Scenes From the DC Tea Party: More Photos!

This is just a minority of people who are aginst MEANINGFUL health reform. All these republinuts want is to do nothing, absolutely NOTHING!! New ideas from republinuts are like trying to find chicken teeth, non-existance!!!! The Dems are the ONLY party for the people, republinuts just want to fool the people with lies, spin and scare tactics!!!!!

Democrats and Republicans are the same.
Both parties work for the ruling elite.
Don't be fooled again.

My wife and I attended the Tea Party on July 4th In Washington DC.
The concerns that brough most people together were the following:
Neither Republicans or Democrats look out for Americans,
but their own Party comes first above everything else.

1. How does Congress pass bills that are never read?
2. We were told that that this adminstration would be the most transparent, that bills
would be posted for a period of time, so that we Americans would know what are
elected officials were voting for. Now we find that they vote and don';t know why.
3. Our President inherited many problems, but instead of solving them, it appears that
we are using the old Stand By - throw money at the problem and maybe it will go away.
This logic has never worked.
4. Decent Americans are working hard, playing by the rules
and then finding out that our elected officials play by a different set of rules.

WE LIVE IN THE GREATEST COUNTRY THAT HAS EVER BEEN CREATED.

and yes there were a few nut jobs who had discraceful signs, but we still live in a Free
Country where all types of ideas are tolerated, but not accepted.

May our country survive this crisis and our children and grandchildren prosper.

Yakitty, Yakitty, Yakitty, Yak. I have a headache.

So a few hundred or even thousand people showed up to this rally and this “reporter” took about 13 images of signs that speak out about Obama. In the photos other signs can be seen in the background talking out about the Fed and stimulus spending. I'm sorry but I don't see any reporting here.
I was at a tea party and yes I did see some racists. It’s sad that some took this opportunity to voice opinions that had nothing to do with the point of this rally. Many people did not know what they were protesting however even more people had strong valid points for protesting. Points that went back as far as 1971 when we stopped using the golden standard and began printing funny money. Signs blamed Bush senior and Bush Jr. as well as Obama. People yelled no taxation without documentation and when asked they could tell you that the Boston tea party happened after England lowered the tax on tea as a way of getting colonists to pay a duty tax and signal their submission to parliament. We have had taxes lowered as well but how long can that last when government spending is 25 times higher than the new deal after accounting for inflation. Obama has a lot of ideas that can help this nation but listening to people like Dave Obey and other authors of this stimulus plan is a great failure on his part. If he is truly a master chess player he will see that he has just lost his rooks and re-strategize before he loses his queen and then the game.

Sorry guys most of the stuff you you say about socialist government is funny obama is raising the tax on the rich BUSH YEARS 36% tax OBAMA NEW POLICY 39% 3% does not make a socialist different you paranoid brain washed assholes ITS ALL ME ME WITH YOU GUYS people are starving around the world

Are you suggesting global communism?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYZM58dulPE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gldETRlhiXk
Educate yourselves. There is no right or left. They are the same coin.
Get pissed off with all of them. Stand together,
Do not be divided and conquered!

The only reason we are in this mess is because of the FEDERAL RESERVE. A private entity printing FIAT monopoly-like money 24/7. People just realize this... It doesn't matter who is seen as the "president" or "congress".. the bottom line is that the gold standard has been abandoned long ago (research) and the right of the congress to print and coin American money for the people has been privatized treacherously. The Fed (who is by the way a PRIVATE entity) is the one who is driving the value of the dollar down the tubes. Congress or let's be honest.. no one has any legal right to either audit, question or have oversight over this treasonous PRIVATE entity. Once the American people realize this..It's just a matter of finding out who really puts that $1.00 bill in your wallet with INTEREST to every single taxpayer. Every cent put into the market is a cent laden with interest..multiply that into the trillions. Do you realize now where our deficit is coming from? That interest goes right into the pockets of the elite financiers running the FED. How can a private entity be allowed to print our currency with no disregard to the taxpayers wishes and no abandon? It's like having Microsoft or Wal-Mart print it at their whim. There is definitely an enemy..but most of my friends are looking in the wrong direction! Bernake and the fed..pawn of the banksters. The banksters motto? DIVIDE AND CONQUER!

