If you are like me, you were probably very moved by Ms. Becky Gerritson's testimony concerning IRS targeting of conservative groups. Gerritson is the president of the Wetumpka Tea Party in Alabama... and right away you can feel sorry for her!
First of all, anyone who must say with a straight face that she is associated with an organization with the word "Wetumpka" in its title has my sympathies. I am sure that the Wetumpka Tea Party is a proud Tea Party, far outstripping the Tea Party from Hell...but being forced to say such sentences as "In Wetumpka, we are patriotic Americans" over and over again on national television in front of members of Congress must have been difficult.
Still, Ms Gerritson fighting back tears as she eloquently describes the horrors this liberal government had inflicted on her was deeply emotional for me.
More below the used, wadded-up tissue.
Listen to Ms. Gerritson's testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee as she describes how she kept her dignity under the torturous onslaught that our dictatorship of a government brought upon her:
I am not here today as a serf or a vassal. I am not begging my lords for mercy. I am a born-free, American woman – wife, mother and citizen – and I’m telling MY government that you have forgotten your place.
sniff Gets ya right there, doesn't it? No, Ms. Gerritson is not a serf or a vassal.... especially since a modern serf's lifestyle
is something like this:
Footage shot inside North Korea and obtained by the ABC has revealed the extent of chronic food shortages and malnutrition inside the secretive state.
The video is some of the most revealing footage ever smuggled out of the impoverished North Korean state.
Shot over several months by an undercover North Korean journalist, the harrowing footage shows images of filthy, homeless and orphaned children begging for food and soldiers demanding bribes.
The footage also shows North Koreans labouring on a private railway track for the dictator's son and heir near the capital Pyongyang.
Strolling up to the site supervisor, the man with the hidden camera asks what is going on.
"This rail line is a present from Kim Jong-il to comrade Kim Jong-un," he is told.
The well-fed Kim Jong-un could soon be ruling over a nation of starving, impoverished serfs.
Yeah, but-but we Americans under the socialist Obama dictatorship have it bad too!!!! I mean, we're not starving or eating each other or forced into labor camps by the tens of thousands..... but listen to the awful torture that Betty Gerritson, president of the Wetumpka Tea Party was forced to endure! (WARNING: Contains graphic and disturbing description)
We applied for our 501(c)4 in October 2010.....
We received a letter from Robert Choi, dated Nov, 2, 2010 stating that our application and user fee payment had been received.....The letter stated that they could not process our application until we completed the enclosed questionnaire which requested approximately ninety pieces of additional information about our organization.
Paperwork. Horrifying.
Clearly the Tea Party has gone through a harrowing time. We as liberal Democrats need to acknowledge the sufferings, torture and Stalinist-style persecution that has afflicted people like Ms. Gerritson of Wetumpka.
Thus I would like to announce a new program: Tissues for Teabaggers. It is a program where we show our support for suffering Tea Party members by sending boxes of tissues to our local Tea Party offices.
If you wish to be a part of Tissues for Teabaggers, read on below!
1) Buy a box of tissues or "Kleenex." Shouldn't be more than a couple bucks.
2) Find the address of your local Tea Party outfit. Shouldn't be too hard... just "Google" (or "Bing") your state and "Tea Party."
3) Enclose a letter of sympathy. I suggest something like the following:
"Dear (your city/state) Tea Party,
After hearing with great sadness and horror the testimony of Becky Gerritson, president of the Wetumpka Tea Party I have come to offer my sincere sympathy with America's Tea Party movement.
Clearly the IRS has, in requiring Tea Party representatives to fill out papers in order to gain tax-exempt status, permitted the greatest atrocity in the US since 9/11.
- The Tea Party's sufferings eclipse the over 4,000 American soldiers who have lost their lives in Iraq due to false intelligence put forward by the Bush Administration.
- The Tea Party's agonies tower over the 1.2 million Americans who have lost their homes due to the 2008 recession engineered by the Bush Administration.
- The Tea Party's pain outstrip the deaths of the Newtown children and the 32,000 Americans who are killed by guns each year because of an almost complete lack of gun control.
The Tea Party has been suffering so greatly and on behalf of the rest of America- the heartless majority who voted for President Obama and a Democratic Senate for the second time in a row- we truly apologize for our heartlessness in ignoring your cries of agony.
We know that the Tea Party has suffered too much.... and in the future it will most likely continue to suffer considering the polls for your candidates in the 2014 and 2016 elections!
So please take this box of tissues and make good use of it.
We are so sincerely sorry for your pain. It completely overshadows the pain felt by the rest of us.
Cheers! etc."
4) Mail the tissues and letter in a nice package.
5) Sit back and enjoy a cup of coffee! You've done your good deed for the day :-)
I have already sent my box of tissues! Have you?