Scenes from the D.C. Tea Party; Updated, vid added
I’m at the DC Tea Party protest in Lafayette Park. Several hundred taxpayers are here to show their opposition to the spendalooza in Washington, D.C. as part of the nationwide demonstrations. Some photos from my iphone (see my twitpic page for original size). More to come. Send me yours:
Favorite sign:




12:30pm Eastern Crowd just wrapped up “The Star-Spangled Banner” — emphasis on the “Land of the FREE.”

Har:

With the DC Tea Party organizers: J.P., Brendan, and John:

Vid from Frank Strategies:
Photostream from Our Last Penny here.
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I thought you’d be taller. Thanks for the pics.
POOP is right! And we’re getting a huge diaper full!
I love the pig balloons. And the POOP sticker. Need a bumper sticker of that.
Looking fetching as always Mrs. Malkin.
I absolutely LOVE those pig balloons!
Looks like fun Michelle, I hope the weather holds out for ya. Say hello to all from your readers!
Almost forgot, I received this as an email earlier today…
Townhall has a sticker in their email:
One
Big
A$$
Mistake
America.
I believe the sign for the lucky guy standing with MM should read, “Give Me Liberty, Don’t Give Me Debt!”
The “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Debt” sign is right on target.
My collie says:
The liberals aren’t going to like me very much when I popularize my new name for Obama — the slave trader in chief.
Wish I could be there but I’m stuck at work paying for corporate and bad borrower welfare.
In Omaha, Nebraska today: The Omaha part of the Nationwide Chicago Tea Party will be held on Friday, February 27th, 2009 in front of the Douglas County Courthouse at 16th and Farnam. Kicked off at 11:00 CST.
I am there now with a small band of American Patriots. We have had it. We must take our Country back. Nebraska is a Red State with the exception of Sen. Ben Nelson.
These should be weekend events as the working folks that wanted to be here are
well… working. Lets not limit it to just Chicago. We are part of the solution, Huge Government is the problem.
“Don’t Tread on Me!”
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One of the posters stated that he thought Michelle Malkin would be taller! Probably because she seems pretty big in her writings.
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Remember what President Harry Truman said, “IT’S NOT THE SIZE OF THE DOG IN THE FIGHT THAT COUNTS–IT’S THE SIZE OF THE FIGHT IN THE DOG THAT COUNTS!”
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There is a lot of fight in Mrs. Malkin.
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John Bibb
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Not only in the Bible. Remember reading about debtor’s prisons? Bond servants? Used to be a crime to have unpaid debt. Now, you get a free house.
The child in the ‘POOP’ picture looks like I did when watching Obama’s speech the other night.
I’ve been called the ‘militant midget’ in the past. Yeah, I’m short.
Yay.
txvet2: Fixed it for ya! There is no free lunch (or house)!
But NOTHING goes over your head!
OFF TARGET BUT IMPORTANT: According to a tax professional, the change in withholding in Obama’s “tax cut” does not come with a change in the tax rate or structure. Ergo, you will still owe the same amount of taxes next year - in effect, you’ll have to give the money back in 2010. I’m not a tax expert so I don’t know if this is completely accurate or not, but I’d suggest everybody better be ready for it, even though the amounts in question are relatively small.
I’m busy at work trying to shore up the economy today else I’d be at Tulsa’s Tea Party. This working for a living thing is getting kind of old.
When I retired from the Army my wife asked me what I was going to do. “Goin’ fishin’,” I sez. Then she asked me what I was going to do when I got back. “It’ll be huntin’ season.” She then explained to me just exactly how I misunderstood the situation.
Hope is not a plan; not all change is good. The resistance is here. The resistance is now. RESIST!!!!
ECS
ECM,
I would be there with you if I didn’t have to be at work in Pryor.
The polls for obama are slowing shifting our way. By the time the rest of the country catches on it will be a real mess.
oops
ECS
CyberCipher #8: Your collie is spot-on!! Debt is bondage and poor stewardship. To all liberals and supporters of Obamaeconomics: Give me Liberty and Keep your Debt!!
Hey, we need tea parties for weekends–we are the providers for all these deadbeats.
Let’s hope this is the start of something, really really big
Just look at that crowd!
A buddy of mine called Obama the”POOPie” president.
I just got it! LOL.
