Tea parties, town hall meetings
and other organized rejection of Obama's plans

It's comforting to see the people of the United States standing up to the socialists who have taken over Washington.  When President Obama started tossing around a trillion dollars at a time, it was an order of magnitude too far, and the rebellion began to show up on street corners on April 15, 2009.

More recently, the politicians are getting an earful from a spate of increasingly rowdy "town hall" meetings around the country.  This has the radicals on the far left very concerned.  So much, in fact, that there is apparently a new Snitch on Your Neighbor program brewing at the White House.

More recently, the Left has given us a sample of the upcoming Obama thugocracy at the town hall meetings.

The town hall meetings are primarily about public opposition to socialized medicine, also known as Obamacare.


Subsections on this page:

Tea parties

Comparison of Tea Party activists to the Oklahoma City bombers

The NAACP vs the Tea Party Movement

Biased news coverage of tea parties

The Tea Party Convention, Nashville, February 6, 2010.

Town hall meetings

A taste of the Obama thugocracy

Tea Party Crashers:  Infiltration and sabotage.

Which side is using "astroturf"?

Who is behind the "Coffee Party"?

Town hall meetings by phone



A general overview of the tea party phenomenon:
 The Tea Party Movement:  How We Got Here.  Something curious happened during the summer of 2008.  Democrats, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, shut down the House and C-SPAN cameras with a resolution that passed by just one vote, smack in the middle of an energy crisis.  Afterwards, Madame Speaker jetted off on a week-long book tour while gas prices soared.  The Republicans stood in the dark and refused to leave.

Another overview:
 Will the GOP Wake Up and Smell the Tea?  The Tea Parties were well named.  Like the Committees of Correspondence of the 1770s, they are the leading edge of a revolutionary change in American politics, one that has been gathering force for decades.  This is the third wave foreshadowed by the Reagan Revolution of the 80s and the Gingrich Revolution of the mid-90s.  It is a widespread national revolt against managerialism, administrative government, liberal paternalism, and the policies they embody.

Tea Party is not the Klan.  The amorphous nature of the Tea Party movement is one of its greatest strengths.  With no official national leader, no single spokesman, no party headquarters and no chairman, conventional wisdom should dictate no real measurable political impact.  Yet the impact is undeniable. ... Regular folks became very active, starting about a year and a half ago, working to take back their country.  Lacking faith in the leadership of both parties, and lacking the sophistication or budget of either the Republican or Democrat party, their message and tactics seemed crude to the Washington elite, in particular the national media.

The Sons and Daughters of Liberty.  Tea Party patriots know that it is necessary to scale back government intervention in the lives of the American people in order for the people to enjoy the blessings of liberty, including the prosperity that liberty can produce and sustain.  They understand that liberty is not received as a gift from government.  It belongs to the people as a God-given right, and government cannot be allowed to ignore or diminish it.

Confront a Liberal Today.  We're at a pivotal moment in American history.  Never in our lifetimes have the consequences of liberal big government been on such ubiquitous display, not only here, but everywhere we look.  The socialist democracies of Western Europe stand at the precipice of complete downfall.  Many of our own liberal states are facing the same bankrupt status.  Our own federal debt is choking the life out of any hope for quick recovery.  A president in so far over his head that he is drowning in his own useless rhetoric has become an embarrassment to the nation.

Just like the Founding Fathers...
 Tea Party Largely Older, Whiter, Male.  The Tea Party movement is comprised of a coalition that is more likely to be male, older and GOPer, loosely united under the banner of economic conservatism, according to an analysis released yesterday by a right-leaning research firm.

Stating the obvious.  The emergence and rapid growth of the Tea Party movement is due in large part to an increasing concern by taxpayers that our government has strayed too far from fiscal responsibility. ... A public that until a few years ago quietly trusted the job that its government has been doing in Washington is now focused like a laser beam on both the role of government and the careers of our leaders.  Tea Partiers' deepest fears for the future of our nation are being realized in Greece.

Who Are the Tea Partiers?  According to Gallup, tea partiers are no different from the rest of the country.  In terms of age, employment status, and educational background, the tea partiers are virtually the same as a cross-section of all U.S. adults.

Survey:  Four in 10 Tea Party members are Democrats or independents.  Four in 10 Tea Party members are either Democrats or Independents, according to a new national survey.  The findings provide one of the most detailed portraits to date of the grassroots movement that started last year.

Tea Party Vs. Obama.  Notwithstanding constant attacks on the Tea Party movement by the press, most notably false imputations of racism, a plurality of voters believe the Tea Party represents their views better than President Obama.

More Than a Quarter of Americans Are Supporters of Tea Party Movement.  More than a quarter of Americans describe themselves as supporters of the Tea Party movement, and the demographics of this group generally mirror the demographics of the national population, according to a USA Today/Gallup Poll.

Why the 'Angry Mob' Is Angry.  On election night, I grieved from knowing, knowing what was to come:  something utterly unlike the America in which I grew up with such hope and patriotic pride.  I wasn't alone in this, but at the time, I didn't know it.  From day one of Obama's presidency, the dismantling commenced. ... On April 15, 2009, I joined thousands across the country in attending our first protest.

It's the Constitution, Stupid:  What the Tea-Partiers Really Want.  The Democrats and their activist old media are running in circles and working themselves into pretzels trying to define the "Tea Party" movement.  It can be quite entertaining to watch.  They really have no idea what is happening right in front of their eyes.

Tea Parties:  Not Just For Scaring Democrats.  If one needs further evidence that the tea party movement is not just opposed to Democrats but to establishment politicians in general, look no further than the Texas GOP gubernatorial primary, set for March 2.  Tea party activist Debra Medina is surging, according to a new Public Policy Polling survey.

The Obama Problem:  It's the People, Stupid!  We-the-People have protested the increasingly apparent willful destruction of our economy, jobs and careers and liberties and freedoms by the Obama Administration for many months.  We have told Obama & Co — in no uncertain terms — that we want neither his totalitarian ObamaCare Death Plan nor his Cap & Tax based upon the global warming hoax; a hoax established by the Marxist elite to steal even more power and resources from the American people and ultimately the people of the world.

The spark that has triggered rebellion.  People are angry and frightened by the prospect of government running their health care system, but their anger goes far beyond a 1000 page health bill.  Health care reform is merely the spark that has touched off a prairie fire of grassroots rebellion among a people who believe their representatives do not represent them, do not listen to them and do not care what they think.

The gathering revolt against government spending.  What we are seeing is a spontaneous rush of previously inactive citizens into political activity, a movement symbolized but not limited to the Tea Party movement, in response to the vast increases in federal spending that began with the Troubled Asset Relief Program legislation in fall 2008 and accelerated with the Obama Democrats' stimulus package, budget and health care bills.

The Obama Resistance Grows.  The April 15th Tea Parties, belittled by the legacy media, were collectively the coming-out event of a new American resistance.  The cause then was out-of-control government spending.  Today, it's shifted to a wider focus on Obama's brand of socialism for America.

States Rebellion Pending.  Our constitutional ignorance — perhaps contempt, coupled with the fact that we've become a nation of wimps, sissies and supplicants — has made us easy prey for Washington's tyrannical forces.  But that might be changing a bit.  There are rumblings of a long overdue re-emergence of Americans' characteristic spirit of rebellion.  Eight state legislatures have introduced resolutions declaring state sovereignty under the Ninth and 10th amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

Obamacare sparking 10th Amendment rebellion, action in seven states.  Looks like the steadily growing list of constitutional, ethical and political outrages that constitute the Harry Reid version of Obamacare is sparking a rebellion in the states, as AP reports South Carolina's attorney general plans to investigate the vote-buying that surrounded the proposal in the Senate majority leader's office.

Kentucky's Answer to Unconstitutional Federal Actions.  Over the course of the past two hundred and twenty-two years, we have forgotten many of the basic principles that were fresh in Thomas Jefferson's mind when he drafted the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798. ... Foremost of the forgotten principles is the fact that the states were fully autonomous before uniting under a contract known as the Constitution.  Each state voluntarily gave up a portion of its sovereignty, but never surrendered it completely, in joining the United States.

The backlash begins:
 Eleven States Declare Sovereignty Over Obama's Action.  State governors — looking down the gun barrel of long-term spending forced on them by the Obama "stimulus" plan — are saying they will refuse to take the money.  This is a Constitutional confrontation between the federal government and the states unlike any in our time.  In the first five weeks of his presidency, Barack Obama has acted so rashly that at least 11 states have decided that his brand of "hope" equates to an intolerable expansion of the federal government's authority over the states.

Are the States About to Slap the Runaway Fed Down to Constitutional Size?  On February 5, 2009, I released a column titled "New Hampshire Leads Next American Revolution!"  At the time, only a handful of states had introduced legislative efforts to reclaim state sovereignty under the Ninth and Tenth Amendments of the US Constitution. ... Today, the number of states claiming state sovereignty, some outlining specific federal actions that have far more to do with usurping the US Constitution than upholding it, has grown to at least thirty two ...

Left ignores unprecedented federal power grab.  Apparently, I'm not the only one disturbed by what's transpiring in Washington.  Some 20 states have introduced "sovereignty bills" designed to reinforce their rights and remind those running the federal government that there's a little thing called the 10th Amendment.  Tennessee is one of those states with a sovereignty bill pending.  It was recently filed by state Rep. Susan Lynn, R-Mt. Juliet.  It simply states that the federal government cannot assume powers and impose mandates not constitutionally allowed.

Whatever Happened to States' Rights?  On Tuesday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry issued a statement in support of a state resolution supporting states' rights under the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.  "I believe that our federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state," Perry stated.

The Battle In The States:  Freedom Vs Protection.  Across the nation, state legislatures are struggling to take back their Constitutional rights as they also seek ways to protect us from outside threats.  This has led to some near schizophrenic legislative sessions with laws swinging widely from left to right. ... Legislation dealing with protecting the integrity of the Tenth Amendment and state sovereignty has been introduced across the nation, passing in at least 21 states.  The states are reacting to the frightening growth of the federal government through anti-terrorist legislation such as the Patriot Act and Real ID, as well as the outrageous spending included in the bailout and stimulus bills.

New Hampshire Leads Next American Revolution!  Americans fed up with the unbridled endless federal assault on private earnings, assets and rights, and looking for what they can do to put a stop to the rush of socialist tyranny being fast-tracked through the leftist congress, or signed into law by Obamessiah executive order, should take a close look at what the New Hampshire legislature has already done!  Four New Hampshire legislators introduced HCR-6 to re-invoke states rights enumerated in Jefferson's and Madison's Kentucky Resolutions of 1798.

Tea Party Crowds Protest Federal Spending And Intervention.  Critics dismiss the phenomenon as little more than a sharply partisan attack on President Barack Obama and the Democrats.  But the protesters say their cause represents something bigger:  a collective yell of "I'm not going to take it anymore" from the American taxpayer.

Tea party against Obama policies held in Cape Coral.  Hundreds filled Jaycee Park on Wednesday for a tea-themed show of populist outrage.  Holding banners decrying socialism, the prospect of government health care and Washington's massive stimulus spending, the group booed President Barack Obama, knocked local spending and read clips from the Constitution.

Take Your Money and Shove It, Governors Tell Obama.  Tossing bags of billions of federal bucks at state and local governments desperately in need of cash hasn't everywhere elicited tears of gratitude or knees bent in thanksgiving to the Obama administration.  In South Carolina, Governor Mark Sanford says he is turning down $700 million in stimulus money for education.  This ignited chaos among lawmakers, predictions of doom from educators, protests from the citizenry and a thicket of legal opinions about whether the state can get the money, anyway.

Here's the real story behind the Tea Party Protests.  "Tea Party" protests have sprung up in multiple cities across the country since Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed the economic stimulus bill into law as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.  As much as I rejoice in the sight of legions of fed-up Americans taking to the streets to protest the central government's colossal waste of the first fruits of their labors, it is important that people The Problem With 'Nationalization' understand that the original Boston Tea Party was neither spontaneous nor a mere lark.

Hundreds of Iowans thrown out of public hearing.  More than 500 people who are upset with a plan to change Iowa's tax laws were cleared from a hearing tonight [3/31/2009] at the Iowa House after they interrupted multiple times.  House Speaker Pat Murphy, D-Dubuque, cleared the crowd at about 8:30 p.m.  The decision brought about loud protests as the crowd was escorted from the chambers by Iowa State Patrol officers.

The Battle in the States: Freedom Vs Protection.  Across the nation, state legislatures are struggling to take back their Constitutional rights as they also seek ways to protect us from outside threats.  This has led to some near schizophrenic legislative sessions with laws swinging widely from left to right.  Making it more difficult to get a handle on the situation is the fact that there has been an outgrowth of near "rabid" anti-immigration groups that have sprung up demanding near-Hitler-style tactics to "fix" the problem.

April 15th Tea Party Protests Must Demand Geithner Resignation.  Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner represents the worst of the government's current financial excesses.  Considering Geithner cheated on his income taxes, April 15 would be an appropriate day to demand his resignation.

Ralliers in Quincy say they're 'taxed enough already'.  Rep. Jil Tracy, R-Mount Sterling, repeated one of her favorite sayings, that federal and state governments do not have a revenue problem but an endless spending problem — and it's not unique to one party.  "I see many people coming together today in a bipartisan fashion as American citizens united.  We have to ask our public officials to be accountable, fiscally responsible and to use common sense as to how to solve problems," Tracy said.  "This is the way we will change things.  It can be done, and it will be done if you stay united, you get involved, you keep abreast of the issues.  Don't trust we politicians to think for you.  You have a voice, and you can think for yourself."

Quincy Tax Day Tea Party.  On December 16, 1773, a group of Boston colonists angry over the British Parliament's tax policies and the British East India Co.'s tea monopoly, raided ships and dumped their tea shipments into the harbor.  236 years later, Quincy's riverfront was the site for a symbolic re-enactment of that well known protest on taxation, company bailouts, uncontrolled government spending and control by a far-away government.

Attacking the Tea Party Movement.  Those on the left have spent so much time over the past eight years bashing George Bush that they are having trouble shifting gears.  Instead of enjoying their big win in 2008 and going positive, following their leader Obama's "hope and change" message, they are still tearing down anyone who doesn't agree with them.

Patriots Understand More Than You Think.  I don't know how [some people believe] that those against illegal immigration are willing to give up some of their liberties in order to stop the border invasion.  Maybe those that believe what the federal government says and does is enough to allow our freedoms to erode[,] when in-fact, the border invasion is a military matter and should not be a civilian action requirement, but has to be, since the feds want it that way.

The Meaning of the Tax Day Tea Parties:  A new grassroots phenomenon is sweeping the nation — Tax Day Tea Parties.  One of the leading sponsoring organizations, the American Family Association (AFA), has announced on its website that AFA TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party Day rallies on April 15 are now scheduled in 1,837 cities.

Tea Party Poseurs Sent By Left Working To Undermine Big Day.  "Just this morning, I received word that a new radical organization calling itself "A New Way Forward" has put together an underhanded sneak attack designed to undercut the popular uprising known as the Tea Party Movement," Bill Wilson, of Americans for Limited Government (ALG), warned mainstreet Americans yesterday.  "Simply put, their idea is to stage phony rallies throughout the country on April 11 — made to look like they are part of the Tea Party movement — while actually opposing Tea Party principles and supporting the complete government takeover of our banking system."

Hundreds to gather for Tax Day protest.  A national wave of populist unrest will crest on Tax Day this week as protesters gather in hundreds of cities around Michigan and across the country to express their opposition to taxes and increased government spending and intrusion.  Organizers say 1,000 people could gather at noon Wednesday on the grounds of the State Capitol in Lansing for a Michigan Taxpayer Tea Party to register their displeasure with government.

Coast-to-coast tea parties put lawmakers on notice.  Americans took to the streets to protest wasteful government spending today [4/15/2009] -- with estimated crowd sizes of 5,000 to 15,000 in Atlanta, San Antonio, Oklahoma City, Olympia, Wash., Lansing, Mich., and Sacramento.

Obama's Recipe For Change Not My Cup of Tea.  I had no idea how important this week's nationwide anti-tax tea parties were until hearing liberals denounce them with such ferocity.  The New York Times' Paul Krugman wrote a column attacking the tea parties, apologizing for making fun of "crazy people."

Tea Parties: Real Grassroots.  Around America, taxpayers have had enough.  Fed up with excessive spending, planned tax increases and a federal government that first caused the financial bubble through misregulation, and then grabbed power in order to "fix" it, they're hitting the streets to protest.

TARP the Life Insurers?  This Is Nuts.  The public is clamoring for and end to TARP and bailout nation.  That's a key message coming from the heartland tea parties that are cropping up spontaneously around the country.

Taxpayers Get Really Tea-ed Off.  The Boston Tea Party helped free us from an oppressive king.  This week's nationwide anti-stimulus tea party demonstrations have a tougher goal:  ending the tyranny of big-spending politicians.

Tea Parties about Far More than Taxes.  Many writers have dubbed the Tax Day Tea Parties as inconsequential, a fad that will die quickly, and of foolish origins that have nothing to do with the American patriots of revolutionary days.  Patriots dumped a ship full of tea into Boston Harbor, these folks contend, to protest one thing:  taxation without representation.  We modern patriots have representation and are therefore insane to protest, or so this line of argument goes.

Lefties to try and discredit tea parties.  Liberals are making fun of conservative "paranoia" over attempts to discredit the tea parties by activists on the left but, as we know, they never let the facts stand in the way of a good fantasy. ... Sounds like the left may be a little worried about the tea party phenomenon.

The Tea Party Revolution:  Because these events are highly decentralized, with no significant institutional organization or funding behind them, they represent a genuine outpouring of grassroots opinion with enormous political importance.  For every person out in the streets today, there are undoubtedly many more who didn't make it who share the same opinions.

Tax Day Becomes Protest Day.  Today American taxpayers in more than 300 locations in all 50 states will hold rallies — dubbed "tea parties" — to protest higher taxes and out-of-control government spending.  There is no political party behind these rallies, no grand right-wing conspiracy, not even a 501(c) group like MoveOn.org.  So who's behind the Tax Day tea parties? Ordinary folks who are using the power of the Internet to organize.

Republicans and the Tea Parties:  Derided by elitists as phony, the tea-party movement is spontaneous, decentralized, frequently amateurish and sometimes shrill.  If it has a father it is CNBC's Rick Santelli, who called for holding a tea party in Chicago on July 4.  Yesterday's gatherings were made up of people who may never meet again (there's no central collection point for email addresses).  But the concerns driving people to tea parties are real, growing and powerful.  Politicians ignore them at their peril.

Rally 'round the bag: Thousands turn out for downtown Tea Party.  No one could accuse East Texans of political apathy on Wednesday, when an estimated 2,000 protesters packed the downtown square in Nacogdoches to rally against big government, taxes and reckless spending.  Wielding American flags and sporting signs written with both wit and anger, the crowds assembled on Pilar Street at the Plaza Principal stage to hear local speakers talk about responsible government and to hear musical acts in celebration of liberty and other political ideals.

The Tea Parties.  They resemble nothing so much as the anti-war protests during Bush's first term.  The claim that they don't have an organizing premise strikes me as obviously wrong:  They're anti-bailout, anti-stimulus, anti-deficit, and anti- the tax increases that will eventually be required to pay for the current spending spree, and complaining that they don't also have a ten-point plan for reforming Medicare and Social Security reflects a misunderstanding of the nature of protest marches, I think.

