By Tom Clements, Columbia

Well, we couldn’t resist taking advantage of the call to the fringe to gather at the South Carolina capitol to protest on tax day. As the whole event here was definitely down the rabbit hole, we decided to go in tea party costume and take a no-taxes-for-nuclear-socialism and no-taxes-for-nuclear bailout to the center of the rally. While there was some concern that our message might get mixed in with the rest of the “messages,” we kept it focused on no-taxes-for-nukes, and I think we pulled it off.

Leslie Minerd, Tom Clements (in rabbit suit), Susan Corbett and Tim Liszewski

To much notice, we worked our way through the crowd and were eventually able to get almost behind the speaker’s podium on the steps of the state capitol, before a couple of thousand angry people protesting against, well, I couldn’t quite tell. Most were too slow to notice that we were protesting the kind of big government they might love, but there were a number of perplexed looks once they paused to read our signs.

Our Rabbit even hopped up and shook Sen. DeMint’s hand right after he spoke, carrying a no-nuclear-pork sign, and the Rabbit tried to shake Gov. Sanford’s hand but the pro-nuke gov scurried off down his usual rabbit hole and back into his wonderland when he noticed that the Big No-Nukes Bunny was approaching.

Anyway, we made it out alive and it was some fun to carry the no-nukes message into the thick of the rally here.