How many folks do you think are there, Michelle? It looks wonderful!!
The world belongs to us short people.
Red State Skeptic <<<just look at that idiot.
It was great to finally meet you, Michelle. I’ll add my wrap when I get back to my hotel and get the pics offloaded from the phone.
Obama will have achieved his objectives long before people turn against him in large numbers. Just the huge debt he has produced will be hard to reverse for years to come. Politicians are no longer afraid of the electorate. They think they now own them and they might be right. Watch the market go slowly down till people get that fact that it will continue to go down till Obama truely cuts taxes. This is going to take years to get from under.
People insist on telling me I must be taller than 5’3, but my doctor tells me I’m 5’3.
People are weird about height.
That may very well comprise every single Republican in the District.
Hey Redstate: Anytime you want to pay my taxes….you are such a kool-aid drinking putz! You just HATE the idea of these Tea Parties.
you just might be right on that one old chap.
and all the ones that can read as well
Yeah, it’s hard for conservatives to pull a crowd during the week – everybody’s working. We can’t gin up a rent-a-mob of homeless and welfare recipients like you on the left.
Not true. Well…not entirely true. It is accurate that there is no change in the tax structure (i.e., your marginal rate stays the same). So, essentially your tax bill for the year remains the same. However, the credit then comes in and acts basically as if you had made a $400 payment on your tax bill. One can take this credit as a reduction in withholding, or all at once next year. So your tax professional is wrong if he told you it would have to be paid back.
You’re probably just tall for your height.
txvet2: Like college students with their nutty professors, Code Pink weirdos, illegals who will take a few $$$ to stand around waving a sign for the day, guys like chap, lgm, etc, etc.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
I can assure you I would NEVER attend a protest!
The only thing I like about protests is that when I used to work near the World Bank/IMF buildings, we would get an occasional day off because of them.
yeah…who do you think would pay your mortgage if we did that?
Har!
Yes, 5’3″ here as well, but I wear 4″ heels. Mrwighttrasch is 6’6″ (the tall South African that posts here half the time).
So, no one thinks of me as short. Plus I have mouth almighty (old-skool Run DMC)
Which one says “Obama” and gets a visit from the SS? The poor kid with “POOP” on him is toast. Prolly check under his crib mattress for subversive materials.
Like a Bible.
Or an Ann Coulter book.
I never missed a day of work for protestors at the Pentagon.
Came up the Metro escalator one morning and there was an aging hippie holding a sign stating “No more Hiroshimas,” I stepped over to him and said, “You first, no more Pearl Harbors.”
He is still probably scratching his head trying to figure that one out.
Hope this goes down right (even though I know it all won’t mean spit to the Bamaians). That “Your mortgage isn’t my problem!” sign might be true but it’s maybe too harsh as being seen as heartless to those just hanging on by the fingernails and could sway sympathy for such bailouts and Obama. Socialism is one beguiling seductress, and you have to wonder just how do you counter the notion of a nanny who’ll lift all those problems and headaches off your back without saying “tough it” instead? Alas, it seems an impossible mission today.
James Greenidge
Queens, N.Y.
Looks like an enormous rally. There must have been twenty
thousand(oops, not an anti Iraq war rally) people there.Say “idiot” once and look what happens.
More than half of the population of Iraq loves us. Then again, you have to care about women.
Don’t waste your time and life noticing fools like that.
We are faced with an existential threat to our economic freedom (there is no freedom without economic freedom), and our society, culture, and nation similarly face an existential threat.
Yet, all the socialist/statist/collectivist clowns can do is make snide comments, and act like pom-pom girls for their “side”.
It seems your choice for POTUS supports the troops and – for now – the war.
That had to hurt.
granite,
I used to ignore him. I begged others to do the same. Since that didn’t happen, I figured I would just poke fun at him.
Economic freedom? Gone when in the face of the nation the POTUS can lie straight faced and say “passed with no earmarks”. Our congress is selling us to China as fast as they can just to get their earmarks.
As for freedom in general, how free are we when you we told it is againt the law to dump tea in a brown river because it may “stain” it?
Are our industries free to make a buck? I am afraid you would have to ask the tobacco industry.
I like my freedom to pick on lgm and get undreseige(sp) ticked off. It is one of the few freedoms I feel I can keep – for now.
Plus he’s taking money away from the sick and the poor, because he is cutting Medicare and Medicaid spending.