Tea Party protests:  Could they rally change in government?  Two months ago, 300 people showed up in a cold, pouring rain at Georgia's State Capitol as part of the first stirrings of a modern-day Tea Party movement, protesting Washington's expanding reach and a ballooning federal deficit.  Wednesday night, Edward Johnson, in a tricorn hat and Paul Revere coat, watched Act II:  The capitol square here filled up with more than 10,000 protesters waving signs that said, among other things, "Welcome to Sweden" and "Don't tax me, bro!"

Tea Parties:  What's Next?  Most agree that that capitalizing upon the momentum generated by an estimated 2,500 tea parties nationwide on April 15 would be of great benefit to the GOP.  But whether or not those efforts should be centrally coordinated — or if they are even able to be centrally coordinated — is a matter of hot debate.

Million Taxpayer March.  Let's use liberal math to calculate attendance at this week's nationwide Tax Day Tea Party protests.  When left-wing activists make crowd estimates, the algorithm is: six figures = one million.  An incomplete survey of newspaper accounts and organizer estimates pegged the Tea Party protest population at a minimum of 250,000.  We can now, therefore, officially call it the Million Taxpayer March.

Tea Party System.  Less than three months after a landmark election, throngs of demonstrators everywhere gathered to object to the revolution that our new president is steamrolling into law.  It was a landmark protest in the history of the republic.  But how can the voices of tens if not hundreds of thousands of angry taxpayers be turned into concrete political action?

Liberal actress says tea parties were racist.  Liberal actress and political activist Janeane Garofalo, in all seriousness, said activists who attended tea parties are racists with dysfunctional brains in a recent prime-time television appearance. ... [Keith] Olbermann did not once try to challenge her on those assertions.

Alamo Plaza filled with tea party crowd.  The San Antonio Tea Party kicked off today with a live broadcast by Fox News talk show host Glenn Beck and a few thousand flag-waving, sign-holding supporters in front of the Alamo.

GOP govs: Tea parties naturally brewed.  Republican Govs. Mark Sanford of South Carolina and Haley Barbour of Mississippi insisted Thursday that the anti-tax tea party phenomenon dominating the news cycle represented a serious movement ?bubbling up? around the country.

Thousands show up for Dallas 'tea party'; Rick Perry fires up rallies.  At least eight North Texas municipalities, and about 1,000 municipalities nationwide, hosted tea party events.  Police estimated several thousand people attended the Dallas event, with protesters waving yellow "don't tread on me" flags and a variety of signs alternately decrying taxes, panning a federal economic stimulus package and chiding Obama as a socialist/communist.

Thousands across U.S. let off steam at tax-day Tea.  With The Alamo as a backdrop, thousands of Texans here joined demonstrators across the nation Wednesday to protest federal spending, corporate bailouts and taxes.  "The Alamo is the perfect symbolic place to hold this rally," said Carl Benton, a Michigan native who moved to Texas a decade ago.  "This is where people who had held deep convictions made the ultimate sacrifice for freedom."

Texas governor suggests ... secession?  Texas Gov. Rick Perry fired up an anti-tax "tea party" Wednesday [4/15/2009] with his stance against the federal government and for states' rights as some in his U.S. flag-waving audience shouted, "Secede!"  An animated Perry told the crowd at Austin City Hall — one of three tea parties he was attending across the state — that officials in Washington have abandoned the country's founding principles of limited government.  He said the federal government is strangling Americans with taxation, spending and debt.

Altered States:  How to Succeed at Seceding.  Long Island's latest quest to split from New York and become its own state had a promising start last year. ... Objections from the rest of New York effectively killed the idea, but attempts to make Long Island a state will almost certainly return.  The proposal was just the most recent in a series of statehood crusades, usually arising from complaints of unfair taxation.

The Left Is Making a Mistake in Ridiculing the Tea Parties.  The political Left in the United States is making a grave mistake in diminishing and dismissing the anger of the American people.  Where it may be common place for liberals, Leftists, neo-Marxists and Progressive-Leftists to take to the streets over anything and everything, including a change of wind direction, it is entirely a different story with conservatives and Republicans.  Conservatives and Republicans don't march in the streets for anything.  The fact that they have now taken to the streets in protest of massive government spending and government's encroachment into our liberties speaks volumes to those who would listen.

Hail the tea bag, weapon of terror.  "Tea-bag parties" erupted — and "erupted" is the correct verb — across the country on April 15, celebrated by joyous "progressive" taxpayers and loathed by everybody else as the day to report the intimate details of your life, along with cash, to the Internal Revenue Bureau (which the bureau insists that we call not a bureau but a "service").  Bureau or service, it's run by bureaucrats, not servants, and always the target of April ire.

A Very Polite Tea Party.  The demonstrations drew more than 250,000 supporters and some openly hostile news coverage, as reporters painted the gatherings as rage-fests filled with antigovernment crackpots.  Ben [Hobbs], who laid aside his tools to head to the tea party, was unsurprised by the tone of the coverage.  After all, he said, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano had just labeled small-government entrepreneurs like him potentialterrorist threats.

Government forgets its true duty.  A TEA (Taxed Enough Already!) party was conducted in the city park in Chillicothe on Income Tax Day, Wednesday.  Those of us who participated were there because we love our country; and because we love our country, we could not keep silent.  As Martin Luther King Jr. once said:  "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."  So we were there to voice our protest of an out-ofcontrol government that is unable to put a rein on its irresponsible spending.

The truths behind the tea parties:  [At the tea-party protests held on Tax Day], the message was one of great skepticism about the efficacy of the government's remedies and great apprehension about the expense (along with some of the extremist lunacy that accompanies any mass movement).  The scale of the federal response to the crises has come as a frightening surprise to many Americans, who suspect the cure will be worse, and less transitory, than the disease.

CNN's Begala:  Tea Party Goers 'Wimpy, Whiney, Weasels Who Don't Love Their Country'.  On Friday's Hannity on FNC, host Sean Hannity played a clip of liberal CNN contributor Paul Begala as he was interviewed by Don Imus, in which Begala engaged in name-calling against Tax Day Tea Party participants.

Thou Shall Not Question Barack Obama.  Perhaps they just don't want to think through the details.  Then again — maybe some of them don't have the capacity to think through the details.  I'm referring to the apparent plethora of partisan, passionate, "see-no-evil" Obama minions, who become outraged should any of the rest of us ask questions about the forty-fourth President.

Question Democratic authority? Not!  The mainstream media and the Democratic Party —one and the same these days —spent much of the last week furiously attacking the grass-roots tea party protest movement as somehow illegitimate —or worse.  Days before the uniformly peaceful and patriotic gatherings took place, Homeland Security czar Janet Napolitano conveniently issued a bizarre report slandering military veterans and assorted right-leaning groups as racist, homegrown terrorism threats.  News anchors resorted to prime-time "tea-bagging" jokes in frequent attempts to mock the participants' grievances.

Shall We Texans Secede?  With Fedzilla accelerating its gluttonous orgy of unaccountability and ramping up its wanton blow torching of our paychecks with blatant impunity, we the people are once again de-sheeping, stepping forward, and in the grand tradition of Martin Luther King Jr., peaceably marching in protest with the defiant Tea Party spirit of 1773.

America's Tea Parties.  The crowd was energetic and well behaved.  I got to talking to a few people.  ACORN was nowhere near the area.  I was told that public reaction to them was:  "You know where you can put your acorns."  Ah, so much for intimidating real Americans.  They had two Obamatons there with a sign, "Give change a chance."  Most of them were confronted by women who spoke their mind.  For me, they can keep the change and pay for it, and leave me out of it!

I Attended a Tea Party.  Even I, who try to avoid crowds, attended a gathering here in the San Fernando Valley.  If you believe the creeps in the MSM — and why would you? — we were all dues-paying members of political fringe groups, and none of us would think about leaving the house without first donning our little aluminum hats.  If you believe Janet Napolitano — and how could you? — we were not merely man-created disasters like Somali pirates and Islamic butchers, but full-fledged terrorists.  Some among us even confessed to being military veterans.  Well, either she is very wrong or I am.

Perception of Tea Parties was incorrect.  I was at the Tea Party in St. Paul.  I apparently hung out at the wrong end of the Capital grounds, though, because I missed all of those angry, extremist, Obama-haters who I'm told were there.  Instead, at my end of the mall, I saw thousands of average, hard-working Minnesota taxpayers (many with family in tow) respectfully voicing deep concerns about the future of our country.  Some were wearing suits.  Most were wearing jeans or shorts.  A few were in biker leathers.  I missed all the folks in camo and face paint and saw no one brandishing their semiautomatic.

So what did we learn from tea parties?  From White House officials to actors with time on their hands, it was not enough to simply disagree with the tea party cornerstone of lower taxes and spending.  The Americans attending these events had to be eviscerated as mobs of evil, violent psychopaths.

Montana Fires a Warning Shot over States' Rights.  Montana is trying to trigger a battle over gun control — and perhaps make a larger point about what many folks in this ruggedly independent state regard as a meddlesome federal government.  In a bill passed by the Legislature earlier this month, the state is asserting that guns manufactured in Montana and sold in Montana to people who intend to keep their weapons in Montana are exempt from federal gun registration, background check and dealer-licensing rules because no state lines are crossed.

The American People Deserve Better From Their Elected Representatives.  Among the political class it has apparently become acceptable, and even fashionable, for American politicians from the President on down to mock the citizens they represent.  In a development that can only further denigrate the discourse necessary to any effective democracy, politicians and the "serious" news media are now mocking citizens regularly and with impunity.

Tea partiers get riled up in Pasadena.  Dozens of people gathered on the steps of Pasadena City Hall Friday [5/1/2009] to advocate for lower taxes, government spending, and stand up against what they view as a burgeoning socialist threat.

Arrogant politicians fuel Tea Party protests.  Oppressive tax hikes, runaway federal spending, and a spiraling national debt that will burden generations to come were among the most frequently cited worries of the700,000 or more people who turned out April 15 for the Tea Party Protests held in more than 750 cities across the country.  But as important as those three issues are, a statement published Friday [5/8/2009] by the Examiner from a national coordinating group of the nascent movement points to an even more fundamental concern.

More on Those Dangerous 'Right-Wing Extremists'.  Our review and monitoring of public meetings and publications in Virginia have brought to our attention two individuals who fit these profiles and who, in our informed law enforcement opinion, are right-wing extremists who pose an imminent danger to the United States, particularly the federal government.

House bypasses governor's veto to claim Oklahoma's sovereignty.  Although Gov. Brad Henry vetoed similar legislation 10 days earlier, House members Monday again approved a resolution claiming Oklahoma's sovereignty.  Unlike House Joint Resolution 1003, House Concurrent Resolution 1028 does not need the governor's approval.

Rick Perry:  States will 'assert their independence'.  Gov. Rick Perry said Thursday that he expects to see a number of states follow his home state of Texas in pushing resolutions that will "assert their independence from the federal government."  "If this administration gets its way, we'll all be the same.  We'll all be the way Washington wants us to be," Perry said on a call with Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) and roughly 20,000 callers, which was sponsored by the Republican Governors Association and billed as Tea Party 2.0.

Can States Protect Themselves Against Massive Health Care Intrusion?  Alabama State Rep. Mac Gipson, R-Prattville, will introduce in the 2010 session of the Legislature the Alabama Care Freedom Act constitutional amendment that will protect the rights of patients to make their own health care choices.  Further, his measure prohibits penalties levied on patients for declining participation in any big government passed Pelosi/Obama health care plan.  To date, 22 states have introduced similar initiatives.

Obama's vast agenda sparks concern.  With a set of proposals that will increase federal spending to $3.7 trillion next year now on the table, policy analysts, including some Democrats, are asking whether President Obama is promising more than he can deliver and more than taxpayers can afford.

In California, Voters Stage Massive "Tea Party" at the Polls!  Despite the threat of being dismissed as right wing extremists by left wing extremists, California voters staged a massive "tea party" at the polls on Tuesday [5/19/2009] to protest proposals by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the state Legislature (mostly Democrats) to raise taxes without derailing runaway spending.

Warning to Obama in California vote.  California voters sent one heckuva message Tuesday [6/19/2009], as they unceremoniously shot down attempts by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state legislative leaders of both parties to raise their taxes, again.  The politicos wanted the additional revenues to cover their $44 billion worth of over-spending, aka the state budget deficit.  Voters said no, decisively...

Terminating illusions in California.  California is the beta state, where everything new is tried and then exported, true or not.  Rap, rock, lavender love, student riots, Arianna Huffington, hot rods and the Hula Hoop.  Ronald Reagan and the tax revolt.  The illusion that you can have it all, and somebody else will pay for it.  This week California's voters offered a view of what happens when big government finally grinds to a noisy halt.  Barack Obama could take note.  The state of California, alas, is busted.  Broke.

California Clarity.  Californians' rejection of five tax-and-spend ballot measures on Tuesday's ballot was the first outcome of a national tea party movement that elitists can no longer dismiss.

What's coming up for future 'tea party' protests?  It was somewhat surprising to hear from numerous folks that their beef wasn't just with Obama's economic policies.  Time and again, people said they'd been just as upset with what they saw as profligate spending under Bush.  Tim Lee was typical.  A councilman from suburban Atlanta's Cobb County.  "The Republicans," he said, "were doing just as bad for eight years."

The Editor says...
 Republicans were bad about spending, but the Democrats in 2009 have been four and a half times as bad.

Heads Up, Tea Party Patriots!  Mired in red tape, the 4th Annual New Hampshire Live Free or Die Rally will be the testing ground on whether July 4th Tea Parties will be squashed throughout the United States of America.  Suppressing dissent followed hard on the heels of state-wide April 15 Tea Parties when Department of Homeland Security head honcho Janet Napolitano fingered returning war veterans as right-wing "extremists".

Tenth Amendment Movement Aims to Give Power Back to the States.  Fed up with Washington's involvement in everything from land use to gun control to education spending, states across the country are fighting back against what they say is the federal government's growing intrusion on their rights.  At least 35 states have introduced legislation this year asserting their power under the Tenth Amendment to regulate all matters not specifically delegated to the federal government by the Constitution.

After Obama Fails.  A failed presidency for Barack Obama could turn into liberalism's worst nightmare.  Barely six months into his term, the 44th president has succeeded in generating the most widespread and serious discussion of secession since the Civil War.  Despite what Newsweek's Evan Thomas may claim, Obama is not the "God" who will bring us together but the autocratic sponsor of an overbearing, oppressive leviathan from which a growing number of Americans are seeking refuge.

Large Democratic Donors Help Shut Down July 4 Atlanta Tea Party.  A real estate company whose owners have contributed heavily to Democratic causes apparently used articles and content on conservative blogs to justify bringing about pressure to shut down an Atlanta tea party protest scheduled for the Fourth of July — an event that organizers estimated would attract 20,000 people.  The apparent plot was uncovered when blogger and radio talk show host Andrea Shea King noticed an unusual amount of traffic coming to her site earlier this month.

From Jimmy Carter to Barack Obama:  A Horror Story.  On Independence Day, nearly 1,500 or more protest rallies, "Tea parties," will be held in America from coast to coast.  Their message will not be lost on Congress though you can be sure the slavish mainstream news media will do what they can to mislead the public into believing they were minor events. ... In October 2010, Americans will have an opportunity to neuter this narcissist, this pretender in the White House.  It is time to prepare for the midterm elections.  It is time to take America back from the liberals that are ruining it.

Tea Party's organizers hope to draw 50,000 to Southfork Ranch.  Southfork Ranch, the symbol of Dallas and doing things big, is the stage Saturday for the largest tea party in the nation, aimed at attracting 50,000 folks for fireworks, both in the air and from the microphone.

Tea Party Protests Rally Against Taxes.  There have been fireworks for a different sort this Independence Day.  Thousands of protestors held rallies in cities across the country, protesting big government, and big government spending... "Letting Congress and the federal government know that we're displeased — we are very, very displeased with what they are doing to us and what they are doing to our future children," said Joe Stephanelli, from Morristown, Ohio.

Texas-size Tea Party.  Brewing interest in The Woodlands Tea Party and its concerns with government came to a full head of steam Thursday [7/2/2009] evening at an event that brought thousands to Conroe's Lone Star Expo Center.  Tea Party organizers began forming events following Tax Day in April, with momentum growing to draw participants from across the greater Houston area to hear Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher, who headlined the event.

Taxed Enough Already?  Nationwide July 4 TEA Parties Scheduled .  From the East to West Coasts and in the heartland in between, and to the wilds of Alaska, the Tea Party tax protests are enthusiastically continuing. Over the July 4 holiday, TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party rallies are already planned in 1,267 cities and towns across the nation, and the list grows longer as more volunteers who feel they have been taxed enough join the effort.

Schenley Park Tea Party rally blasts President Obama.  National and local conservative activists rallying in Schenley Park Saturday [7/4/2009] said their organizational firepower is leagues ahead of where they were in 1994, when Newt Gingrich's Republican Revolution picked up dozens of congressional seats. ... If so, President Obama and his allies in the House and Senate might want to pay attention to what happened yesterday morning on Flagstaff Hill.

Joe the Plumber joins Zilker 'tea party'.  Wurzelbacher, wearing cowboy boots, jeans and a T-shirt, said that he's not going to change his mind over time on what he believes — and he believes that abortion and same-sex marriage are wrong, that owning guns is an important right and that torturing terrorists isn't wrong.

Holiday marked by anti-tax Tea Parties.  Fourth of July "Tea Party" rallies, picnics, marches and other demonstrations were scheduled across the country Saturday [7/4/2009] to protest what organizers say is record federal spending and taxes by the Obama administration that enlarges government and threatens the nation's prosperity.

Cincinnati Tea Party packs Bethel community center.  When the Cincinnati Tea Party decided to hold a meeting in Bethel, organizers expected 15 to 20 people to attend.  But Bethel residents surprised the group when more than 100 people packed the village's community center Monday, July 6, for the Cincinnati Tea Party's first meeting there.

Change is Coming, Brought to you by Socialism.  Over the weekend hundreds and thousands of American citizens gathered at grassroots "Tea Parties" coast to coast to protest Barack Obama's massive expansion by government.  During his campaign, Mr. Obama repeatedly said he wanted to be a "transformational" President.  Now, that transformation appears to be from a government "of... by... and for" to govern over the people.  Lately, this has been in the form of "cap and trade," which will give government the ultimate power over the industrial sector of the economy.

A Constitution in Full Crisis II.  More than 32 states are working to pass 10th Amendment resolutions aimed at reclaiming both state sovereignty and states rights.  More than 40 states will complete that process in the coming months. ... The states MUST remind the Fed that it is NOT an oligarchy of unelected Czars free to run roughshod over the people and the states.  Rather that the Fed exists and serves at the pleasure of the states and the people, and is limited in authority to ONLY those matters assigned it in the Constitution.

The Real Reason Americans are Angry:  The message of the various Tea Party protests, which predated this summer's ahistorical media panic over town hall "lynch mobs," has been pretty simple, says Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks, the nonprofit that has helped organize the protests, told Reason magazine this spring.  "It was:  stop spending so much money, stop borrowing so much money, and stop bailing out people who were irresponsible."

