Are any of you going to the local Tea Party tomorrow? I would go, but I have to work like most Republicans
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Ya those going are not tax payers. And Fairand what ever FOX NEWS dam near sponsoring the whole thing. Like they say they covered the million man march. Only they cant find any tape of that event.But this one there sending there cheer leaders to them. Who would guess fox with hangin out with DEM,s and the homeless.
I'm glad to see someone is covering it DJV.--
Here is headline news link-yahoo-for major media today--not one article about what will prob be largest U.S. wide demonstration.
yahoo news: top stories
http://news.yahoo.com/i/716
Why is that? Do they they citizens of all parties pissed and tax and spend mantra is not important.
--a little on tea party from WSJ
By GLENN HARLAN REYNOLDS
Today American taxpayers in more than 300 locations in all 50 states will hold rallies -- dubbed "tea parties" -- to protest higher taxes and out-of-control government spending. There is no political party behind these rallies, no grand right-wing conspiracy, not even a 501(c) group like MoveOn.org.
<CITE>Reuters</CITE> A rally and march in protest of higher taxes in Santa Barbara, Calif., April 4.
So who's behind the Tax Day tea parties? Ordinary folks who are using the power of the Internet to organize. For a number of years, techno-geeks have been organizing "flash crowds" -- groups of people, coordinated by text or cellphone, who converge on a particular location and then do something silly, like the pillow fights that popped up in 50 cities earlier this month. This is part of a general phenomenon dubbed "Smart Mobs" by Howard Rheingold, author of a book by the same title, in which modern communications and social-networking technologies allow quick coordination among large numbers of people who don't know each other.
In the old days, organizing large groups of people required, well, an organization: a political party, a labor union, a church or some other sort of structure. Now people can coordinate themselves.
We saw a bit of this in the 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns, with things like Howard Dean's use of Meetup, and Barack Obama's use of Facebook. But this was still social-networking in support of an existing organization or campaign. The tea-party protest movement is organizing itself, on its own behalf. Some existing organizations, like Newt Gingrich's American Solutions and FreedomWorks, have gotten involved. But they're involved as followers and facilitators, not leaders. The leaders are appearing on their own, and reaching out to others through blogs, Facebook, chat boards and alternative media.
The protests began with bloggers in Seattle, Wash., who organized a demonstration on Feb. 16. As word of this spread, rallies in Denver and Mesa, Ariz., were quickly organized for the next day. Then came CNBC talker Rick Santelli's Feb. 19 "rant heard round the world" in which he called for a "Chicago tea party" on July Fourth. The tea-party moniker stuck, but angry taxpayers weren't willing to wait until July. Soon, tea-party protests were appearing in one city after another, drawing at first hundreds, and then thousands, to marches in cities from Orlando to Kansas City to Cincinnati.
As word spread, people got interested in picking a common date for nationwide protests, and decided on today, Tax Day, as the date. As I write this, various Web sites tracking tea parties are predicting anywhere between 300 and 500 protests at cities around the world. A Google Map tracking planned events, maintained at the FreedomWorks.org Web site, shows the United States covered by red circles, with new events being added every day.
The movement grew so fast that some bloggers at the Playboy Web site -- apparently unaware that we've entered the 21st century -- suggested that some secret organization must be behind all of this. But, in fact, today's technology means you don't need an organization, secret or otherwise, to get organized. After considerable ridicule, the claim was withdrawn, but that hasn't stopped other media outlets from echoing it.
There's good news and bad news in this phenomenon for establishment politicians. The good news for Republicans is that, while the Republican Party flounders in its response to the Obama presidency and its programs, millions of Americans are getting organized on their own. The bad news is that those Americans, despite their opposition to President Obama's policies, aren't especially friendly to the GOP. When Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele asked to speak at the Chicago tea party, his request was politely refused by the organizers: "With regards to stage time, we respectfully must inform Chairman Steele that RNC officials are welcome to participate in the rally itself, but we prefer to limit stage time to those who are not elected officials, both in Government as well as political parties. This is an opportunity for Americans to speak, and elected officials to listen, not the other way around."
Likewise, I spoke to an organizer for the Knoxville tea party who said that no "professional politicians" were going to be allowed to speak, and he made a big point of saying that the protest wasn't an anti-Obama protest, it was an anti-establishment protest. I've heard similar things from tea-party organizers in other cities, too. Though critics will probably try to write the tea parties off as partisan publicity stunts, they're really a post-partisan expression of outrage.