Some Messiah – killing off the old people so the young people can feed off their assets. At least when health care is distributed by an ability to pay, people have an opportunity to work and therefore obtain healthcare. But when Obama is done with the system, we’ll be excluded based on things like poor health and age….things we are all powerless over.
Slightly off topic but related….
What does the Nebuchadnezzar have on the current administration? I think the parallels are pretty striking.
The worship and the threat for those not worshiping.
Just wait till there is the handwriting on the wall.
Who is Daniel?
Actually that’s a good thing. I don’t see in the constitution that it’s the gov’t responsibility to provide either of those programs.
(Now with that said, since the “promise” was made, those who NOW rely on it, need to be adequately cared for.
POOP
“Prisoners Of Odopeys Policies”
Smart Kid, Great Sticker, Hang in there kiddo, he’ll be toast by October.
Well, maybe there aren’t a lot in that district, but there are over 50 million in the country.
GREAT ANSWER!!
Soap: I like to think of him/her as underage — he/she certainly acts that way!
Middle of the road fence sitters like you are so easily herded onto the cattle cars.
My apologies for having better things to do than stand outside holding a sign that no one with any power will read or, if they do, care about.
I’m sure it makes everyone feel better, like they accomplished something at the end of the day.
But would you prefer I go out and protest my causes? I hear you can get 50% off all “Kill Bush” merchandise over at DU. Some may say that stuff is daed, but I say its retro.
daed=dated
I asked the head guy in our payroll department here about the tax thing having to be paid back (this is going around from the Rush Limbaugh show apparently). Here is his response:
My limited understanding is that there will be a tax credit for 2009 that you’ll be able to claim on your return, however the tax tables will be modified so that by the end of the year you will have received it already through reduced withholding. The government wants you to spend it now, instead of waiting to get the credit when you file your taxes 10 or so months from now.
New tax tables will be available no later than 4/1 that will reflect the slightly reduced withholding amounts (technically, the IRS has released them, but software vendors have until the first of April to make them available to their clients).
Here’s a link to the protest in Asheville, NC.
Here too….no black faces. Where are the black citizens that see through this socialistic nightmare being created by this administration. Michael Steele shouldn’t have to shoulder all the weight. Please encourage your black neighbors who are paying their mortgages to attend future rallies.
If we want publicity we need a mixed cast in the demonstrations. The only all-white demonstrations that make the news are organized by the klan.
The woman with the ‘your mortgage is not my problem’ sign gave me pause because it brought back memories of my youth. Coming out of college I was a renter and resented that homeowners got to deduct part of their mortgage payments.
I thought then, that the homeowner tax deduction was a problem. They got one and I did not. Now, I have a mortgage, and say let those renters eat cake.
It is just a function of whose Ox is getting gored.
Every revolution has to start somewhere. At what point will you defend your Country, your way of life, or will you go meekly, to the spring slaughter, to the screaming of the lambs, Clarice?
I might just have something to do with the risk assumed by signing a mortgage document. There is in fact a difference between renting and buying. Way easier to get out of a rental agreement.
And that crowd was not bad for a sector of society that tends to be more responsible and have more responsibility than your typical leftist protester.
err… IT might have…
When I feel its threatened, I’ll let you know.
Note the homemade signs. So much more convincing than the rallies where professional signs are handed out by the teacher’s union, the auto workers, or the political parties, i.e. CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN.
Like me, they were all at work. I’ll see them at the gun show this weekend.
ECS
It may be too late then.
Hope is not a plan; not all change is good. The resistance is here; the resistance is now.
ECS
Hope you are right.
Well with obama promising to more than double the national debt, and to take control of most of the things in your life, your should be starting to be a LITTLE concerned.
I’m not so sure I like our country being owned by China. That is just a little disconcerting. Does that mean it is no longer ours?
I love the POOP sign…right on…very inspirational and sooooooo true….a good reminder that freedom is never free, constant vigilance is always necessary because there will always be someone who wants to take it away just as The Anointed One is now attempting to do
Even if there is little turnout today, this was a success, because we have shown it can be done. This is exactly how the anti-bush movement started, except it was smaller to start with. Have no fear. They will only get bigger and badder.
Being a product of the liberal indoctrinatation that you received courtesy of our education system, you wouldn’t understand the real meaning of “Country”. Your idea probably include the UN as a country.
