Tea par-TAY!
My colleagues in the standard media will fill in the details, but here's the rough outline: Several hundred tea baggers (possibly more than a thousand — I couldn't get high enough for good count) crowded onto the plaza in front of the Federal Building, tying up traffic at one point and generally lovin' it.
They carried signs that ranged from "If your country goes communist, thank a Democrat" to "Remember the Alamo" (whatever that has to do with anything).
So what if the message was a little confused — here's the basic skinny:
Good guys:Chafettz, after reminding us, again, that he sleeps on a cot in D.C., says the crowd represents the "vast majority of Americans."
Rep. Jason Chafettz
Rep. Rob Bishop
Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff
Founding Fathers
Paul Revere
Minutemen
Guys dressed like Indians
Glen Beck
Bad guys (not necessarily in this order):
Barack Obama
Sen. Bob Bennett (common jeer: "He's useless!")
Gov. Jon Huntsman
Sen. Orrin Hatch
Rep. Jim Matheson
Liberals
Environmentalists
People who pay too much in taxes
18th Century British Army
A 29-year-old Army veteran, left in crummy photo at right, who works at the UofU, causes some excitement with Salt Lake police because he is dressed in black tactical pants, with a two-way radio, handcuffs and a semi-auto pistol hanging from his belt. Zach, who won't give his last name, is wearing
a black T-shirt from a military police unit.Four to five cops politely check him out, including calling in his concealed weapon permit (which he doesn't need in Utah, of course, because the gun is out there for the world to see), and let him go. Zach tells me:
I'm just exercising my Second Amendment right.Crawler: But why are you wearing what looks like a SWAT uniform?
This is the way I dressed to go to work today.When the big wet flakes start to hit, an observer who apparently isn't a tea-bag fellow traveler, cracks wise:
Snow? It's not fair. I don't understand why God would do that to them.The answer, of course, is that God is throwing in some special effects to remind the tea baggers of Valley Forge. Shurtleff, who paid for the stage, must have slipped Our Heavenly Father a few bucks, too, because the snow works great as a prop for his speech on the deprivations faced by the original Patriots. Woo-hoo, we're all martyrs.
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I can only imagine the smell.
(Sean Connery)Your mother didn't mind the teabaggin last night, Trebek.(/Connery)
Where were the teabaggers seven years ago when Bush was deficit spending?
Well, at least you are more honest than the "traditional reporter". I was also at the scene and there were about 500 MAX there. He must have been smoking crack to think there were 2,000 Teabaggers at their little party.
Ah, the disdain for those who complain about parasitical taxes from the Tribune's reportorial corps.
Story idea: How many people took out loans to pay taxes this year?
Is it a good idea to force taxpayers into debt to underwrite the tax eaters?
Anonymous: if people took out loans it was because of the horrible Utah flat tax that slams the poor and middle class while the rich (who this protest was for) walk away scot-free.
The teabaggers are such tools; as others ask, where were they when Bush was busily doling out Clinton's $128 billion surplus to his rich friends, and then turning the rest of the treasury over to them? Oh, that's different; he was a Real 'Murrikan (i.e. rich white republican). That Barack is, you know, one of Those People. Teabaggers and the rest of their ilk are worse than tools; they are racist traitors to this country. That's what you called me when I objected to Bush, so how do you like it?
Actually, crowd was more than 2,000, not a couple hundred.
1) How many of the "Good Guys" were in the Village People?
2) SLC teabag protesters who have no use for their leftover teabags should be aware that they can be composted, tag and all. Or give them to your neighbor the kids can't play with
The smell! The smell!
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