Locals heading to D.C. for another TEA party protest.  The national organizers expect protesters to meet in D.C., lobby lawmakers and gather support against health care reform two days after President Obama addresses a joint session of Congress.  Organizers quoted in the New York Times said the protest could be "the largest gathering of fiscal conservatives ever."

To cry of 'Nobama,' Morristown tea party urges government restraint.  Labor Day barbecues took a back seat yesterday [9/7/2009] to a political "tea party" in Morristown that drew about 2,000 people who waved flags, hoisted placards and donned red-white-and-blue outfits to demonstrate their dissatisfaction with the federal government.

A march on Washington.  The armies of "tea party" conservatives who packed town-hall meetings last month to oppose President Obama's $1 trillion government health care plan bring their protest movement to the Capitol on Saturday [9/12/2009] to urge its defeat.  Those who thought the hundreds of April 15 tax-day rallies across the country were a flash-in-the-pan phenomenon had better think again.

Tea Party Express roars to D.C.  When the "tea party" movement kicked off in April to protest record federal spending bills, trillion-dollar deficits and higher tax burdens, its members were fiercely independent and opposed any suggestion that they bond with a larger umbrella group, preferring to work within their local communities.  But that go-it-alone approach is changing as a result of the war over health care, and the Tea Party Express tour is leading the way.

Tea Party Patriots Cheer Congressman Joe Wilson vs. Obama.  Fast forward to Friday morning in Hartford.  An estimated 1,500 Tea Party Patriots had gathered outside the state Capitol to hear multiple speeches against the health care plan and in favor of freedom.  During his remarks, national tea party organizer Mark Williams was cut off in mid-sentence by the roars from the crowd when he said, "Joe Wilson, the Congressman who stood up."  He did not get to finish his sentence as the applause from the crowd drowned him out.

NRO at the 912 March.  As a journalist who wears his cynicism like a badge of honor, to say that today's tea party protest wildly exceeded my expectations would be an understatement.  I've yet to see a reliable estimate of the crowd size and the cops seemed bound and determined to keep any photographers away from any high vantage points, but I'd be shocked if it wasn't well into six figures.

Up to two million march to US Capitol to protest against Obama's spending.  Up to two million people marched to the U.S. Capitol today, carrying signs with slogans such as "Obamacare makes me sick" as they protested the president's health care plan and what they say is out-of-control spending.  The line of protesters spread across Pennsylvania Avenue for blocks, all the way to the capitol, according to the Washington Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency.

Thousands of Anti-Obama Protestors March in D.C..  When organizers for the Taxpayer March on Washington said they expected tens of thousands of people Saturday, they weren't kidding.  Tea Party protestors completely blocked Pennsylvania Ave. from 14th Street, NW, to the U.S. Capitol.  The crowds were so dense that organizers for the event decided to start the speeches and march earlier than the scheduled 11:30 a.m. time.

March in September.  The long-term consequences of this and the preceding populist gatherings are hard to predict.  We may see a more libertarian Republican party.  A huge turnout for 2010 may result.  New, real outsiders may enter politics.  And, of course, these protests may scare the dickens out of lawmakers.

Anti-Government Protests Draws Tens of Thousands to D.C..  Tens of thousands of conservative protesters crowded outside the U.S. Capitol on Saturday, a massive demonstration aimed at stopping what organizers called the over-expansion of the federal government under the Obama administration.  "Hell hath no fury like a taxpayer ignored," declared Andrew Moylan, head of government affairs for the National Taxpayer Union, urging protesters to call their representatives.  "You're being ignored today by the media and some politicians."

Quick Impressions of the D.C. 9/12 Protest:  Big crowd.  Do not believe any description that says "thousands."  If there weren't at least a healthy six figures there, I will permanently revoke my head-counting license.  Nineteen out of 20 signs were hand-made.

Tea partiers march on U.S. Capitol.  Hundreds of thousands of taxpayers are now storming Washington, D.C., and taking their fight against excessive spending, bailouts, growth of big government and soaring deficits to the front door of the U.S. Capitol.

Obama's Titanic arrogance and the folly of ignoring the masses on 9/12.  I was at the 9/12 Rally on the Capital Lawn.  Like a lot of people I took the time, effort and expense to go to the seat of power and be counted with my fellow American Patriots.  I have never seen so many people in one place in my life.  The crowd was shoulder to shoulder all the way from the Capital Steps to the Washington Monument a MILE away, and also covered the side streets feeding into the area.

9/12 was a transformative event.  Sometimes an event occurs which is transformative in a way that everyone who sees it or participates in it instantly is aware of.  Yesterday's demonstration in Washington DC is one of those rare happenings in my opinion.  The Daily Mail said 2 million Americans participated.  My friend Charlie Martin extrapolated from the pictures an attendance figure of 2.3 million. ... Whatever the actual number it is sure to be seriously underestimated by the Obama-besotted members of the press corps who are also likely to misrepresent the participants and their views.

March on Washington:  How Big Was the Crowd?  After the Million Man March in 1995, Congress restricted the National Park Service from even making estimates — a restriction that was maintained for 14 years and then quietly rescinded this January for the Obama inauguration. ... There have been a lot of estimates, from the "official" one of 60 to 70 thousand, up to the rumored 2 million.

9/12:  The Revolution Has Begun.  What began on the border in 2005 has spread to DC and every state in the union.  The Revolution isn't coming, it is here.  Call it the Constitution Revolution.  The genie is out of the bottle and there will be no putting her back in.

Crowd estimates vary wildly for Capitol march.  A sea of angry taxpayers marched on the Capitol on Saturday afternoon.  That much is certain.  But even before the march was over, the news media, bloggers and rally supporters were wrangling over the crowd count, with estimates ranging from 60,000 to 2 million.

Numbers Game:  How Many REALLY Attended the Sep. 12 Rally.  Based on photos and on-scene observation, the crowd on Saturday at its peak occupied ... a total area of densely populated grounds of about 930,000 square feet. ... [Assuming just under four square feet per person], 250,000 is a number I challenge anyone to best.  And the precise number, should you need it, using Queueing Theory, Coefficients of Dispersion, and Poisson Distribution Variances, was exactly 239,863.

Rep. Joe Wilson, Tea Party Numbers, and Excited Utterances.  Michael Laprarie of Wizbang writes, "We may never know a precise number, but reasonable estimates seem to put the 9/12 crowd at between 500,000 and one million."  Personally, I'm "guesstimating" that at least a hundred thousand protesters attended the Tea Party in Washington, D.C.  But I wouldn't be shocked at a 500,000 figure.

A Warning to Washington.  Tens, maybe hundreds, of thousands of angry Americans stormed Washington last weekend to oppose ObamaCare and government spending.  How'd Democrats react?  By redoubling efforts to pass "health-care reform"...

What next for the Middle America Rebellion of 2009.  A day before the event, organizers said a mere 20,000 or so folks had registered for Saturday's amazing 9/12 march on Washington to protest out-of-control government.  What they got was hundreds of thousands of intensely patriotic people who came to the nation's capitol to yell "Stop!"  Whatever the number of attendees, this was possibly the most significant Washington protest since the civil rights movement's epic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963.

Debate rages over 'tea party' crowd size.  A fierce numbers battle has erupted in the aftermath of Saturday's Capitol Hill rally by "tea party" conservatives that is not over the growth of government, the budget deficit or even the $1 trillion cost of President Obama's health care plan, but about the size of the crowd.

America Spoke.  America spoke September 12th in Washington, DC.  Real America.  Not black America, not white America, not Hispanic or Asian America, not even conservative or liberal America.  Real America.  There were mothers, sons, fathers, daughters, newborn children and kids on the way up; there were many, many elderly and a lot of disabled folks, young and old, in wheelchairs.  Many of these people had never been to a protest before in their lives.

Unexpected Outgrowths of the Tea Party Movement .  The Tea Party Movement has awakened a powerful sleeping giant silent majority.  Americans are starting to say, "no" to political correctness; "no" to banning God from the public square, "no" to politicians who ignore the Will of the people, "no" to secular progressives and "no" to dead beats who think they are entitled due to their skin color, sex, economic status or whatever.  "Enough!" is the battle cry of millions of Tea Party protesters.

Tea Party insurgency marches into key states.  Begun as a loosely affiliated groundswell of Constitution-waving protesters in tri-cornered hats, the Tea Party movement is now starting to rock the political establishment in key arenas.

America's Obama Obsession.  [Scroll down slowly]  As long as Obama was opposed by calcified Republicans in Congress, there was no real danger to him.  But once the opposition proved populist, panicked liberal elites started demonizing populism — and Obama now finds himself opposed to the popular grievance-mongering that was once the mother's milk of our Chicago organizer's existence.

Making the Tea Party Tangible.  Contrary to left-wing claims, not to mention left-wing tactics, the Tea Party - Town Hall - 912 folks are not paid or bused to events by labor unions, corporate sponsors or Chicago Cabal Community Organizers, in the same way that leftists mobilize their staged events.  No, this is a real "grassroots" people's movement of folks taking personal time and resources to unite against an increasingly offensive federal scum-orgy going on in Washington DC, under the "transparent" Marxist agenda of the New World messiah and his many international scumbag buddies, aka Czars, puppet masters and supporters.

Not Ashamed to Love My Country.  The Tea Party Movement has sparked a resurgence of patriotism.  The movement itself was birthed out of fear of the far left agenda and radical changes being implemented by the Obama administration.  Despite attempts by the liberal media and the Obama gang to convince us otherwise, we see and feel the threat of destruction of the traditions, values and institutions which we hold dear and have made America great.

What Is The Threshold For Revolution?  Today, the American people are still capable of collective heroism and the challenge to abusive authority, just as they were during the birth of our freedom some 233 years ago.  We see the growing signs of that emerging heroism almost every day now.

Who are the Tea Partyers?  The 1992 exit polls told the tale.  Perot voters were made up (in almost equal parts) of all ages, all races and both genders.  Fifteen percent were Democrats and twenty-one percent were Republicans but — most importantly — thirty-three percent were independents.  Twenty-six percent of them hadn't voted in the 1988 presidential election.  They were angry, sufficiently so to vote against the status quo in Washington.

Crowd kicks off 'tea party' tour.  A large, enthusiastic crowd of people carrying signs and waving flags in protest of a government they say is not representing them gathered downtown yesterday morning to kick off a cross-country tour to demand change.

Revolt on the Right.  When taxpayers and conservative activists began holding tea parties to protest an out-of-control federal government's unsustainable growth, it was not entirely unreasonable to ask:  Where were these people for the last eight years?  George W. Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress increased discretionary spending at twice the rate that prevailed under Bill Clinton.

Tangible Tea Party Tactics.  I have only ONE goal, to stop and reverse the Obamanation of our country and return the USA to a constitutional status.  The strategy for accomplishing this is to retake the GOP so that we have the power needed to accomplish that goal.

Hundreds rally for lower taxes as part of Tea Party Express.  Hundreds rallied for lower taxes and an end to what they said was a socialist agenda in the Obama White House in a parking lot on Sandy Boulevard Friday [10/30/2009].  Leaders of the Tea Party Express came to Portland aboard two coaches and found a huge crowd eager to participate.

Houston Tea Party rally draws more than 10,000.  More than 10,000 people turned out Monday night for a North Houston Tea Party Patriots gathering to protest proposed health care reform and what they called big government spending and overzealous government leadership, according to preliminary attendance figures.

The Permanent Tea Party.  What was learned Tuesday [11/3/2009] is that the American voter is absolutely, totally, unremittingly disgusted with both political parties.  More than anything, the American voter is desperate for political leadership.

Let states lead the way.  Congress is on the verge of enacting the largest unfunded mandate in American history.  At a time when most states are struggling with rising unemployment, declining tax revenue and the worst national economic climate in 30 years, Congress is demonstrating that it is more out of touch than ever.

Activists bring 'tea party' to Capitol Hill.  With the stage set for a historic House vote on health-care reform this weekend, an estimated 10,000 conservative activists descended on Capitol Hill on Thursday [11/5/2009] for a campaign-style rally in a last-ditch effort to defeat a bill they demonized as "Pelosi-Care."

Tea Parties:  Misunderstood and Vastly Underrated.  Elected officials of every political stripe ought to be shaking down to their Gucci loafers and pumps.  History is forming and firming up harder than the proverbial brick wall right outside their congressional glass house.  Yet they seem utterly oblivious.

Patriots are asserting themselves.  We The People have allowed a small group of radicals to hijack the reins of our government.  The lack of our focus on civic duty, our adherence to political correctness and our silence on the blatant ignoring of our Constitution has brought us to the brink of losing our nation.  There is no one to blame for these elites attempting to transform America but us.  We have shown disunity and disinterest in protecting our freedoms while we ignorantly went along enjoying the fruits of our liberty.

Americans Are Messaging Each Other 'S.O.S.'.  In many and varied ways, Americans are tapping out the international distress signal to each other since Washington, D.C. isn't listening.  To all except the most zealous supporters of the Democratic Party, the intentions of the party in power have become clear in less than a year.  It's also clear that there's not much we citizens can do about it until the 2010 elections.  For now, we hunker down and watch the train wreck in slow motion.

All (opposition) politics is local.  The intended consequence of the campaign for Democratic health reform has been to expand government into the most intimate, most consequential parts of our lives.  But the unintended consequence has been to drive more Americans away from the idea of government-run health care and toward more personal responsibility.

Constitutionally, the next time.  Thanks in great part to the new, alternative and social media, people are talking and writing about the Constitution — certainly more than I've seen in my lifetime.

The Art of Political War for Tea Parties.  A specter is haunting America — the specter of a people rising.  All across the nation Americans are waking up to the threat of a leftist elite determined to fundamentally change America, push through a socialist agenda, and make every citizen dependent on the state.  The Obama machine is spending trillions of tax-payer dollars to finance their takeover of the American workplace and stifle the independence of the American people.  But America is resilient nation, built on the principles of private property and individual freedom, and the resistance to their socialist plans has already begun.

Growing public backlash over Obamacare.  Two-dozen Democrats from Republican-leaning districts, who voted for the House version of President Obama's increasingly unpopular health care reform, are beginning to feel a growing public backlash.  ReversetheVote.org has already raised $123,105 that will be dedicated exclusively to defeating all 24, including Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., in 2010 if they don't reject the final conference committee version of the bill.

Rise of an Epithet.  EDITOR'S NOTE:  "Teabagger" is a nasty and derisive term used by the left to mock conservative activists.  If you really want to know what it means, and you aren't bothered by the vulgar details of deviant sexual practices, read this article.  (Not recommended.)

The People Say No.  The closer the Democratic Congress' radical health package gets to enactment, the less popular it becomes.  The American people smell a rat.

Public Fears More Government Economic "Help".  People are right to be fearful.  We already have a $12 trillion national debt, are expected to run up at least another $10 trillion in red ink over the next decade, and face $107 trillion in unfunded liabilities for Social Security and Medicare.  That doesn't count the trillions that health care "reform" will cost us if it passes.

Corruption, contempt and arrogance.  The American people consistently tell Congress and the administration they want the excessive spending to stop, government health care not to happen, listen to us, and corruption to be ferreted out.  What we have received in return is proposed higher taxes, more corruption, we know better than you, and more spending.  There is little doubt these people simply do not listen and could care less about listening to the voters.

Stand with our 9/11 Families at their Stop The Terror Trial rally in NYC Saturday at noon.  If you are fed up with Barack Obama and Eric Holder's constant attacks on what is good and right about America come to New York City's Foley Square Federal Courthouse on this Saturday December 5, 2009 at 12 noon and let your voice be heard.

Jim DeMint:  Tea parties can defeat Democrats.  Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), a darling of the tea party crowd, credited that movement with blocking Democratic health care reform efforts and predicted the conservative activists behind the movement could ultimately thwart the passage of that bill and others.

Tea Partiers are mad ... and they're not going away.  The growing grass-roots movement will indeed destroy the political careers of many politicians who fail to heed the warning it delivered Sept. 12, when 1.7 million angry voters (according to a crowd estimate by Zac Moilanen of Indiana University) descended on Washington to say they were totally fed up with bailouts and stimulus packages, and want the country to return to its constitutional, limited-government roots.

Why leaderless Tea Parties are beating the GOP.  Rasmussen reports the Tea Party Movement, which percolated only months ago, is beating the Grand Old Party. ... Republican Party leaders should be embarrassed.  Instead, the Republican establishment disdains this populist uprising.  Rather than embracing this genuine movement, establishment politicians and consultants are calculating how to co-opt, sideline or even defeat the newest phenomenon in politics — tea partiers.

The Media's Top 10 Worst Economic Myths of 2009.  2009 was the year many ordinary Americans said "Enough, is enough" when it came to government bailouts and spending. CNBC's Rick Santelli called for a tea party in a rant Feb. 19.  Thousands responded, rallying at hundreds of events around the country to protest on April 15 (and on a few later dates).  But leading up to that day the networks were nearly silent, with only three passing mentions of the tea parties.

Republican votes bagged by Tea Party.  When Stacy Mott, a stay-at-home mother of three children, started writing a blog after the election of President Barack Obama last year, she had no involvement in politics and simply wanted to vent her frustration at financial bailouts, healthcare reform and legislation to combat climate change.  The former marketing executive at Toys R Us quickly found that she was not alone.

Tea Parties, Third Parties and the Republican Party.  Worse than mere overexposure, according to Rasmussen polling, despite Obama's falling polls and Democrat divisions, the Republican Party would fare worse in an upcoming election than the Tea Party — a "Third Party" that, as of yet, does not exist.  It is no minor issue because with the help of Tea Party activists, Republicans certainly can beat Democrats next year — without them they may not.

America's Party.  For Democrats like Harry Reid, who called them "evil-mongers," and Nancy Pelosi, who called them "un-American," the NBC News poll must have hit like a sucker punch at a Georgetown wine-and-cheese.  The Tea Party movement, those folks rallying against spending last spring and Obamacare in the summer town halls, are viewed more favorably than the Democratic Party.

Frontpage's Man of the Year:  Glenn Beck.  The year of Obamarific "change" quickly became the year of dissent as Americans grew disillusioned with the "trillion here and a trillion there" spending of President Barack Obama even as unemployment rose. ... Suddenly, the loudmouths of the Left and the poobahs of the Lame-Stream Media — who had deemed dissent to be "the highest form of patriotism" when George W. Bush occupied the White House — whistled another tune.  They began savaging of opponents of the Obama regime as Nazis, racists and ignorant rubes.  Their targets weren't just public figures who stood in the way of their agenda; rather, they viciously attacked ordinary Americans, the tea partiers, to whom they gave a sobriquet (tea-baggers) that no network censors would have allowed just a few years ago.

Tea Parties:  The Biggest Mistake We Could Make in 2010.  [Scroll down slowly]  Tea Parties have been disparate, unfocused, leaderless, and might prove to be pointless in the end.  There was no unifying single goal of the Tea Partiers and no agency or party directing them.  This means that the raw power behind them just might go untapped because there will be no way to translate the passion to power.

For Tea Parties, Bigger Is Not Better.  After reading Warner Todd Huston's article [immediately above]... I was incredulous.  It seems misguided to suggest top down management in a time when big companies, big organizations, and big government have received bailouts after spending like drunken thieves or failing in the marketplace.

