“Asked how she feels about having voted for the president, Lewis said “I feel lied to, cheated and raped.”

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Disgruntled Democrats join the Tea Party - CNN.com

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4:38 pm  •  3 April 2010

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A staffer for Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) told reporters that Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-M.D.) had been spit on by a protestor. Rep. John Lewis (D-G.A.), a hero of the civil rights movement, was called a ‘ni—er.’ And Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) was called a “faggot,” as protestors shouted at him with deliberately lisp-y screams. Frank, approached in the halls after the president’s speech, shrugged off the incident.

But Clyburn was downright incredulous, saying he had not witnessed such treatment since he was leading civil rights protests in South Carolina in the 1960s.

“It was absolutely shocking to me,” Clyburn told the Huffington Post. “Last Monday, this past Monday, I stayed home to meet on the campus of Claflin University where fifty years ago as of last Monday… I led the first demonstrations in South Carolina, the sit ins… And quite frankly I heard some things today I have not heard since that day. I heard people saying things that I have not heard since March 15, 1960 when I was marching to try and get off the back of the bus.”

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— Sam Stein, Tea Party Protests: ‘Ni**er,’ ‘Faggot’ Shouted At Members Of Congress (via lookatthisfuckingteabagger) (via soupsoup)

9:07 pm  •  20 March 2010