1 Million Tea Bags, But No Place to Dump

[fromVT]

Source: MSNBC

It was a great idea, really. Take 1 million tea bags and dump them in Lafayette Park to protest government spending. Hip, hip, hoo-ray!

But a funny thing happened en route to a visually pleasing Tax Day protest. The National Park Service said the tea party protesters didn't have the proper permit to dump their bags.

So instead of a raucous visual demonstration, all that was left was images of the tea party packing up their boxes of tea on a cold, soggy day in D.C.

Read more: http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/1-Million-Tea-Bags-but-No-Place-to-Dump.html

[Debi]

1. Damn Government....they should organize a protest!!

:rofl:

[FSogol]

3. LOL (nt)

[peace frog]

2. I have an alternative for our intrepid teabaggers:

Have a Coke and a smile and STFU.

[SandWalker1984]

4. Support your local Billionaires.....one tea bag at a time!

If you frequent sites such as these, you now know that these so called grassroots tea parties are being manipulated by billionaires such as the Koch family and Steve Forbes.

There's a great web site link I found on another progressive site that you need to check out, then email the link to your friends.
It's called www.SaveTheRich.com

The original Ron Paul groupies' tea parties were hijacked by billionaires for their own agendas -- which do NOT include helping the poor taxpaying workers that are participating in these sham tea parties.

If you do attend one of these tea parties today, be sure to take a sign reading "sponsored by billionaires, for the benefit of billionares"

[Javaman]

16. My building over looks one of the protest sites.

if my boss wasn't in today, I would have put up a sign in the window saying, "licking the balls of the rich!" LOL

[GinaMaria]

24. the billionaires have been teabagging working Americans

for years now.

[XemaSab]

5. Terrific!

According to the article in the local paper, dumping tea into the river is 8 kinds of illegal, so they're going to throw boxes in instead.

Here's hoping they get popped for illegal fill or discharge. :P

[annabanana]

6. Funny. . but not unexpected.

This whole thing has had fail written all over it since it started.

[road2000]

7. I wonder what was planned for the tea bags afterwards?

A million would supply plenty of sustenance to rescue missions and soup kitchens. It would be surprising to learn the wingnuts had actually planned for something of the sort.

[Posteritatis]

8. They'd probably sooner burn them than use them for something like that (nt)

[pattmarty]

9. I am going to go to one of these "things" tonight in my small.................

..........Arkansas home town (12K people). I am going for one just to see how many people show up, and also to see exactly how fucking nuts the people that show up are. Hopefully It'll be good, free entertainment.

[eagertolearn]

11. Be careful! n/a

[pattmarty]

35. Yeah, I know. I just have to control myself.

[4lbs]

10. Soo.... in all that "planning", no one bothered to think about permits?

Yeah, sounds about right for the stupidity of freepers.

:rofl:

[bear425]

12. The protesters made a seminal mistake...

The city has some rigid guidelines and they really blew it.

I hope they get a stiff fine.

;)

[4lbs]

It takes a really big set of brass ones to teabag without permission, but frankly I think they are

just plain nuts to go full throated like that.

:D

[prolesunited]

38. Hope Rachel uses that.

:D

[bear425]

40. thank you. I love a good double entendre. n/t

[OneBlueSky]

13. I haven't been following this tea-bagging stuff at all, but am I correct in assuming . . .

that someone has pointed out that the term "tea-bagging" has a completely different meaning/context in certain, um, subcultures? . . .

or have they? . . . :shrug:

[moggie]

17. No, you're the first person in the country to notice that

:evilgrin:

[Moonwalk]

20. They have, as every news commentator and comic has made fun of them on that score...

....but they realized too late to change the name.

[Arkansas Granny]

29. Some of them seem to lack a perfect understanding of the term yet. Check this out:

To: smith288
I know the snarky libs think they are being cute by calling us “teabaggers”. That’s fine by me, since they’ll be the ones being teabagged by us pretty soon. Come on, any gamer can tell you that you want to the one dishing out the teabagging, not the one being humiliated by receiving one.

42 posted on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 9:23:39 AM by thecabal (Hey Obama, when you gonna start sharin' the sacrifice?)
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[4lbs]

22. Rachel Maddow has been barely able to contain her laughter on her show for the past week about this

double-entendre meaning of "teabagging" and "teabagging party".

:D

[woundedkarma]

31. tea-bagging...

You should watch the last couple nights of Keith Olbermann... pretty nasty (and funny) ... something about Dick Armey leading the tea-bagging of america.

