Posted on 04/17/2009 3:37:12 AM PDT by Scanian
AN incomplete survey of newspaper accounts and organizer estimates pegged this week's Tea Party protest population at a minimum of 250,000. If we use the crowd-counting math of left-wing activists, we can call it the Million Taxpayer March.
To George Soros-funded grievance professionals, 250,000 is an insignificant number. But unlike recent anti-war and pro-illegal-immigration rallies padded with union workers, college students and homeless people, the Tax Day Tea Party demonstrations featured small-business owners, working taxpayers and families.
A quarter-million people took time off in the middle of the workweek to raise their voices against reckless taxing and bipartisan spending.
Multimillionaire jetsetter Nancy Pelosi scoffed that the Tea Party movement was nothing more than "Astroturf" politics. Rep. Jan Schakowsky called the peaceable assemblies "despicable." Others grumbled that activists only showed up where Fox News cameras were
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We need a mass march on Washington. It’s possible to ignore a few hundred or a few thousand 50 times over but it’s impossible to ignore 250,000 angry people on the national mall.
We need a central voice to organize that.
If we get one, let me know, and I’ll make the trip to DC.
Sounds like nancy pelosi has about as much empathy for the American people as Marie Antoinette did for the French citizens when they first took to the streets.
pelosi seriously needs to be voted out of there.
Im glad I didnt let the bad weather keep me away from the Philly rally. I’d feel like a fair weather patriot for not going.
Just let them continue to insult the people.
It will come at a cost.
Likewise - it was miserable but worth it.
Fat chance. She is a prime example of the disgusting politics displayed by Congresscritters from safe districts.
I noticed that the GOP tried to jump on board a couple weeks ago and I sent them an e-mail saying that they were almost as bad as the Democrats.
I write my Congressman about three times a month to give him feedback on the issues. I usually get a prompt response when I agree with something he's done and I get ignored when I disagree.
Whichever political party pays attention to the complaints of the tea party participants will benefit. An astute politician (or political party) would study every picture he/she could find of tea party participants, categorize the homemade signs into groups (such as taxes, deficit spending, immigration, etc.) and attempt to discern the demographic groups that were present.
After that research is done, an issue platform could be designed to target toward the tea party crowd.
Of course, it would be nice if the party or politician actually believed in the issues on a personal basis, but that’s probably too much to ask in this day and age of symbolism over substance.
Just because that's how liberal arrange their protests doesn't mean that's how we do ours! Stop projecting Pelosi!
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