Black Conservatives Take Lead Role in Tea Party Movement.  Though the tea party movement has attracted criticism for its supposed lack of diversity, minority activists who are involved say the movement has little to do with race, and that it is attracting a more diverse crowd every day.

The Democrats' Political Death Wish:  Harry Reid may well have given up serious hope of being re-elected in Nevada and is thus willing to go over the cliff with President Obama.  The defeat of Nancy Pelosi is less likely than any of the Supreme Soviet losing one of their contests during the '70s. ... But even the modest assessments of the undertow threatening Democrats puts the loss of seats in the House nearing takeover land of 40, and as many as nine Senate seats now in play.

The Secessionist Campaign for the Republic of Vermont.  On Jan. 15, in the state capital of Montpelier, nine candidates for statewide office gathered in a tiny room at the Capitol Plaza Hotel, to announce they wanted a divorce from the United States of America. ... According to a 2007 poll, they have support from at least 13% of state voters.

Kansas proclaims its sovereignty.  Legislation giving Washington D.C. a firm tongue lashing was approved Thursday by the Kansas Senate.  The resolution calls on the federal government to "cease and desist" from passing onerous mandates on the states.  If passed by the House the resolution would be sent to the President and other federal leaders.  It demands that Washington repeal existing mandates and respect Kansas' sovereignty under the 10th Amendment, which reserves for the states rights not delegated to the federal government.

Secession in the Air.  [Scroll down]  What called the Tea Party into existence?  Some are angry over unchecked immigration and the failure to control our borders and send the illegals back.  Some are angry over the loss of manufacturing jobs.  Some are angry over winless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.  Some are angry over ethnic preferences they see as favoring minorities over them.  What they agree upon, however, is that they have been treading water for a decade, working harder and harder with little or no improvement in their family standard of living.  They see the government as taking more of their income in taxes, seeking more control over their institutions, creating entitlements for others not them, plunging the nation into unpayable debt, and inviting inflation or a default that can wipe out what they have saved.

We do get it, Mr. President; we just don't like it.  It's a modern marvel how the increasing opposition of the American public to President Barack Obama's plans for us is explained away by administration officials and certain Democratic legislators — such as California Sen. Dianne Feinstein — as a sign that the people just don't get it.  A panel of pundits chatting with Charlie Rose on his talking-head fest the other evening came to the conclusion that Tea Partiers and their ilk are too stupid to know what's good for them.

At one year, a mass political movement, not a conspiracy.  The tea parties are the success of everyday citizens clamoring to protect something they feel is endangered by the growth of government.  These are not political mavens — they're better at running a business and a family than they are at developing talking points for prime time.

At one year, a mass political movement, not a conspiracy.  One year later, the tea party protests are still the subject of much debate.  The labels have shifted over time from "racist Astroturfers" and "disenchanted Republicans" to "angry mob" and now, following Sen.-elect Scott Brown's Massachusetts victory, "voting bloc."  How things have changed.

For GOP, No Experience Is No Problem.  Scott Rigell is best known around Virginia Beach as a car dealer.  Come January, he is hoping to be known by another title:  congressman.  Seeking to tap into growing anti-establishment discord among voters, the Republican Party is actively seeking candidates who have never before held elected office.

Anti-Tea Party Web Site Part of Scheme to Funnel Funds.  A new Web site targeting the tea parties is a part of a complex network of money flowing from the mountainous coffers of the country's biggest labor unions and trickling slowly into political slush funds for Democratic activists.

With absolute power, Team Obama grows stupid.  [Scroll down]  Team Obama overestimated the stimulative effect of the stimulus package and underestimated the strength of the spontaneous Tea Party movement that flared up in protest of this expansion of government.  They underestimated as well the opposition to expanding government control over health care and, through the cap-and-trade bill, to the energy sector.  And the disgust over conspicuous vote-buying on health care — the Louisiana Purchase, the Cornhusker Kickback, the Labor Loophole.

Sometimes "No" Is More Than a One Syllable Word.  Since the election of Scott Brown to the Senate, the Democrats have once again begun to sing in unison that the Republicans are the "Party of No." ... In responding to Mr. Obama's political hocus-pocus, the Republicans would do well to remember that when it is a response to tyranny, the word "no" is a declaration of liberation.

The Re-Establishment of America:  America is on the verge of something unprecedented in history:  the peaceful, Constitutional replacement of our country's entire political establishment.  This is what lies behind the decisions of so many elected officials, at every level, to step aside rather than fight for re-election.  And it explains how the Tea Party movement can exert so much political leverage without nominating its own candidates or even without formally choosing its own leaders.

The Sliming Of The Tea Party:  As the grass-roots activists meet with the Republican National Committee, the New York Times takes a look at them, deciding they are bitter people clinging to their guns.  Meanwhile, leading Democrats plot their destruction.

A Green Tea Party:  A revolt against economic hardship imposed by unelected bureaucrats based on junk science is brewing.  This Tea Party movement wants the faulty finding on carbon dioxide to be reviewed and dumped.

Health Backlash in the States.  The backlash against ObamaCare is moving beyond the Tea Parties and has now arrived in state capitals.  In more than 30 states, legislators are proceeding to pass statutes or ballot initiatives that would guarantee the right to choose medical services and insurance.

States to Congress:  'Don't tread on me.'.  On Wednesday [2/17/2010], the Tennessee Senate voted 26-1 to order that state's attorney general to file a constitutional challenge against any federal legislation that mandates the purchase of health insurance.  Since forcing citizens to buy insurance is at the heart of the so-called "health-care reform" effort, this kind of challenge could represent a crippling blow to the Obama administration's plans.

36 States Aim to Preempt Federal Health Care Plan.  The success of national health care reform legislation is still an uncertainty, but some states are already taking measures to keep federal hands off their citizens.  Thursday [3/4/2010], Virginia became the first state to enact a law exempting its residents from any health insurance mandates.  It's one of 36 states where lawmakers are trying to head off potential federal legislation.

Lightbulb bill aimed at asserting state rights.  Frank Antenori's idea is as bright as a 100-watt lightbulb.  And it's lighting up conversations at the Capitol over states' rights and the role of the federal government.

Worse than Awful.  Newbies to this history-making movement may assume that they are the first Americans to ever have this anti-Washington outrage.  Our schools and media certainly have not emphasized these traditions.  It is somewhat analogous to Obama thinking American history started at his birth and American greatness started at his inauguration.

CNN Poll:  Majority says government a threat to citizens' rights.  Fifty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday [2/26/2010] say they think the federal government's become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens.  Forty-four percent of those polled disagree.

Hey, Congress:  You're Fired!  How would Democratic and Republican leaders fare on the basic performance review that most workers encounter annually?  When graded on a scale of "exceeds expectations," "meets expectations" or "fails to meet expectations," what grade would they get on improving health care?  Or focusing on the economy?  Or teamwork?

Change, loose change, spare change, and crooks:  It's hard to fathom, but 10 percent of Americans believe Congress is doing a good or excellent job.  That high, eh?  The recent Rasmussen Reports survey also reveals that 71 percent of us rate Congress's job performance as poor.  Additionally, the firm's polling found that only 9 percent of us think "most members of Congress are sincerely interested in helping people," while 81 percent feel they are "more interested in their own careers."

'Seditious' Conservatives Attacked in Marin County.  Tea Parties have been popping up across the land to protest an ever-expanding government that is taxing more, spending more and intruding more on individual liberties.  The Tea Party movement is not about subverting the Constitution but restoring constitutional governance.

Obama's Government without Love:  [Scroll down]  This is a government that believes it has outgrown the vision of Jefferson and Madison and the other founders of a nation based upon a love of individuals "endowed by their Creator."  It is a government of privilege, bolstered by media elites — on both the right and left — convinced that the average American is "Too Dumb to Thrive," as the Time headline put it.  The New York Times puts it this way:  "Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?"  And then its reporter answered, of course — citizens "are ignorant."  Tea party, anyone?

The Battle for California.  [Scroll down]  I estimate that there are about 350,000 to 400,000 Tea Party members and supporters in California, out of roughly 5.4 million Republican voters.  That means that between 8 and 12 percent of GOP primary voters would be comfortable being identified as Tea Partiers.  What's certain is that they will bring a lot of enthusiasm to the nomination.  Whenever I speak at a Tea Party rally, I always ask how many people are active in politics for the first time in their lives.  Typically, between 80 to 90 percent raise their hands.  As someone who's been active in politics since 1981, when I was 19, I see this as an amazing phenomenon.

Tea Party Amendment.  Tea Partyers have made it clear they don't trust politicians — Democrat or Republican.  Their historic uprising may now have a surefire way to stop politicians from spending us into the abyss.

Tea Party Identity Theft?  Trouble is simmering in the Tea Party movement over a struggle with identity theft.  In Connecticut, Florida and Nevada, the Tea Party has been registered as a third political party for the 2010 election.  All three parties are already involved in either recruiting candidates or preparing their campaigns for statewide races in November.  The problem?  In Florida and Nevada, the newly formed third parties appear to have little or no connection to the actual Tea Party movement.

Time to Stop Lying to Ourselves.  The tea party grassroots revolt that has sprouted across our country is a basic expression of recognition that we have lost control of our own government and that if we are going to be a free and prosperous people, this can't go on.  This year some 45 percent of our GDP, the economic production of the American people, will be taken by local, state, and federal government.  Since 1970, federal government spending, adjusted for inflation, has increased by 221 percent compared to a 32-percent increase in median household income.

Weak Tea or Strong Tea?  [Scroll down]  Polls taken in February 2010 indicate that a little more than a third of the American population views the Tea Party movement favorably, while a bit more than 20 percent view it unfavorably.  Furthermore, polls also indicate that supporters of the Tea Party movement are "more energized" than their political rivals, and such energy invariably translates into political momentum.  About 40 percent of Americans neither oppose nor support the Tea Party movement — roughly half because they haven't made up their minds and half because they have not yet heard of the movement.

6,000 cheer Palin, Beck.  Conservative superstars Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck called for Americans to demand a smaller government that adheres to the principles of its founding fathers during a rally in downtown Tulsa on Saturday [3/13/2010].

Let the Recalls Begin.  A New Jersey state appellate court yesterday [3/16/2010] gave the green light for approval of the circulation of petitions in that state asking for a recall election to remove Democrat U.S. Senator Robert Menendez.  State law in 9 states counting New Jersey specifically provides for the recall of members of Congress ... Those 9 states are represented by 12 incumbent Democratic Senators who are not otherwise up for reelection this year, potentially putting majority control of the Senate even more in play.

Are Tea Party Activists Suffering from ObamaCare Burnout?  The fight against ObamaCare is a landmark in the short history of the tea party movement.  It could have a profound effect on the movement's future.  The tea party movement must realize effectiveness comes less from rallies and more from getting fiscal conservatives into office.

The Nation's Imminent Debt Crisis Is A Matter Of Choice — Obama's.  President Obama doesn't need the recently announced National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform to figure out how to prevent the debt from rising to apocalyptic proportions and ruining America for generations to come.  It's not rocket science; it's a matter of presidential priorities and choices.

Harry's Easter Egg Attack.  It's Halloween again in Searchlight, Nevada, where at about 3 p.m. (EST) today [3/27/2010], supporters of Harry Reid blasted eggs at the Tea Party Express bus caravan.

Is the tea party movement being hoodwinked by the establishment?  It's early in the game yet, and the whole idea behind the Tea Party movement was to objectively review all of our potential choices, so we would never be led down the path again.  At least that's what I thought.  After today, I'll never again look at the Tea Party movement as one made up of Constitutional Conservatives.  They may be Conservative, but sadly, not my brand of Conservatism. ... Sarah Palin spent Friday [3/26/2010] campaigning for John McCain against the true conservative and former Arizona Congressman J.D. Hayworth who has a true conservative record, and is campaigning on true constitutional values.

Projection.  The types of folks coming to these gatherings, the group as a whole is respectful of the hallowed place they are in and few leave trash.  There have been no arrests of Tea Partiers, at least at the hands of the Park Service, indeed the Park Service has commented that at these gathering, protestors have been well behaved, mannerly, and left little trash.  It is doubtful that any other group coming to protest has ever been so well mannered.

The United States Has Been Sold Out And The International Police Have Arrived.  The Tea Party, Patriot and 9/12 movements are supporters of Liberty and the Constitution.  They struggle against Progressive, Social Justice and left-wing ideologues.  They want less government and more individual responsibility without being handicapped by government.  Underlying the Tea Party and Patriot protests is anger against unchecked, corrupt, back-room secret double-dealing government.  Hiding his values and agenda Mr. Obama stealthily campaigned from the center, but he's a full-throated Progressive.  His acolyte Ms. Pelosi mastered triple-speak, a perverse, double-cross form of propaganda.

So all Tea Party members are racists?  When you have absolutely no argument to advance, what's the easiest thing to do?  Denounce your opponents as racist. ... The trouble with playing the racism card is that is an attempt to stifle dissent — what you are saying is illegitimate because your real rationale is that you hate blacks.  Understandably, it drives people crazy.  And just who is being racist by looking at a predominantly white crowd and leaping to the conclusion that they are all motivated by racial hatred?

America's Quiet Anger.  There is a quiet anger boiling in America.  It is the anger of millions of hard-working citizens who pay their bills, send in their income taxes, maintain their homes and repay their mortgage loans — and see their government reward those who do not.  It is the anger of small town and Middle American folks who have never been to Manhattan...

When Will Al Sharpton Collect the $10,000 Breitbart Racial Invective Video Prize?  There is $10,000 just waiting to be picked up by Al Sharpton.  That is the prize money that Andrew Breitbart has offered to anyone who can reveal a video of Tea Party protestors in Washington, D.C. on March 20 who supposedly screamed the N-word at Congressman John Lewis.

Did someone mention Al Sharpton?

More Lies Exposed in 'Phantom N-Word Tale'.  We all know the story by now.  Rep. Andre Carson (D-In) says that he and Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga) were assaulted with racial slurs by Tea Party protesters as they walked down the step of the Cannon office building and headed to the Capitol on March 20th.  Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo) also told reporters that he heard the 'N-word' as he was walking a few yards behind Rep. Lewis.  "It was like a chorus", Rep. Cleaver said.  Only problem is:  Rep. Cleaver wasn't there.

Obama's Poll Numbers Down, Imaginary Racism Up.  [Scroll down]  Most sickeningly, the mainstream media continue to spread the despicable lie that someone called civil rights hero Rep. John Lewis the "N-word" 15 times during the anti-ObamaCare rally in Washington.  Fifteen times!  That turned out to be another lie.  About a week after the protest, Andrew Breitbart offered a $100,000 reward for anyone who could produce a video of Lewis being called the N-word even once — forget 15 times.  (That's the most we can afford.  Hey, who do we look like over here, George Soros?)

Obama says he can't win over people 'on the fringe'.  President Barack Obama stepped carefully when talking for the first time about the conservative tea party movement, acknowledging it has legitimate concerns about federal reach and spending, but he contended the core of the loose anti-government network is "on the fringe."

Opposed to Obamacare?  Then You Must Be a Racist.  As the ever-tolerant [Frank] Rich reasons:  "The conjunction of a black President and a female speaker of the House — topped off by a wise Latina on the Supreme Court and a powerful gay congressional committee chairman — would sow fears of disenfranchisement among a dwindling and threatened minority in the country no matter what policies were in play."  So that's it.  It's just a bunch of scared, white males who would yelp about anything this gang came up with.

Do Democrats commit hate crimes against black Republicans?  Given the Democratic Party's 150-year record of racist rhetoric and racial violence — from the days of slavery until today — it is astonishing to see Democrats sanctimoniously playing the race card.  A display of unmitigated gall describes how Democrats are falsely comparing anti-ObamaCare protesters to the anti-civil rights racists of the 1960's who were Democrats.

Welcome to the Real Revolution, Alinsky Fans:  It Ain't For Wimps Or Sissies.  How far will Democrats go to ensure that their revolution against American liberty succeeds?  As for me, I put nothing past them now.  Will Collier has just explained in exacting detail the most probable explanation for how Nancy Pelosi (along with Axelrod and Emanuel) could have staged their "confrontation" with Tea Partiers outside the capitol on March 20.  Claims that the N-word and spit were employed as weapons by Tea Partiers have yet to be corroborated by a single witness or video recording.

Tea Parties just getting started.  The Tea Party movement is a healthy reminder that the United States began as a tax revolt.

Is this Kristallnacht or the Reichstag Fire?  The hysteria over the "violent" right wing is just that — hysteria.  The true danger here comes not from the grassroots right, but from the Astroturfed left, which is being orchestrated and trained by the Obama administration and its media minions to attack Americans who still believe in America's founding principles.

Anecdotal evidence of leftist violence in America:
 The Left's Ludicrous Accusations against Tea Partiers.  Every day, the Left shows us with their own actions that they are exactly what they accuse conservatives and tea partiers of being.  It is astonishing that they have the gall to accuse anyone of anything.
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It's Time For the Black Caucus Race Hustlers to Apologize.  On Saturday March 20th the leftist media reported what they described as a horrible story from their sources at the conservative-hating Huffington Post. ... At least one report said that it was "a chorus" of racist hatred.  Another report said the Congressional members heard the n-word at least 15 times.  Reporters from ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX News, (including Bill O'Reilly), MSNBC, and so on, repeated this horrible story.  Unfortunately, it was a fake.  The media had no evidence... Nothing.  As the story was a complete fabrication.  It was totally made up.

Tea-Party Movement:  Driven by Concerns about the Economy.  There has been no shortage of articles and news segments speculating on the nature of the tea partiers.  Who are they? ... Some four out of ten tea-party members aren't Republican, and a third aren't conservative, painting a picture of a movement that is hardly monolithic.  There's quite a bit of data to sift through, but the critical storyline that emerges is this:  The tea-party movement is driven by concern about the economy and jobs.

As Peaceful as a Tea Party.  Perhaps a measure of its threat to the liberal agenda, the tea party movement is being accused — with little or no supporting evidence — of using threats, insults and violence to intimidate the political process.

Enemies of the state.  Over the past week, a parade of Democrats have accused members of the Tea Party movement and other opponents of Obamacare of threatening them. ... If this sounds familiar, it's because the Democrats have shown a disturbing pattern of demonizing those who disagree with them. ... If you go to church, believe in protecting innocent life, own a gun or defend your country, the Democrats consider you a potential enemy of the state.  It was no coincidence that the Homeland Security report was issued just as the Tea Party movement was gaining real national traction.

Sick Thinking From 'Mainstream' Leftists.  The Obama left, realizing it has really stepped in it with the American people by cramming Obamacare down our throats, has decided to blunt the backlash against it by tarring, yet again, mainstream conservatives as racists, bigots, homophobes and violent.  Its tactics are objectively despicable.

Obama's white-flight problem.  Desperate Democrats and their co-conspirators in the media are busy trying to whip up a race war.  "The health care bill is not the main source of this anger and never has been.  It's merely a handy excuse," Frank Rich wrote in a recent New York Times column.  Their line is that all those opposed to the president's radical agenda are racists who resent having a black man as president.  It is a moldy, old smear, but as approval ratings for Mr. Obama sink below 50 percent, it is being revisited with increasing fervor.