Of course, it won't be the same everywhere. There are no national rules, and organizers of each protest are doing things the way they want. And that's the good news and the bad news for Democrats. It's not a big Republican effort. It's a big popular effort. But a mass movement of ordinary people who don't feel that their voices are being heard doesn't bode well for the party that positioned itself as the organ of hope and change.
Will these flash crowds be a flash in the pan? It's possible that people who demonstrate today will find that experience cathartic enough -- or exhausting enough -- that that will be it. But it's more likely that the tea-party movement will have an impact on the 2010 and 2012 elections, and perhaps beyond.
What's most striking about the tea-party movement is that most of the organizers haven't ever organized, or even participated, in a protest rally before. General disgust has drawn a lot of people off the sidelines and into the political arena, and they are already planning for political action after today.
Cincinnati organizer Mike Wilson, a novice organizer who drew 5,000 people to a rally on March 15, is now planning to create a political action committee and a permanent political organization to press for lower taxes and reduced spending. Tucson tea party organizer Robert Mayer told me that his organization will focus on city council elections in the fall as its next priority. And there's lots of Internet chatter about ways of taking things further after today's protests.
This influx of new energy and new talent is likely to inject new life into small-government politics around the nation. The mainstream Republican Party still seems limp and disorganized. This grassroots effort may revitalize it. Or the tea-party movement may lead to a new third party that may replace the GOP, just as the GOP replaced the fractured and hapless Whigs.
Here is headline news link-yahoo-for major media today--not one article about what will prob be largest U.S. wide demonstration.
yahoo news: top stories
http://news.yahoo.com/i/716
Why is that? Do they they citizens of all parties pissed and tax and spend mantra is not important.
--a little on tea party from WSJ
By GLENN HARLAN REYNOLDS
Today American taxpayers in more than 300 locations in all 50 states will hold rallies -- dubbed "tea parties" -- to protest higher taxes and out-of-control government spending. There is no political party behind these rallies, no grand right-wing conspiracy, not even a 501(c) group like MoveOn.org.
So who's behind the Tax Day tea parties? Ordinary folks who are using the power of the Internet to organize. For a number of years, techno-geeks have been organizing "flash crowds" -- groups of people, coordinated by text or cellphone, who converge on a particular location and then do something silly, like the pillow fights that popped up in 50 cities earlier this month. This is part of a general phenomenon dubbed "Smart Mobs" by Howard Rheingold, author of a book by the same title, in which modern communications and social-networking technologies allow quick coordination among large numbers of people who don't know each other.
In the old days, organizing large groups of people required, well, an organization: a political party, a labor union, a church or some other sort of structure. Now people can coordinate themselves.
We saw a bit of this in the 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns, with things like Howard Dean's use of Meetup, and Barack Obama's use of Facebook. But this was still social-networking in support of an existing organization or campaign. The tea-party protest movement is organizing itself, on its own behalf. Some existing organizations, like Newt Gingrich's American Solutions and FreedomWorks, have gotten involved. But they're involved as followers and facilitators, not leaders. The leaders are appearing on their own, and reaching out to others through blogs, Facebook, chat boards and alternative media.
The protests began with bloggers in Seattle, Wash., who organized a demonstration on Feb. 16. As word of this spread, rallies in Denver and Mesa, Ariz., were quickly organized for the next day. Then came CNBC talker Rick Santelli's Feb. 19 "rant heard round the world" in which he called for a "Chicago tea party" on July Fourth. The tea-party moniker stuck, but angry taxpayers weren't willing to wait until July. Soon, tea-party protests were appearing in one city after another, drawing at first hundreds, and then thousands, to marches in cities from Orlando to Kansas City to Cincinnati.
As word spread, people got interested in picking a common date for nationwide protests, and decided on today, Tax Day, as the date. As I write this, various Web sites tracking tea parties are predicting anywhere between 300 and 500 protests at cities around the world. A Google Map tracking planned events, maintained at the FreedomWorks.org Web site, shows the United States covered by red circles, with new events being added every day.
The movement grew so fast that some bloggers at the Playboy Web site -- apparently unaware that we've entered the 21st century -- suggested that some secret organization must be behind all of this. But, in fact, today's technology means you don't need an organization, secret or otherwise, to get organized. After considerable ridicule, the claim was withdrawn, but that hasn't stopped other media outlets from echoing it.
