Suburban Warriors Rally at Orange County Tea Party
Orange County’s anti-tax “suburban warriors” turned out Wednesday afternoon for the local April 15 tea party, held at the Plaza of the Flags in the Santa Ana Civic Center. The event was well-attended, although there are conflicting reports on crowd size from the local media. The Orange County Register suggests that “hundreds” of “frustrated taxpayers” turned out for the day’s event, while the Los Angeles Times puts the number at “more than 1,000.”
I’d put the peak crowd at closer to 3,500, and pictures from the event provide some sense of packed excitement at the rally. Of course, supporters of the tea party rallies can’t rely on the mainstream media to pump up the movement. Indeed, as keynote speaker Andrew Breitbart noted — citing this week’s DHS report on the threat of single-issue voting extremists — the “Democratic Media Industrial Complex” will likely portray the day’s protests as “a waiting list for far right-wing domestic terrorism.”
The secular collectivists on the left are attacking the tea parties as “astroturfing” by conservative elites from Freedom Works, Fox News, and elsewhere. While there’s no doubt that top-level sponsorship helped build the buzz, the fabulous attendance and enthusiasm on the ground tells another story. Wednesday’s rally boasted people from all walks of life, and not a trivial number of senior Americans. Moreover, my networking with the organizers for the Orange County event showed this to be a premier example of a nascent online pro-American, good government movement strutting its stuff in the age of Internet communications and social networking. My local group boasts a “meet up” site, and a Facebook page complements the standard e-mail operations of online citizen activists.
And all this talk on the left that the protests are “meaningless” is pure baloney. The Obama administration’s “economic stimulus” was tantamount to slap in the face to the American people. And while the administration has pledged to “lower taxes on the middle class” (just a charade), we’ve already seen the class warfare on the “evil” five percent of income earners. The voters know how the Democrats treat other people’s money, and in time tax hikes will hit middle-class families at incomes well below the “filthy rich.”
What happened to the counter-protests from the so-called grassroots, government subsidized, corrupt & racist, ACORN?
Were they, Code Pink, Huffington Post & Daily Kos successful in their attempted subversion?
From what I could tell on Fox, they were either ignored or overwhelmed. CNN looked like it was in mourning covering the protests…
I attended the Asheville, NC Tea Party. The protest was awesome, powerful. Great, funny signs, American Flags and Spirit (Chanting: ‘We The People!’ and ‘USA!’) and a lot more people than I expected. Inspiring speakers. A very patriotic, determined event. I estimated about 2,000 citizens, the man next to me thought 3,000. At one point I had a realization and shouted “Hey! None of the speakers has a teleprompter!!” People laughed and it spread through the crowd followed by lots of comments like “We can’t trust the speakers! They don’t have a teleprompter! Bring us President Teleprompter!” etc….
I saw all ages, Long hippy hair, short hair, country people, retirees, working people. I won’t sit by and let my country be destroyed. We Americans don’t tolerate tyranny.
Donald Kent Douglas wrote:
The event was well-attended, although there are conflicting reports on crowd size from the local media. The Orange County Register suggests that “hundreds” of “frustrated taxpayers” turned out for the day’s event, while the Los Angeles Times puts the number at “more than 1,000.”
Peter writes: That seems to be a common occurence. I attended the Boston Tea Party yesterday, and by my own estimate, the estimate of some people I was talking to, and the local news radio station, there were well over 1000+ in attendence at the noon rally on Boston Common.
The local so-called MSM reported “…a couple of hundred people gathered on the Boston Common…”
The reporter for the Dinosaur media must have been there around 10AM, when people were just starting to gather, because even 2 hours before the scheduled event time, we had a couple of hundred people already there!
1. Sebastian Shaw asked:
What happened to the counter-protests from the so-called grassroots, government subsidized, corrupt & racist, ACORN?
Peter writes: I don’t know about what heppened in other cities, but in Boston the word was going around that there were several ACORN operatives going around with TV cameras, telling people they were the local media and trying to collect names and images of people. Many who were interviewed, even by those with CNN and FOX News on their equipement, were only giving first names and real general personal details.
THE LEFT IS LYING ABOUT THE ECONOMY
Tea Parties are a pushback against manipulation
http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2009/04/economic-reality-minus-manipulation.html
What a treat! Meeting strangers, and talking about the future. You can’t beat that.
