Day: April 18, 2011
Trump: Bush Gave Us Obama
Bush gave us Obama. In all fairness to John McCain and Sarah Palin, nobody could have won. You could have brought back Abraham Lincoln. He couldn’t have beaten Obama.
— Donald Trump, in an interview on Fox News.
Don’t Forget to Take Your Receipt, and Thank You for Shopping with the IRS
Just in time for tax day, the White House provides this interesting little widget to make us feel better about whatever our tax return said.
On my own receipt, I’d like to see more than $20 toward science and space programs, and way less toward agricultural subsidies. Recent visits to the grocery store checkout line do not convince me of the need to prop up agribusiness, which seems to be doing all right for itself.
It’s also funny to see that I’m paying more than three times as much toward Social Security benefits as I am toward Medicare, in light of the fact that Republicans want to ax the latter.
Check it out for yourself and see how much you’re spending where.
Video: Palin, Breitbart Drowned Out By Middle-Class Counter Protesters at Tea Bagger Rally
Watch racist Andrew Breitbart go into a rage fit. See Palin squirm as she is publicly confronted with mass opposition for the first time.
Via Raw Story and hat tip to Bamboo Harvester.
Here are videos from the event:
Breitbart booed —
Palin drowned out —
More from the crowd —
It was fun to be at the Madison capitol today to protest Sarah Palin and the tea partiers.
There were about 1,500 tea partiers, many bused in by Americans for Prosperity, the rightwing group funded by the Koch brothers.
The tea partiers were surrounded by about 3,000 or more pro-labor supporters, who let their presence be felt with raucous chants and boos and cries of “Shame, shame, shame!”
“Recall Walker,” the protesters chanted over and over again, as well as, “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Scott Walker has got to go.”
Another chant was “Tax, tax, tax the rich!”
As with all the historic Madison protests this year, creativity marked the signs of the pro-labor activists.
“I Can See Waulkersha From My Sign,” one of them said, playing off of Palin’s gaffe about Russia, as well as governor Walker’s name and Waukesha County, where highly irregular vote counting occurred during the recent Supreme Court race…
The tea partiers waved their usual “Don’t Tread on Me” flags and held signs that said “Walker for President,” “Walker/Palin,” and “Economic Freedom.”
One tea party sign seemed anti-Semitic: “Give It Up, Kloppenstein!” It was referring to JoAnne Kloppenburg, the candidate who ran for the Supreme Court against David Prosser. Kloppenburg is Jewish…
Rightwing provocateur Andrew Breitbart stirred up the tea party crowd.
And when Sarah Palin was announced, the tea partiers gave her a big ovation, and the protesters booed heartily…
