Apr 15 2009
Fingers Crossed For Successful Tea Party Day – Great Day!
Update: Just a quick note on the Tea Parties. From the reporting on TV they look to be a big success – but they are not at the size needed to roll back the reckless spending Congress and the Obama administration have put in place. My benchmark is the Palin rallies from last summer. I would hope to see the smallest Tea Parties be in the 5,000 range and the largest topping 20,000. We aren’t there yet, but we can be if these Tea Parties are monthly events – best held after each month’s unemployment reports come out and on the weekends (to ensure more participation). With diligence (and minimal partisanship right now) this grass roots wave could build to substantial size by July 4th. Here’s to hoping America will keep growing this movement into the summer, now focused on the out of control spending and lack of jobs. – end update
I have my fingers crossed that the grass roots (non-partisan) Tea Party protests today will go well. Here are some stories on the activities:
WaPo has a preview up with fairly positive reporting
AP is also doing some good reporting:
In Hartford, Conn., police estimated 3,000 people showed up at the state Capitol, where nearly two decades earlier an estimated 40,000 had converged in protest after the state enacted its personal income tax.
CNN is directing people where to find the parties.
Detroit Free Press covers the Lansing party.
LA Times notes the location of local parties.
All in all pretty good coverage from the MSM.
Word in the office is 5,000 showed up in Annapolis MD
Looking forward to the reporting from the blogs attending any of them. Will try to link to reports if I get a chance today. Glenn Reynolds has some updates and things are looking good!
The tea parties will have ZERO effect on taxes. The Dems are gonna raise them and no amount of ‘protests’ will stop them.
Obama is strongly supportive of George Soros efforts to wreck the US economy and they are well on their way.
Maybe RED…….but maybe not, let’s hope the next election will tell a different story.
well, I agree with that Kathie, but that’ll be the Repubs that stop them. Nothing will between now and then tho, thereby setting the stage for the massive Repub victories in 2010
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I just don’t see the “massive republican victories” in 2010. The rep’s have no coherent leadership, no coherent plan, and no coherent message. They also have, at this point, a bench of worn out wannabe’s who have no idea of how to form the local kinds or organizations that win elections. Something Obama and the democrats have been very good at.
That just doesn’t add up to “massive victories” for me, no matter what happens economically.