There's good news and bad news in this phenomenon for establishment politicians. The good news for Republicans is that, while the Republican Party flounders in its response to the Obama presidency and its programs, millions of Americans are getting organized on their own. The bad news is that those Americans, despite their opposition to President Obama's policies, aren't especially friendly to the GOP. When Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele asked to speak at the Chicago tea party, his request was politely refused by the organizers: "With regards to stage time, we respectfully must inform Chairman Steele that RNC officials are welcome to participate in the rally itself, but we prefer to limit stage time to those who are not elected officials, both in Government as well as political parties. This is an opportunity for Americans to speak, and elected officials to listen, not the other way around."
Likewise, I spoke to an organizer for the Knoxville tea party who said that no "professional politicians" were going to be allowed to speak, and he made a big point of saying that the protest wasn't an anti-Obama protest, it was an anti-establishment protest. I've heard similar things from tea-party organizers in other cities, too. Though critics will probably try to write the tea parties off as partisan publicity stunts, they're really a post-partisan expression of outrage.
Of course, it won't be the same everywhere. There are no national rules, and organizers of each protest are doing things the way they want. And that's the good news and the bad news for Democrats. It's not a big Republican effort. It's a big popular effort. But a mass movement of ordinary people who don't feel that their voices are being heard doesn't bode well for the party that positioned itself as the organ of hope and change.
Will these flash crowds be a flash in the pan? It's possible that people who demonstrate today will find that experience cathartic enough -- or exhausting enough -- that that will be it. But it's more likely that the tea-party movement will have an impact on the 2010 and 2012 elections, and perhaps beyond.
What's most striking about the tea-party movement is that most of the organizers haven't ever organized, or even participated, in a protest rally before. General disgust has drawn a lot of people off the sidelines and into the political arena, and they are already planning for political action after today.
Cincinnati organizer Mike Wilson, a novice organizer who drew 5,000 people to a rally on March 15, is now planning to create a political action committee and a permanent political organization to press for lower taxes and reduced spending. Tucson tea party organizer Robert Mayer told me that his organization will focus on city council elections in the fall as its next priority. And there's lots of Internet chatter about ways of taking things further after today's protests.
This influx of new energy and new talent is likely to inject new life into small-government politics around the nation. The mainstream Republican Party still seems limp and disorganized. This grassroots effort may revitalize it. Or the tea-party movement may lead to a new third party that may replace the GOP, just as the GOP replaced the fractured and hapless Whigs.
Where they been hideing. THey should have been doing this for last 10 years. THey just wake up. Or do they thing they can BS 82% of Americans that this all started 2 months ago.
True Sons of Liberty
True Sons of Liberty
What about us who are business owners who are giving the employees 4 hours off to attend ? I am not a Republican though, I am and have been a Libertarian, except when I had to register as a Rep to Vote for RP.
True Sons of Liberty Song - Boston Tea Party
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLbmn7Z_h_c
Plant the seed in our homeland, boys.
Let it grow where all can see.
Feed it with our devotion, boys.
Call it the Liberty Tree.
CHORUS: It's a tall old tree and a strong old tree,
And we are the Sons, yes, we are the Sons, the Sons of Liberty.
Save it from the storm, boys.
Water down its roots with tea;
And the sun will always shine
On the old Liberty Tree.
CHORUS: It's a tall old tree and a strong old tree,
And we are the Sons, yes, we are the Sons, the Sons of Liberty.
March along with the fifer, boys.
We were born forever free.
Lets go pay the piper, boys,
Beneath the Liberty Tree.
CHORUS: It's a tall old tree and a strong old tree,
And we are the Sons, yes, we are the Sons, the Sons of Liberty.
Pay the price they're asking, boys,
Always pay the tyrant's fee.
Never give up the struggle, boys,
Fight for the Liberty Tree.
CHORUS: It's a tall old tree and a strong old tree,
And we are the Sons, yes, we are the Sons, the Sons of Liberty.
Stand for the rights of man, boys.
Stand against all tyranny.
Hang the lamp of freedom, boys,
High on the Liberty Tree.
CHORUS: It's a tall old tree and a strong old tree,
And we are the Sons, yes, we are the Sons, the Sons of Liberty.
It will grow as we grow, boys.
