Political Humor

Another Tax Day, another Tea Party rally. And what a good one it was in Manchester, NH Thursday.

Update: I planned on having time Friday afternoon to finish the recap but I got called into work so I had to rush to get it done. In my haste I completely forgot to give a huge huge shout out.

Skip I apologize for the unintentional slight. No matter the reason though, I screwed up.

For those who do not know him Skip is Skip Murphy, the man behind Granite Grok and also one of the NH Tea Party Coalition founders. He invited all of us conservative NH bloggers to Bloggers Row and coordinated everything. He set us up with tables, electricity, and introduced us to various state politicians and candidates.

Thank you Skip and Granite Grok for all the hard work you put in both for the event and making Bloggers Row happen. It is greatly appreciated.

The Republican candidates for the various offices they are running for made their presence known at the event, and more then just signs. They were out meeting people, shaking hands, kissing babies.

I kid about the kissing babies part because I don’t think anyone does that anymore. Do they?

Entrepreneurs were shopping their wares…

The crowd was attentive…

But clearly not happy with the current state of governmental affairs…

Gee, I wonder why they are angry? Why does that young man in the front row look so worried?

Oh yeah. Right.

NH Governor John Lynch looks worried that I am giving him the thumbs down and with good reason. I am one of the people who will be voting him out of office in November.

I really thought he was a lot taller too.

Another dig at NH politicians. You can’t see it in this picture but both Shea-Porter and Hodes have googly eyes.

It also looks like Obama’s plan to capture the youth vote is not going according to plan.

There I am representing Radioactive Liberty and Angry Seafood on Bloggers Row. Alongside me were: America’s Watchtower, Citizens for Reasonable&Fair Taxes-Croyden, ConChrist, GilfordGrok, Libertarian Leanings, News from the Northwoods, NH Insider, NH Watchdog, No Looking Backwards, One Voice In Gilford, Pun Salad, RedHampshire, TBONH, The Blogging Councilor, Weekend Pundit

That’s a lot of bloggers. Visit them. Check out what they had to say about the rally.

On the left and right sides of the display are political humor pictures. In the middle is a picture of Obama as Capt. Obvious with an empty word balloon.

Yup, it’s an old-fashioned caption contest. People at the event gave their quotes on post-it-notes.

I got to meet Karen Testerman, who is running for NH Governor, Ovide Lamontagne who is running for U.S. Senate, and Jeanie Forrester who is running for State Senate.

I’ve got a lot more pictures along with a recap video to show in a follow-up post here later this weekend and over at Angry Seafood.And I’ve got a round-up of what the other NH bloggers had to say on tap as well.

I’ll also have a wrap-up on my thoughts about the difference in this year’s Tea Party rally coming up as well over at Politics DMZ.

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Chris Cameron is a writer/reporter/columnist for Radioactive Liberty. He also has his own humor blog about everything, Angry Seafood.

In Florida, teachers and other moonbats came up with the idea of dropping off 2.6 million pennies on the state capitol steps to show support for a one-cent boost in the state sales tax.

A bunch of people spent time collecting $26,000 dollars in pennies to rally for a tax increase only to give the money raised to a charity that has nothing to do with education.

This is more insane then Massachusetts voters choosing not to abolish the state income tax last November. How’s that working out these days?

Let’s see there’s proposals for a nineteen cent state gas tax increase when you fill up at the pump and a carbon usage tax when you park at Logan Airport. They also want to increase the restaurant and hotel tax. There was even an idea floated for a tracking device in the inspection stickers so residents could be taxed on mileage.

Next up I guess is a tax on existence. Live another year, pay a fee. Makes you want to get out of bed every morning doesn’t it comrade?

Give the politicians a tax inch and they will take a couple thousand miles, especially when we give them the green light to take more and more of our hard-earned income.

Pennies at a time of course. You know, the coins with Abraham Lincoln on them.

You can rest assured, however residents of the Commonwealth, all those tax proposals are already creating jobs.

Recently, Governor Deval Patrick picked former state senator Marian Walsh to be the assistant executive director of the Health and Educational Facilities, a position that has not been filled in twelve years.

A government position mind you, that has two prefixes in the title. How that one stayed vacant for so long is beyond me. There’s usually a waiting list for those kinds of hack positions, especially in Massachusetts.

And in a show of good faith, she has agreed to a pay cut, reducing her salary from $175,000 to $120,000.

What a trooper. She feels our pain.

I just hope Marian will be able to survive on that kind of income. No more Chilean Sea Bass for dinner every other evening. The pate for the dinner party next week will have to be canceled.

Oh the humanity.

It’s no wonder why our government and taxes are joined at the hip. They are soulmates. Both like long walks on the beach, paying people with our money to do nothing, and running up tons of debt.

Here’s one for you nineteen for me, gas tax that is. Not to worry though because it’s only pennies right?

Chris Cameron writes this political humor insanity every Tuesday and Wednesday here at Radioactive Liberty.

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Chris Cameron is a political humor columnist for Radioactive Liberty and also has his own weird humor blog Angry Seafood.