The Tea Party in Washington, D.C. was broken up by the Secret Service and police cleared Lafayette Park, where the event was taking place, after an anti-tax protester threw a package onto the White House grounds. The package was later found to not contain explosives.
In other teabagging news, blogger Mortimer Hayden Smyth — yes, that’s his real name — has a great idea for how to follow up on the current craze for teabagging. He suggests making a fist and showing that “we mean business” by organizing Fisting Parties all over the nation. “Like-minded conservatives can get together and fist the White House, we can fist each other in solidarity,” and so on. Read all about it at Salon.com.
This article appears in Apr 14-21, 2009.