It will be as strong as we.
We must cling to our faith, boys,
Faith in the Liberty Tree.
CHORUS: It's a tall old tree and a strong old tree,
And we are the Sons, yes, we are the Sons, the Sons of Liberty.
True Sons of Liberty
What about us who are business owners who are giving the employees 4 hours off to attend ? I am not a Republican though, I am and have been a Libertarian, except when I had to register as a Rep to Vote for RP.
True Sons of Liberty Song - Boston Tea Party
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLbmn7Z_h_c
Plant the seed in our homeland, boys.
Let it grow where all can see.
Feed it with our devotion, boys.
Call it the Liberty Tree.
CHORUS: It's a tall old tree and a strong old tree,
And we are the Sons, yes, we are the Sons, the Sons of Liberty.
Save it from the storm, boys.
Water down its roots with tea;
And the sun will always shine
On the old Liberty Tree.
CHORUS: It's a tall old tree and a strong old tree,
And we are the Sons, yes, we are the Sons, the Sons of Liberty.
March along with the fifer, boys.
We were born forever free.
Lets go pay the piper, boys,
Beneath the Liberty Tree.
CHORUS: It's a tall old tree and a strong old tree,
And we are the Sons, yes, we are the Sons, the Sons of Liberty.
Pay the price they're asking, boys,
Always pay the tyrant's fee.
Never give up the struggle, boys,
Fight for the Liberty Tree.
CHORUS: It's a tall old tree and a strong old tree,
And we are the Sons, yes, we are the Sons, the Sons of Liberty.
Stand for the rights of man, boys.
Stand against all tyranny.
Hang the lamp of freedom, boys,
High on the Liberty Tree.
CHORUS: It's a tall old tree and a strong old tree,
And we are the Sons, yes, we are the Sons, the Sons of Liberty.
It will grow as we grow, boys.
It will be as strong as we.
We must cling to our faith, boys,
Faith in the Liberty Tree.
CHORUS: It's a tall old tree and a strong old tree,
And we are the Sons, yes, we are the Sons, the Sons of Liberty.
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Should be fun to watch a circus of nuts parade around in costume, I wonder what tax or tariffs they will drop due to the demostration. How many of the attendees be smoking cigarrettes I wonder:shrug:
I will be, because I can afford the 5.50 a pack,
costumes?
Not nearly as bad as the shit bricks ACORN paraded around. And does it really matter ? I live in the land of fruits, nuts and flakes ! We have golf cart parades, gay pride parades, veterans day parades, so the retired and disabled troops, they are wearing costumes as well?
Get over it ! Again I ask, if the left assembled it's a rally or a movement, the right, the centrists or libertarians do it, it becomes a joke ?
I don't see Rachel Madcow making jokes about the original Tea Party, what original thought that was, 7+ mins of repeating "Tea Bag" it was like watching Beavis and Butthead sober or playing pull my finger and the results were a wet fart.
Wet farts aren't funny, unless they happen to someone else !
The only thing funny was watching Madcow trying not to laugh at such a childish skit, uhhh news brief. :violin:
costumes?
Not nearly as bad as the shit bricks ACORN paraded around. And does it really matter ? I live in the land of fruits, nuts and flakes ! We have golf cart parades, gay pride parades, veterans day parades, so the retired and disabled troops, they are wearing costumes as well?
Get over it ! Again I ask, if the left assembled it's a rally or a movement, the right, the centrists or libertarians do it, it becomes a joke ?
I don't see Rachel Madcow making jokes about the original Tea Party, what original thought that was, 7+ mins of repeating "Tea Bag" it was like watching Beavis and Butthead sober or playing pull my finger and the results were a wet fart.
Wet farts aren't funny, unless they happen to someone else !
The only thing funny was watching Madcow trying not to laugh at such a childish skit, uhhh news brief. :violin:
Interesting what the main news media is avoiding--been watching thousands in numerous cities on fox--interesting crowds--moreso on who's not present--but then again thats why fox has more viewers than the others combined--
--to each their own--so to speak
AP just finally reporting on it--
FRANKFORT, Ky. ? Thousands of protesters, some dressed like Revolutionary War soldiers and most waving signs with anti-tax slogans, gathered around the nation Wednesday for a series of rallies modeled after the original Boston Tea Party. They chose the income tax filing deadline to express their displeasure with government spending since President Barack Obama took office.
