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Gohmert: IRS ‘would have shot the Boston Tea Party’
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) on Friday declared that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) would have murdered the participants of the original 1773 Boston Tea Party and and would have “killed off” half of the Founding Fathers who signed the Declaration of Independence. In a 30-minute floor speech to express his…
Allen West compares Occupy protesters to TV biker gang ‘Sons of Anarchy’
Rep. Allen West (R-FL) might be watching a little too much cable TV. While recently celebrating the 238th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, the Florida congressman took a swipe at Occupy Wall Street protesters by comparing them to the criminal biker gang depicted on FX’s Sons of Anarchy. “We…
That’s a whole lot of culture war!
Ann was gracious enough to quote me in her marvelous piece on why the culture war isn’t going away any time soon, so I’m kicking a link right back at her. Ann argues that the Obama backlash, in all its ugliness, is proof that the culture war was always about…
Royalists want a little revolutionary action of their own
I’m sure everyone under the sun has seen this amusing commentary by David Schuster about the ridiculousness of the teabaggers. And while I enjoyed every double and single entendre, I think I might have laughed the hardest when he pointed out that the fundamental difference between the teabaggers and the…
Winger Tea Bagger calls Obama a ‘fascist’
These ignorant wingers are out and about protesting government spending at the Tea Parties being held today, calling the president a fascist. Wait, I thought he was a socialist. Amanda Terkel of Think Progress just Tweeted “MSNBC: White House lawn evacuated bc someone threw a tea bag over the fence.”…
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