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'Contract From America' Unveiled at DC Tea Party
By Byron Tau - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (April 15) -- For the second year running, Tax Day brought a surge of grass-roots energy to the nation's capital, as thousands of tea party faithful descended on the city today for a day of protests, rallies and activism led by conservative and tea party notables. Addressing a raucous crowd in Freedom Plaza, former GOP Majority Leader and conservative activist Dick Armey said, "There's only one legitimate reason to levy a tax: to raise money. And when you do that, you should raise no more money than is absolutely necessary." Advocating a tax reform plan called the Fair Tax, Sen. ...
President Obama Talks Tea Bags at 100th Day Town Hall
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyPolitico reports that President Obama addressed the Tax Day Tea Party Movement directly during his 100th Day Townhall in Missouri today. The President's remarks were considerably more measured than the mockery leveled at the protesters by the news media:"Those of you who are watching certain news channels on which I'm not very popular, and you see folks waving tea bags around, Obama said, "let me just remind them that I am happy to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs down over the long term, how we are going to stabilize Social Security." "But," ...
Video: Protesters Clash with Counter-Protesters at DC Tax Day Tea Party
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyWednesday's DC Tax Day Tea Party may not have been huge, but it certainly was interesting. For 3 and a half hours, 500 or so people braved the at times heavy rain to express their frustration at a litany of ills. Although the demonstrations are ostensibly about taxes and government spending, the protesters' signs covered a wide range of topics.While there were a few rousing chants by the crowd, there was far more heckling about the poor audio than anything else. One organizer apologized for having only "a little girl voice," to which a man in the crowd screamed "Then let someone else talk!"At ...
Gibbs: President Looking Out for Tea-Baggers
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe Tax Day Tea Party was the hot topic at today's White House press briefing, where Press Secretary Robert Gibbs fielded 5 questions on the protest that took place just across the street, and which resulted in a lockdown of the north end of the White House and Lafayette Park when a protester threw a box of tea bags over the fence.Gibbs' answers pretty much stressed the line that he began yesterday, pointing out that the President's tax plan benefits the overwhelming majority of the people in that park. Generating sympathy for smokers is about as easy as generating it for billionaires, and ...
Tea-Baggers Clash With Counter-Protesters in DC
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyAt today's Washington, DC Tax Day Tea Party, a confrontation between Tea Partiers and a small group of counter-protesters escalated to pushing and shoving before organizers stepped in to quell the disturbance.Alex Lawson led a group of 5 in a bit of protest performance art. Dressed as billionaires and carrying signs thanking working people for carrying their tax burdens, they stood close to the stage in Lafayette Park, holding their signs aloft.I was there trying to get some shots from the stage, but the crush of the crowd made it impossible. When a man behind me asked if a woman could lower ...
Tea Party Movement Spawns 6 Minute Maddow 'Tea-Bagging' Segment
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyMan, did I ever see this coming (no pun intended (ok, pun intended)). I tried like hell to warn my conservative brethren, but the partisan divide prevented them from paying heed to a liberal. I speak of the Tea Party movement, essentially born of a rant by CNBC's Rick Santelli that had all the populist resonance of a Marie Antoinette serving suggestion. Sure, we all know about the Boston Tea Party, which seems pretty badass when you see those old-timey lithographs of ax-wielding colonials having at those crates of leafy goodness.As a rallying cry, though, "Let's have a tea party!" lacks a ...
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