SHUT OFF THE MONEY SUPPLY-----DON'T CONTRIBUTE TAX $$$ TO THE JUVENILE SOCIALIST MOOCHERS, FREELOADERS, AND PARASITES !!! LETS ALL COLLECT WELFARE AND BREAK THE SCUMBAGS FASTER

Nope, I will never follow the liar leftist do-do birds who fly backwards. Do-do birds fly backwards because they don't give a crap where they are going, they just wanna look back where we've already been. They all want us to look back at BUSH so we wont notice where these foolish and reckless socialist zealots are taking us. 20 years from now these same idiots will still be running against BUSH. LOL !!! Us, high IQ and more enlightened, rightwing patriots look forward, not backward, and we see that foolish and reckless socialism/communism is the dumbest idea mankind has ever conceived. We, the productive people, hold ALL the power in this country. Socialism CANNOT survive without riding our backs and stealing the fruits of our labor. We have the POWER to destroy foolish and reckless democrat ideals by simply 'refusing to produce'. Socialism cannot survive without 'OUR' money. Lets starve em out, once and for all !!!

While you're doing that please don't use any of our socialist hiways and roads or take advantage of any power source originally funded by our government. In fact, you should disconnect from civilization entirely and not take any chances that you might be promoting socialism Your ancestors that paid for the government projects that make life easy for you and showed pride in America must be so proud of you.. Idiot.

And don't forget to pull your kids out of public schools. And be sure to mail back all the social security checks you get when you retire. And they call US the "morans". LOL!

DID YOU KNOW?

If you're a 50-year old-with a college degree, you will pay approximately $81,000 over your working life just to pay the interest on the debt in the new budget.

If you're a 40-year-old, you'll pay $132,000 for the interest on this new budget.

And if you're a 20-year-old, just starting out after college, you will pay a whopping $114,000 just to service the interest on the debt created by this budget.

This is what these tea parties are about! Now add to that some pay-down of the principle & I think you have a real clear idea that 5% of the American population, or the over $250K crowd cannot do it alone. The only other group out there is the middle class of this country that will shoulder this huge debt Keep in mind that this does not include the debt that Bush and the republicans ran up, this is just on Obama's 3.7 trillion dollar budget proposal. Anyone wonder now: why the tea parties????

So where were these opponents of excessive government spending and taxation when GWB was spending billions a day on the Iraq war, giving $$$$ hand over fist to his corporatist cronies, funneling millions/billions to the "faith based initiative, etc? Now three months into a Democratic presidency they're all suddenly broke from taxation and government spending? Please!

Buffy,
Republicrats and Democans are two different sides of the same coin.
Please "Wake Up" and help freedom triumph.
Resist, Rebel, and Re-Win our nation.
DTNWO!

WE WERE OUT THERE RAILING AGAINST HIM TOO IF YOU HAD BOTHERED TO GET UP OFF YOUR FATASS AND NOTICE!! WHY CANT YOU MORONS REALIZE THAT OBAMA IS JUST AS MUCH OF A TOOL AS BUSH WAS?! HOW HARD IS IT?? POLITICIANS ARE LIARS AND YOU PEOPLE KEEP BELIEVING THEM!!

Um, your capslock key seems to be stuck. You might want to get that checked.


BTW, I'm not an Obama supporter. Now stop yelling at me and get a life.

Bravo!

What cracks me up is how many times they have to say Fox News didn't promote the Tea Party. Go to their page and search on Tea Party. On April 15th there were 328 hits.

From what I understand these folks weren't humiliated enough so there is supposed to be another "tax protest" on July 4h. I agree with the earlier poster who asked where were all these "American" citizens when the previous administration spent "their" tax dollars on the war in Iraq or corp. bailouts?

