Tea Party Aims Anger at IRS, NSA and Immigration at D.C. Rally
Source: ABC News
Tea Party Aims Anger at IRS, NSA and Immigration at D.C. Rally
By ABBY D. PHILLIP (@abbydphillip) AND JOAN E. GREVE
June 19, 2013- 7 min. ago
The Tea Party is back in Washington and they are madder than ever. Backed by more than a dozen lawmakers from the House and the Senate, thousands of Tea Party activists gathered on the Capitol lawn to vent their frustration with the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups, the prospects of a comprehensive immigration reform bill passing through Congress, and the National Security Agency's surveillance program.
"They did all they could to rob us of our first amendment rights by silencing our speech, stifling our assembly and stopping our petitions," said Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder and national coordinator of Tea Party Patriots. "Ladies and gentlemen, ours is a government that is too big and too powerful."
"We are going to throw (the IRS) over like a box of British tea," added Rep. Tom Graves, R-Ga. The rally, which was mirrored by a separate Tea Party event opposing immigration reform on the other side of the Capitol, also appeared to be a show of strength by the movement, which has little in the way of a central organization but plenty of anti-government fervor.
"I'm a little confused, The New York Times told me the Tea Party was dead," said Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. "The IRS told me the Tea Party is dead." While investigations of the IRS in the House have yet to turn up any evidence that the practice of targeting conservative groups was directed by Washington, the consensus in the crowd and among activists was that the IRS's latest misdeeds is just more evidence that the agency should no longer exist. "The very best solution is, we need to abolish the IRS," Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., offered to loud applause. "We need to take every one of those IRS agents and put them on our Southern border."
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They were all bought and paid for by the Kochtopus. They can't bite the hands that feed them, now can they? 
