Tea Bagging Party gets 150 people according to

[firedupdem]

the article. That really means about 75. And this is Nebraska.

http://journalstar.com/articles/2009/04/12/news/local/doc49e12999ad4eb069371265.txt

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He was among roughly 150 people who were angry enough about government spending to descend upon the Nebraska capitol for a “tax freedom tea party.” They were there to protest federal stimulus legislation and runaway government spending, but the crowd also had anti-government, keep-your-hands-off-my-guns and anti-illegal immigration elements.

People with posters — ranging from “Tea’d off” to “Give me liberty, not debt”— protested the nation’s mounting debt by singing songs and listening to rousing speeches.

They brought dozens of cans of pork and beans (get it? pork?) which were lined up on the Capitol steps (and will be donated to a food pantry). And they weren’t all conservative Republicans — a rock singer who helped run the event called himself a “Ronald Reagan Democrat.”

It was one of hundreds of such tea parties that have been held nationwide, according to organizer Shelli Dawdy. She’s a mother of three homeschooled children who got involved — via twitter.com — in the first round of tea parties on Feb. 27 out of frustration over the massive spending in the stimulus bill.

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A man walking by the rally hollered at the protesters to give up their Social Security checks if they don’t like government handouts, which prompted some hollering back.

Another tea party is scheduled for Wednesday, income tax deadline day, at noon in front of the Capitol. Organizers of that tea party plan to leave tea bags by the front door of the Capitol.

[Robb]

1. "Ronald Reagan Democrat."

Because Ronald McDonald was busy. :eyes:

[Joe the Liberal]

2. I'm scared guys........

150 is HUGH, I'm SERIES if these morans keep havin these parties we are in trouble. Obama may be forced to step down! :scared:

[firedupdem]

4. Based on the pictures....150 is stretching it. They look like a bunch

of idiots. They are protesting Obama. That's the only reason they are out there.

[Joe the Liberal]

5. I don't see why they don't just come out and admit it........

everyone knows they can't stand seeing a black man as president, why don't they just come out and say it? Why try to hide the obvious?

[saltpoint]

3. Nude Twister would be kind of fun with 150 people. But not THOSE 150 people.

[rurallib]

6. In a red state like Nebraska they can only muster 75 assholes

The impromptu little notice celebration on marriage equity in Iowa City had about 300 - 400 very happy souls. I would guess IC is about 1/3 the size of Lincoln, both university towns. Only Lincoln has the state capital also.
So with a week's notice, having it plastered all over the news by FUX, 75 is all they can muster.
There were more, many more walking over the bridge to Council Bluffs from Omaha to celebrate on the marriage equity day.

[gizmo1979]

7. 150 Nebraskans get teabagged.

Film at 11.

[cliffordu]

8. "And in a related story....

A cleveland steamer party had 3500 participants, including the Republican operatives giving the speeches.

[LynnTheDem]

9. They ARE planning on giving back their tax cuts, right?

Rightwingnuts; dumbest MFers on the planet, truly.

[firedupdem]

10. A few weeks ago about 15 protested Nelson's office because

of the stimulus. Freaking idiots!!!!

[Number23]

11. I eat pork and beans all of the time and there's hardly ever any pork in there

And weren't these supposed to be happening on the 15th?? Why were these "150" so anxious to look stupid before everybody else??

[wildflower]

12. "descend upon"?

I think that's a bit strong. :)

[rasputin1952]

13. I'm in NE, and this is as stupid as stupid gets...

Lucky if there were 75 people there.

If this is about "debt", where the hell were these people when bush destroyed the economy? The bush administration borrowed like drunken sailors from the Chinese, English, Germans and Japanese...we get to pay it back after they looted the Treasury. Damn bunch of cretins...and can't they find any loose tea? WTF is this about "teabags"...sheesh...classless buffons...:D

[RoadRage]

14. I live in West Omaha (40 miles away)..

and THIS is the first i've read about this story. If the Con's are pushing the Tea-bagging.. they need to get a few new people into their marketing department, because I read the news pretty avidly, and i'm very politically involved.

75 people? I have 10 times that on my general mass email list... hell, if' i'd known about it I would have grabbed 75 libs to head down with me to point fingers and make fun of them.

They need new PR!