Awesome news for those who support the Tea Party Tax revolt, it was announced today that so far about 1.5 million people are at the rally. Look at this picture via Instapundit:
DC Tea Party
If this 1.5 million number is true this means that about 500,000 more people have decided to show up to protest this president then showed up for his inauguration. In fact, Michelle Malkin is reporting that estimated turnout is now 2 million people!
These Tea Parties are designed as a way for grass root Americans to get together to protest the spending policies of this current administration. It’s clear that the Obama Administration has very little clue about how to handle the economic crisis we are in. His reckless policies have included a pork bill, sold as a stimulus bill, that has done almost nothing to actually stimulate the economy. Remember when Obama and the Democrats said that bill had to be passed by Friday or the whole economy would go up in flames and we could have as much as 9.5% unemployment. Well, it’s been several months now, unemployment is at 9.7% and the stimulus/porkulus bill has done nothing.
These proud Americans are tired of a government (both Democrats and Republicans) who are unresponsive to the will and needs of “The People”. The whole point of this movement is to show our representatives that we are not going to take it any more. I think 2 million people is a good start, that’s nearly 1% of the entire population!
Of course, the MSM and the Obama administration have chosen to totally ignore this event, it’s like it’s not even going on unless you are watching Fox.
Update
Here is a cool ariel timelapse of the crowd filling in the capitol, gives you some idea of what the crowds looked like:
September 12th, 2009 at 10:35 am
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September 12th, 2009 at 10:43 am
This is great for so many reasons. And to the Dems there just a bunch of criminals who work for the republican party.
September 12th, 2009 at 10:46 am
Update: The DC Police estimate the crowd at 1.2 million, ABC reporting 2 million, so I’m guessing the true size is probably somewhere between that, we may not know until later. Either way, this is a huge success.
September 12th, 2009 at 10:58 am
So, what’s this website income from ads and pop-ups, talk about overspending by google advertisers. Unite means listening as well as speaking your point, not just listen to fox news, rush, beck, etc. try reading from left and right news sorces. I’m too blessed to worry about any of these issues. But feel sorry that a very small group of money hungry bloggers and so called conservative journalists love to stir peoples emotions and sell themselvee, their soul, their eternal life, for a few points in the ratings and bank account. Try honesty, is eternally orgasmic.
September 12th, 2009 at 11:00 am
Pop ups, I have no idea what your point is. Please show me a single news site that isn’t ad supported. Check out Huff Po, or any of those sites and you’ll see that all have ads and lots of them. In any event, I don’t make jack off this, I blog because I enjoy discussing these issues with like-minded folks and exposing lefties for the frauds they are. Want to buy a better band of troll.
September 12th, 2009 at 11:09 am
Funny how the only coverage is on Fox.Barry is on msnbc and cnn yakking his healthcare…not a word about the tea party, or the numbers. How rude.
September 12th, 2009 at 11:14 am
I just saw somone on the Fox News Facebook page saying that they’d just heard the # at 1.7 million.
September 12th, 2009 at 11:22 am
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September 12th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Perspective:
1.5 million crowded into DC.
300 million in the USA.
0.5% turnout…that’s 1/2 of 1 percent of the people in the USA. Being generous, that’s 1% of the 150 million people that registered to VOTE in the Presidential Election.
After the economic disaster and war started/created and brought on by the Bush/Cheney administration years, Repugnuts have lost access to the will of the people to control initiatives via fear mongering and lying to people in this democracy. Monday the street sweepers in DC will be out be remove the trash dragged into to DC by this group of angry ‘out of power’ Tea Party followers and organizers. Monday the streets will have been cleaned up and the USA will get on with the business of being a democracy composed of adults.
September 12th, 2009 at 11:37 am
This is all about the rich [Republicans]who have been screwing the worker for decades not wanting to pay a few extra dollars a year in taxes so that their neighbor can have some sort of medical care. So what it boils down to is if you can’t afford the status ques or your workplace won’t or does not supply it you can just die. We don’t care if you die a horrible death, as long as we don’t have to pay for a fellow Americans care. What has happened to this country? The bankers steal, the companies steal from the public and no one in government wants too or cares to look at what is going on . As long as they are covered by golden policy’s and their family is they don’t really give a damn about anyone but themselves.
But remember who is protecting you rich SOBs the military is almost 100% minority’s who serve this country , not your snotty nosed Ivy League schooled children. The haves and have not’s are going to come to a head over this. Its not a free ride for anyone, everyone pays in and we get some good health care. I am sick of your greedy attitude about it. We are all Americans, if we are attacked again what are you going to do?? Lock the doors to your homes and let the have nots protect you??? Good luck on that one. You have to step up and help your fellow Americans if you don’t the system will and is collapsing and when you have no coverage and they are taking your homes and bank accounts to settle the medical bills I wonder what you will think then?
September 12th, 2009 at 11:51 am
If there are more people there than at the Obama inauguration, how come I can book a hotel in DC, for tonight? Back in January, you couldn’t get a hotel, motel, B&B or whatever. People were renting a room in their home, that’s how many people were there.
The reason why I and loads of other people can just write you guys off, though, is because you had no interest in the tens of millions of people protesting the Iraq War in 2003. I do find it sad that the only time your righties care is when you think the government will raise your taxes. Maybe there should have been a weekly paycheck deduction to fund that Iraq war.