One guy told me: “Mind if I look at you for a while? I have never seen a right-wing nutjob before”. I had never impersonated one before either!
The Orlando Tea Party I attended was a calm and humorous affair. Lots of kids with signs, the best one being held by a six-year-old that said “What can I pay? I only have $10.00!” One older gent worked his way through the crowd with a sign that said “Back Off! I may be a right-wing radical!” Participants were encouraged to come up to the stage and shred a page of the the Stimulus Bill, prompting the response “We’ll be here all night.” The roster of speakers presented well-reasoned solutions.
Overall, a good time was had by all of us radicals.
4. Peter the Bubblehead: . . . “I don’t know about what heppened in other cities, but in Boston the word was going around that there were several ACORN operatives going around with TV cameras . . . ‘
Word going around? What word? What source? Sebastian Shaw? That’s like Fox News and their ubiquitous “Some people say . . . ”
Your paranoid ramblings about infiltrators proved to be completely without merit, just like all your arguments and predictions. Next time, surface more slowly. It’ll keep that gas out of your blood.
My favorite signs at Charlotte’s tea party yesterday were on three small boys; each wore “I didn’t read the bill”. LOL. And this: “Reduce spending, elect drunken sailors”.
The left should be worried. Public support for Obama’s policies had eroded considerably since his election before the protests. Now any media generated myth about his popularity sounds like Baghdad Bob, and Congress members will be glancing over their shoulders when they vote.
The protests on July 4th will be larger.
SENATOR Al Franken
I had a great time at my local Tea Party! A great turnout.
A co-worker said the tea parties were stupid and were only being held because of the color of the presidents skin…I told him I was against Bush’s free spending and our stupid Representatives and Senators and the stimulus bill. And I take great offense of him hiding behind the president’s skin color as a defense for anything negative said about his policies. I wonder if I have an EEO complaint!!! I’m pissed!
If you guys like protests, you should have come out for the anti-Iraq War protests we’ve been having for years now. They were a whole lot bigger and whole lot better organized than yours. And they managed to come together without the sponsoring and promotion of Fox News.
Ours was the Sacramento Tea Party. It was crowded. Everywhere we went was crowded with people. Everyone was in a good mood whether they be senior citizens, families with teens, or young concerned college students.
Our speeches were great! Their message also hit the California legislators and Arnie about Prop 1A. Frankly, they were very anti-Republican.
Our chants were fun also, “USA”, “No more taxes.”, and my favorite, “Vote them out.”.
The signs were delightful and funny. My favorite was a home made T-shirt on an absolutely beautiful young teen-age girl. It’s message,
“Vote Green
Save Trees
Stop Printing Money.”
It is fun being a right-wing, radical extremist. The Government should remember the old saying,”I’ve got the name, might as well have the game.”
We do live in ineresting times.
Laughter.
Good humor.
Clean clothes.
Patriotic slogans.
American flags.
Singing about America.
Happy children.
How very democratic.
How very unleft.
It feels so Right!
God bless every one for their creativity, their presence and their voices! Millions of us who could not go were watching you, listening to you and rejoicing.
This is not Republican or Democrat. This is America. America fighting back.
I live in a close-in suburb of Seattle, and our own city had two tea parties – one at noon (1000+ people), and a 2nd after working hours. two more suburbs had their own tea parties, as well as a number of other cities in the PS region.
I attended the noon rally. ONE local station crew showed up – and I saw them driving away at 12:10. (which means their camera’s were put away before it even started) I later looked for their report – they didn’t talk about numbers, and they got their footage early enough, not many people were there so they could be misleading in the numbers.
Another local station did send a prop plane for a flyover to take an aireal photo. But it was of low quality in this day of high zoom telephoto’s and high pixal digital.
One favorite – we had a man with a happy 90th birthday balloon and a “Obama scares me more than FDR” sign. One woman had a sign on her pregnanat stomach “How much do I owe in taxes?” people had signs on their dogs. There was a BRIT in tricorn hat and revolutionary war brown uniform coat, by the street waving a US flag. The horns were almost constant in their honking. As I returned to my car, construction workers saw my signs and expressed their support.
What the left can’t stand is it is regular working people attending this. not society flunkies.