If you only knew the type of school I went to and where, you would know how absurd that statement is.
Great video, looks like a sucessful rally/protest.
Tea Party mania!
Good stuff!! One of those signs should be available as a bumper sticker….”Keep your stinking hands out of my kid’s piggy bank Obama!!!” I would buy one.
What no swastikas or clan outfits?
Malkin you’re slipping.
On-my-soap-box said (#50):
Today he announced a date certain for US forces being out of Iraq, and more or less on the schedule he announced during the campaign. I wish we could get out faster, but we are getting out. Obama seems to be keeping his promises.
I’m a little late in getting in on this thread, but thanks for reporting this successful event Michelle. The threat to our liberties and freedoms by this irresponsible regime must be fought at every step. For now we chose to fight back peacefully until we are left with no other option. Give me liberty or give me death!
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE (mo-lone lah-veh) Translation: Come and take them!
Ditto for me Boomer. Just home from work. The vid was great!
Geez- Yea, let’s let the enemy know just exactly what is going on. (ala Fienstien) You do realize he is sending troops to Afganistan? That’s the problem you bonehead, he’s keeping his promises.
LOCK AND LOAD
And I’m sure Al-qaida made special note of it.
Translation: Eventually, even a broken clock is correct twice a day.
thus broadcasting troop movements during wartime. They used to shoot people who did that because it quite often got people killed.
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*** Does not apply to the 50,000 he will leave wide open in iraq to “train” iraqis.
I tried to make the event in DC, but got there about 1:15, by which point almost everything over. There were two other protests in action in the large area, plus the resident protester (nuclear war) by the central statue of Andrew Jackson when he was still a general.
The best part–and I thought someone else would have posted a picture of him or I would have taken a picture to share–was a teenager with a large poster. On the left was written: “Found in a dumpster behind the Capitol”, with an arrow that pointed to the right of the poster with one of those large fake foolscap versions of the Constitution. (I did congratulate him on the good job.)
Sorry, Michelle, that I missed you.
Hey I love My Country ,, notice there were not Hammer and Cycles either or did you notice. Are you implying that only leftists can protest? I don’t understand your liberalism at all when the only choice you offer is abortion. I bet you are against the volunteer armed services, pro school choice, and anything else that there is a choice to. Just saw BO’s new tax proposals on small businesses and corporations and now I wonder how many will want to leave the USA or even bother invest in business withese added hinderances. I know I would not invest in a business. Savage had it right this is poverty creeping upwards.
That was low and pretty stupid, even for you!
Just an awful lot of “I would like go to a rally/protest-I work”. That is true but for how long and how many times? We have that problem in every organization I belong to. Then please try to find some time, make some time, to do something.
I can see where most of you, I am retired for the most part, can’t take off on a minutes notice to do a Tea Party. How about you local Republican Precinct meetings, candidate forums, county events? There certainly is enough time lead there, some schedule you can fit in.
Is your big issue the Second Amendment? I am sure there is a RKBA organization in your area that could use your help.
Arizona
Massachusetts
NRA State Organizations
You can follow one of those links to your state. No you can’t miss work, that is not what we do. But our country, our children and ourgrandchildren’s country is being stolen from them. Too busy?
My father was called up for One Year Hemispheric National Service (the Draft) in March of 1941. My mother saw him again in January of 1946 if that tells you anything. They got me as compensation
–I hope it was
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I’ll keep my guns, you keep the change.
On February 28th, 2009 at 5:37 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said: (#92)
In defense of many of the likely people to go to a protest in Washington, DC, CPAC is going on. The most likely locals to attend were running things there.
And Chaputier’s joke (#32) that all the DC Republicans were there is not that far off anyway.
Love it. And that first sign looks familiar..
Keep spreadin the word!
Tears of joy here! Wish I could have been there! Bet CPAC is energized by it!
On February 27th, 2009 at 6:43 pm, Ilovemycountry said:
What no swastikas or clan outfits?
This is exactly the kind of racist remark I would expect from I HATE MY COUNTRY. ALL of the liberals I know, to the man, use this kind of language. People, who just happen to not be white, hear this kind of bulls–t from the MSM, TV, etc. and buy into nonsense that Republican/conservatives are not willing to include them. No more of your crap, IHMC.