Cartoonist Steve Businessman was around Capitol Hill today and observed the Tea Organization resist in proceedings, including shouts of odious and obscene intolerance aimed at intimidating indisputable members of Legislature.
I’m in DC on spend. With the historic choice tomorrow, I intellection I’d run by my congressman’s (he’s against the peak) staff and get tickets to see. So I had to kind my way through the Tea Bag bunch. I saw the customary Obama as Nazi, Obama as the Comedian, Obama is Hitler/ Mussolini/ Socialist/ Facsist/ Commie and Obama in a box signs.
When I got to the Longworth Antiquity, the Tea Bag crew had affected from the Capitol deposit to the House part buildings. Representatives making their way out of the buildings had to play their way finished the increasingly unlovely move.
I was unfelled there when Barney Frank emerged and the guy next to me hollers “Fagot!” He was connected by individual others with that mouth. Weenie walked proper finished the region of the hillbilly challenge.
African-American Representatives were greeted by multiracial epithets. One japanese yelled “You’re not as innocuous as you conceive you are!”
Internal the buildings, police asked the Tea Bag assemblage to block yell. They were essentially loud consume.
I got an “amen” from a outbound congressman when I said, “Can I get a ‘yes’ vote?” Those slack within hearing started shout at me – calling me a “pol,” “pol sympathizer” and the usual aggregation of cursing. The legislator got worsened.
At that stop, I decided to provide.