Republican Members of Congress want to give medals and valuable prizes to the gazillion teabaggers who came to Washington on 9/12 to yell about the colored guy and other shit:

Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) and 75 other House Republicans have introduced a resolution “expressing gratitude and appreciation to the individuals and families who participated in the Taxpayer March on Washington on September 12, 2009″ — and claiming that the Tea Party march drew many, many times more protesters than it actually did.

The resolution — which has been referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform — declares that “the fundamental American principles of limited government and personal liberty are under direct assault” and that “when the current trends of government expansion and freedom retrenchment are reversed, it will be due in large part to the efforts of the hundreds of thousands who marched on Washington, DC, on September 12, 2009.”

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The resolution also says crowd estimates “range as high as 1,700,000 marchers” — an inflated number that Glenn Beck has advanced but that is 200,000 higher than the 1.5-million figure that march organizer FreedomWorks first claimed — and then later had to cut by half.

This is awesome and so much more exclusive for the people who have lived lives of quiet ineptitude and who have been basking in the fading glow of that time when Time magazine named everyone Person of the Year. That cover was starting to look a little bit ragged, taped up there on the refrigerator door next to the “What happens in Branson …is actually pretty uninteresting” bumper sticker.