This weekend, Teabaggers descended on our peaceful capital from a mystical land that taxed forgot. Thus, when they attempted to partake in some local cuisine at a college deli, they were shocked to find they had to pay a city tax on paper bags. WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE THEM TO BURN THEIR PRECIOUS LIBERTY IN, A TOTE? How dare this strangely populated place be concerned with the environment ?!
According to the Hatchet , a newspaper at a city college named unimaginatively after a U.S. president:
Though the rally was a mostly peaceful gathering, two rally attendees got into a heated argument with an employee at the GW Deli over the D.C. bag tax, which ultimately resulted in one of the tea party members throwing a sandwich in the deli employee's face.
Take that, poor college student suffering through a minimum-wage deli job serving Teabaggers their daily bologna! You are responsible for this evil tax! You probably even want these Teabaggers not to hate Muslins! [ GW Hatchet via Newell ]
On the way home, I was listening to NPR and an interview with "the leading evangelical" something or other of the nation talk about how this whole rally was meant to restore "civil discourse".
If this was supposed to be the 2010 version of the Boston Tea Party I am not impressed.