#8 so sorry you feel” left” out.
12: No, your anti-war protests weren’t sponsored by Fox; they were bought and paid for by the Stalinist group Answer.
One of the main points brought up at the Boston tea Party, and this shoud be passed on to ALL your friends and family, it means little if all we do is gather and yell.
Find out who your elected officials are!
Look up their voting record!
If they have voted to raise taxes, vote against them in the next election!
If they voted for the Porkulus Bill, which they obviously did not even READ, VOTE against them!
If they REFUSE to release their full and complete voting record, VOTE AGAINST THEM!
This goes for elections from small towns all the way up to the Federal level. This is (supposed to be) a government OF the People, BY the People, and FOR the People. Take back your Government!
I attended a tea party in Des Moines where the Register reported three thousand well organized people.
12 MUPPET PASTOR:About the only people you could “pastor” are libtard muppets.Crawl back to your marxoid dunghill,and watch conservatives change the nation.
How could a movement possibly be categorized s “grass roots” when it is being co-opted by Fox News? When Fox News started calling them “FNC Tax Day Tea Parties”, it became obvious to anyone with half a brain that the idea that these were “grass roots” was totally bogus. When Neil Cavuto began outright lying about how many people were showing up, it became clear what a fabricated farce the whole thing was.
It is obvious to anyone who took part in a large protest movement, such as the civil rights protests in the 1960s, that there’s really nothing substantial about the Tea Parties. There’s no real leadership and no real central issue other than hatred of Democrats and hatred of President Obama. It’s basically a hodgepodge of middle-age and senior citizen right-wingers with various reactionary grievences who either took the day off or are retired. These are not the people who will drive a movement forward. The only youth that seemed to be present were young kids who were dragged along as props to hold signs that they didn’t write such as “Please don’t tax my future”.
Compare that to the hundreds of thousands of young, energetic, motivated activists who showed up day after day to protest the Iraq War, and get arrested in the process, and you’ll begin to understand how marginal and ineffectual the Tea Party movement really is.
Re #21 Pastor of Muppets – Thanks for admitting you have half a brain. Why do you denigrate the efforts of your fellow citizens in their attempts to protest what they feel is an out of control government. No one of any substance from the conservative side had any issues at all with the protests against the war in Iraq, even if they didn’t agree with your position. All conservatives support your right to free speech, regardless of the content. Why can’t you be as gracious?
If you really want to understand the anger that is rising among conservatives, it is this type of treatment of them by those on the left, be it from the media, their elected officials, or those like you. We’re getting very tired of the snide little comments from angry hypocrites such as yourself.
I attended the Cincinnati Tea Party, my first ever protest march! Crowd estimates ranged from 4,000 to 6,000 in various media. What struck me was the amazing mix of “every day” people — VFW members, families with kids, men in business suits, construction workers, etc.
During the march from Fountain Square to City Hall, there was a small group of Obama supporters at one street corner shouting “O-Ba-Ma, O-Ba-Ma.” I just stopped near them and watched their interaction with the marchers. The march consisted of a sea of people stretching more than 10 blocks and as they passed the Obama folks, they simpled drowned out the “O-Ba-Ma” chants with “U-S-A.”
A couple of things struck me as I watched. First, one group was focused on a man…the other was focused on our country. Second, the marchers showed absolutely no animosity toward the Obama folks — many of them gestured to come join the march to save our country
And the MSM paints the attendees at these tea parties as right wing extremists or Republican patsies? Too bad they didn’t bother to talk to the people in the crowd…
rocketeer writes: “No one of any substance from the conservative side had any issues at all with the protests against the war in Iraq, even if they didn’t agree with your position. All conservatives support your right to free speech, regardless of the content. Why can’t you be as gracious?
That’s a lie. Anyone who protested the war was immediately branded as unpatriotic and “against our troops”, when we just wanted them brought home because we felt that the war was unnecessary. Now we know that it was. So don’t give me that bullcrap line that you wingnuts didn’t have any issues with us protesting the war.
“If you really want to understand the anger that is rising among conservatives, it is this type of treatment of them by those on the left, be it from the media, their elected officials, or those like you. We’re getting very tired of the snide little comments from angry hypocrites such as yourself.”