The protests were held everywhere from Kentucky, which just passed tax increases on cigarettes and alcohol, to South Carolina, where the governor has repeatedly criticized the $787 billion economic stimulus package Congress passed earlier this year.
"Frankly, I'm mad as hell," said Des Moines, Iowa, businessman Doug Burnett, one of about 1,000 people, many in red shirts declaring "revolution is brewing," at a rally at the Iowa Capitol. "This country has been on a spending spree for decades, a spending spree we can't afford."
Large rallies were expected later in California and New York.
In Atlanta, thousands of people were to gather on the steps of the Georgia Capitol, where Fox News Channel conservative pundit Sean Hannity was set to broadcast his show Wednesday night.
In Boston, a few hundred protesters gathered on the Boston Common ? a short distance from the original Tea Party ? some dressed in Revolutionary garb and carrying signs that said "Barney Frank, Bernie Madoff: And the Difference Is?" and "D.C.: District of Communism."
The tea parties were promoted by FreedomWorks, a conservative nonprofit advocacy group based in Washington and led by former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas, a lobbyist whose corporate clients including Verizon, Raytheon, liquor maker Diageo, CarMax and drug company Sanofi Pasteur.
The group's federal tax returns show its educational and charitable arms received more than $6 million in donations in 2007, the most recent year for which returns are available.
Organizers said the movement developed organically through online social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter and through exposure on Fox News.
And while they insisted it was a nonpartisan effort, it has been seized on by many prominent Republicans who view it as a promising way for the party to reclaim its momentum.
"It is a nonpartisan mass organizing effort comprised of people unhappy with the size of government. All you have to be is a mildly awake Republican candidate for office to get in front of that parade," said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform.
The movement has also attracted some Republicans considering a 2012 presidential bid.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich planned to address a tea party in a New York City park Wednesday night. His advocacy group, americansolutions.com, has partnered with tea party organizers to get word to the group's members.
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, another likely 2012 GOP presidential hopeful, planned to attend tea parties in Columbia and Charleston. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal sent an e-mail to his supporters, letting them know about tea parties taking place throughout the state.
There were several small counter-protests, including one in at Fountain Square in Cincinnati, where about a dozen people protested the protesters, one carrying a sign that read, "Where were you when Bush was spending billions a month 'liberating' Iraq?" The anti-tax demonstration, meanwhile, drew about 4,000 people.
In Lansing, Mich., outside the state Capitol, another 4,000 people waved signs exclaiming "Stop the Fiscal Madness," "Read My Lipstick! No More Bailouts" and "The Pirates Are in D.C." Children held makeshift signs complaining about the rising debt.
"I'm really opposed to spending the way out of our problem," said Deborah Mourray, 56, a business administrator from the Detroit suburb of Troy. "How I run my home is I don't spend more money so my situation improves. Save and conserve."
In Connecticut, police estimated 3,000 people showed up at the state Capitol in Hartford and another 1,000 at a rally in New Haven. Many carried makeshift pitchforks and signs with messages aimed at the Democrats who control Congress and the White House.
In Montgomery, Ala., Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It" blared from loud speakers as more than 1,000 people gathered at the Alabama Statehouse.
Greg Budell, a radio talk show host, said the tea parties could have the same impact as when Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a Montgomery bus during segregation in 1955.
"If one woman could change the world by refusing to move to the back of the bus, we ought to be able to change it by saying we are not going to let our government throw us under the bus and our children and our grandchildren," he said.
In Frankfort, about 250 people gathered at the Capitol, where just a few months earlier Kentucky bourbon producers emptied whiskey bottles on the steps to protest alcohol taxes.
David Ransdell, a 66-year-old retired Baptist missionary from Lawrenceburg, donned an empty tea box as a hat and dangled tea bags around the sides.
"The future does not look real good for our country," Ransdell said. "People are afraid that they're going to be out on the street."
___ Associated Press Writers Mike Glover in Des Moines, Iowa, Stephanie Reitz in Hartford, Conn., Beth Fouhy in New York, Kelsey Abbruzzese in Boston, Scott Bauer in Madison, Wis., Shannon McCaffrey in Atlanta, Terry Kinney in Cincinatti, David Eggert in Lansing, Mich., and Phillip Rawls in Montgomery, Ala. contributed to this report.
