Tea Party Activists Rally to Put Pressure on Republicans Over Budget Talks

[onehandle]

Source: Bloomberg News

Tea Party activists gather in Washington today with a clear message for the Republican majority they swept into power last fall: Hang tough, or else.

They’re rallying on the National Mall, heightening the pressure on the freshmen they helped elect and other fiscally conservative Republicans to stand firm for $61 billion in budget cuts passed by the House last month.

The push by activists who delivered the House speaker’s chair to John Boehner looms as the first major test of his clout and credibility.

Tea Party supporters are descending on the Capitol as congressional negotiators make progress on a budget deal that falls short of the cuts in the House bill. Vice President Joe Biden said last night that aides to Democratic and Republican lawmakers were working toward cuts that would total about $33 billion for the 2011 fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-31/tea-party-rally-to-pressure-house-republicans-on-budget-talks.html

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I have no photos of the event, but found this approximation:

Again, this is not from the event:

Please don't complain that I misled you. This is not today's teabagger rally:

[Vincardog]

1. OK at which teabagger rally was this picture taken?

[onehandle]

4. I said this was an 'approximation.' I do Not know what kind of rally this is.

This is the only other photo of a 'rally' I had on hand:

Without seeing the teabagger rally myself, I had to pick between the two.

I ended up flipping a coin.

[Blue Owl]

2. I knew those teabaggers were a bunch of freakin' wizards!

n/t

[Rambis]

3. That is a gene puddle (nm)

x

[bongbong]

5. Which one?

Which one of the those creatures is the Grand Kleagle? And where is King Konstipated Klown?

[SpiralHawk]

6. What, none of these TeaBagliCon Clowns (R) works for a living?

They are all either Billionaire Trust Funders (R) or living on the dole via Republicon Socialism.

Ptoooey.

[toddwv]

7. Yeah, there's teabagger rallies all over the place...

I snapped this one on my way to pick up some groceries:

[999998th word]

8. Ha ha about sizes it up perfectly.

[Shadowflash]

9. All 27 of them?

Morons.