Michele Bachmann & Tea Party Protesters Invade Washington DC

From Politico:

Thousands of Tea Party activists descended on Washington Thursday to protest the trillion dollar health care bill and government spending, holding signs protesting Barack Obama’s agenda while aiming chants of “you work for us” at the Capitol building. .

The gathering was organized by local Tea Party groups around the country, who are arriving in Washington this morning by the busload. Conservative leaders in Congress, led by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), have taken to the airwaves to encourage the activists to show up on the Capitol steps and demand meetings with members of Congress. The crowd is expected to grow into the thousands by noon, when Bachmann has promised to lead some protesters to a press conference inside the Capitol to express their opposition to the health care bill in person to members of Congress. 

Read it all here.

You can also watch the protest live from Fox streaming at this link.  Look for the correct channel (channel 3) at the top of the screen.

Screen Capture:  Mark Levin rallies the crowd in Washington today

Michele Bachmann Calls for DC Rally Against Health Care Bill

This week the House is expected to debate Nancy Pelosi's 1,900 page health care bill.  Michele Bachmann, Republican Senator from Minnesota, has called for a rally on the steps of the Capitol Building this Thursday, where she will hold a press conference.  After that, the protesters who show up will enter the Capitol Building to confront politicians over the bill.  This rally appears to be an impromptu Tea Party at the Capitol.

Read more about it here.

Washington DC Tea-Bagged Big Time

The news reports say that around a million and a half to two million citizens showed up in D.C. today to protest the socialist, wild spending, big government schemes of our perennial college sophomore, Barack Obama.  I was going to go but somehow never received my advance check from the Big Insurance Company Consortium.  So I just watched it on Fox.

Alan Colmes continues to embarrass himself as an inept public commentator.  He claims the huge D.C. Tea Party was somehow a manifestation of "Corporate interests."  A capitalist conspiracy, no less.  Then he published an alleged poster ostensibly handed out to attendees at the Tea Party.  It reads "Bury Obamacare With Kennedy."  Outrageous, to be sure; however, I seriously doubt that this was an actual poster used at the Tea Party.  Note that it appears to be a photograph of a computer screen.  You can't see anything around, above, below or behind the image; it has no context, probably by design.  I suspect it is another Democrat dirty trick, a fraud, at which they are so practiced.  Don't believe it.

Holmes claims that the Tea Party movement is a corporate conspiracy, whereas MoveOn.org is a true "grass roots" organization.  He has a point.  Technically, George Soros is not a corporation.  However, neither are the two million anti-Obama demonstrators who showed up in D.C. today.

Update:  Later I did see the above poster used by a couple of people in attendance, so apparently the poster was printed and disseminated.   However, it may still very well have been a liberal dirty trick; handing out the posters to gullible attendees in order to create a false controversy, or used by libtards posing as conservatives for the same purpose.  Liberals have been so mendacious in these instances that it pays to be skeptical.

Via:  Liberaland
Via:  Memeorandum

9/12 Tea Party March on Washington Said to Be Enormous

Michelle Malkin has the story here.  She has a link to a live cam feed.

Dan Riehl weighs in here.  He has some of the pictures that "are pouring in."

I am going to turn on Fox and see if I can watch the Tea Party live.

The Tea Party Aftermath: Vigorous Debate

I am very satisfied with the Tea Party movement. They wanted to send a message to Obama and the left, and they did so with resounding success.

Some of the effects of the Tea Parties:
1. The leftwing, Democrat supporting mainstream media has lost all pretense of objectivity and impartiality, further eroding their credibility with the public. CNN and MSNBC were sarcastic and insulting to the Tea Parties and the people who attended them. Attendees were browbeaten by a CNN reporter who tried to engage them in debate over the Obama administration's bail-outs. Snickering MSNBC "reporters" covering the events called them "tea bagging," referring to an oral sex practice. Fault Line USA has many of the details at this link.

2. Fox News has resumed an editorial conservative stance, openly refuting leftist comments by Janeane Garafalo and Keith Olbermann on MSNBC. Garafalo was particularly egregious, calling the Tea Party attendees "teabagging rednecks" who were racists, "hating a black man in the White House." No Sheeples Here has the video.

