This story is a repost fromTalkingPointsMemo.com

A group of Obama supporters stormed today’s Tax Day Tea Party in downtown Washington, D.C., creating a brief and nonviolent ruckus among the tea partiers gathered to listen to Grover Norquist and Dick Armey on Freedom Plaza.

The pro-Obama group, known as “The Other 95%,” held a counter-rally earlier in the day to thank Democrats for what they say are the tax cuts the party has given to 95% of Americans since Obama took power.

I happened to be standing right next to the Freedom Party steps when TO95 organizer Alex Lawson walked up with several other members carrying a massive banner reading “Thanks For Our Tax Cuts, Obama!”

D.C. cops quickly tossed the group off the plaza, but not before they got into a couple of shouting matches with tea partiers present. Check out my video of how it all went down — and how one tea partier from Phoenix, AZ felt about it — after the jump.

Here’s the video, featuring Lawson and tea partier Sherri Stockard:

A volunteer with with TO95 me told the police tossed the group from the plaza because they didn’t have a permit to protest there. TO95 captured its own video of the day, available here.

Lawson told me the group wasn’t associated with the Democratic party, a union or the Obama administration.

“We are not sponsored by anyone,” he said. “We’re a group of concerned citizens. We put this together ourselves, and we paid for this banner…We’re just out here on our lunch hours making sure our message gets heard by everyday Americans.”

This story is a repost from CBSNews.com.

While President Obama mingled with Florida Democrats at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Miami Thursday night, thousands of Tea Partiers stood across from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to protest “Tax Day.” Mr. Obama admitted to his supporters that the anti-tax rallies “amused” him.

The president went over the laundry list of tax cuts instituted in Washington over the past year.

“In all, we passed 25 different tax cuts last year. And one thing we haven’t done is raise income taxes on families making less than $250,000 a year — another promise that we kept,” he told supporters at the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. “So I’ve been a little amused over the last couple of days where people have been having these rallies about taxes. You would think they would be saying thank you.”

The president argued that America is on the road to recovery and headed in the right direction — something an overwhelming number of Tea Partiers disagree with.

However, Mr. Obama submitted that “the true measure of our progress is the progress that the American people feel in their lives — and there’s still a lot of hurt out here.”

He said that while he is doing everything he can to accelerate private-sector job creation in the short term, he is also trying to create a new foundation for the middle class. While some are warning that anger over administration policies will endanger some Democrats in the midterm elections, Mr. Obama said, “elections will take care of themselves” if politicians stay true to their principles and do what’s right for the American people.

“One of the great things about running for president,” Mr. Obama said, “is it gives you a little perspective because you realize that these things go in cycles, the mood of the media and how things get portrayed. And so you’re like a genius for about a month and then you’re an idiot for about six months. Then, you know, you’re smart again for — you’re not as smart as you were, but you’re a little smarter than they thought you were, then you’re an idiot again.”

People shouldn’t focus on the day-to-day politics and polls, he said.

“What you’ve got to focus on is that true North, that lodestar, which is, are the things we’re doing over the long term going to help not just this generation but the next generation? Is this going to make America stronger?,” he said.