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We had a sufficient numbers of FReepers and signs to make our opinion known at the southwest entrance to the Dirksen Building. We arrived around 10AM and stayed till 3PM. The original plans were to be on 2nd Street at the main entrance to the Hart Building, but foot traffic was light so we moved around the corner. For those who don’t know, the Hart Building and the Dirksen Building are really one building. There is a corridor connecting the two. Those patriots protesting the Porkulus Bill today were: JimRob (For the newbies, Jim Robinson, aka JimRob, is the founder...

Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina delivered a brilliant interview on the porkulus bill yesterday on CNN. You can see the video here . Sanford was blunt and honest in his assessment of the bailout legislation -- refreshing, and long overdue, candor from a Republican. “We’re moving precipitously close to what I would call a savior-based economy,” Sanford declared in the interview. He was referring to third world and communist countries where businesses are forced to go hat in hand to the central government (the “savior”) for approval and for financing. Watch the first of the segment carefully. The CNN...