Tea Partiers Exploit the National Park Service as a Prop While Attempting to Abolish It October 15,2013 The tea party put on quite a show on Sunday. Billed as the “Million Veterans March,” roughly 300 people turned out to hear Sarah Palin and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) deliver brief remarks about “the Obama shutdown,” followed by a ceremonial gathering of government barricades from various closed D.C. monuments and using them to vandalize the north gate of the White House. Of course there were the usual ringers found every tea party rally: a guy in colonial garb, lots of pale white skin and, predictably, a Confederate battle flag. Because nothing says “Honor Our Veterans” like waving the battle flag under which a rebel army killed more than 140,000 U.S. soldiers in defense of a states’ right to own slaves. [...] http://thedailybanter.com/2013/10/tea-partiers-use-national-park-service-as-a-prop-while-voting-to-eliminate-it/ [with comments] [also at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/tea-partiers-exploited-th_b_4117465.html (with comments)]
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