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Interesting how some watch "news" media where this is not news worthy but give them a gay day--or code pink rally and they are johnny on the spot.
--to each their own--so to speak
AP just finally reporting on it--
FRANKFORT, Ky. ? Thousands of protesters, some dressed like Revolutionary War soldiers and most waving signs with anti-tax slogans, gathered around the nation Wednesday for a series of rallies modeled after the original Boston Tea Party. They chose the income tax filing deadline to express their displeasure with government spending since President Barack Obama took office.
The protests were held everywhere from Kentucky, which just passed tax increases on cigarettes and alcohol, to South Carolina, where the governor has repeatedly criticized the $787 billion economic stimulus package Congress passed earlier this year.
"Frankly, I'm mad as hell," said Des Moines, Iowa, businessman Doug Burnett, one of about 1,000 people, many in red shirts declaring "revolution is brewing," at a rally at the Iowa Capitol. "This country has been on a spending spree for decades, a spending spree we can't afford."
Large rallies were expected later in California and New York.
In Atlanta, thousands of people were to gather on the steps of the Georgia Capitol, where Fox News Channel conservative pundit Sean Hannity was set to broadcast his show Wednesday night.
In Boston, a few hundred protesters gathered on the Boston Common ? a short distance from the original Tea Party ? some dressed in Revolutionary garb and carrying signs that said "Barney Frank, Bernie Madoff: And the Difference Is?" and "D.C.: District of Communism."
The tea parties were promoted by FreedomWorks, a conservative nonprofit advocacy group based in Washington and led by former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas, a lobbyist whose corporate clients including Verizon, Raytheon, liquor maker Diageo, CarMax and drug company Sanofi Pasteur.
The group's federal tax returns show its educational and charitable arms received more than $6 million in donations in 2007, the most recent year for which returns are available.
Organizers said the movement developed organically through online social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter and through exposure on Fox News.
And while they insisted it was a nonpartisan effort, it has been seized on by many prominent Republicans who view it as a promising way for the party to reclaim its momentum.
"It is a nonpartisan mass organizing effort comprised of people unhappy with the size of government. All you have to be is a mildly awake Republican candidate for office to get in front of that parade," said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform.
The movement has also attracted some Republicans considering a 2012 presidential bid.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich planned to address a tea party in a New York City park Wednesday night. His advocacy group, americansolutions.com, has partnered with tea party organizers to get word to the group's members.
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, another likely 2012 GOP presidential hopeful, planned to attend tea parties in Columbia and Charleston. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal sent an e-mail to his supporters, letting them know about tea parties taking place throughout the state.
There were several small counter-protests, including one in at Fountain Square in Cincinnati, where about a dozen people protested the protesters, one carrying a sign that read, "Where were you when Bush was spending billions a month 'liberating' Iraq?" The anti-tax demonstration, meanwhile, drew about 4,000 people.
In Lansing, Mich., outside the state Capitol, another 4,000 people waved signs exclaiming "Stop the Fiscal Madness," "Read My Lipstick! No More Bailouts" and "The Pirates Are in D.C." Children held makeshift signs complaining about the rising debt.
"I'm really opposed to spending the way out of our problem," said Deborah Mourray, 56, a business administrator from the Detroit suburb of Troy. "How I run my home is I don't spend more money so my situation improves. Save and conserve."
In Connecticut, police estimated 3,000 people showed up at the state Capitol in Hartford and another 1,000 at a rally in New Haven. Many carried makeshift pitchforks and signs with messages aimed at the Democrats who control Congress and the White House.
In Montgomery, Ala., Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It" blared from loud speakers as more than 1,000 people gathered at the Alabama Statehouse.
Greg Budell, a radio talk show host, said the tea parties could have the same impact as when Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a Montgomery bus during segregation in 1955.
"If one woman could change the world by refusing to move to the back of the bus, we ought to be able to change it by saying we are not going to let our government throw us under the bus and our children and our grandchildren," he said.
In Frankfort, about 250 people gathered at the Capitol, where just a few months earlier Kentucky bourbon producers emptied whiskey bottles on the steps to protest alcohol taxes.
David Ransdell, a 66-year-old retired Baptist missionary from Lawrenceburg, donned an empty tea box as a hat and dangled tea bags around the sides.
"The future does not look real good for our country," Ransdell said. "People are afraid that they're going to be out on the street."
