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Tea Party photo album: Fiscal responsibility is the new counterculture

By Michelle Malkin • February 27, 2009 01:56 PM

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I’ve got tons of photos and e-mails pouring in from Tea Party people across the country. I joked to a Christian Science Monitor reporter covering the events that fiscal responsibility is the new counterculture. More coverage/photos/livestreaming at TCOT Report.

There is, as the old ’60s song goes, something happening here. And what it is, is very clear: A grass-roots revolt against the culture of entitlement. The spendzillas in Washington do not speak for us.

From Susan in San Diego:

Michelle,

Just back from the San Diego Tea Party. Great turn out, the San Diego Police estimated the crowd to have reached 600 and stated that it was a very peaceful and respectful display.

My husband is an immigrant from Australia having arrived in 2005. He was interviewed by several reporters and his message is “I entered this Country legally, was turned down for a home loan and car loan because my credit rating didn’t follow me from Australia. I have had to start all over building credit and now I have to do it while paying everyone else’s debt. When do I get a bailout?”

It has been a GREAT DAY!!!

Susan
Trafficknitter

From George in North Carolina:

From Michael in Oklahoma City:

From Augie in Nashville:

About 100 of the estimated 600 who protested in Nashville headed over to Democrat Rep. Jim Cooper’s office to give him some peaceful hell:

From Portland via TCOTTV:

From Scott Allan in Shelby AL:

Hi Michelle,

I attended the Shelby, AL Tea Party today organized by @ZanP. I found out about it from your site about 15 minutes before it started.

Considering the severe weather, it was amazing how many people stood outside and/or drove by. Less than one hour before the event, a tornado touched down down the street just one mile away! As you would expect, the people in Alabama were very supportive.

The pictures were taken on my phone while I was trying to hold my umbrella.

From Doug Powers in Lansing MI:

From Rachel in Cleveland:

From mes in Houston:

From El Presidente in Denver:

From Sidney in San Diego:

From Lori in San Diego:

Dear Michelle, Just got home from the Tea Party in Dan Diego, about three to three hundred and fifty people showed up, yes we had to skip work. What was new is the young families at the rally. Lots of strollers and signs, not sure how loud to be, but glad to have taken part, the signs were great. They are angry and scared for their children’s future loaded with debt. Please let’s keep the heat on, people want to have control of their future and keep what is theirs.

From Allen in Atlanta:

Dear Michelle,

I just wanted to let you know that I attended the Atlanta Tea Party. I would say there were over 200 people who came out and stood in a driving rain to listen to the speakers, and make their voices heard! The inclimate weather was not enough to dampen the spirits of modern day patriots, or to quench their outrage over the Obamanation.

Thanks for all you do, and keep up the good work!

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#636416

On March 1st, 2009 at 5:46 pm, By Choice said:

On March 1st, 2009 at 4:00 pm, RetFireman said:
“When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children.

Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4,1982.”
Does anyone know what it is that statement means? For the record, it is from Obama’s own campaign.

Nothing….in between, when his mother married Lolo Soetero and moved to Indonesia she changed his citizenship and his name. There is NO PROOF that Obama changed it back to either “British” or US, or from Soetero to Obama either, when he returned to Hawaii. He later traveled on an Indonesian Passport as an adult to Pakistan. Why do you think he is spending so much money to keep all his college papers under wraps? He is a usurper and everything he is doing and everything he is signing is NOT valid.

It is my belief that sooner, rather than later–the worse the situation gets–someone who has access to some piece of this information is going to leak it and then the Fit will really hit the shan……..can’t wait for that day……..the MSM will probably describe what Michelle was wearing when she heard the news……….
#636428

On March 1st, 2009 at 8:06 pm, Cosmo said:

That kid with the “I read as much of the stimulus as my Congressman” sign is priceless.

Truth hurts.
#636481

On March 2nd, 2009 at 8:37 am, NJ-Aviator said:

The snowball is rolling.

I love the “Obama, get your hands out of my piggy bank” sign.

Oh.. and Rahm Emanuel had this thought on Face the Nation this weekend.

Emanuel said energy costs are too low, anyway.

I can think of about 300 million people who disagree.
#636483

On March 2nd, 2009 at 8:54 am, nail49 said:

If you’re sick, you take medicine without proof that it will make you better.

lgm: But you don’t take Immodium when you have a headache, and you don’t take aspirin when you’ve got Montezuma’s Revenge!

There was evidence we had started turning the corner on the economy at the start of January, but then PBO had to read a few of his speeches and continually talk down the market and then Congress got in the way and passed a Simulus Bill that does everything but stimulate!

OT: Can PBO NOT just talk to America?!?! Can he not ever appear in a public forum and actually speak to the audience rather than read them some words written for him by some flunky?

*sigh* I miss RR!!
#637158

On March 2nd, 2009 at 5:28 pm, RetFireman said:

On March 1st, 2009 at 5:46 pm, By Choice said:

Actually, this says EVERYTHING! This is Der Fuhrer’s OWN PEOPLE…not the RNC, not some crack-pot conspiracy theorists, not anyone else…admitting that Der Fuhrer is not now, nor has he ever been, eligible per the Constitution to run for, let alone win and take the Oath of Office to be President of the United States.

And how did they attempt to explain it away further? By saying that none of it matters anyway, since the American People decided it did not matter when they elected him on November 4th.

The problem with that is, the Constitution does not say, “…unless the American People vote for him anyway…”.

Not only will this make him guilty of fraud amongst any number of serious felonies…but it makes any and all Senators, Congresspeople and anyone associated with the Obama Administration guilty as well.

The Constitutional crisis that they have created, which so far has been swept under the rug in order to stave off the inevitable, is unheard of and straight out of a Clancy novel. The repercussions alone in the streets of this country could make 1861 look like a playground squabble.

Right now, it hinges on a couple of officers serving in Iraq, which is finally the best chance there is of exposing this crime. Let’s pray that they are successful and it is finally brought to light before any further damage to this country and the Constitution is done.