Posted on 03/03/2009 9:25:43 AM PST by Schnucki
Rick Santelli was a little-known CNBC reporter until he went rogue during what was supposed to be a routine broadcast from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade and went absolutely postal about the coming so-called "stimulus" budget and the notion of paying off other people's mortgages. "I'll tell you what," he howled while his shocked news-reader cohorts looked on, "We're thinking about having a Chicago Tea Party...All you capitalists who want to show up to Lake Michigan, I'm organizing!"
I can see why Santelli had got to thinking about the Boston Tea Party. I just read the Wikipedia entry (the last time I recall thinking this was maybe at age seven) and this is just magnificent stuff! Samuel Adams: What a stud! Who knew! Do we have anybody on the scene currently with that kind of charisma? Er....Bobby Jindal?
Santelli's rant spawned a movement of regional "Tea Parties" and New York City had its first yesterday. I didn't go - it was snowing, awright! - and maybe I didn't miss much. Despite claims that it was a "GREAT SUCCESS!!!" from the New York Young Republicans, for example, who put a video on their website, it looks to me like it was just your basic rally. About 150 people showed up. It was cold. People smiled self-consciously at each other. Some held up hand-lettered signs and joggled them around, hoping to get them on TV. Some pretty good speakers were assembled on short notice - though this is pretty easy in New York City, a place roiling with underemployed and highly politicized talent.
But we're not going to get anywhere this way, folks. Let's remember that the real Tea Party went down in history and sparked the revolution that eventually secured our independence from the evil British overlords, because
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In the frig.
Portland, Oregon?!?!?!?!
Careful, it's only early afternoon.
Of course, "it's 5 o'clock somewhere..."
Beat me to it.
This one was too easy.
Sam Adams, one of the most underappreciated of our revolutionairies.
I have been thinking about writing a screenplay based on him.
It was more like 300 people showed up. I was there. But there’s got to be better organization and coherent message. Then again, it was fairly spontaneous. This is where the left beats us—they know how to turn out a crowd.
Interesting trivia-Sam Adams helped stop Daniel Shays rebellion.
....Bobby Jindal
NOT Bobby Jindal, it will be someone unknown like Santelli, and yes I am getting to the point I am seriously considering a tax protest..haven’t done it yet..
Let the Sons of Liberty ride again! :-)
“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds” - S.A.
The answer is to go in and take over the local GOP and start using tech to network.
Obama has this “change.gov” website with people signing up.
HELLOOO GOP?!!! did you file a FOIA request to get all their names and addresses?
Revolutions are started at the liberty tree and Obama is running around with a chainsaw.
Times coming though. We just weren't quite ready to fight that particular part of this fight on our own quite yet.
Have you even seen where his final resting place is in Boston? VERY underappreciated.
Of course today the obamacrats would charge him with a hate crime over that whole dress up like indians thing.
EIB.
I was only in Boston once, in 2007. Didn’t make it there.
I am a great respecter of John Adams for his dogged determination. Differ with him on many issues.
Samuel Adams
Guess what folks? After over two hundred years, we're in worse shape than the colonists when they revolted. Ask yourselves. Is there anything that the current horde of little tyrants do not tax? Does any significant percentage of our so called "representatives" truly represent OUR interests any more? I think we all know the answer to that question. I think it was Boss Tweed who said "I don't care who wins an election as long as I get to pick the candidates."
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