___ Associated Press Writers Mike Glover in Des Moines, Iowa, Stephanie Reitz in Hartford, Conn., Beth Fouhy in New York, Kelsey Abbruzzese in Boston, Scott Bauer in Madison, Wis., Shannon McCaffrey in Atlanta, Terry Kinney in Cincinatti, David Eggert in Lansing, Mich., and Phillip Rawls in Montgomery, Ala. contributed to this report.
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Interesting how some watch "news" media where this is not news worthy but give them a gay day--or code pink rally and they are johnny on the spot.
check the hosile manner in which this cnn reporter conducts this "interview"....
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/15/unreal-cnn-reporter-openly-contemptuous-of-tea-parties/
cnn reporter harrassed?...she hardly let him speak...
what has always bothered me, with regard to taxes, is the presumption that it wasn't my money to begin with....the reporter asked the guy if he realized that he was going to get a $400 tax credit... as if that makes taking every other cent o.k....
wonder if that obama sychophant realizes that many states have increased their own taxes by far greater than $400?...
my property taxes have gone up by enough to eat up the entire $400...some parts of n.j. have seen their property taxes go up 47%(in this bare market)...states are busy hiking taxes and fees left and right....and this clown thinks that $400 for the year (broken out to $13 a week) is tax relief?...
never mind that obama and his fellow democrats were pushing for a repeal of the bush tax cuts, but allowing them to sunset will be a massive tax increase.....
where do they find these reporters?...wish this moron had asked me...
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/15/unreal-cnn-reporter-openly-contemptuous-of-tea-parties/
cnn reporter harrassed?...she hardly let him speak...
what has always bothered me, with regard to taxes, is the presumption that it wasn't my money to begin with....the reporter asked the guy if he realized that he was going to get a $400 tax credit... as if that makes taking every other cent o.k....
wonder if that obama sychophant realizes that many states have increased their own taxes by far greater than $400?...
my property taxes have gone up by enough to eat up the entire $400...some parts of n.j. have seen their property taxes go up 47%(in this bare market)...states are busy hiking taxes and fees left and right....and this clown thinks that $400 for the year (broken out to $13 a week) is tax relief?...
never mind that obama and his fellow democrats were pushing for a repeal of the bush tax cuts, but allowing them to sunset will be a massive tax increase.....
where do they find these reporters?...wish this moron had asked me...
The guys that did this stuff in 70,s I don,t remember getting it right. I don,t think the 500000 today at 700 sites got it either. THey complain but have no answer or solution to many of our problems. JUst shows they had to have there eyes shut for last 9 years. Trickel down did not work. Tax cuts for the rich did not work. And if you want to believe Fox news. Well You better check a few other outlets to get a feal for whats true. Anyone who takes Fox as being honest is getting BS,d
it was very strange seeing normal, average americans at a rally...not the usual kooks wearing puppet heads,spitting at cops,going nude and generally wreaking havoc......
you know the type at the leftwing rallies...where the protesters look like they take a shower once a month(whether they need it or not)....
no cloying patchouli haze enveloping the event...
/:lol:
you know the type at the leftwing rallies...where the protesters look like they take a shower once a month(whether they need it or not)....
no cloying patchouli haze enveloping the event...
/:lol:
That had to be staged to make CNN look nuts. There is no way that was a real reporter, right?
Some photo's of the
" few scattered events of right wing extremists"
as reported by liberal media.
What you won't see is the "benign" everyday american demostrators they cover--no burning cars/neighborhoods-no hooded pinkies burning troops in effigy--no illegals--no semi nude bodies with whips-- ETC
--in fact out of thousands of people I saw yesterday accross the country-couldn't find one person representing-- "Da Base"
--Would expect these demonstrations to be modest compared to what you'll see independence day
Cincinnati via Alex Jamieson h/t Justin Binik-Thomas:
Dallas:
Young Citadel Cadets spoke at the Charleston SC tea party - via Cadet Steven Munoz:
Grand Rapids MI via L.D. at RightMichigan:
Eau Claire WI via reader Dan:
Snowy in Bozeman MT from reader Cara V.:
Vid from Phoenix:
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More from Phoenix from KFYI.
Vid from Carson City NV:
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Kansas City MO at the WWI memorial:
Pleasanton CA from reader Kell:
White Plains NY via Tom Faranda:
Lafayette IN near Purdue University via CCAV:
Bend OR via Jim F.
