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WAPO: Activists Rally Against Government Spending on National Mall

Conservative protesters by the thousands gathered in downtown Washington on Saturday and began marching on Capitol Hill in an effort to stop what organizers called the over-expansion of the federal government under the Obama administration.

Activists Rally Against Government Spending on National Mall At the Federal Triangle Metro stop, demonstrators emerged from packed trains and broke into a rendition of "God Bless America" as they rode escalators to the street.

"Nobody's standing up for us, so we have to stand up for ourselves," said Phil Chancey, 66, who drove to the District from Clinton, Tenn., for the rally. The sign he carred, deriding the president health-care reform plan, read, "OBAMACARE MAKES ME SICK."

Obamacare makes America sick!

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Press Reports:

WAPO: Activists Rally Against Government Spending on National Mall Conservative protesters by the thousands gathered

Wall Street Journal - Thousands of people marched in downtown Washington Saturday

The Associated Press - Nafeesa Syeed - Thousands of people marched to the US Capitol on Saturday

What's up with the PAST TENSE vocabulary? thousands gathered & marched? Quite premature!