3. The conservative movement has been energized by the groundswell of American opposition to Obama's policies.

4. The leftist blogosphere has gone ape in their frenzy to disparage the Tea Parties, recalling the old adage that "if you are picking up flak, it means you are over the target." See Scott's take on it at Powerline.

5. Obama's Department of Homeland Security further emphasizes the flak analogy, as it released a highly politicized and false report of "right wing extremism" posing an immediate threat to the peace and security of the United States (read "Obama's agenda").

6. Texas Governor Rick Perry has raised the option of secession in the event Obama radically transforms the United States into something it was never meant to be, i.e. a socialist tyranny. Walter Williams pointed out on KSFO radio yesterday that the secession option is necessary to dissuade would-be tyrants from their goals, in the same way that divorce is an option women can use against an abusive husband. He also pointed out that the American Civil War did not settle the secession question because it was decided by brute force and not the rule of law.

It's a beautiful day here in Hollister, California. I have to do some work for my company today, but I will do it out here in the backyard via my wireless connection, with my pooch by my side, listening to birdies tweeting in the trees.

What I feel today is satisfaction. The battle is enjoined.

The Tea Parties: Steeped in Hate?

From Diversity Lane.

We conservatives just don't know how to do demonstrations right. Or should I say "left"?

Patriots Come From Lots of Different Walks of Life

I found this picture at GayPatriot. This fellow patriot attended a Tea Party in Van Nuys, California.

A lot of people are on our side, folks of different colors, genders and other persuasions. Patriots all!

To all of my brothers and sisters in the patriot movement, I say, "well done!"

I'm glad you're out there.

Revolt and Reaction: the Tax Day Tea Parties

Tea parties were held all over the country today. These "parties" are actually taxpayer demonstrations against the excesses of the Obama administration, namely his new trillions of dollars in debt, his higher taxes and his plans to substantially increase the size of government.

Reports coming in on the radio and internet indicate the tea parties were a raging success, with thousands of people attending.

Some observations:

1. The mainstream (Democrat) media has studiously ignored the tea parties, even though many have already been held throughout the nation. It is media bias in action, again. They can influence opinion not only by the spin on what they choose to report, but on what they refuse to report.

2. The now politicized Homeland Security Department announced a widespread, rightwing terrorist threat to the nation. They released the following information:

Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those
groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on
hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are
mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local
authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and
individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion
or immigration.

Many rightwing extremists are antagonistic toward the new presidential administration and its perceived stance on a range of issues, including immigration and citizenship, the expansion of social programs to minorities, and restrictions on firearms ownership and use. Rightwing extremists are increasingly galvanized by these concerns and leverage them as drivers for recruitment.

Oh God, they're on to us!

This B.S. from Homeland Security is nothing but Democrat talking points; now they are coming from the federal government itself rather than from James Carville. Many conservatives believe this "terrorist alert" was issued the day before the tea parties in order to provide a false context to the tea party movement. John at Power Line stated: "It's hard to avoid the conclusion that this Homeland Security report is politically motivated, and reflects the authors' political prejudices more than an objective evaluation of a significant terrorist threat."

3. Texas Governor Rick Perry spoke at a tea party in Austin and supported Texan state sovereignty, stating (correctly) that Texas has a right to secede from the Union in the event the United States abandons its founding principles of limited government. Various states are now proposing or passing resolutions emphasizing their sovereign status and support of the 10th Amendment.

The spirit of REBELLION is alive and well and lives in the hearts of many Americans. We will not sit still for Obama's planned transformation of our country into a bankrupt, socialist tyranny.

Pittsburgh Tea Party Draws Large Crowd of Anti-Obama Protestors

Instapundit has a great photo of the Pittsburgh Tea Party that shows a large and enthusiastic crowd in attendance. See it here.

Instapundit also posts a great video, copied below, of the liberal/left's answer to the Tea Parties: a "New Way Forward" protest against the banks in Washington D.C. Jane Hamsher, a liberal blogger, informs the huge crowd of 25 protestors that "Fox News is financing the Tea Party protests." When confronted by a conservative and asked to elaborate and describe her proof, she makes an excuse and runs away.

Freedom Ain't Free: American Tea Party Anthem

This was passed on to me by Infidel Bloggers Alliance. It's a swinging song with a gospel beat and all the energy and joy thereof. It was written by a black patriot, Lloyd Marcus. IBA is hoping it will go viral so do feel free to repost it on your own site.