I do understand the anger. It’s racist anger. It’s hatred for minorities. It’s hatred for the President. It’s hatred for anything perceived as liberal. It’s hatred for anyone who wants to have a serious discussion about gun violence in this country. It’s irrational and ignorant, and that’s why the rest of America, i.e., the majority, it subjecting you to this treatment. Welcome to the embittered minority. Get used to it.
I attended the Columbus Ohio party. Great time, but since others in this thread have shared favorite signs that they saw, I’ll share mine – “No Taxation Without Lubrication”.
Oh, and Pastor of Muppets, ask yourself this question; “Why is it important to me to convince these people that the Tea Parties suck”? I suspect that the answer isn’t pretty.
Pastor of Muppets – “That’s a lie. Anyone who protested the war was immediately branded as unpatriotic and “against our troops”, when we just wanted them brought home because we felt that the war was unnecessary. Now we know that it was. So don’t give me that bullcrap line that you wingnuts didn’t have any issues with us protesting the war.”
Really? Who said that? When? Can you document that assertion or are you just repeating the Democrat lie that they were called this?
“It’s racist anger. It’s hatred for minorities.”
Really? Is that the best you can do? It’s always the same with you guys. Call us racist, homophobic, blah, blah, rather then respond the the argument. The politics of personal attack is getting old and frankly boring. It shows a limited intellect and we are hoping for better from you.
Why do you keep speaking about hatred and violence? Conservatives don’t and I don’t believe I did either. I spoke about anger. Please don’t confuse anger and hatred. We don’t hate those on the left. We disagree with them and are getting angry at the treatment we are receiving from them. It is the left that hates, and your vitriolic comments demonstrate this.
I was at the tea party above and the crowd was definitely over 1,000 and closer to 2,000.
As a matter of factual reportage, I noticed no Acorn infiltrators nor anyone attempting to disrupt the proceedings. There were two or three people grouped around a couple of signs equating Obama to Hitler but — genuine or agent provocateur — they remained subdued and were largely ignored.
Also, I had not heard Andrew Breitbart speak before (although I had read pieces by him). He is a very passionate and inspiring man and it is good to know there are those types in the People’s Republik of Hollywood. Maybe there’s hope for them yet. I mean, after all, creative people who chafe at marching in lock step with one of their own might just consider conservatism the “new wave” and liberalism “so fifteen minutes ago”.
Be advised that Santa Ana, California on a week day getting 2,000 working people with their school children to attend was some feat. One must wonder what the 4 July get-togethers will be like. I know a lot of us signed up to volunteer and — “one of [his] own” and other trolls notwithstanding, I gotta figure that this bodes well for a grass roots campaign and ill for you guys unless you strap the armor on and prepare to do battle instead of just sitting there belching out your rumors along with Coca Cola gas. And, no, this is not being co-opted or sponsored or fueled by right-wing reactionary groups, but, trolls and menopausal, shrieking psycho-bitch [P]MS-NBC commentators, if it makes you feel good to think that, then knowck yourself out.
In point of fact, my brothers and sisters, I am struck at how the left — or those charged with letting the air out of our tea parties — are working really hard to do so. I mean the poor souls on CNN and [P]MS-NBC were busting a gut to downplay the attendance figures in places like Atlanta, Sacramento, Houston, and San Antonia. Also, Fox ran a graphic last night that was a shocking as the old Red State/Blue State map post-election 2000. The country was littered with little balloons indicating where these assemblages were being held. Also, it is refreshing to see the anti-tea party commentary just doesn’t get it either. And I say let them dodder along in their dismissive ignorance. They keep downplaying this and they will be in for a surprise probably as big as Jimmy Carter was in for in November 1980..
..or like the British on 19 April 1775.
Pastor of Muppets, Keep drinking the Answer kool-aid. You truely are a Useful idiot comrade. Keep preaching the matra, conservatives are all gun toting racists. Your ignorance is paramount.
The most startling fact about the Tea Parties are, that there has never been a protest with this spontaneous energy, or geographical breadth. These Tea Parties are going to begin a monumental change in our Republic.
I was a featured speaker at the Santa Ana rally and read the following poem.
The crowd was upbeat and as diverse as possible, with folks of all ages and stripes were there. It was almost like an old fashioned 4th of July picnic (with signs). The really inspiringthing was the mood of the everyday American people who are beginning to wake up and see what is happening to our country.
