Posted on 04/16/2009 2:16:12 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
SACRAMENTO – Americans took to the streets to protest wasteful government spending today – with estimated crowd sizes of 5,000 to 10,000 in Atlanta, Oklahoma City, Olympia, Wash., Lansing, Mich., and Sacramento.
At the California Capitol, a sea of red, white and blue U.S. flags waved above a large crowd that surrounded the building and spilled into city streets. Visitors arrived in yellow school buses from surrounding cities.
Sacramento tea party organizer Mark Meckler scanned the scene from behind a platform before the event.
"It's unreal. It's beyond my imagination," Meckler told WND with a dazed look. "I can't imagine anything better than this."
Some protesters shouted at the Capitol building with megaphones: "Hey, tell Gov. Schwarzenegger to come out here!"
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
To counter Tax Day Tea Party, Obama throws Kool-Aid parties
What if they had a Tea Party and everybody came? Everybody except liberals, principally because there's no welfare check to collect at a tax protest. Liberals don't work for a living since they simply mooch off the taxpayers like they do their parents, whom they live with. Liberals seem shocked that higher taxes, bigger deficits, more spending and more corporate bailouts aren't wildly popular with taxpayers. They felt sure those higher electricity taxes would be a big hit.
Liberals have always mindlessly opposed tax protests, going all the way back to the first one, in December 1773, when tea was thrown into Boston Harbor and the protesters were slammed at the time in columns by Helen Thomas.
The ball got rolling again two months ago in Seattle when bloggers organized a rally, followed swiftly by rallies in Denver and Mesa, Ariz., then came CNBC's Rick Santelli's 'rant heard 'round the world' and the whole thing's snowballed into a Tea Party movement ever since. Rallies in St. Louis, Cincinnati, Orlando, etc. drew thousands. In fact, the rallies had gotten so massive, the media didn't cover them.
There were so many tea parties popping up everywhere, Baghdad Bob could detect them. There IS a presence of American infidel tea parties but we will slaughter them! And continue to slaughter them!
Admittedly, some of the rallies were small, like the one that drew more reporters than protesters -- but that was the ACORN "rally" over AIG bonuses. The 'rally' was small enough to earn wall-to-wall media coverage. MSNBC's entire audience was there.
Apparently, the press doesn't consider the Tea Party rallies -- including yesterday's Tax Day Tea Party -- to be 'legitimate' since the protesters aren't flashing their boobs nor chanting "FREE MUMIA, THE COP-KILLER!", "TROOPS OUT!", nor do they smell like rotten fish. Even worse, no free sex nor bong smoke and speeches praising North Korea filling the air. The tea parties must've been organized by Fox News!
Paul Krugman, who looks like Baghdad Bob, this week wrote a critique of the protesters' tax stance by invoking Tom Delay's position on the theory of evolution. Then ranted about Rush Limbaugh's "campaign of innuendo" during the '90s, a Karl Rove speech about terrorism, and Dick Armey. Delving into tax policy details even further, he complained that Fox News is covering the tea parties and that the tea parties aren't really grassroots because Fox News is covering the tea parties. (He then called Republicans crazy.)
As if to prove it's a Fox News conspiracy, Geraldo Rivera of Fox News bashed the Tea Party movement on Fox News, dismissing the protesters as fringe people upset with Obama over higher taxes (as opposed to most Americans who yearn for higher taxes and more wasteful government). Sounding cranky, he called it a right-wing, "anti-Obama, anti-Democratic" Party movement and that the rallies were not spontaneous -- as opposed to the annual White House Easter Egg Roll. Geraldo has his own Fox News show -- Geraldo At Large -- to spout off nonsense, so clearly it's all a Rupert Murdoch plot.
Sending liberals into paroxysms of paranoia, the folks at the rallies yesterday consisted of home-schoolers, school teachers, engineers, military, blue-collar, white-collar, retired, doctors, nurses, salesmen, builders, farmers, firemen, policemen, young, old -- all ferried in black helicopters to the rallies by Fox News.
Also attending the Tax Day Tea Party were many small-business owners, overwhelmingly middle class -- in other words, the very "wealthy" according to Obama. Or 'capitalist running dog evil bastards', according to his pirate-loving nut-base.
Most of the Tea Party goers had never attended a political rally before. And, unlike liberals, they have a life. And despite Obama's miraculous economic "rebound", they have a job.
In his goofy column, Krugman sniffs that "the tea parties don't represent a spontaneous outpouring of public sentiment. They're AstroTurf (fake grass root) events . . ." I can cite no evidence for this, but trust us! We're the New York Times!
Krugman's lame-o excuse for why the crowds are so large is that Dick Armey's group supports the Tea Party movement. And groups would never try to claim credit for the success of the Tea Party movement, noooooooooo.
Liberals, always with the hots for highly centralized, top-down command structures, can't imagine millions of real Americans organizing into a movement on their own, without a 'leader' or politburo or raving maniac telling them what to think. Which is why, if left to their own devices, liberals give you paradises like Cuba or North Korea.
Being the indispensable paragons of free speech, libbies scream that ralliers flying 'Don't Tread On Me' flags and doing re-enactments of Thomas Jefferson reading the Declaration of Independence are all wrong, since today is so, like, totally not like the Revolutionary period, man. On the rare occasion when liberals are coherent, they note the colonialists were protesting taxation without representation, then leap from there that Obama-Pelosi-Reid were elected, ergo, they have free reign to tread on us all.