Can anyone say "Sheep"?

says the guy who is just sitting around on a blog posting crap that doesnt matter and dissing on people concerned about the welfare of their country.. the tree of liberty must refreshed from time to time with blood of tyrants and patriots.. remember that you stupid MSM trolling sheep

You mean concerned about the welfare of WHITE people in this country. You're a racist tool and don't even realize it. This is why the other 83% of the country was laughing at your little teabagger events. You call us MSM sheep but you're just locked into a network that is nothing but the mouthpiece of the RNC and corporate overlords. Pull your teabags outta your ass and get some reality.

I think he meant to point out the obvious (which also must be done from time to time) because you didn't seem to get it. There were "NO" conservative protests of Bush's war or his policies that created our current mess. If you feel that I'm wrong in that please supply dates and places for verification. If you think that anyone takes you seriously in your bit*h about "big government 100 days into a Democratic administration after defending your hero chimp for eight years you are even a bigger fool than you appear. This nonsensical BS is just an extension of a badly run campaign that the GOP didn't even want to win. It just got all you "conservatives" riled up and you haven't come down from your political high yet. You lost!!! You lost!!! You lost!!!! Deal with it.

Silly comments? I didn't realize racism was so "silly" or trivial. Since the majority of those who were protesting "taxes" are in actuality receiving tax cuts - let's admit what it really was....a protest against an African-American President. As far as I am concerned, those who carried the defamatory signs should have been arrested for racial intimidation. We need to set an example that racism is not acceptable.

Some "Kenyan trying to destroy America", Not a "Real Citizen", "Homey don't Play Dat", "Don't Tax Me Bro", references to "Hussein", references to "Hangings"....That is not racist?

Just like the documentaries from the sixties where we see angry crowds yelling about segregation, those who attended these events with racist signs will be featured twenty years from now in documentaries about the first African-American President. Good job - something their grandchildren can be really proud of.

What would make great press coverage (hint, hint...for the next time there are "Tea Parties") would be to ask these folks exactly what the Boston Tea Party was all about. A little historical trivia. I bet you would get some amazing answers.

Better yet, ask this question of our ( political leaders), the One, include..

Defining charactersitic of idealist-multiculturalists: they confuse empirically-based observations with racism.

Can idealists be toughened-up to face reality.

All empirical evidence so far says: NOPE

I do not see where your getting the debt for your children from. as i read the acts that our president sign in to law, I see him actually looking out for your children because this is from the long term and that means your children. Shame on people that call our President a terrorist, As I remember in the Bible, God is the only one to judge.

The president is a puppet, a controlled tool, you people are known as obamabots, because you will try to rationalize everything he does.. go watch the OBAMA DECEPTION and learn something about glorious leader, you wont be happy.. peace trolls

Very Nice Job! So much we have had to contend with that is against everything we stand for in what.... 70days? We need to work fast and hard to save our country.

"Just wondering where all these "patriots" were when Bush took a national debt that took 230 years to build up and doubled it in 8 short years?"

Wow. Is that all you liberals have left in your rhetorical bag of tricks?
1) The ol' "The other guy did it first" excuse. If your point is that Obama is just a third Bush term, let's just stand back and enjoy that big fat irony for a while.

2) Pathetic phony mocking of McCain supporters. Nice elitist touch of having the yokel cling to God, guns and poor grammar. Never mind the fact that McCain would have won if the election were held with voters who had College or above educations. I have a PhD myself and The arrogance of Liberals never ceases to amaze me: Liberals assume intellectual superiority when in fact they are koolaid drinking idiots for a failed and flawed set of old broken and dangerous ideas. They claim to be 'reality-based' mainly by constructing reality in the bubble of biased media and projection of their own leaders' flaws on the 'other side'. they protest against 'prejudice' vigorously yet hypocritically practice it themselves on a daily basis.

The fact remains that patriotic ordinary Americans took some time off to remind America that we cannot afford to spend money we dont have on programs we dont need. The result will be a poorer America in hock to foreign bankers. It doesnt matter which party is doing it, but the fiscal recklessness and insanity has to stop.

Where did you get your PhD, T M ? What did you study? Where did you get your Masters, and BA? I assume no intellectual superiority, only curiousity. Is your degree relevent to a discussion of economics? You certainly use a lot of big words in your second point, there...

Also: You never repsonded to the meat of the disagreement above: "where were these protests when Bush was expanding government?"