The theme of the day was to revert back to constitutional principles and only supporting candidates who do as well.
BTW, I worked behind the scenes with the crew who organized this, there were no big money, national sponsors, this was a few concerned citizens who picked up the phone and started making things happen.
I am convinced the other tea parties around the country came about the same way.
Frankly, I am glad Obama was elected and helped uncover a hidden agenda that has been foisted on the good nature of the American Working (wo)/man. If McCain had been elected, we would sim0ly have small doses of more of the same. The excess and blatant power grab has awaked the sleeping giant. It was beautiful to behold. This is just the beginning.
Tax Day Tea Party Anthem
In the home of the brave and the land of the free
Across our great nation from sea to shining sea
There’s something that’ stirring, a movement’s at hand
As the rustling of tea bag’s are heard ‘cross the land
The people are talking of hope and of change
And all that we have to give up in exchange
Are all of the things to which we hold dear
So these teabags are symbols for what must be made clear
“The Great Experiment” that’s America is not failing or wrong
Though many today are sure singing that song
Its not that its broken, it has worked just great
And my friends this is just what we are here to debate
A limited government is what our forefathers planned
With citizen legislators who’d travel the land
And meet to insure a few simple principles were kept
But sadly it seems, things have changed while we slept
So now instead of protecting our liberties and rights
Securing our borders and resolving our fights
Our governments decided in this New World Order Day
To redistribute our wealth and decide who should pay
They’re bailing out businesses too big to fail
And spending so much and on such a huge scale
Creating a debt that our children must bear
With a “tax the rich” cry that all know is unfair
The deficits rising so fast we can’t count
As the bills and the budgets and the promises mount
In less than 3 months, the debt to be paid
Has grown to the point that we now feel betrayed
The 545 folks we’ve entrusted
Are playing a game that leaves us disgusted
Between favors they’re granting and elite goodies they’re thrown
Make it look like the whole gangs run by Michael Corleone
With congress’ approval rate lower than low
We continue to watch wondering how low it will go
And yet its we who continue to give them our consent
With an incumbency rate of over 90%
Now they’re punishing progress and rewarding the few
Who didn’t keep up and who failed to construe
A commitment to living the life that you choose
Does not mean a hand out or any sort of excuse
Its time to stand up and declare, no more
As much as they’d like to, we’re going to be hard to ignore!
For the powers in the people, well its supposed to be
As a great roar’s heard across this nation: Don’t Tread on Me!
Our founders wouldn’t have it, as they took to the street
And dumped the tea in the harbor and feared not for defeat
If ever there was a time to look to history and be stirred
In the tradition of our fathers, its time to stand up and be heard
That this land that we love and of which we’re so proud
The reason we’re standing here today in this crowd
Must return to the principles and correct the mistake
That we can never no matter spend more than we make!
That the fruits of our labors are ours to keep
That like any harvest, you sow what you reap
You get what you give, a little or a lot
That our laws are for everyone, elected or not
That the strength of our land is the strength of our choice
We expect to be heard as we speak with one voice
That our government be returned, from where it was once before
And be a government of the people, by the people and for the people, once more!
Tina Ann http://www.personalverses.com
(you are welcome to copy and share this poem as long as you include my name and website)
“It’s basically a hodgepodge of middle-age and senior citizen right-wingers with various reactionary grievences who either took the day off or are retired. These are not the people who will drive a movement forward. The only youth that seemed to be present were young kids who were dragged along as props to hold signs that they didn’t write such as “Please don’t tax my future”.”
And which tea party did grace your presence? I attended the rally in Sacramento on the steps of the Capital. Our congress happened to be in “session” at the time and we were hard to ignore. I saw folks of all ages, many in their 20′s and 30′s (sorry to burst your bubble), many in their 40′s like myself and hubby and yes many other that were older than me. Hey – newsflash – we’re ALL Americans and we ALL have a voice no matter our age or tax bracket.The Sac Bee, our local liberal rag reported there were about 5000 people in attendance. That seemed about right from my vantage point which was directly in front of the stage. And for the record, Cavuto was not a headliner, he did not speak to the crowd. His role was simply there to cover the event. In fact we didn’t have a big Fox news personality at our event and I’ve read many accounts that Sacramento drew the highest numbers of people. ‘Splain that. BTW my favorite chant, “VOTE THEM OUT”!!!!!