Enemies of the state.  During President George W. Bush's two terms, you couldn't drive far without seeing a particular bumper sticker:  "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."  Now that Democrats control the White House and Congress, the left treats dissent as the lowest form of treason.  When the left agitates over government policies, it's considered righteous anger.  When the right -- and much of the center -- agitate, it's painted as the rantings of the criminally and violently insane.

Tea Partiers Embrace Liberty, Not Big Government.  Over the past 14 months, our political debate has been transformed into an argument between the heirs of two fundamental schools of political thought, the Founders and the Progressives.  The Founders stood for the expansion of liberty and the Progressives for the expansion of government.

Would the Founders Love ObamaCare?  Powerful political forces suddenly seem to be in motion across the U.S. What they have in common is anxiety over what government has become in the first decade of the 21st century.  The tea party movement is getting the most attention because it is the most vulnerable to the standard tool kit of mockery and ridicule.

Bachmann says Pelosi wanted to 'incite' Tea Partiers.  Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) wanted to "incite something" when she led Democratic lawmakers through a Tea Party protest on the day healthcare was passed, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said last night.  Democrats have claimed that Tea Partiers shouted the "n" word at black lawmakers as they made their way across the street before the vote.  Conservatives, including Bachmann, have said Democrats are fabricating that incident.

Barack Obama's Helter-Skelter Plans to 'Deconstruct' America: [Scroll down]  The Democratic Party is trying to signal to the black community and to progressive media types that the way to push back against the Tea Party and Republicans is to use the reliable race card by provoking a racial incident.  The ensuing rhetoric about the bill and about the nature of the Tea Party is based upon repeated talking points.  Propaganda.  Everyone is on message that Republicans and Tea Partiers are racist -- a divisive and dangerous argument, so lacking in any shred of evidence save for the fact that the majority in the Tea Party, as in America itself, is white.

Black Dem Race Exploiters Trash Tea Party.  So, I am on the Tea Party Express bus traveling to our next rally in Omaha, NE when the faces of black Democrats Maxine Waters and Charlie Rangel appear on TV on the Fox News Channel.  Both were saying racism was at the core of the Tea Party protesters' disagreement with Obama. ... These two race exploiters are calling the Tea Party protesters racist.  Meanwhile, I am a black performer/activist traveling on my third national Tea Party Express tour.

Look Who Cares About Civility Now.  Here's a very effective video montage of Rep. Maxine Waters decrying incivility today — and helping to contribute to it during the Bush years.  Now, I'll admit that Rep. Waters is hard to take very seriously because she is so far on the fringe of American politics.  But in this instance, she is emblematic of the hypocrisy among many liberals and Democrats these days, who have suddenly discovered they have very delicate sensibilities when it comes to public discourse.

Tea Party Going Mainstream?  Polls Suggest Movement Gaining in Popularity.  Tea Partiers have been dismissed as a fringe, but two new polls suggest the conservative movement might be going mainstream.  A Rasmussen poll released Monday [4/5/2010] found more Americans identify with the Tea Party groups than with President Obama.

Where are the black tea partiers?  Keith Olbermann has famously asked where the Black tea-partiers are.  The Associated Press writes that they are indeed out there.  They are brave to participate, too, given the hateful, racist rhetoric they report from liberals who want them to shut up and go away.

Tea Party Movement Mirrors a Deeply Divided America.  US President Barack Obama came to power promising to unite the nation.  Now he has divided it even more than his predecessor George W. Bush.  The burgeoning conservative Tea Party movement is calling for Obama to be removed from office.

Establishment Terrified by Tea Party Movement.  In talking to various Washington insiders over the last few days, I've noticed a predominant theme:  The GOP establishment hasn't a clue how to manage the so-called Tea Party movement.  And the Democrats are equally clueless as they try to profile and pigeonhole these new activists.

"Tea party" anti-tax rally draws 1,200 to Michigan Capitol.  Approximately 1,200 people showed up at the Capitol today [4/15/2010] to protest taxes and the direction of state and federal government.

Paranoia strikes deep.
 N.C. Says Tea Party Flags Are Weapons?  Organizers of a tea party event planned for Thursday at the state Capitol are unhappy they can't carry flags on poles because of state officials' fears that they could be used as weapons.

Obama skips out on boisterous rally.  Among the thousands of "tea party" protesters that gathered Thursday at Freedom Plaza, a [short distance] from the White House, were dozens of signs directed at President Obama, some demanding "Listen To Me!" others asking "Why Can't You Hear Us?"  But the president never heard a peep from the mob of boisterous Americans, most of whom deplore the spending binge he and the Democratic Congress have been on of late.

Immigrant groups try to steal thunder from tea party.  Immigrant-rights groups sought to tap some of the "tea party" thunder Thursday [4/15/2010] by using the anti-tax-and-spending movement's nationwide protests to argue illegal immigrants must be legalized because they are eager to pay their full taxes.  But tea partiers, rallying on the day federal income-tax returns were due, didn't buy it.

A Heartfelt Hymn of American Redemption.  Defending the Tea Party to its opponents is like explaining Bob Dylan to his critics:  their ears don't hear what your heart understands.  For a year now, Tea Partiers have peaceably assembled and petitioned government for the redress of grievances; and, for a year now, the political class has feared, reviled and defied them.

Reasonable Men.  There is a concerted effort afoot on the part of big-state socialists to paint the Tea Party as a bunch of dangerous, hate-filled radicals with a bunch of crazy new ideas that go far beyond the pale of the traditional American political mainstream.  Let's ask some reasonable men — because the Founding Fathers were surely the largest collection of reasonable men ever gathered in one place at one time in history — what they thought about the issues raised by the Tea Party movement.

Tea Partiers Epitomize the Tension Between the Individual and the State.  Regardless of what you think of the tea party people and movement, it should be recognized as being part of the classic American push-pull between the rights of the individual and the purported needs of the state.  Tea partiers are giving much thought to the notion that the rights of the individual supersede the rights of the state to act on behalf of everyone in the "community."  This, of course, is the essence of the health care bill and its individual mandate.

America's Constitutional Revolt:  So much is being written in the mainstream media about who the tea partiers are, but very little is being recorded about what these folks are actually saying. ... What's so significant to me about this tea-party Contract from America is the strong emphasis on constitutional limits and restraints on legislation, spending, taxing, and government control of the economy.  Undoubtedly, the emphasis is there because no one trusts Washington.

The tea partyers:  It's about liberty.  Truth be told, these modern-day Sons and Daughters of Liberty are wealthier than the general public and better educated.  That is, they are industrious — they actually work and pay taxes — and know that tickling sensation at their knees is not someone getting fresh but the hands of Leviathan administering a continual fleecing through the hole torn in their pockets.

Poll Finds a 'Perfect Storm' of Voter Distrust in Government.  Only about one in five registered voters believe they can trust the government in Washington to do the right thing "just about always" or most of the time, while an overwhelming majority say it will do the right thing only some of the time or never, according a Pew Research Center poll conducted March 11-21.

Losing faith in government.  Data continues to pour in from a variety of sources indicating that faith in government is at a record low.  Pew Research Center's latest survey found that only 22 percent of those polled trust the federal government "almost always or most of the time."  In the Harris Poll's long-running measure of public attitudes, only 8 percent have confidence in Congress.

Grayson:  Tea Partiers need mental help.  Congressman Alan Grayson was in Ocala Monday [4/19/2010] ... And during a visit to the Ocala Star-Banner, the famously polarizing freshman Congressman bragged about his accomplishments and shared his views on politics, policy and the Tea Party.

Geico voice actor fired after insulting tea parties.  Sometimes you have a headline that makes the rest of the story superfluous, but here's the background.  Actor Lance Baxter, otherwise known as "D.C. Douglas," currently known as the man who informs you how much Geico can save you on car insurance, left a message last month with FreedomWorks in which he asked the group how many "mentally retarded" people it had on staff and what it would do when a tea partyer "killed someone."

Tea parties fight Obama's culture of dependence.  [Scroll down]  The Obama Democrats see a society in which ordinary people cannot fend for themselves, where they need to have their incomes supplemented, their health care insurance regulated and guaranteed, their relationships with their employers governed by union leaders.  Highly educated mandarins can make better decisions for them than they can make themselves.  That is the culture of dependence.  The tea partiers see things differently.

Humor vs. Contempt:  Obama and the Question of Character.  [Scroll down slowly]  Nowadays you find tea partiers accused of racism, violence, and disloyalty, never mind that the left-liberal establishment can point to no examples of these torts.  The thing to grasp is that those making the accusations do not feel called upon to offer examples.  The guilt of the tea-partiers transcends anything so pedestrian as actual behavior.  Tea partiers are like "class enemies" under Stalin:  guilty by definition.

Tyranny May Be Closer than We Think.  The left-wing lunatics realize that their days are numbered if they don't find a way to discredit the national movement that is poised for a landslide victory in November.  They feel that the best way to accomplish that is to muzzle people by twisting their words until everything sounds racially motivated.

San Francisco Tea Party Out-Alinskys the Left.  Although nearly 1,000 people filled San Francisco's Union Square for a Tax Day Tea Party, their voices reverberating off the canyon of skyscrapers, San Francisco's media elite was MIA.  No surprise, San Francisco Chronicle blogger Harmon Leon was unable to shed his uber-left bias to do any objective reporting about the 2nd annual Tea Party organized by the Bay Area Patriots...

The Phantom Tea Party Threat.  [T]here is no evidence that enthusiastic criticism of Obama administration policies will lead to violence.  In fact, the Tea Party movement is a result — not a cause — of the frustration and anger many Americans feel today.  The only threat it poses is to the status quo of big government activism.

Smearing the Tea Party:  Liberals are portraying the Tea Party movement as fostering violence and sedition.  During a recent appearance on NBC's "The Chris Matthews Show," Time columnist Joe Klein said that much of the heated political rhetoric, "especially the [statements] coming from people like Glenn Beck and to a certain extent Sarah Palin, rub right up close to being seditious." ... The charges against Tea Partiers are not only false, but brazenly hypocritical.

Big-government extremism.  The rising wave of popular activism in the United States is ritually derided by liberal commentators, politicians and academics as fringe-movement politics.  But recent polling reveals that skepticism about government is broad and deep.  Discontent with Washington has become the mainstream position; those who defend big government are the real extremists.

Who is Really Motivated by Race?  Although it is to the great credit of representatives and apologists for "the Tea Party" movement that they have (thus far) refused to be intimidated, unfortunately, they have gone to great lengths in adopting precisely that posture of defensiveness into which the Left unfailingly and, hence, artfully, manages to corner all of its opponents.

Festering for decades.  The latest Pew Research Center survey of public opinion shows that Americans trust their government even less than they did before.  Apparently, nearly half of us think "the federal government threatens" our "personal rights and freedoms," while almost a third considers the Feds a "major threat."  The body designed to represent the views of the American people — the U.S. Congress — has the approval of less than one in five of us.

Obama's Amused.  We Are Not.  With casual derision, President Obama recently dismissed the people in the tea party movement and their little rallies as "amusing."  It's a shame we can't find him amusing.  Everybody needs to remember this coming November, and again in 2012, that Obama and his cronies are sitting around the castle they think of as theirs, laughing at the powerless fools and peasants who dare to question his messianic authority.

Tea Party 'N-Word' Incident Didn't Happen.  [Scroll down]  Now this story is much more important than the accusation of fifteen racists among the thousands of protesters that day.  This is now about the accusers.  It's not just that Congressmen Carson's accusation of an extraordinary racist verbal assault by the tea party participants on March 20 doesn't appear to have occurred, it's that the accusers have now gone into the bunker and, having raised the incendiary subject, are doing everything they can to avoid the discussion.  Why?  What's changed?

Race and the Tea Parties.  Opponents of the popular expression of conservative opposition to big government — the tea-party movement — regularly note that tea partiers are overwhelmingly white.  This is intended to disqualify the tea parties from serious moral consideration.  But there are two other facts that are far more troubling:  The first is the observation itself.  The fact that the Left believes that the preponderance of whites among tea partiers invalidates the tea-party movement tells us much more about the Left than it does about the tea partiers.

More about Race-based Political Opportunism.

A Whiff of Revolution.  There is a whiff of revolution in the air and that is why the White House and Far Left are leveling the bogus charge that the Tea Partiers are all violent neo-Nazi types.  It is not beyond this White House to deliberately provoke violence.  There have already been isolated incidents of Tea Partiers being attacked by union goons.  Since the White House operates on the basis of one questionable "crisis" to another to impose unwanted laws, nothing can be ruled out by these community organizers.

The President's Permanent TARP Bailout Socialism Bill:  The Tea Party, with overwhelming agreement from the America people, opposes any further TARP bank bailouts.  But just as with the health care bill, Washington's ruling Democrats are laughing off the Tea Party, and ignoring the American people.  President Obama's so-called Financial Regulatory Reform bill institutionalizes permanent TARP bailout authority across the entire financial sector, indeed, for any company that can be deemed involved in financial activity of any sort.  Washington is operating today as if we have been conquered by a foreign power that has suspended our democracy and doesn't care what the American people think.

More about the stimulus bill a/k/a TARP.

When Will They Take Us Seriously?  When voters attending a Tea Party are surveyed about their top concerns, the answers will be emphatic and varied:  unemployment at almost ten percent with no decline in sight.  An $800-billion-plus stimulus bill that has accomplished absolutely nothing. Iran well on its way to a nuclear bomb.  Skyrocketing debt.  A state immigration law which mirrors federal law, yet which President Obama says is "misguided" and threatens "basic notions of fairness."

Does Obama Have Something Against Cops?  On his show Wednesday [4/28/2010], [Rush] Limbaugh pointed out that:  [1] The mainstream media has been notably silent on the violent protests against the law — unlike their coverage of the tea party movement — ignoring incidents of vandalism and other attacks on supporters of the law.  [2] President Obama and his administration has leaped to the conclusion that police would abuse the powers the law would give them while ignoring the fact that illegal immigrants are breaking the law.  [3] The sheer cost to taxpayers of illegals using local, state and federal welfare systems has been utterly ignored in the debate.

Limited Government is Essential to Preserve Liberty.  Since its conception, one principle essential to the United States of America has been limited government.  It was for this concept that the Revolution was fought:  the colonists' right to form their own government, small enough that individuals were in control of their own lives.  When the British government began imposing heavy taxes on the American colonies, the forefathers fought for a government that allowed individuals to control their lives.

Obama takes direct aim at anti-government rhetoric.  In a blunt caution to political friend and foe, President Barack Obama said Saturday [5/1/2010] that partisan rants and name-calling under the guise of legitimate discourse pose a serious danger to America's democracy, and may incite "extreme elements" to violence.

Obama all but accuses critics of stoking anti-government violence.  [Scroll down]  And by tut-tutting about violence on the heels of earlier comments trying to delegitimize critics of big government, the suggestion that people who criticize his government are stoking violence is pretty clearly telegraphed.  Which is one heck of a charge coming from a guy who spent years working side-by-side with an actual, unrepentant anti-government terrorist, and has lied his head off about it ever since.

Hmmm... I think he's talking about Obama's old pal, Bill Ayers.

The Extreme Left:  A Ticking Time Bomb.  The Mainstream media (MSM) is currently peddling the Obama Administration myth that patriotic Americans, many of whom have served in our military or who otherwise have an American flag hanging proudly in their front yards, pose a grave threat to our nation's security.  We have seen calls for Republican leaders to denounce Tea-Partiers and other activist groups opposed to Obama's agenda.  We are currently seeing our nation's Department of Justice being hijacked to score political points for the Far-Left.

The Bully Party.  Some liberals suffer from a pathological inability to refer to the Tea Party by its name, preferring a crude and infantile sexual epithet.  The folks waving signs and holding peaceful rallies have been insulted as fakes, wackos, ignoramuses, racists, nihilists, and hicks suffering from status anxiety.  But when a poll revealed the Tea Party movement is better educated and wealthier than the electorate at large, a prominent Washington Post columnist summarily dismissed the movement as the "populism of the privileged."

President Obama:  GOP Opposition to Stimulus 'Helped to Create the Tea-Baggers'.  Three days after he decried the lack of civility in American politics, President Obama is quoted in a new book about his presidency referring to the Tea Party movement using a derogatory term with sexual connotations.

Pro-immigration violence escalates.  Compare the media's hostile treatment of peaceful Tea Party protests to the sometimes violent leftist demonstrations against Arizona's law.  No Tea Party demonstrators have been arrested during anti-government gatherings, and none has thrown rocks or broken bottles at police.

Racial profiling:  It's only cool if it DOESN'T save lives.  Everyone knows that Islamic extremists have targeted the United States as well as other Western countries, yet the current administration and its allies have decided not to refer to Islamic terrorism because it might hurt someone's feelings.  Thus, when the recent New York City car-bomb incident occurred, everyone from Mayor Bloomberg to Attorney General Eric Holder was holding out hope for the possibility that the culprit might have been white, middle-aged and angry about taxes — in other words, a stereotypical tea-party protester.

Tea Parties and Racism:  Get used to it, Tea Partiers:  You are going to be called racists.  A Google search on "racism tea parties" gets 190,000 hits.  Fortunately, I am a self-appointed one-man rescue squad to help beleaguered Tea Partiers fight back.  Having written about "racism" for over two decades (this, for example) while being regularly vilified for my racial views, I can speak with some authority on being smeared.  Fighting back begins with understanding how this accusation is manufactured — and "manufactured" is the correct word.

'Tea party' clout:  What was learned from Sen. Robert Bennett loss.  To be sure, the elimination of incumbent Senator Bennett in the race for the Republican nomination is the most concrete political accomplishment yet of the tea party movement, which opposed him.

The 'Tea Party' of the 1930s.  President Obama's stimulus bill passed in February of last year is what ignited an initial storm of protest that has been followed by a growing wave of political activism.  In 1937, the equivalent spark was newly reelected President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's February 1937 proposal, buttressed by a March fireside chat, to pack the Supreme Court with six additional justices friendly to the New Deal's statism and hostile to the original intent of the Constitution.

The Way Back.  Many of us can agree that the T.E.A. Party has not only served to raise awareness of a majority of the center-right constituents of this country, but at the same time has begun to accomplish two other things.  First; [it] has made sufficient inroads as to cause a fearful reaction from the progressive left.  Second; it has begun the process of pulling the Republican Party back to its conservative roots.

Another Very Bad Night for Obama, Democrats, and the Media.  The very notion of Washington as a control center and hub of intellectual power and great solutions is by definition a liberal ideal.  Washington is Mecca to the Democrat liberal base.  By contrast, the city and all it represents are anathema to progress and prosperity for the Republican base voters... you know, the tea party types.  Yesterday [5/18/2010] was another sound rebuke of Washington as defined by liberals and thus another big day for the mindset of the tea party movement.

King Street Patriots:  King Street Patriots takes its name from the original group of patriots who demonstrated in the streets of Boston in 1770 in response to confiscatory British policies enacted against the colonists.  King Street was known as the hub of historic and patriotic acts of community activism.  The Boston Massacre, tar and featherings, marches of the Sons of Liberty, routings of the Tea Party, and the ride of Paul Revere all unfolded on this cobblestone road.  The protestations of King Street's activists sparked rebellion among the colonies and eventually culminated in the American Revolution.