September 12th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Also you can watch on C-Span.
September 12th, 2009 at 11:57 am
“pay a few extra dollars a year in taxes so that their neighbor can have some sort of medical care.”
if you are poor and have no health insurance hospitals treat you for free
that is the current system
September 12th, 2009 at 11:58 am
nbc just announced the numbers for the march on washington dc
4 maybe 5 people
September 12th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
I wonder how many of them have no health insurance? I wonder how many of them brought their guns with ‘em?
Storm the White House!
I don’t care if 50 million people are there. It’s all staged. That’s why no one cares about it much. It’s all staged. Armey’s army.
September 12th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
@liberalforever: I assure you this is not about rich republicans… it’s about gov’t control. Republicans, conservatives have more compassion in one little finger than all you damn liberal baby killing , gimme my free stuff stinking communists have combined. Get off your lazy azz and work…we had to, why not you?
And by the way, I choose where my charity dollars go, not you.
September 12th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Keep dreaming. More like 1500. Tops. You Repubs continue to whine like downtrodden white men, but guess what- NOBODY IS LISTENING! All you are doing is alienating the mainstream of your party and making continued election losses a guarantee. SO keep up with your uncivilized, uninformed mass-rants. You’re making yourselves look like the barbarians you to the rest of the world. You lost. Get used to it.
September 12th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
‘Republicans, conservatives have more compassion in one little finger than all you damn liberal baby killing , gimme my free stuff stinking communists have combined.’
this is just too funny….
September 12th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Pop ups and ads.
Is that like you popping up and adding ridiculous comments to threads ?
Man, if you think the 2 or 3 bucks these guys make off these ads is somehow capitalism run amok amongst the soul you prolly live on 50 cents a month in a dumpster.
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Liberal Forever;
“This is all about the rich [Republicans]who have been screwing the worker for decades not wanting to pay a few extra dollars a year in taxes so that their neighbor can have some sort of medical ”
You’re not knowing what you’re talkig about.
Actually if you’d pull your head out of the liberal feed bag you’d realizethat we actually want everyone to be insured ut not after weve paid for our care, your care, taxes on our benefits after having to deal with all the other crap you and Obama want us to pay for. Cars, houses, food, welfare, school, and now your stinking bandaids. Enough is enough.
We do want you to have healthcare. If anyone paid attention and Obama were honest you’d realize that fixing the private sector is what weve been asserting the whole time. I mean hell, hes already regulated everything else, why not the private insurance industry ? It would go a long wayto the point that the private sector would have enough competition to actually offer plans to qualified lower income brackets.
wise up
“So what it boils down to is if you can’t afford the status ques or your workplace won’t or does not supply it you can just die. We don’t care if you die a horrible death, as long as we don’t have to pay for a fellow Americans care.”
Bullsh*t
” What has happened to this country?”
You elected a jerk
“But remember who is protecting you rich SOBs the military is almost 100% minority’s who serve this country , not your snotty nosed Ivy League ”
Actually 75% of the military voted republican
” Its not a free ride for anyone,”
Bullsh*t
” everyone pays in and we get some good health care. I am sick of your greedy attitude about it.”
More bullsh*t
We are the mosr charitable giving demographic on the planet, and no, not everyone pays. Wake up.
We are all Americans, if we are attacked again what are you going to do?? Lock the doors to your homes and let the have nots protect you??? ”
That’l be on the messiahs watch and were closer to it than we have been in 8 years, no thanks to your wineya$$es
September 12th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Lie so hard.
The inauguration was multiple day event, okay ?
September 12th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Micky:
I choose not to live under a 9/11 fetish. Part of the social compact the Founders used to draft the Bill of Rights is that we give up some security for our liberties.
There will be another attack. Grown-ups accept that and live on.
We should’ve all grown up after the 9/11 and learned that we are susceptible to international violence like any other country.
Instead, we have been fighting our wars overseas since the CIvil War ended, with the blood of untold millions on our hands, civilians and combatants. Yet for us 9/11 is the the worst day in history, when in reality it was a mass tragedy like those that seem to happen almost every day in other parts of the world, to the indifference of so many Americans.
September 12th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Look, you can call me a liar all you want, but I’m providing a link to that estimate, http://michellemalkin.com, which, by the way is at 2 million people now. Obama’s inaug. was estimated at 1 million, so, by doing basic math (I know you libs struggle with the concept) I calculate that there are more people at the event. Of course, as lisa points out, it might as well be 5 people as far as the MSM reports.
Klo, your suggestion that this is staged is pretty funny. The idea that somehow the insurance companies are behind this is hilarious. Even when libs do pay for their union members to show up to these kinds of rallies they don’t get these kind of numbers, so what does that say? This is not a conservative movement, this is an American movement, plenty of Democrats were at the rally.
September 12th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Check out those picture on MM’s site, the crowd stretches the entire length of the mall, I’ve not seen a rally like that since the 60s.
September 12th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
… any idea how absurd it sounds to thinking people to say that there are 1.5 million people at this rally? You people have a inflated sense of your influence… which is why you are who you are.
September 12th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
That pic IS NOT from today.