[OneBlueSky]

42. yeah, I kinda figured folks would be having fun with it . . .

now I'm kinda sorry I didn't follow the whole thing from the beginning . . . every time I saw the word/phrase, I figured it was just one of "those" threads and passed it over . . . little did I know that there were actually conservatives out there . . . er . . . um . . .

engaging in the practice? . . . :spray:

have to go back and read some earlier entries, I guess . . . :crazy:

[HopeHoops]

14. Geeze - JUST HOW MUCH did they spend on all of that tea?

Since they obviously don't have jobs to attend today, I it is probably more than they actually pay in TAXES!

[4lbs]

21. If they were smart (which they aren't), they could have gotten boxes of 100 Chinese Green Tea bags

from an Oriental market for about $3.00 per box. That's 3 cents per tea bag.

That would also require them to buy that Maoist Commie Tea!!!!

Oh Noes!!111!!!111!!!

:D

[tclambert]

27. .03 per bag times a million is $30,000

Maybe they had a coupon.

[Javaman]

15. that's why these tools are a parody of themselves. LOL

real protesters would have still dumped it and gotten arrested.

But alas, what do you expect from corporate sponcered whiners?

[Stinger2]

23. Fox News is now in Political Purgatory, Talking Heads Detached from Reality.

Fox News is now in Political Purgatory, Talking Heads Detached from Reality.

The Republicans are fantastic at getting elected when the spend Millions, after getting elected the steal Billions. Now the game is over they left Fox News holding the empty bag that shows they really never had any substance, just a bunch of talking heads without any direction. They are now in political purgatory……… Talking Heads Detached from Reality!

[uberblonde]

18. Is it good tea?

They can send it to me!

[Mz Pip]

19. Come on guys!

Take some risks! Just dump the damn teabags. The whole point of Civil Disobedience is doing your thing, permits be damned, and accepting the consequences.

Those folks in Boston in 1773 didn't need no stinking permits.

What a bunch of wusses. :rofl:

Mz Pip

[Javaman]

25. Get this from the austin protest...

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/04/15/0415teaparties.html

"Empty boxes labeled with the name of the once heavily taxed beverage will be thrown into the water — and immediately retrieved by canoe."

wonder who pulled the canoe straw? LOLOLOLOL

such repuke rebels. LOL

[jberryhill]

26. Seriously

Some kind of "revolution" these people are after.

"Uh, yeah, we were going to, um, you know, rebel against the oppression of a tyrannical government, but, uh, we didn't get a permit for that."

It's like the scene in _Take The Money And Run_ where Woody Allen is trying to rob a bank, and the teller says he has to get his hold up note signed by two bank VP's before the teller is allowed to give him any money.

What clods.

[Javaman]

33. "What's a gub?"

exactly.

moron #1: dump the tea!!!

moron #2: we don't have a permit...

moron #1: what? wait, we didn't get a permit??

moron #2: nope. none.

moron #1: well, damn, um, I got it! WAVE THE TEA!!!

moron #2: yes! YES!! WAVE THE TEA!!!

crowd: WAVE THE TEA!! WAVE THE TEA!!!

moron #1: damn, why isn't there a liberal around when you need one!!!

[yellowcanine]

28. Heh. Read this.

"A local think tank, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said it would allow the dumping of the tea bags in its 12th floor conference room instead. Not quite the same impact, though."




Boner man and Newtie were involved in this. What a fiasco.

[yellowcanine]

30. Check this out also.....picks up on the other meaning of " teabagging."

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=teabagging&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=3CnmSbTcH42stgfz2PCuDA&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=5&ct=title#

[Mz Pip]

32. Then they can use the tea

for their breaks and meetings. Terrific idea!

What a revolution! Imagine how ridiculous the Boston Tea Party people would have looked if they had asked nicely for a permit to dump their tea in the harbor. "We can't get a permit? Oh, okay. Can we leave it in your commander's office instead? Please?!"

Mz Pip

[Crowman1979]

34. Didn't John Waters do a whole movie base around the teabagging phenomenom?

"Pecker" I believe is the name of the movie. Hell, my sister was at a gay pride rally in Lansing, MI where he was joking about this several years ago.

[KansDem]

36. Do I sense an "Alphonso Bedoya" moment?

Permits? We ain't got no permits. We don't need no permits. I don't have to show you any stinking permits!

[TEXASYANKEE]

37. I am officially Out Of Touch

Teabagging ... I had no idea. I don't know whether to laugh because these Repugs are just so frigging funny, or cry because I originally didn't get the joke.

[nichomachus]

39. Any and all cleanup costs

should be taken from the budget of the "faith-based" crapola department.

[TBF]

41. Maybe GWB will offer up his pool in his posh new Dallas digs...

that's where they should be dumping them.

[truthisfreedom]

43. Great day for the Tea industry.

One million bags of wasted tea.

[ninety lives]

44. Are any of these Republicans going to oppose this stupidity?

Or do they just want to drive their party into the ground by letting a bunch of brainless conformists direct the agenda?