This is an anti-liberal — not an anti-incumbent — wave.  The lesson thus far in the 2010 midterms:  If you've supported Barack Obama and the Democratic leadership in their quest to vastly expand the size of government, you're toast.

2010:  Anti-Incumbent, Anti-Liberal, or Anti-Democrat?  The historical record provides no support for 2010 being a generalized anti-incumbent year; the elections to date this cycle in major statewide races certainly don't support this scenario either.

The 'anti-incumbent' canard — 2010 is something else.  My 11th grade American History teacher was a good teacher and a total liberal.  The day after the 1994 elections, she mumbled something about "anti-incumbent fever."  I went home and checked the newspaper, and confirmed that every single Republican senator and House member seeking reelection had won that day.  The only Republican incumbent to lose in 1994 was liberal Republican David Levy who lost his primary to conservative Daniel Frisa.

Tea Parties vs. Unions in November.  Elections this month have enhanced the political clout of two groups widely separated on the political spectrum.  The tea party movement stands to play an outsize role in the fall elections now that outsider Rand Paul has swept Kentucky's GOP Senate primary, while unions provided the muscle for Democrats to win a key special election in Pennsylvania.

More about the role of labor unions as pawns of the Democrat Party.

The left's intolerance of tea.  The left is aghast at today's Tea Party movement.  How could Americans of any stripe be so appalled at the exercise of the constitutional right to speak out against big, intrusive — yet unresponsive — government?  Our Founders would no doubt be amused at the irony.  It was after all, those same issues that provoked them in the first place.  Of course, today's liberals would have hated that Tea Party, too.

Is Tea Brewing In Colorado?  Kentucky may not be the only state where a Tea Party candidate upsets the establishment GOP candidate.  In Colorado straw polls held in March, Republican voters gave a narrow edge to Tea Party favorite and prosecutor Ken Buck over former Lt. Gov. Jane Norton in the race for the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate.  Tea Partyers don't trust Norton because her brother-in-law, Charlie Black, advised the 2008 McCain campaign and is a powerful Washington lobbyist.

Constitution is this year's big best-seller.  Demand for copies of the U.S. Constitution is skyrocketing.  The increased interest comes amid the rise of the Tea Party movement and as both parties cite the Constitution to advance their agendas.  The pocket edition of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence ranked 10th on the Government Printing Office's (GPO) best-seller list in March.

Once-sneering big shots must now give 'Tea' service.  At first, they were ignored.  Then they were mocked.  Next, they were roundly smeared and scorned.  Today, the Tea Party movement has in its grip the trembling attention of both Democrats and Republicans.

May Primaries and the Coming Electoral Tsunami.  In the face of mocking media coverage wherein they were demeaned as "tea baggers," or castigated as "seditious" by the likes of Bill Clinton, the Tea Party supporters pressed forward. Assembling in vast numbers in major gatherings on April 15, July 4, and September 12 of 2009, they gathered to tell both the Federal Government and their less assertive fellow citizens of their abhorrence for the unconstitutional actions by which America is being transformed from its glorious founding.

In God We Trust... In Government?  Not So Much.  According to the Pew Research Center, nearly 80% of Americans don't trust their own government.  Could it really be that Americans actually do trust their government... to do the wrong thing with remarkable consistency?  Trust is based on an assumption that the person or thing in whom one places trust will act predictably and responsibly.  It appears from the poll results that came out in early April that the government does neither, at least in the minds of four out of five citizens.

Tea Parties A Hopeful Sign That We're Not All Brain-Dead.  The only bright light on the horizon is coming from the fast growing Tea Parties that are unafraid of stepping on the toes of the multicultural advocates who care nothing about our national security.  These grassroots groups are composed of Americans who have a finer sense of American history than those who've emerged from Ivy League academia totally brainwashed in Marxism.

Letting Rand Paul Twist in the Wind.  How are we to get the country back on the course set by its Founders if we cannot stand with the Rand Pauls of the nation on the bedrock principle of maximum personal liberty?

How Did We Get There?  [Scroll down]  Today, it is estimated that two-thirds to three-fourths of federal government expenditures do not have a foundation in its enumerated powers, and nearly all of the regulatory agencies are without any Constitutional foundation.  How did we get there? ... The Tea Party has made a start on the reclamation effort.  It seems to recognize that every dollar spent by the federal government is extracted under threat of imprisonment from one of our fellow citizens.  The journey back to liberty will be long, and it will be difficult.

Obama and Media Minions Inspire Violence.  Most assuredly, the tea parties are not about racism or hate.  The truth is quite the opposite.  The tea parties are about love; love for the greatest nation on the planet and a fervent desire not to see it transformed into something unrecognizable.  The Tea Party Movement is no more complicated than that.  So where did the New Black Panther Party get the erroneous idea that the tea party patriots are, as Janeane Garofalo says, "a bunch of redneck racist against a black president"?  The unfortunate answer is the Obama media machine.

Primary Lessons.  [Scroll down]  While primary challenges from the Left sputtered, Tea Party-backed conservatives scored several successes.  Most prominently, Sharron Angle, until recently a relative unknown, rode the Tea Party movement's support to victory in a crowded field for Nevada's Republican nomination for the Senate.  Although Tea Party spending to support Angle's candidacy was limited compared to Big Labor's efforts in Arkansas — the Tea Party political action committee spent just $550,000 to boost her name recognition — it was far more effective:  From a 5 percent approval rating as recently as April, Angle went on to win the nomination.  Tea Party-backed candidates also won in Georgia, Maine and South Carolina.

GOP picks NV tea party candidate in Reid battle.  Nevada Republicans Tuesday [6/8/2010] picked tea party insurgent Sharron Angle to take on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, marking the start of an epic showdown between a king of Capitol Hill and a conservative renegade who wants to turn Washington on end.

Video: Tea Party participant stuns the crowd.

Wanting to Abolish the Department of Education Is Not Radical.  Newly minted Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle is a kook:  That's what Sen. Harry Reid's people are telling reporters.  ABC, CNN, and other outlets seem to agree, noting that Mrs. Angle wants to shutter the federal Department of Education, get the U.S. out of the U.N., phase out Social Security, and eliminate the IRS.

Some Advice for the Tea Party:  Take Your Time and Learn from Your Mistakes.  [Scroll down]  It is extraordinarily difficult to unseat an incumbent at the national level, and frankly, many of the Tea Party candidates have not been stellar political campaigners.  Again, this is not surprising.  Many of the challengers are running for public office for the first time.  Some do not know how to run competent campaigns, many are woefully underfunded, and few know how to pick apart an incumbent's voting record and get that information to the voters.

Congressional brutality.  Congressional Democrats went on a rampage three months ago to paint Tea Party activists as violent extremists, despite zero evidence that the movement's rallies have been anything but peaceful.

Tea Party Movement Is Also About Traditional Morality, Congressman Says.  The Tea Party movement and its grassroots political activists are defined by loyalty to the U.S. Constitution, limited government and individual liberty — not social issues such as abortion.  That's what one analyst argued at a gathering of conservatives in Washington on Wednesday [6/16/2010].

Obama is in over his head.  [Scroll down]  Thus do the Democrats steel themselves to face a furious electorate:  "What deficit?  We don't have no stinking deficit.  We haven't even passed a budget yet."  Democrats in the rank and file appear to understand that this will not work in the age of Tea Party activism.

Loss Of Faith.  In a Rasmussen poll of 1,000 adults taken last Friday and Saturday, nearly half, or 48%, said they see government today as a threat to their rights.  Just 37% disagreed.  The poll also found that only one in five (21%) believe current government has the consent of the governed.  In other words, people think much of what our government does today is illegitimate — possibly even illegal.

48% See Government Today As A Threat to Individual Rights.  Nearly half of American Adults see the government today as a threat to individual rights rather than a protector of those rights.  The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 48% of Adults see the government today as a threat to rights.  Thirty-seven percent (37%) hold the opposite view.  Fifteen percent (15%) are undecided.

Party Like It's 1773.  Tea party activists are on a roll at the ballot box which bodes well for the election of responsible conservatives in November.

Where Did the Tea-Party Anger Come From?  [Scroll down]  After 18 months, the people feel they have been had -- in the way that a blow-dried mansion living, philandering John Edwards is hardly an advocate for the "other America", or green-scheming, instant multi-millionaire Al Gore is hardly a disinterested advocate for welcoming reasonable debate about a sustainable planet.  Prophets fall harder, especially when "we are the ones we've been waiting for" prove to be a reflective of the Chicago way, the snooty ineptness of the Harvard lounge, and the shrill leftism of SEIU.

Tea Parties That Look Like America.  This is from today's long (and on the whole not bad) USA Today article on the tea parties and tea partiers.  But there's something a little odd about that term "scattering."  That "scattering" is (as is suggested later in the same sentence) pretty hefty — 23 percent of tea partiers are, according to the survey, non-white Anglos.  How does this compare to the nation's adults as a whole?  They're 25 percent non-white Anglos.  So tea partiers are — in this as in other respects — a startlingly representative demographic group.

Sour Grapes.  The Left and the media have been exposed for the frauds they are, and they've spent too much time in the sunlight now to ever go back into hiding.  They have shown themselves to be wolves in sheep's clothing, and they have no one's interest at heart save their own.  They've proven repeatedly that party loyalty is more important to them than the prosperity of their own country.

Yes, We Can't!  The Republicans cannot afford to lose both houses again, even by a nose.  If Obama has Pelosi and Reid (or Schumer) as partners for 2011 and 2012, he can bury this country under layers of leftist legislation which no subsequent President could unravel.  Anytime you must win at all costs, you are not likely to coast.

Had Enough "Hope and Change"?  Tea Partiers are people who have a more sophisticated understanding of current events than those who describe themselves as anti-Tea Party.  Anyone who doesn't realize that the exploding federal debt represents a serious threat to our future either is a fool, or doesn't have children.  The responses on terrorism are interesting, too:  there is evidently a common thread between obliviousness to the dangers of debts we can't pay and to the dangers of Islamic terrorism, but it is hard to see what that common thread might be, other than blind, stupid loyalty to the Democratic Party.

The Blood of the Tea Party.  I've never participated in a Tea Party rally.  My natural habitat is a classroom or behind a keyboard.  That said, I've had a lot of contact with Tea Party people, and, of course, I hear the angry charges from those doing their worst to discredit the movement.

America's Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution.  [Scroll down]  Americans' conviction that the ruling class is as hostile as it is incompetent has solidified.  The polls tell us that only about a fifth of Americans trust the government to do the right thing.  The rest expect that it will do more harm than good and are no longer afraid to say so.

Americans Say Government and Politicians Are Bigger Problems.  Americans now believe that government and politicians are bigger problems for the country than illegal immigration, health care, disaster response or even the federal debt.

5 Eyewitness Examples Proving Tea Parties Not Racist.  I'm black tea party patriot Lloyd Marcus.  I have attended over 200 tea parties nationwide as a spokesperson and performing my "American Tea Party Anthem" on the Tea Party Express.  Incredibly, liberal radio interviewers and their callers and liberal TV interviewers who have not attended a single tea party have vigorously confronted me with accusations of unabated racism in the tea parties.  Their beliefs and impression of the tea parties are based on undocumented lies and hearsay shamelessly reported by the liberal mainstream media as fact.

Scott Brown:  Is He Stupid or Corrupt?  In one of the greatest upsets in modern political history, the people of Massachusetts, sick and tired of the free spending, economy destroying ways of Obama and Democrats in Washington, came together to elect Republican Scott Brown to take over Ed Kennedy's old Senate seat with the intention of ushering in a new age of federal fiscal responsibility.  But what a sorry joke that has turned out to be.

Lott confirms he's a paid tool of the Washington Establishment.  Any possible shred of doubt remaining in anybody's mind about former Senate GOP leader Trent Lott's true allegiance have now been definitively removed:  Lott is a paid tool of the Washington Establishment who hates the Tea Party and all other insurgents who have had it with politics-as-usual.

Barack Obama's Endless Crises:  Even with a corrupt, compliant liberal media in the role of constant Obama booster, 62% of the country senses that we are headed in the wrong direction.  The country has been driven to this opinion by Obama's flagrant ideological radicalism, which might have been forgiven had it not led to our most pernicious crisis, that of worsening joblessness.  Only Obama and Joe Biden believe that the job trajectory in America is positive.

Bachmann:  Why I Called for a Tea Party Caucus.  I called for a Tea Party Caucus to bring members' attention to the cries of everyday Americans who are asking for a return to the fundamental principles contained within our nation's greatest document, the Constitution.  Americans from all locations and backgrounds have united through Tea Parties to spread the timeless messages of fiscal responsibility and limited government.

Goading the tea parties.  As the coordinator of the San Francisco Tea Party, I have considerable experience dealing with the conservative grassroots (yes, there are really conservatives in the Bay Area) and with a perpetually angry and emotionally driven leftwing.  What the White House and its minions have done by wagging the racist finger at the tea parties is simply deplorable.

Confessions of a 'Right Wing Extremist'.  I am unable to vote for a Presidential candidate, but instead I am forced to vote against the other candidate... holding my nose when I depress the lever to vote.  I believe I am not alone in my thinking, and that a significant number of people either vote their conscience like I do or they don't vote at all.  Perhaps the fact that less than a half the eligible voters in any given election bother to cast their votes is a reflection of this dissatisfaction.  The days of a thought leader who inspired your vote are a distant memory.

Conservatives rally around the Tenth Amendment.  It's only 28 words long:  "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."  But the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution is having a powerful effect on conservative ideology these days.  Libertarian activists are citing the amendment with renewed fervor and many politicians have been heard reciting it recently as well.

Trusted Most — Men with Guns.  Public confidence in Congress has plummeted to the lowest level of any institution since Gallup began asking the question in 1973.  One-half of all Americans have little or no confidence in the Congress.  Only 11 percent have a "great deal" or "a lot of" confidence in what is, given its place of primacy in the Constitution, the first branch of government and the branch most representative of the people.

Why Are We Beginning to Hate Congress?  Lately, Congress seems not merely corrupt, but — far more worrisome — without apparent concern that it has become so unethical.

Our Patrick Henry Moment Is Here.  Obama's election was supposed to transform America, at least in his mind.  This country's first socialist president strode into office confident that he would remake this country.  Fortunately for the country, the timing of his election was twenty, if not fifty, years too late.  Socialism has failed in its pure form wherever it has been tried.  Now it has failed in its modified form.  While much of the world realizes this, President Obama is either ignorant or has more sinister plans for the country.

The Threat to Personal Liberty.  The Tea Party defines itself as in favor of more limited government, but the progressives are slandering it as a racist movement.  Given the media's acquiescence in the budding collective tyranny of the progressives' New Regime, the opposition message is distorted, muffled, and too often unclear.

Dems accused of tea party tampering.  Nationally, Democrats say they intend to campaign against the tea party movement.  But locally, Democratic officials and activists in at least four states now stand accused of collaborating with tea party candidates in an attempt to sabotage Republican challengers in some of the closest House races in the nation.  The charges of dirty tricks are being leveled in Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Jersey and Florida — and they involve more than a half-dozen contests that could tip the balance of power in the House.

Using Race to Discredit the Tea Party Movement.  Black conservative leaders from around the country gathered in Washington on Wednesday to denounce the NAACP for its resolution charging that elements of the Tea Party movement are racist.

Black Political Activists:  Tea Party 'Not Racist'.  Black political activists who also call themselves members of the Tea Party movement on Wednesday [8/4/2010] rebuked charges of racism running rampant in the group.  At a news conference in Washington, the black members asserted that the Tea Party is not at all racist and that the accusations come from outsiders trying to discredit and sabotage the movement.

Tea Partiers:  Do You Still Beat Your Wife?  Here's The Narrative of the leftist establishment:  Tea Partiers oppose Barack Obama because he is black.  Also, they embrace white supremacy, they use racial epitaphs, and they hoist signs dripping with the vilest racial hate.  That's The Narrative promoted by the mainstream media, by the NAACP, and by the Southern Poverty Law Center.  The Narrative paints the Tea Party as racist.  But the leftist establishment is careful not to directly come out and say such harsh things — the falsity is just too obvious.  They just want to nudge The Narrative along.

Black Conservatives Confront NAACP on Racism Charge.  Black conservatives denounced the NAACP on Wednesday over the group's accusation of racism in the Tea Party movement, saying they have attended numerous Tea Party events without seeing signs of racism.  NAACP delegates recently passed a resolution condemning what their website describes as "extremist elements" in the Tea Party, pointing to unsubstantiated accusations of racial language used against members of Congress during the healthcare debate earlier this year.

From Cordoba to Marbella.  Last summer's town halls quickly morphed into the Tea Party movement and, in turn, into open rebellion by states and voters alike.  Through all of this, the political class, locked in its parochial self-aggrandizing bubble, sees nothing amiss.

1913 Was a Very Bad Year.  Prior to 1913, there was no federal income tax.  The states had rights and representation in Washington DC, there was no Federal Reserve Bank, and the federal government lived under the enumerated powers afforded within the US Constitution.  What a difference one year can make.  Almost a hundred years later, it's clear that the policies established in 1913 must be revoked in order to restore power to the people and the states.  But can the American people stuff the Genie back in to the bottle?

Slaves on the Government Plantation.  At a recent press event sponsored by the Tea Party Express, some of America's most prominent leaders in the movement spoke out about race and charges of racism being hurled at the tea parties by the Obama administration, the Congressional Black Caucus and the NAACP.  In his remarks at the event, former Reagan administration ambassador Alan Keyes spoke of "rampant exploitation of the history of black Americans" by the Obama administration, using race as an instrument of political war to enslave all Americans.

Adding Tea Party candidates to ballot smells like a dirty trick.  A group calling itself the "Tea Party" gathered signatures to put candidates on the fall ballot.  The Board of State Canvassers will determine later this month whether the group has sufficient valid signatures to be certified as a political party under state law.  Whatever the outcome of that process, there are strong indications this Tea Party is a sham.  The leader of the petition drive is Mark Steffek, a media-shy retired United Auto Workers steward from Tuscola County.  People affiliated with and active in the real tea party movement in Michigan say they've never heard of Mr. Steffek or seen him at their meetings.

Tea Party's inception a rebirth.  The birth of the Tea Party movement is generally traced to February 2009, just a few weeks after President Obama's inauguration.  While Rick Santelli's famous rant on CNBC was the spark that ignited Tea Party gatherings across the nation and gave it its name, the movement's genesis was in progress long before that fateful day.

The Tea Party and the Spider's Web.  From its inception, the mission of the Tea Party has confounded liberals, Democrats, establishment Republicans, most of the news media — and just about everyone else whose positions and power rely on big government, or who consider The New York Times a reliable source of news.

A Tea Party Manifesto.  On Feb. 9, 2009, Mary Rakovich, a recently laid-off automotive engineer, set out for a convention center in Fort Myers, Fla. with protest signs, a cooler of water and the courage of her convictions.  She felt compelled to act, having grown increasingly alarmed at the explosion of earmarks, bailouts and government spending in the waning years of the Bush administration.  President Barack Obama, joined by then-Republican Gov. Charlie Crist, was in town promoting his plan to spend a trillion dollars in borrowed money to "stimulate" the economy.  Mary didn't know it, but she was on the front lines of a grass-roots revolution that was brewing across the nation.

