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Strange Scene: 10 Arrested As Tea Partiers Heckle Police
Strange Scene: 10 Arrested As Tea Partiers Heckle Police
U.S. Capitol Police arrested 10 people this afternoon Sgt. Kimberly Schneider, public information office for the Capitol Police, told TPMDC they happened in the Cannon House building as tea partiers attempted to protest Speaker Nancy Pelosi about health care. They were charged with ...
Tea partiers hit Capitol
Tea partiers hit Capitol
politico.com — Capitol Police arrest nine protesters Thursday morning in the Hart Senate office building.... (more) Tea partiers hit Capitol
Is The Tea Party Over?
motherjones.com — The tea partiers are launching the revolution. This week. But will anyone actually show up? On Sunday,... Rep. Michele Bachmann challenged viewers of Sean Hannity’s Fox News show to join her last-ditch attempt to kill health care reform. The ... (more) Is The Tea Party Over?
Getting Whackier
talkingpointsmemo.com — Sigh, I knew this would get fun. As you know, Rep. Michele Bachmann is planning her mega-Capitol... Hill Tea Party tomorrow followed by Bachmann leading Tea Partiers through the halls of Congress demanding Congress not take away their health care.  ... (more) Getting Whackier
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Tea Partiers Arrested Outside Pelosi's Office
Talking Points Memo — ... Ten Tea Party protestors were arrested for trying to force their way in to Nancy Pelosi's congressional office this afternoon. (To be clear, that's the office that handles her constituent work as opposed to her leadership office which is actually where she works.) There was then another big uproar as the arrestees were led out of the building for transport. "This is America, this is not the Soviet Union," said one protestor watching the arrestees. ...

Newsflash: Teabaggers Lack Sense of History.
INSTAPUTZ — ... Um... TPMDC happened upon a crowd that formed around two police vans asthe protesters were prepared for "transporting," according to oneofficer there. Without those official details, protesters in the crowd watching thearrests were furious. They shouted "Let them go!" and one man yelled atthe police that "Martin Luther King" was being dishonored and shouted"Letter from Birmingham Jail!" Further comment is probably unnecessary. ...

Bachmann-Teabag Overdrive Features Holocaust 'Health Care' Protest Photo/Banner
The BRAD BLOG — ... (that's great video!) in hopes of killing health care reform legislation. She was joined by dozens of fellow wingnut lawmakers who spoke to the disinformed crowd, promising "not a single Republican vote" for the bill before things turned strange later on. ...

Republican Health Care Still an Oxymoron
The Mahablog — ... Christina Bellantoni reported for Talking Points Memo that ten teabaggers were arrested after they stormed into Congressional office buildings and behaved badly. The ten were charged with unlawful entry into legislative offices (they did not leave when asked to do so) and/or disorderly conduct. ...

Friday Open Thread
Delaware Liberal — It’s Friday! *happy dance* Let’s get your weekend started out right with some sweet pwnage by Shoshana Johnson: Commenter a. price points us to this video of Jon Stewart mocking Glenn Beck. It’s some of Stewart’s best work. Fight the power teabaggers! Don’t let the man beat you down! U.S. Capitol Police arrested 10 people this afternoon after the Capitol Hill Tea Party crowd stormed Congressional office buildings. [...] Without those official details, protesters in the crowd watching the arrests were furious. They shouted “Let them go!” and one man yelled at the police that ...

About Those Arrests...
Talking Points Memo — ... Yesterday TPMDC's Christina Bellantoni witnessed the arrests of 10 people in and around Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office during the Capitol Hill Tea Party. We've got video of the arrests ...

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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 22 days ago — Here's a video recorded by TPM's Christina Bellantoni, of the Capitol Hill Tea Party crowd singing "God Bless America" in protest of the arrests of several of their compatriots, who were charged with illegally entering or disrupting the office that ...
No Tea Partiers Were Harmed In The Protesting Of This Health Care Bill
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Surprise, surprise, seems like pro-life extremist Randall Terry was at the center of that incident at Speaker Pelosi's office where a bunch of Tea Partiers got arrested. Somehow he didn't get arrested though. Video after the jump ...
First to Strike!Talking Points Memo
We have our first eight protestors arrested today on Capitol Hill. But, wait! They're not Tea Partiers. A group of reform supporters briefly "occupied" Sen. Lieberman's office before getting marched off by Capitol police.