I look forward to your rebuttal.

transcend the left/right paradigm and put that Phd to good use you yuppie moron

actually every scientist with any discovery known to man is a liberal o wait you don't believe in science, or do you? they just think different then simple minds that believe in the bible to be fact..... people that do so use this mentality for everything else in life they think its a war between good and evil in fact they are more evil then anyone else in the world think about it they use most of the energy in the world they don't care about the environment or life at all they are the most selfish of all wait i guess that's why they have Jesus even though they mass murdered one whole species of human to take over land sounds like this nation of rednecks is going to heaven if these people is what god likes and wants in heaven then i don't want to go there

Sonny:
You may not have to go anyway. You might be asked to fill out an application.

i voted 4 mccain becuz i new what was gonna happen when we let teh atheistic radical muslin soshulists take over are country. now weeze gonna has 2 take it back with guns or let teh commies run it into teh ground even further. i's a good amurkin becuz i liek my guns and my gawd and my monney.

and at least bush didnt spend all are money. preznit palin wouldnt neither

now look at us. my tax cuts are crippling my family becuz i pay less taxes which means i's paying more somehow. plus we got immoral atheists and homosexticals runnin' 'round while decent, gun-totin' white christians are left to suffer. teh grate philosopher ayn rand predicted all this

GOD will punish us all 4 naught listening 2 JESUS!!!!!!!!!111oneone

yeah because you know exactly who and what god is your book of bible is not god its man made crap god you don't know man words of hate you follow

I repeat: ALL the Democrats and Republicans in Congress that voted for massive over-spending SHARE THE BLAME.

you should read more carefully. You lack credibility yourself in your attempts to cover for over-spending Democrats.

Just wondering where all these "patriots" were when Bush took a national debt that took 230 years to build up and doubled it in 8 short years? Just wondering where these folks were, what they had to say when the best economists in the world reprimanded the Bush administration as frighteningly irresponsible for cutting taxes while waging two wars? Just wondering how these people can look back at the last 8 years of the economy and not see it for the hallucination that it was in Bush's mind when he kept saying that it was sound - the last bastion of the great American manufacturing capability left at that point was building houses. Those jobs are gone and we see what's left of our wealth-building capacity is being forced overseas. What do these "patriots" think when Senator Phil Gramm's UBS, a Swiss bank, has a backlog of over 100 American tax evaders lining up for criminal prosecution. P.T. Barnum was right - there's a sucker born every minute. Wake up, folks. First they sent your job overseas, then they put the tax burden on you, or outsourced in the form of borrowing from the Chinese (really notable democrats, the Chinese) and the Middle Eastern potentates. The Chinese and Middle Eastern rulers are lining up their buy lists for American corporations to take over once the smoke finally clears. And we're leaving the Wall Street crooks in place to do it to us all over again.

Class warfare has been going on for 30 years and if you're not obscenely wealthy, shuttling your funds offshore in tax-free havens, you've fallen for every trick in the book. Now they're laughing at you even more as you show up at these wealth sponsored tea parties and work even further against your own interests. As Mencken would say, the American boobocracy at work. You got, what, an extra $100 over the last 8 years in tax reduction while the top 1% got over $75,000 a year in tax reductions? 30 years of the Laffable Curve at work.

As someone who actually attended the Tea Party in Albuquerque, NM I can tell you that most of the surprisingly large crowd consisted of extremely non-extreme folks concerned about their children's futures and smart enough to understand how much money a trillion dollars really is .

Despite the silly comments here, there were no racist overtones.

In Albuquerque, the event was set up so that demonstrators lined one of our main streets during rush hour and it was interesting to see how most of the cars moving slowly through the area got into the spirit of the thing, honking, waving and cheering even though their commute home was being slowed. The only anger I saw came from the very occasional car-bound passerby, obviously on the other side of the political divide, giving the finger or shouting insults or obscenities. This invariably elicited waves and laughter from the demonstrators.

did you like my ABOLISH THE IRS sign? i was at the burque rally

I hate to judge this exercise in freedom of speech by the signs in this coverage but it's hard not to be disturbed by the underlying current of racism. Then again, Bush was called plenty of ugly epithets during his presidency but Obama won the election fair and square. When Bush was criticized for his actions and policies, it was called unpatriotic by Fox News, Rush, et al. I would like to think that the extremist fringe attendees of these events are not indicative of the GOP-led opposition but I have not heard one prominent GOP politician disown some of these truly unpatriotic signs. In fact, we have TX governor Rick Perry hinting at secession. Sad.

