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“The Super Bowl of Freedom!”

by Josh Marshall
11.03.09 | 5:52 am

If you’re going to be up on Capitol Hill on Thursday, watch out! That’s when Rep. Michele Bachmann is holding her Capitol Hill Tea Party. They’ll start on the Capitol steps and then fan out into the halls of the building until they see the “whites of their eyes” and convince them not to give way to socialism.

Sounds fun.

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