The problem with that idiotic formulation is that today it's the flipside, representation without taxation -- a good chunk of the population not on the tax rolls, scamming off the taxpayers by voting thieves into office promising to keep the loaded gravy train on track, whistling past the graveyard, for the loafers. But it's just a l'il tax hike on the really bad rich! What's the big deal? A 3 cent-per-pound tax hike on tea got you the Boston Tea Party then American independence three years later. But it's more than just about taxes for us menacing thought-crimes perps on Rupert Murdoch's payroll. It's also that tiny $800 billion pork-o bait on the Nancy Pelosi Congressional Gravy Train as the warm-up act, projected teensy-weensy deficit of $2 trillion for this year and promises of trillion-dollar deficits stretching as far as Nancy Pelosi's ayes have it, all in the goal of building a more perfect Nancy State.
Even beyond the preposterously bloated size of the taxing and spending-us-into-hyperinflation stuff, it's also how government and its glorious bureaucracies, renowned for their efficiency, gloriously use all the tax dough. AIG bonuses? Check. Millions for the endangered monk seal? Check. Big bucks for the Canton Symphony Orchestra Association in Ohio? Check. Big shovel-ready bucks for the Dance Theater Etcetera in Brooklyn? Check. For swine odor research in Ames, Iowa? Check. For tattoo removal programs in California and essential lobster research in Maine? Check, check. (Source: Citizens Against Government Waste, 4/14/09).
Obama's media still wonders why, after Obama promised to spend us into debt for all eternity, crap-and-trade us to bail out banksters and run the most ethical administration of tax cheats and lobbyists with waivers in history . . . why are people protesting? Any idea???
That's the essence of the Obama media reaction to yesterday's seismic shift. The Kool-Aid impaired boys and girls of CNN had a massive coronary. MSNBC spent the day giggling about "tea bagging", alienating all 2 of their viewers, both in San Francisco. The broadcast nets, in an apparent slip-up, covered the tea parties. Fox News, which employs actual reporters, got attacked by MSNBC and CNN for being out of touch with Keith Olbermann and Anderson Cooper.
In any event, I have a hunch the Founding Fathers were smiling down on the tea parties yesterday.
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"
Thanks JohnHuang2!
I and several others, attended the Lansing (MI) tea-party. It was a really marvelous day and will serve as a great launching pad for further “conservative” activities.
The lame-stream media (excepting Fox News) have completely ignored these protests. This gives the politicians cover to ignore them as well. "If it wasn't reported, it didn't happen!"
My question is, now what? What will we do next and what will it take to get the attention of those who lord it over us? So many are saying that we throw them out in 2010, but I fear that by then it'll be too late and too much damage will have been done to this country. This tide needs to be turned now!
Good article but there is one error. The crowd size at the Hartford Connecticut rally was 5,000 per the state police, not 3,000 per the article.
Wife and I went to Stuart, Floridas tea party along with about 3000 of my favorite people.
Bunch of radical extremists. Retirees wearing golf hats, veterans wearing their hats, old and young alike.
The city had many cops on the scene though none were needed as everyone behaved very well. Sort of funny watching the guys from the swat team.
Was supposed to be at the post office but it spilled on to US 1 and everyone stayed on the sidewalk.
Most had never been to a protest.
That and the Atlanta Party had at least 20K there.
We had 20,000 easy in Atlanta.We were packed in the streets like cordwood.
Washington on July 4th is next advertised event that I know of. I attended Tea Party in Flemington, NJ. It’s a small town, but about 500 showed up over the course of the event—despite rain and sleet.
First time I attended a protest rally as a participant. Wonderful experience. It was especially gratifying to realize that I’m not alone in what I believe.
I’m gonna try my best to attend the Washington rally.
That's one of the most telling comments I've read about the tea parties yet. Imagine the attendance if those of us who had to work and couldn't attend could have been there. And no, I've never been to a protest.
I had to work, but wanted to attend one of the parties in Salt Lake City. I know of three other people who wanted to go but couldn't, but there were at least two people who did, in spite of heavy rain and snow.
Next chance, Independence Day!
Local tv news readers said there were about 2000 attendees at the event in little old Lynchburg, VA.
My question is, now what? What will we do next and what will it take to get the attention of those who lord it over us? So many are saying that we throw them out in 2010, but I fear that by then it’ll be too late and too much damage will have been done to this country. This tide needs to be turned now!
1. You call Senators and Congress folks and tell them did they get the message?
2. You tell them they are next.
3. The next big dance may be July 4th.
A non-workday will cause a huge turnout that will dwarf this beginning.
Yes, the Founding Fathers are thrilled!
What? You didn’t get your check from Dick Armey and Fox News? I would call Murdock on his personal cell phone number that he gave out and ask when your check will be cut! /Sarc
LOL!
(ps. thx for your service)
Kool-Aid Parties? LOL! Very good!
We had only 4,500 in Cincinnati. Wonder why the mayor was too scared to come out of City Hall and talk to us?
;^)
Our news media said the state patrol “ESTIMATED”only 15,000 and that is BULLSHIT!. We just need to do it again but in a march all around the capital building in downtown Atlanta.
Hey does that make all of us the new HIPPIES?We conservatives sure are a mild mannered bunch.LOL
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