Tina Ann – Thank you for your contribution yesterday. It’s people like you that lend us hope that we can still turn this country around.
BTW, Pastor of Muppets, can’t you just feel the seething hatred and racism in Tina Ann’s post? I think she’s probably homophobic too. Most defiantly a Nazi.
Guest: “Pastor of Muppets, Keep drinking the Answer kool-aid. You truely are a Useful idiot comrade. Keep preaching the matra, conservatives are all gun toting racists. Your ignorance is paramount.”
It’s true that Conservatives are not all gun toting racists. But it’s also true that you folks are not Conservatives. People like Buckley and Andrew Sullivan, who actually employ reason when they make an rgument, are Conservatives, and they do not agree with you, your radical reactionary ideology or your movement. You people are way off the deep end of Conservativism in the same way that Ayers and Wright are off the deep end of Liberalism.
30. Tina Ann wrote:
BTW, I worked behind the scenes with the crew who organized this, there were no big money, national sponsors, this was a few concerned citizens who picked up the phone and started making things happen.
I am convinced the other tea parties around the country came about the same way.
Peter writes: The organizer of the Boston TEA Party was a 22 year old college senior whose self-admitted biggest accomplishment before yesterday was organizing a bake sale.
No sign of any big money or national organizations. Just some very well organized concerned citizens. One woman in Boston made over a dozen home-made signs and passed them out to people who did not bring one of their own. I had never seen more ‘Don’t Tread On Me’ flags in one place before. The only extreme right-wing fringe member I noticed in Boston was one guy holding a big sign proclaiming Obama was the anti-Christ and we all needed to turn to Jesus to be saved, but I also noticed he was standing off to the side by himseff with no one interacting with him.
Now we just need to turn this enthusiasm into action. Get politically involved. Throw out the bums who are willing to spend your hard-earned money while ‘forgetting’ to pay their own taxes. Throw out the idiots who vote to raise our taxes and tell us to tighten our belts while they vote themselves a pay-raise. Do something for your community and your country!
Pastor of Muppets,
My man, Buckley, and I assume you mean Christopher, and Andrew Sullivan are conservatives?
I mean next thing you going to tell us is the Huffington Post and Daily Kos are sources of unbiased news.
You’re not serious are you? You’re joking right? That’s a joke right?
Oh you’re serious.
Orange County and San Diego PWNS Los Angeles so bad, it’s not even funny. Find the right places in the “right wing” establishment, and you’ll have more fun than Hollywood.
Pastor of Muppets – “It’s racist hatred”
Oh BALONEY! You don’t think Koreatown, Westminster, and Little Tokyo won’t be hit by high taxes? I hear Koreans grumbling over new tax hike in CA all the time. When was the last time you had a cultrually relevant conversation with a minority, other than some brain dead “we love Barack Obama” drivel?
I’ve worked with some Asian businesses who had base of operation in China so they could offset the high cost of business here. And that was CA’s tax hike.
“And that was before CA’s tax hike”
correction
I wonder why people didn’t get up in arms about Bush’s massive corporate welfare program? At least Obama’s spending money on stuff we can use (roads, bridges, etc.) and which puts people to work, whereas Bush was just giving money to the foreign banks and the rich crooks who created this debacle.
Rocketeer:
Thank you. It was a great day to be an American and I was so proud to be part of it.
The secret is to keep moving forward. Pay attention, vote your values. We are the people.
@ 27. Войска ПВО …
I contacted the event organizers. They reported attendendance at 3,500. The essay has been updated above.
Actual turn out is being under-reported in the press and by leftist partisans.
The Obama media displayed themselves in true fashion yesterday. Will the slobbering ever stop?????Never mind. Stupid question.
39. Juliea wrote:
At least Obama’s spending money on stuff we can use (roads, bridges, etc.) and which puts people to work
Peter asks: Juliea, did you by the chance actually READ the Porkulus bill? (Unlike our Congress and The One himself.) If you did, you might realize that all these roads and bridges and stuff that are going to give people jobs DO NOT START UNTIL thr 2011 and 2012 fiscal years! It is doing NOTHING to stimulate the economy now, and by the time anything actually happens, the economy SHOULD be improving on its own. (That is a big IF, only assumeing The One hasn’t done something more to make things even worse, like raising taxes even more on everyone like he seems chomping at the bit to do.)
