The Washington Times has filed its report on the DC teabaggers. They noted the irony that... (strike that, irony isn't the WT's long suit). They noted that President Obama today addressed millions of Americans to let them know their taxes were going down, while a group of highly respected conservatives was issuing a joint statement in opposition.
The group included Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform; Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council; and Edwin Meese, attorney general under President Reagan.
With enemies like that, President Obama can only be glad that he has, enemies like that.
And right across from the White House, the screaming dozens were waving their socialist / fascist / Maoist / Nazi signs in protest. However, the Washington Times searched among the crowd and found an articulate spokesperson.
Michelle Poland, 33, a project manager from Southern Maryland who subcontracts map-making projects for the federal government, stood on the fringes of the rally with a large hand-painted sign that read, "Tax slavery sucks."
"I'm completely against the way my money is being spent," Ms. Poland said. "If we already have an extreme debt, we shouldn't spend more money."
I have to say that I'm in complete agreement with Michelle. I think we should, starting immediately, stop spending tax money on map-making projects subcontracted through her company.
Perhaps because they haven't spent a week hyping the events, the conservative WT doesn't spend their coverage calling for an overthrown of fascisocialinazis.
The anti-tax activists said that the rallies were a mass movement against "hugely wasteful programs like the stimulus and bailouts," even though one of the most massive bailouts, a $700 billion bill to help stabilize the financial sector last fall, was passed under President Bush, a Republican.
Nuh uh. We have photographic proof that it's all Obama's fault.