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St. Louis Tea Party – First Anniversary
Here are some photos from today’s first anniversary St. Louis Tea Party event on the steps between the Gateway Arch and the banks of the Mississippi. (Click on the thumbnails to view the full photograph.)
UPDATE: Gateway Pundit has more photos, and here is a short video from around 1:45 PM:
UPDATE: Sharp Elbows and Reboot Congress have more photos and video.
MSNBC Poll Asks Teabaggers What Motivates Them
Loading ...GOP Devastated As Straw Men, Racists Defect To Form Third Party
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho – Republican leaders from around the country are expressing anxiety about their electoral future in the wake of an announcement by straw men and racists that they will form a third party.
The new movement draws its membership both from angry right-wing extremists who were in recent days bravely and astutely exposed by MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann to be racists as well as the straw men who have waged an almost daily battle with the White House over President Obama’s progressive agenda.
After an unsuccessful meeting here to attempt to dissuade these key voting blocs from defecting the GOP, a visibly upset House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) remarked,
Look, we thought we were going to be able to channel all the irrational anger and racial hatred of the extreme right-wing with the perplexing arguments of the imaginary right-wing to achieve a Republican takeover of Congress this November. That’s looking like a long-shot now that two of the pillars of our party have seen fit to abandon us. Frankly, we are just going to have to rally the base we still have– whether it’s the Nazis, the torture-lovers or the abortion doctor assassins– we need their support now more than ever.
MKH: Press Takes a New Look at Tea Parties After Brown Win
It’s easy to think you’ve got an election in the bag when you assume your only opposition is a tiny clan of noisy, redneck racists (and, how many of those could there by in Massachusetts, anyway?).
Liberal counter-protester mocks Gadsden flag vendor: “Come on down here, black man.”
Waiting in line for a Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-MO) town hall event on healthcare the evening of 8/6/09. This woman evidently cannot comprehend how an African-American man could possibly be selling the “Don’t Tread On Me” Gadsden flag along with other conservative and anti-Obama merchandise.
No come on, you’re working for him. Come on down here, black man. I’m serious. You’re– come on, get down here. I know you’re bi-racial, so is he. Get down here.
(We published these clips in August, but they were buried in a longer video and the quality was poor.)