NYC via Urban Infidel:
Sacramento via Vern:
Sioux Falls SD tea dumping reenactment:
Kentucky:
Greensburg PA:
Lansing MI via Doug Powers:
" few scattered events of right wing extremists"
as reported by liberal media.
What you won't see is the "benign" everyday american demostrators they cover--no burning cars/neighborhoods-no hooded pinkies burning troops in effigy--no illegals--no semi nude bodies with whips-- ETC
--in fact out of thousands of people I saw yesterday accross the country-couldn't find one person representing-- "Da Base"
--Would expect these demonstrations to be modest compared to what you'll see independence day
Cincinnati via Alex Jamieson h/t Justin Binik-Thomas:
Dallas:
Young Citadel Cadets spoke at the Charleston SC tea party - via Cadet Steven Munoz:
Grand Rapids MI via L.D. at RightMichigan:
Eau Claire WI via reader Dan:
Snowy in Bozeman MT from reader Cara V.:
Vid from Phoenix:
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More from Phoenix from KFYI.
Vid from Carson City NV:
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Kansas City MO at the WWI memorial:
Pleasanton CA from reader Kell:
White Plains NY via Tom Faranda:
Lafayette IN near Purdue University via CCAV:
Bend OR via Jim F.
NYC via Urban Infidel:
Sacramento via Vern:
Sioux Falls SD tea dumping reenactment:
Kentucky:
Greensburg PA:
Lansing MI via Doug Powers:
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Toledo:
Denver:
Washington DC via Ed Frank?
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Chicago via Founding Bloggers:
Nashville:
Oklahoma City:
Toledo:
Denver:
Washington DC via Ed Frank?
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Chicago via Founding Bloggers:
Nashville:
Oklahoma City:
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Toledo:
Denver:
Washington DC via Ed Frank?
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Chicago via Founding Bloggers:
Nashville:
Oklahoma City:
Obama & Reagan http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_03/017201.php WHERE WERE ALL THESE PEOPLE THE LAST 8 YRS ???? http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB121867201724238901.html .... WHAT SAY YOU KOOKS ABOUT THESE TO ARTICLES ? MORE FAKE PARTSAN OUTRAGE IS ALL THIS IS...DON'T THESE PEOPLE HAVE JOBS TO GO TO ????? O; YEA ..... bush/cheney PUT A HUGE DENT IN THE # OF WORKING AMERICANS... THESE PEOPLE ARE RIGHT ABOUT GOV SPENDING, WASTE & CRIMINALITY BUT THEY HAVE 0 CREDIBILITY BECAUSE OF WHO THEY SUPPORTED THE LAST 8 YRS & WHO THEY SUPPORTED IN THE LAST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. I find it hard not to laugh @ some people that talk about the constitution but scoffed at protesters ..... The base pictured here has a problem with protest that are not theirs.. They have a sense of the entitlement they think they and no one else is due in "THEIR AMERICA "........ The TRUE SPIRIT of AMERICA EXIST FOR EVERYONE & NOT JUST IN HARD TIMES !
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CLASS CLOWNS : good stuff ! ~`~ROLLNG STONE
CLASS CLOWNS : good stuff ! ~`~ROLLNG STONE
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/27596371/the_class_clowns/2 MATT TAIBBI
CLASS CLOWNS : good stuff ! ~`~ROLLNG STONE
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/27596371/the_class_clowns/2 MATT TAIBBI
just a thought
Do you think there would have been tea parties if McCain would have won? HELL NO, he actually loves his country unlike Maobama
This radical left President has to be stopped.
I applaud Sean Hannity and all the grass roots Republican NORMAL Americans for organizing the tea parties, hopefully we sent a message to him...
Do you think there would have been tea parties if McCain would have won? HELL NO, he actually loves his country unlike Maobama
This radical left President has to be stopped.
I applaud Sean Hannity and all the grass roots Republican NORMAL Americans for organizing the tea parties, hopefully we sent a message to him...
Come on guys, give it up for the conservatives.
The tea parties may have been as flacid as a McCain campaign rally but at least they tried.
Where were the protest rallies by the left against the war in Iraq and Bush's trampling of the Constitution for the past 8 years?
The tea parties may have been as flacid as a McCain campaign rally but at least they tried.
Where were the protest rallies by the left against the war in Iraq and Bush's trampling of the Constitution for the past 8 years?
