alrighty then.

[Richard Tafoya]

Here's a video of a recent Glenn Beck-sponsored tea party. These are Regis' people - no doubt about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwdOwgD5OsY

[DoubleEdgeSword]

Holy hell! lol Break out the aluminum foil. These people need to start holding hat-making parties.

[Sinister]

Event organizers said they speculated the package was thrown by person or persons not affiliated with the demonstration.

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/15/tossed-package-ends-white-house-tea-party/

Right..:rolleyes:

[Richard Tafoya]

More of Regis and ConnieB's people: http://washingtonindependent.com/38877/scenes-from-the-dc-tea-party-more-photos

[Sasha Reigne]

Dude I couldnt figure out wtf these things were about either. It was all right wingers and im like, doesnt everybody hate taxes? Why is it only the right? And where were these people the last 200years since there have been taxes?

[Annoyedlistner]

The Hypocrisy of the righer wingers is amazing. I saw a sign the other day from a protester that read "We have a right to protest"...funny, when their heroes where in office they didnt think it was ok for the other side to protest.

Everyone has a right to protest, not just the republicans.

[Sinister]

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper interspersed "teabagging" references with analyst David Gergen's more staid commentary on how Republicans are still "searching for their voice."

"It's hard to talk when you're teabagging," Cooper explained. Gergen laughed, but Cooper kept a straight face.

MSNBC's David Shuster weaved a tapestry of "Animal House" humor Monday as he filled in for Countdown host Keith Olbermann.

The protests, he explained, amount to "Teabagging day for the right wing and they are going nuts for it."

He described the parties as simultaneously "full-throated" and "toothless," and continued: "They want to give President Obama a strong tongue-lashing and lick government spending." Shuster also noted how the protesters "whipped out" the demonstrations this past weekend.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/16/cable-anchors-guests-use-tea-parties-platform-frat-house-humor/

:laugh:

[Incident]

So essentially the entire Obama family got teabagged yesterday?

Wonder if a reporter will ask him if he minded getting teabagged by the protesters?

[WannaBreatheYou]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/16/cable-anchors-guests-use-tea-parties-platform-frat-house-humor/

:laugh:

ROFL. That's priceless.

[Sasha Reigne]

OH he!! no! I was watching the news all day yesterday and I didnt catch these hilarious comments. I did giggle everytime someone said teabagging though...I can't believe they got away with all of that.

[DoubleEdgeSword]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/16/cable-anchors-guests-use-tea-parties-platform-frat-house-humor/

:laugh:

Boys will be boys. lmao!!

[Liviagray]

This video would be funny if it was not so sad. Are this people for real?

[db44]

Tea bags for flea bags?