"I hate to judge this exercise in freedom of speech by the signs in this coverage but it's hard not to be disturbed by the underlying current of racism."

I hate to judge this exercise in freedom of speech but it's hard not to be disturbed by the ongoing attempts by liberals to see every criticism of Obama or his left-liberal policies as driven by racism, or their attempt to paint a prejudicial broad brush on the basis of a few signs or comments that could be taken the wrong way. It's the Left's version of McCarthyism - guilt by association.

I heard a fine African-American at my rally. He name is Michael Williams. You should hear what he had to say.

There was a diverse crowd of all ethnic and socio-economic levels - most were ordinary middle-class and working people, mostly just concerned about a Government that seems to be running amok spending money it doesnt have on programs we dont need and people and corrupt organizations (like flailing banks and and corporate welfare recipients) who dont deserve it.

OK, why is it that you broadly paint everyone not agreeing with you as "liberals." Do you agree with the racial sentiments expressed in these signs? If so, then I feel sorry that you are SOOO bitter over the last presidential election.

I understand that Fox News et al wants everyone to think this is a populist movement but clearly its driven by idealogues from the other side who are sore losers and wants to keep the status quo. Oh, please.

This goes beyond the election and policies of Obama. The deregulation of industries, the discredited theory of supply side economics, the deficit spending championed by the GOP (Reagan and both Bushes) and the aggressive foreign excursions of your idols have all contributed to the mess we're in. Until you can accept that, you're just a brainless zombie aimlessly wandering the wasteland that is GOP territory. We need more Republican's like Ron Paul--not the current crop of wanna-be's contending the face of the opposition.

Have a nice weekend!

Hey You,

These fellow americans are NOT sticking up for me, just their own kind, crazy christian republicans. I didn't see these people picketing when Bush was spending millions of dollars a day for a war started to hide his incompetence!

Someone earlier said that the real First World War - the one that established the British Empire was fought mostly in North America where it was known as the French and Indian War misses most of the War where in 1759 alone the British beat the French in India, Martinique, Senegal, Germany, and Canada along with a major Naval victory against the French fleet on the coast of France. A very expensive operation.

They were correct about the Tea Party and the Revolution. But you can also see why the French and the Dutch could be convinced into funding our effort and with Louis XVI supplying both the fleet that kept Cornwallis at Yorktown and about half the soldiers.

The debt that France acquired directly led to a later need for France to bring in the Fourth Estate to increase taxation. This was followed by the French Revolution ... and another World War - of which the War of 1812 was a side action. I think that only stopped because of the Tambora volcano caused the year without a summer in 1816 - when Frankenstein was written - a year when crops failed world wide.

Let's stop this endless cycle before nature does it for us.

Those who read their 1040 instructions will recognize this: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. notably said “Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.”

only a true liberal would make fun of MILLIONS of fellow americans sticking up for you,me and all americans.go get 500 of your protesters,and try to free a criminal .

Millions? You mean the millions that marched against Bush and the Iraq war?

The Tea parties attracted thousands, at best. Republicans are math challenged......

You are math-challenged. Reasonable estimates are that 300,000-600,000 people attended these rallies, which were held in hundreds of places across the United States. What's more amazing is that there was no central organizer. No person or group did this, but the sponaneous action of thousands upon thousands who wanted to stand up for American liberty and fiscal sanity.

those are MSM numbers, actual tallies are reporting almost 5 million people.. on both sides of the political spectrum.. OH BTW IM NOT A REPUBLICAN MAD CUZ MCCAIN LOST!! unlike some stupid on this forum, ive transcended the left/right paradigm.. BOTH SIDES ARE CONTROLLED!!!!!!