Shared Sacrifice in Obamaland.  Over the last fifty years, the federal government has run budget deficits exactly 90 percent of the time.  The American people, however, never seemed very concerned about it.  But with the advent of the Great Recession and a quantum jump in the size of the deficits, folks have become truly alarmed.  In fact, the federal deficit is one of the main concerns of the Tea Party movement.

Race War A'Comin'?  Obama is serious about redistribution by racial favors and quotas, and the legislation supported by his administration always provides preference and sets aside boilerplate that plays to the set asides and preferences bias.  Obama and his administration are not post-racial at all.  Now America is gasping for air with the Obama socialist boot on its neck.  Tea Party people have to push ahead and must not be hesitant or afraid.

Alleged Tea Party Impostor Knocked Off the Ballot in Pennsylvania.  We've heard other reports of alleged Tea Party impostorism, from would-be Nevada Senate candidate Scott Ashjian to the TEA Party in Florida, which some think is a Democrat-run operation.  And now, in Pennsylvania, Tea Party activists and the state Republican Party has knocked some Tea Partiers off the ballot as they've sought to run as third-party candidates.

Tea Party Crasher Quits Before Getting the Ax.  The Oregon teacher who declared his mission to "dismantle and demolish" the Tea Party movement resigned before getting the ax, a school spokeswoman told FoxNews.com.  "He resigned earlier this week, on Monday," Maureen Wheeler of the Beaverton School District said.  "He resigned in lieu of termination."

America's Insurgent Pollster.  You can tell it's a volatile political year when a balding, middle-aged pollster gets a standing ovation from hundreds of state legislators after delivering the news that only 23% of the people in this country believe today's federal government has the consent of the governed.  "Americans don't want to be governed from the left or the right," Scott Rasmussen tells the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conference of 1,500 conservative and moderate legislators.  "They want, like the Founding Fathers, to largely govern themselves with Washington in a supporting — but not dominant — role.  The tea party movement is today's updated expression of that sentiment."

Beaverton's 'Crash the Tea Party' teacher resigns as his dismissal loomed.  Beaverton middle school teacher Jason Levin, who founded the now notorious "Crash the Tea Party" website, is no longer a teacher.  Levin resigned Wednesday [8/18/2010] in lieu of termination, said Beaverton School District Legal Counsel Camellia Osterink.

Because of a scheme to put fake Tea Party candidates on the ballot...
 Dem official in Michigan forced to resign.  In Michigan, a group claiming to be the "Tea Party" has put 23 candidates on the ballot around the state, despite not having any known connections to established conservative or tea party groups.  It was suspected that this was part of a plot by Democratic operatives to split the Republican vote in November.  Now a Democratic party official is being forced to resign for his role in the scheme, and may even have engaged in illegal activity.

Obamacare could sink Obama.
 The Tea Party rose in reaction to bad policy.  Nikki Phelps struggled against kidney cancer for 10 years, depleting the life savings of her family and eventually causing them to sell their home in order to supply her with Sutent, a common treatment for cancer.  Her insurance company refused to buy the drug.  Her insurance company was the government of England, which through its National Health Service, refused to supply her with this drug.  She died this spring.

More about socialized medicine in England.

Tea party candidacy filings under suspicion.  When Aaron Tyler started getting letters and calls about his candidacy for the Oakland County Board of Commissioners, he had no idea what the callers were talking about.  He had gotten a new job and moved from Springfield Township to Phoenix in late July and had no intention of running for office.  "I figured it must have been some sort of mistake," Tyler wrote in a letter to the Oakland County Clerk's Office.  "I believe a fraud was committed."

The Death of Conservatism Was Greatly Exaggerated.  Last August left little doubt that a conservative revival was underway.  Constituents packed town-hall meetings across the country to confront Democratic House members and senators ill-prepared to explain why, in the teeth of a historic economic downturn and nearly 10% employment, President Obama and his party were pressing ahead with costly health-care legislation instead of reining in spending, cutting the deficit and spurring economic growth.  Still, whether that revival would have staying power was very much open to question.


The NAACP vs the Tea Party Movement

Michelle Obama Rouses NAACP Before Vote Condemning 'Racist' Elements of Tea Party.  First Lady Michelle Obama brought renewed energy to the NAACP today, delivering the keynote speech at the annual convention one day before the nation's largest civil rights group is expected to condemn what it calls racist elements in the Tea Party movement.  The nation's largest and oldest civil rights organization will vote on the resolution Tuesday [7/13/2010] during its annual convention in Kansas City, Mo.

Black Activists Condemn NAACP Resolution Against Tea Party Movement.  As the NAACP plans to use their group's prestige to bash the tea party movement, members of the Project 21 black leadership network are urging delegates at the NAACP's national convention not to turn the NAACP into a pawn for progressive political bosses.

NAACP will vote today on whether you are a racist.  I have not seen a single interview of any Tea Partier — and certainly of any credible movement leader — who did not repudiate and denounce racism when asked.  I hope they all continue to repudiate it, but I don't really think that's what the NAACP is trying to accomplish here.

NAACP Passes Tea Party Racism Resolution.  The NAACP has passed a resolution condemning racism in the Tea Party movement.  The resolution was approved in a vote by more than 2,000 delegates at the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Kansas City.

Tea Party Is Dealt The Race Card.  The NAACP, in crafting a resolution condemning racism in the Tea Party movement, seems to have forgotten those Black Panthers with clubs intimidating voters and wanting to kill white people.  The "angry mobs" that reshaped the 2010 political landscape are angry white racist mobs, at least according to a resolution proposed by the NAACP at its annual convention this week in Kansas City, Mo.

Black Tea Party Spokesperson Rebukes NAACP Resolution Against Tea Parties.  The NAACP Resolution proclaiming the Tea Party Movement to be racist is motivated by hate and fear.  Though well disguised in intellectual rhetoric, underneath festers hate and fear.  Along with their underlying resentment of whites and non forgiveness of America's sins of the past, the NAACP has become zealots for the religion of Progressivism which preaches victimhood-ism and entitlement.  The NAACP are the true racists whose secret motto is "Keep Hate & Victimhood-ism Alive."

NAACP had no business condemning tea partiers.  By the time its annual convention in Kansas City is concluded, the NAACP will have held a series of votes, endorsed a slew of resolutions and discussed any number of issues.  But only one will be remembered:  Its resolution condemning "racist elements" among the tea partiers.  It was inappropriate, narrow-minded and divisive, a move that will only cement the aging organization's growing reputation as a repository of partisan hacks.  It will do far more harm than good in a political environment already simmering with contentiousness, suspicion and race-related grievances.

NAACP Won't Release Text of Tea Party Resolution Until October.  The NAACP will not release the actual text of its resolution condemning "racist elements" within the Tea Party movement until October, when the organization's board gives it final approval, a spokesman for the group has told me.

Liberals Crash Tea Party, But Stay Silent On Black Panther Hate Talk.  Over the past year, members of the liberal media, progressive politicians and the Hollywood elite have demonized the Tea Party movement partly by claiming that that Tea Partiers are a fringe group driven by racial animosity.  Now, faced with unequivocally racist antics by members of the New Black Panther Party, the progressive establishment seems devoid of passion to root out hatred.

NAACP plays latest race card against tea party.  [Scroll down]  The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People played a big race card, accusing the libertarian-leaning tea party movement of harboring racists. ... Now the NAACP, an organization with a historic role in civil rights, seems to be taking [Jesse] Jackson's path to irrelevancy.  At its national convention in Kansas City, Mo., this week, the NAACP offered a resolution condemning what they call "racist elements" in the anti-big government tea party movement.

The New Black Panther Party Are the Real Racists.  I condemn the NAACP.  Instead of criticizing tea parties, the NAACP would be better served denouncing the racist comments made by a member of the New Black Panther Party and its voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place in the last presidential election.  As a frequent speaker at tea party rallies around the country, I can assure the NAACP that the tea party movement's concerns are about President Obama's policies and not his race.

NAACP Direct Tie to Black Panthers.  In the past 24 hours [7/14/2010], more than a few pundits and writers have noted that the NAACP resolution accusing Tea Partiers of racism is hard to swallow when the NAACP seems unconcerned with the New Black Panther voting intimidation case.  Their points would be valid by analogy only.  Their points are even more valid, though, because of a direct, rather than just analagous, tie between the NAACP and the Panther case.

How Can I Prove I am Not a Racist?  How do you prove you are not a racist?  I, my husband, and several members of my family have attended several Tea Party events and rallies, including a rally of over 100,000 in Washington, D.C. last September.  According to the NAACP, and many members of the Democrat party establishment, my family and I are either racists ourselves, or we are tacitly supporting and enabling other racists in the Tea Party.  So how do we defend our honor?

On being labeled as 'racist':  A clear pattern of behavior has emerged over the last 16 months.  According to liberals, if you disagree with their thinking, and if you disagree with the Obama administration, you are not only wrong, you are a "racist."  The latest strike by the left comes from the NAACP, which has resolved that the tea party movement is inherently "racist."  At its most simple, this is a direct attack on the First Amendment rights of millions of Americans.  The NAACP has long history of liberalism and racism.  If you are a conservative — including a conservative African-American — there is no room for you at the NAACP.

Racial politics is rising under Obama.  The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People put forward a resolution yesterday formally accusing the Tea Party movement of racism.  That's ironic coming from an organization whose mission is to promote the fortunes of one particular racial group.  Post-racial America has yet to arrive for many black leaders.  President Obama has shown little interest in leading the national dialogue on race he once proposed, and civil rights groups are unwilling or unable to reach beyond their usual tired rhetoric.

ABC Hypes NAACP Indictment of Tea Party as Racist, a Smear the Network Stoked.  Four months after ABC's World News spent a weekend defaming anti-ObamaCare Tea Party protesters as "very ugly" with "reports of racial and homophobic slurs," citing "protesters roaming Washington, some of them increasingly emotional, yelling slurs and epithets," Tuesday's newscast, unlike those on CBS and NBC, credentialed the NAACP's charge that the "Tea Party movement is a threat to the pursuit of human rights, justice and equality for all."

Backpedaling at full speed:
 Revs. Sharpton, Jackson downplay tea party issue.  The Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton sought Wednesday [7/14/2010] to steer attention away from an NAACP resolution condemning racism within the tea party movement, saying focus should remain on jobs and an upcoming march in Washington.

Look Who's Talking.  Rescuing itself from the obscurity it richly deserves, the NAACP has found a way back onto the front page:  accuse the tea party movement of harboring racists. ... [Ben] Jealous might revisit the Sermon on the Mount.  "Judge not that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged. ... Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"

The Slow, Painful Decline of the NAACP.  The NAACP approved a resolution recently condemning the Tea Party's fringe element of their movement for "explicitly racist behavior."  It would require a flow chart the likes of which have not been seen since the days of health reform to explain all of the ways this is wrong.  For starters, the mere act of criticizing a black president is not racist.  Nor is it racist to raise the public consciousness to the very important issues of spiraling debt, misguided bailouts, and a series of social policies that may bankrupt the country.  Our nation benefits from uninhibited discussion about these serious issues.  Very simply, when movements — Tea Party or otherwise — openly debate these issues, the truth rises up.

The NAACP vs. the Tea Party.  From the beginning of its ascent, the tea party has been targeted by the far left in America.  They fear the populist movement because of its small-government philosophy and its successful activism.  The cheapest, easiest way to attack any political opponent is to level accusations of bigotry.  Almost every conservative broadcaster and columnist in America has been subjected to that.  The NAACP picked a bad time to brand the tea party with the racist label.

The Ku Klux Klan, Terrorist Wing of the Democratic Party.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) has falsely accused the Tea Party of having ties to the Ku Klux Klan.  Speaking at the NAACP convention, she said:  "All those who wore sheets a long time ago lifted them off to wear Tea Party clothing." ... It would have been far more truthful for the congresswoman to have admitted the fact that all those who wore sheets a long time ago lifted them to wear Democratic Party clothing.  Yes, the Ku Klux Klan was established by the Democratic Party.

The NAACP's Racist Agenda.  Through its double vision racial lens, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is falsely declaring as racist Tea Party Movement activists — average Americans who do not agree with the socialist agenda of the Democratic Party — while hypocritically giving a pass to Democrats who engage in real racism.

NAACP Spits into the Wind — with Obvious Results.  At the July 2010 NAACP "One Nation One Dream" Convention, the NAACP spit into the wind hoping to damage the growing Tea Party movement and avoid the Democrats losing any of their power following the November elections.  But spitting into the wind can be risky, and in the NAACP's case, it resulted in revealing the organization's own racist dishonesty.

Race Card Fraud.  [Scroll down]  This is not the first time that an organization with an honorable and historic mission has eventually degenerated into a tawdry racket.  But that an organization like the NAACP, after years of fighting against genuine racism, should now be playing the game of race card fraud is especially painful to see.  Some critics of the Tea Party have seized upon banners carried at one of its rallies that compared Obama with Hitler and Stalin.  Extreme?  Yes.  But there was nothing racist about it, since extreme comparisons have been made about politicians of every race, color, creed, nationality, ideology and sexual preference.

What the NAACP/Tea Party Battle is Really About.  The NAACP and its numerous allies have for decades led the charge to expand government power, including intruding into areas once considered absolutely off-limits to Washington, let alone local government.  Tea Partiers are not libertarians but they've had enough with government power run amok.  This disagreement is, to use Thomas Sowell's words, an unbridgeable conflict of visions:  the tea party's agenda, even stripped of any racial component contravenes the NAACP's raison d'être so when the NAACP complains about insensitivities, it is just saying "You intend to destroy us."

Top 10 Examples of NAACP Racism.  The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) condemned the Tea Party movement last month for alleged bigotry within its ranks.  The mainstream always seems extreme to extremists.  As the following top-ten list demonstrates, the NAACP, a hotbed of political hotheads in recent years, isn't the best organization to be lecturing others about extremism.

Black tea party members dispute racist claims.  Black members of the tea party movement on Wednesday [8/4/2010] rejected charges that the group's activists are racist, saying they oppose President Barack Obama because of his policies not his skin color.

More about the NAACP.


Comparison of Tea Party activists to the Oklahoma City bombers

Bill Clinton blames the Tea Parties for anything bad that happens next month.
 Recalling '95 Bombing, Clinton Sees Parallels.  With the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing approaching, former President Bill Clinton on Thursday [4/15/2010] drew parallels between the antigovernment tone that preceded that devastating attack and the political tumult of today, saying government critics must be mindful that angry words can stir violent actions.

How Clinton exploited Oklahoma City for political gain.  With the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing Monday, former President Bill Clinton is playing a starring role in the liberal effort to draw what the New York Times calls "parallels between the antigovernment tone that preceded that devastating attack and the political tumult of today."  The short version of the narrative is:  Today's Tea Partiers are tomorrow's right-wing bombers.

Bill Clinton Returns to the Scene of the Crime.  The fifteenth anniversary of Timothy McVeigh's Oklahoma City bombing has just passed, and the Democrats are seizing every opportunity to wring political advantage out of that sorrowful event.  Bill Clinton appeared at a symposium on the bombing sponsored by a left-wing think tank and linked the mad bomber to today's opponents of the Democrats' radical agenda.

There He Gropes Again.  [Scroll down]  Now just the other day, ex-President Bill Clinton — some of us still call him The Groper — rose up at the Center for American Progress, and drew parallels between the Tea Partiers (call them the Caffeinated Right) and the homicidal maniacs who participated in the Oklahoma City bombing of the Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people and injuring hundreds more.  Clinton's charge was typically duplicitous. ... He also said, "Before the [Oklahoma] bombing occurred, there was a sort of fever in America," which I guess depends on the meaning of the word fever.  I recall no fever, but then I was not impeached for lying and obstruction of justice.

Could Tea Party Rhetoric Lead to Another Oklahoma City?  Former President Bill Clinton, among others, see echoes of the rhetoric that drove McVeigh in the current political discourse.  In an op-ed in the New York Times today [4/19/2010] tied to the bombing, he wrote that the bombers were driven by "the belief that the greatest threat to American freedom is our government, and that public servants do not protect our freedoms, but abuse them."

Clinton Rewrites History, Shifts Blame for Oklahoma City Bombing.  [Scroll down]  Starting last Wednesday or Thursday into the weekend the media template was established, the narrative was there, Bill Clinton and Obama blaming the tea parties for a future Oklahoma City type bombing, which hasn't happened.  Let me ask you a question.  What was a more likely cause of the Oklahoma City bombing:  talk radio or Bill Clinton and Janet Reno's hands-on management of Waco, the Branch Davidian compound, and maybe to a lesser extent Ruby Ridge.  Don't forget that the Oklahoma City bombing occurred two years to the day after the Waco invasion, two years to the day, and Tim McVeigh as much as said so.

What's behind the anti-Tea Party hate narrative?  There's a new narrative taking hold in the wake of the recent Tea Party protests and the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing:  The Tea Partiers' intense opposition to the Obama administration has led to overheated political rhetoric, which could in turn lead to violence, perhaps as devastating as Oklahoma City.  Former President Clinton is the leading voice of this new narrative.

The Democrats' Big Disconnect.  By the weekend, Bill Clinton and Rush Limbaugh were going after each other with bung starters and busted beer bottles.  Did anti-government rhetoric contribute to the Oklahoma City bombing of April 1995, which killed 168?  Yes!  No!  Guess which party to the discussion said which.

Liberals try to win arguments by using emotional outbursts rather than rational thought.

Jim Inhofe:  Bill Clinton comments 'unconscionable'.  Former President Bill Clinton's comments surrounding the Oklahoma City bombing commemoration are "unconscionable" and an "over-the-top" effort to silence critics, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) said Tuesday [4/20/2010].  Clinton has drawn fire for reprising criticism he made of conservative talk radio 15 years in the wake of the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building that took 168 lives and injured more than 500 others.

Using the Oklahoma City Bombing.  Monday was the anniversary of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that left 149 men and women — most of them federal workers — and 19 children dead.  As is his habit, former President Bill Clinton used the occasion to bash his critics.

Clinton Plays the Oklahoma City Card.  The Obama strategy of vilifying the tea party protesters and trying to link them to the violence of Oklahoma City is cynical and ridiculous.  The tea party protesters are, in many cases, decorated war veterans and can, in the main, only be described as patriots.  That Obama needs to paint them as violence prone extremists who are fanning flames that could lead to Oklahoma City-style bombings is offensive and vile in the extreme.

Democrats Hate That Tea Parties Are Peaceful.  Former President Clinton reminds us, on the 15th anniversary of the bombing in Oklahoma City, to police our discourse so as not to incite the "delirious" and "unhinged." ... This is only the latest and most high profile installment of a long-running campaign by Democrats to malign their opposition.  It worked very well for Mr. Clinton in 1995 — the baseless insinuation that right-wing radio hosts had ignited murderous rage with their intemperate rhetoric — and he's reaching into that seedy toolbox again.

To Clinton, criticism is terrorism.  Just as he did in 1995, [Bill] Clinton is again peddling the argument that a new wave of domestic terrorism is coming this time because millions of Tea Partying Americans have during the past year or more taken to the streets to protest, often loudly, many of the policies advanced by President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and the Democratic majority in Congress.

Criminalizing Debate.  There is something terrifying to Democratic leaders about the flavor and the force of the Tea Party, so on the eve of the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, they portrayed the group as a bunch of Timothy McVeighs.