39. Juliea:
I wonder why people didn’t get up in arms about Bush’s massive corporate welfare program? At least Obama’s spending money on stuff we can use (roads, bridges, etc.) and which puts people to work, whereas Bush was just giving money to the foreign banks and the rich crooks who created this debacle.
Apr 16, 2009 – 4:40 pm
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That wouldn’t be the same foreign banks and rich crooks that Obama has now broken the piggy bank open for… would it?
Another 600,000 lost their incomes again last month! Are they part of Obama’s job creation?
39. Juliea:
I wonder why people didn’t get up in arms about Bush’s massive corporate welfare program? At least Obama’s spending money on stuff we can use (roads, bridges, etc.) and which puts people to work, whereas Bush was just giving money to the foreign banks and the rich crooks who created this debacle.
You mean the bill that bush passed that obama had supported. Beside the point that this news story is about obama, hence talking about bush is not within the subject matter. Im sure mostly all of us can agree that Bush screwed up a lot of things. However the article is about protests against Obama’s policies. Maybe you can petition the BHO administration to spend another trillion dollars on developing a time machine so all you KOS kids can go back to 2005 and spend the rest of your time on earth in highlight of your lives spitting vitriol at bush.
Pastor of Muppets: You come on here and call us racists and say we are not conservatives. What proof do you have? That most of us did not vote for the current President? Is it possible to disagree with his ideas without being racist? I looked up what he did as a community organized and State Senator. Nothing he did helped his community improve. There were no new jobs created. The childrens education levels did not improve. They were simply angry and organized. The neighborhood did not get better. It’s still a slum. In fact it is worse now than when he started. I had no desire to have him do to the United States what he did to Chicago and Illinois. I voted against him and oppose him now for this same reason. Further, the spending bill that was railroaded through congress is mostly pork made of pet projects for the congressmen and women who voted for it. I do not understand what 50 million dollars for the National Endowment for the Arts or 900 million for Hamas is going to do to stimulate our economy. I do not care what color my President is. He’s my President and as far as I am concerned he is Red, White, and Blue. That does not mean he is as smart as so many people seem to think he is or that his ideas are going to work. And yet when I publicly disagree with him I am called a racist. My response to that is neither profesional nor fit for young children to read.
one of my own:
Sen. Al Franken, the man who mocks a college kid’s speech impediment (http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/14115411.html)l? A “man” who mocks a legless Vietnam vet (http://boreamerica.com/archives/2005/12/al-franken-mocks-a-legless-vietnam-veteran.html)? You voted for and gloat over this man?
Al Franken: in-your-face, very “progressive,” intolerant, and supportive of diversity if it walks and talks like himself: a right royal wanker.
47. Roger Godby wrote:
Sen. Al Franken…
Peter writes: He ain’t a senator yet. Still many many appeals to go. Maybe, if he’s lucky, he may get sworn in before the next election?
just his pseudonym “pastor of muppets” should tell you everything you need to know about him and his “congregation” if indeed he has one. as for “racist”, bigots are idiots, i am a snob. i only despise people after i know what they are, and i am growing a healthy dislike for “pastor of muppets” at the moment regardless of whatever his “racial” or “ethnic” background might be.
(n.b.: i am quite aware i am not using caps, it’s not “igorance, just “internet lazy”.
48. Peter I Still Got the Bends Head . . . “(Franken) ain’t a senator yet. Still many many appeals to go. Maybe, if he’s lucky, he may get sworn in before the next election?”
Many appeals? How many? State Supreme Court, which he will lose, at which point Pawlenty will sign the election certificate.
Al will be seated by Memorial Day at the latest. And he’s gonna have a file day with John “Shiny Head” Cornyn and John “The Flacid” Bohner and Mitch “Don’t Ask Why I Left The Navy After 10 Minutes” McConnell.
What fun it’s going to be!
I think you could search the globe and have trouble finding a bigger embarrassment than Al Franken (Stuart Smalley) representing your state.
Although, 2008 was a banner year for kook leftist entering Congress.