The Violence Card.  Liberal Democrats and their friends in the media have tried just about everything to dismiss and discredit the tea-party movement.  They've accused Americans who are anxious and angry about a rapidly encroaching government of being racists, extremists, birthers, pawns of a corporate "AstroTurf" effort — and, now, potential Timothy McVeighs.

More about the Oklahoma City bombing.



Tea Party Crashers:  Infiltration and sabotage

Tea Parties targeted for infiltration.  In the coming days, millions of Americans, fed-up with political hubris, sink-hole spending and the imposition of "values" coerced into law, will exercise their right to peaceably assemble.  In Washington D.C., the Mall will be packed, as will municipal plazas, capitol steps and civic band-stands from Alaska to Maine.  This, the Tea Party, is stirring the Left to fits of neurosis rarely seen beyond clinical settings.  "Crash the Tea Party" is the latest example.  Part spy fantasy, part senior prank, its manifesto will doubtlessly undermine the conservative movement and permanently anoint a Democratic Elite.

Using the FBI against the tea party:
 Turning COINTELPRO on the tea party?  How comfortable are you with the idea of agents posing as activists to elicit anti-government tirades?  How comfortable would you be if the Bush administration had done the same thing with Code Pink in an effort to get a anti-war activist to threaten a Senator who voted in favor of invading Iraq?

Your illustrated guide to the Tea Party saboteurs.  The one-year anniversary of the nationwide April 15 Tax Day Tea Party counterinsurgency is fast approaching — and publicity-seeking malefactors of all stripes want in on the spotlight.  Over the last week, conservative activists online have thoroughly exposed the loser behind an Internet call to "Crash the Tea Party."

Tea Party trickster may be sent to the principal's office.  Tea Party Patriots sent an e-mail out to supporters Wednesday claiming that Tax Day crasher Jason Levin — who was outed as the creator of crashtheteaparty.org and is organizing a group of liberals to attend the rallies — is a middle school teacher in Beaverton, Ore.

Just keep on driving, limousine liberals.  Hey moonbats, do us all a favor this morning and go celebrate diversity somewhere else other than on Boston Common.  Here's a novel thought for you limousine liberals:  live and let live.  Let Sarah Palin and the Tea Party crowd have their rally without being interrupted.  How come when you shout somebody down it's speaking truth to power, but when we say anything it's "hate speech?"  I mean, have you people ever been bothered at your annual HempFest?

MSM Yawns As Leftists Openly Plot To Sabotage Tea Party.  Left-wingers recently unveiled a new website, CrashTheTeaParty.org, aimed at sabotaging the Tea Party movement and inflicting harm on Tea Party supporters by doing Lord-knows-what with their Social Security numbers.  Michelle Malkin has identified the creator of the website as one Jason Levin of Portland, Oregon and posted a detailed account of his background and how the website came to be.

Alinsky's Avenging Angels:  Tea Party Saboteurs.  The radical acolytes of Chicago's late left-wing organizer Saul Alinsky also understand the importance of manufacturing demons.  "Before men can act," Alinsky preached, "an issue must be polarized.  Men will act when they are convinced their cause is 100 percent on the side of the angels, and that the opposition are 100 percent on the side of the devil."  This explains the left's relentless campaign to sabotage the anti-tax, anti-bailout movement from Day One.

The Left-Wing Speech Police.  Unable to tolerate fellow Americans dissenting peacefully against their government's policies, the Left has set up a web site — known as "Crash the Tea Party" — encouraging people to pose as Tea Partiers and then "behave in ways which exaggerate their least appealing qualities ... to damage the public's opinion of them."  Obviously, this trick is right out of Saul Alinsky's playbook.

Source:  State Dems scrambling to deploy tea party 'crashers'.  New Hampshire Democrats are engaged in a statewide search for liberal activists willing to attend so-called tea parties on Thursday [4/15/2010] and carry signs expressing racist or fringe sentiments, a Democratic source with knowledge of the effort tells NowHampshire.com.  According to the source, who sought anonymity for fear of reprisals, the Dems' last minute scramble reflects a growing obsession among party leaders that they need to discredit the tea party movement soon or it will overwhelm them come the November election.

Oregon Teacher Panel Probes Educator Determined to 'Demolish' Tea Party.  A middle school teacher in Oregon who announced his intention "to dismantle and demolish the Tea Party" on his "Crash the Tea Party" Web site is under investigation by his state's Teacher Standards & Practices Commission.

Subverting the Subversives:  There is much discussion on the Internet right now about these liberal subversives who intend to infiltrate the widespread Tea Party rallies planned for April 15 Tax Day.  These infantile fools plan to make us look bad by shouting out racist, homophobic and other moronic slogans hoping that the media will be there in full force to record what a bunch of Neanderthals we conservatives are.

Tea Party Crash fizzles out.  After several days of hype and hand-wringing about liberal plans to infiltrate Thursday's tea party rallies, the great 2010 Tax Day Tea Party Crash did not produce much of a bang in Washington.

The 'Crash' That Burned.  It appears that tea party crashers simply aren't showing up in the numbers that Democrats hoped for ... or for that matter, showing up as anything resembling competent crashers at all.

Who's Behind the 'Crash the Tea Party' Website?  If there has been one constant in our national politics of the last year, it has been the continuous assault by progressives and liberals against the grassroots tea party movement.  As the tea party movement has gained support and become more effective, the attacks have ramped up.

Exposing the Party Crashers.  In anything with as many people involved as the tea party movement, there will undoubtedly be a few misguided souls who think racist signs, white supremacist signs, or wild conspiracy theories really will help the tea party cause.  It's their right to say what they like, but we refuse to be associated with them.  We declare that racism, white supremacism, and other things from simply offensive to flat-out nutty don't belong in tea party events.

Tea Partiers Seek 'Teachable Moment,' Not Oregon Teacher's Job.  The Tea Partiers are taking the high road.  Just because Oregon middle school teacher Jason Levin has publicly denounced them as a bunch of "racists, homophobes and morons," they say that's no reason for him to lose his job.

Tea partiers 'crash' Beaverton Schools meeting.  A Beaverton Schools' meeting was supposed to be about the budget; instead, supporters of the tea party movement came to complain about the local teacher who planned to crash tea party demonstrations during Tax Day.


Biased news coverage of tea parties:

The Left's Coordinated Message Operation.  American Spectator readers are probably familiar with the nationwide Tax Day Tea Party rallies being planned for Wednesday [4/15/2009].  Readers may be less familiar with the attempt by left-wing propagandists to dismiss the Tea Party movement as being ginned up by Fox News, "Corporate America" and the usual suspects of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.  The transparent object of this propaganda effort by the Left is to discourage coverage for the Tea Party movement by their liberal friends in the mainstream media.

Tax Day, 2009:  The day the mainstream media died?  In the past, major media outlets have given antigovernment 'tea party' protests — like the ones held today — short shrift.  Critics say it is because they are out of touch with America.

Note to the Media — Just Do Your Job and Cover the Tea Parties.  If you do something of note and the media choose not to cover it — the issue might just as well not exist.  Such is the fate of Wednesday's national Tax Day Tea Party.  This mega-gathering of tax protesters is scheduled for every single Congressional district in the country.  More than 500 events are planned.  And the national news media have either been silent or shown contempt for the effort.

CNN Versus the Tea Parties.  When thousands of people in all 50 states assemble to protest government policy, you might suppose that this is news.  Not according to the coverage on the front pages of the Washington Post, New York Times, or the Wall Street Journal.  The "tea party" rallies went unmentioned.

Mainstream Media:  Only Conservatives Are Sore Losers.  The popular meme circulating throughout the "unbiased" media yesterday was:  The original Tea Party was about taxation without representation but Americans HAVE representation and Republicans are just mad because they lost.  The more I twist that in my head, the more absurd it sounds.  What they're really saying is:  you are only allowed representation in government if you're the majority.  Funny how that didn't seem to be the case in California when Prop. 8 passed.  I don't remember any snide reporter telling a disappointed same-sex couple "Hey, you lost, get over it."

Taking It To The Streets.  When Americans have to turn to the foreign press for truthful reports of the size of popular protests in Washington, it's time to wonder:  Are we dominated by "state-run media"?

CNN's Susan Roesgen:  Taking Hackery to New Heights.  This video with CNN anchor Susan Roesgen is pretty unreal.  She attends the Chicago tea party, picks some wacko out of the crowd and tries to argue with him about whether Obama's a fascist (and even then the guy with the ridiculous Obama-as-Hitler sign comes off more willing to engage in discussion than her), then she talks to a guy who seems perfectly reasonable and rudely cuts him off multiple times.  She then attacks Fox News, ranting that the crowd is anti-CNN and says that the tea party is not "family viewing."

Shortly thereafter...
 Avoiding Criticism: CNN Shuts Down Anti-Tea Party Reporter's Email Address.  So, we are all well aware of the so-called "reporter" from CNN, Susan Roesgen whose on-air haranguing of those she was ostensibly reporting on made obvious her anti-Republican bias.  Well, for the past day Americans have been emailing her to let her know how they feel about her unprofessional attitude.  Apparently, CNN does not appreciate hearing from its viewers, though, because all of a sudden anyone that sends an email to Roesgen's CNN email address will have it returned as address unknown!

[See update on Ms. Roesgen below.]

ABC, CBS and NBC Try to Discredit 'Tea Party' Protests.  The broadcast network evening newscasts on Wednesday provided prominent coverage of the "Tea Party" rallies across the nation with time for the views of participants, but they tried to discredit the protests as a front for "corporate interests" or a "fistful of rightward leaning Web sites"...

Twisted Media Misuses Poll in Attempt to Downplay 'Tea Parties'.  In coverage of the hundreds of "tea parties" held April 15 to protest spending and taxation in America, many national reports not only grossly underestimated the real numbers of those present at such rallies, they also managed to include a Gallup Poll that defeated the very point they were trying to make.  Many reports referenced "hundreds of people," when the turnout at a given protest might actually have been in the thousands.

Tea Parties:  'Calling All Racists!'  Did you know that only racists turned out for the recent nationwide "tea parties"?!  "Let's be very honest about what this is about," actress/comedian Janeane Garofalo said on Keith Olbermann's MSNBC show.  "It's not about bashing Democrats.  It's not about taxes.  They have no idea what the Boston Tea Party was about.  They don't know their history at all.  This is about hating a black man in the White House.  This is racism straight up.  That is nothing but a bunch of tea-bagging rednecks."

Update:
 Anti-Tea Party Correspondent's Contract Not Renewed by CNN.  The last time we saw CNN correspondent Susan Roesgen, she was arguing with folks at the April 15 Tea Party in Chicago claiming the event was "anti-government, anti-CNN [and] highly promoted by the right-wing conservative network Fox."  Although CNN officials won't blame the decision specifically on this event, the network has decided not to renew her contract.

CNN's Roesgen Reportedly Will Leave Network; Bias Alleged.  Ms. Roesgen's "contract will not be renewed and she will be leaving the network," Chris Ariens, managing editor of TV Newser, wrote in an exclusive report.  According to Ariens, a CNN spokesperson was not authorized "to comment on personnel matters" regarding Ms. Roesgen, who joined the cable-news channel in 2005.

Chicago Tribune Ignores Thousands at Tea Party Express Protest.  You might think a major metropolitan newspaper that boasts "The Midwest's largest reporting team" on its front page would report on a suburban demonstration attracting thousands of people.  In the case of the Chicago Tribune, you'd be wrong.  Today's Tribune print edition makes no mention of yesterday's Tea Party Express protest in New Lenox, Illinois, located only 36 miles from Chicago's Loop.

First reports from AP and NY Times indicate 'thousands' at DC protest?  Pictures supplied by Fox and CNN appeared to me to show a crowd stretching all the way from the Capitol steps, back many, many blocks, stretching off into the distance.  By any stretch of the imagination, such a crowd should have been indentified in "the hundreds of thousands."

Washington Post Home Page Buries Massive 9-12 Rally in Teeny-Weeny Type.  The Washington Post put the 9-12 conservative rally at the top of the Sunday paper with two color pictures, one of them a wide crowd shot below the Capitol dome.  The headline was "Lashing Out at the Capitol:  Tens of Thousands Protest Obama Initiatives and Government Spending."  But what stuck out like a sore liberal thumb on Sunday morning [9/13/2009] was how an Internet browser would need to look hard for it on the Washington Post home page.

We The People come to Washington.  Aware that the mainstream media would downplay their numbers and the significance of 9-12, hundreds of thousands of Americans out today to protest massive government spending and massive government health care no longer count on the MSM for coverage.  It is one of the necessities of a czar-studded Barack Obama Administration that We The People are now the media.

75,000 my eye!  Who did the counting?  There were over 1.78 million people there in D.C. last Saturday but the count was the least of the errors.  MSNBC snarky anchor apparently thought the crowds were all white but was he there or was he watching the event in his biased studio?  If he was there he should have seen my friend Deneen Borelli speaking and getting loud cheers from the "mostly white" protesters.

Conservatives protest Houston media.  More than 80 people protested the Houston Chronicle's downtown building today [10/17/2009], asking for publicity for their conservative message as part of a widespread effort to protest news organizations.  "We want the government out of our lives and we don't want to see our country become a socialist country," said North Houston/Woodlands Tea Party organizer Suzanne Guggenheim.

Tea Party Movement vs. Elites:  The danger of the "birther" question is irrelevant because the elitist [New York] Times will always find something that they can use to try and discredit anyone who isn't liberal.  And if there is a crowd of a thousand tea party protesters the media will canvas all of them until they find one willing to say something objectionable.

Let them drink tea.  Forget media bias.  That's just slanting the news.  The liberal press judges stories before investigating them.  That's prejudice, which sums up how the anti-tax tea parties were covered this week.

Excuse Me, Your Leftism is Showing.  In thousands of cities and towns across America, hundreds of thousands of plain folks came out into the streets to say, "Enough!"  This was not a protest against any party or person in particular but against a paradigm in governments from Washington D.C. to the local city halls that assume there is no end to the amount of money we are willing to kick in.  You wouldn't know that from the coverage.  Everyone from CNN to MSNBC to my local paper went out of their way to make it seem like anyone who attended one of these gatherings was a right-wing extremist!

CNN political contributor is no patriot.  Across the country and in dozens of cities, a protest movement has sprung up.  Tens of thousands of people have expressed their concern that government spending is out of control and that, in the very near future, taxes will have to be raised drastically to pay for all the goodies our political leaders want to bestow upon us.  But Paul [Begala] doesn't see it that way.  He doesn't believe these protests are grassroots-based.  He believes they were ordered up by "Fox News clowns and right-wing cranks."  People who don't even know history.

MSM's Tea Party Cognitive Dissonance.  In all my years of watching news coverage in America, I don't believe I have ever witnessed more condescending, amateurish, purely politicized reporting than what just transpired among the liberal MSM covering America's Tax Day Tea Parties.  The Tea Parties represented a very significant news event.

Media Struggle to Understand Non-Violent Non-Smelly Protesters.  The Tax Day Tea Parties inspired and energized conservatives across the country last week, but the response to the events from the media and Democrat partisans was perhaps the most interesting thing to watch.  When people turned out all over the country in the thousands to attend tea parties, Obama followers, especially those in the media, were shocked and bewildered, and it showed.

Numerous video clips:
 Summary of the April 15 TEA Parties Media Coverage.  The media coverage of the more than 800 Taxed Enough Already (TEA) Party protests that took place in all fifty states on April 15 ranged from disdainful dismissal of their nature, significance and import, to outright hostility towards the events and individual participants, to sexual innuendo-based full-on ridicule.

More examples of biased news coverage.

ADL Report Smears Tea Party Conservatives.  The report has been all the "rage" in the Obama PR machine — a.k.a. the mainstream media — which has exhausted any remaining trace of objectivity by spending a summer and fall crudely mocking average Americans who've shown up at town halls and tea parties in a true exercise of "community organizing" that the Beltway-Greenwich cocktail axis just can't stomach.

It's All the Tea Party's Fault.  Last Thursday [2/18/2010], a disturbed pilot flew a small plane into an Austin, Texas, office complex that contained an Internal Revenue Service office. ... This nutball had deadly grudges that transcended partisan lines.  But within minutes of the story breaking, a furious left-wing blogger at the popular Daily Kos website — where countless Democratic leaders have guest-posted — fumed:  "Teabagger terrorist attack on IRS building."  The article immediately cast blame on the anti-tax Tea Party movement.

Bill Maher:  Tea Party Protesters Just a Bunch of Stupid Cultists.  The left's comedic mud-slingers have been working overtime lately. Bill Maher injected his latest bit of invective Friday [2/19/2010] when he labeled the Tea Party movement a "cult" and hurled epithets at major conservative figures.  Angry that Americans would dare object to his particular brand of ultra-liberal politics, Maher has recieved a bit of press lately for his unending stream of hatred for anyone who disagrees with him.

Bill Press:  If I Paid Palin's Speaking Fee 'I'd Want My Money Back'.  The predictable media attacks on Sarah Palin were all over the television dial after her keynote speech to the National Tea Party convention Saturday, and talk radio host Bill Press more than lived down to what one would expect from such a liberal shill.

Let them drink tea.  Forget media bias.  That's just slanting the news.  The liberal press judges stories before investigating them.  That's prejudice, which sums up how the anti-tax tea parties were covered this week.

MSM's Tea Party Cognitive Dissonance.  In all my years of watching news coverage in America, I don't believe I have ever witnessed more condescending, amateurish, purely politicized reporting than what just transpired among the liberal MSM covering America's Tax Day Tea Parties.  The Tea Parties represented a very significant news event.

The Real Tea Party Story:  Community Builders vs. Community Organizers.  In less than a year, the MSM has gone from ignoring Tea Parties to mocking and insulting their participants to grudging coverage with ridiculing overtones.  Finally it has arrived at giving wide attention to the movement, albeit grudgingly and ungraciously.  A once-highly esteemed fourth estate, they have become talking-head dilettantes on a mission to save the disgruntled masses from democracy itself.

Washington Post Cheapens 'Code Red' Anti-ObamaCare Rally.  Is The Washington Post playing favorites with causes that inspire people to exercise their First Amendment rights and take to the streets to protest?  When it comes to opposition to Democratic efforts to reform health care versus opposition to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it appears so.

Anatomy of a Racial Smear.  For the last year, the media have been desperately trying to hang the "racist" tag around the Tea Party movement as a way to discredit it.  This past weekend, they would seem to have finally succeeded.

Russ Carnahan Pushes Bogus Tea Party Lie to Media.  Remember as you read this:  There is nothing the democratic-media complex will not do to lie about the tea party patriots or to prop up these horrid leftists who are transforming our country into some kind of quasi-socialist state.

How the Left Fakes the Hate:  A Primer:  If you can't stand the heat, manufacture a hate-crime epidemic. ... Upon decimating the deliberative process to hand President Obama a health care "reform" victory, unpopular Beltway Democrats and their media water-carriers now claim there's a Tea Party epidemic of racism, harassment and violence against them.

Dissent's Noble — Until Aimed At Democrats.  To listen to the press, the Tea Party's presence in Washington was violent, dangerous, uncivil and unprecedented, and their protests threatened to ruin the Republican image — as if that isn't at the top of the liberal media's To-Do list every day.

When Will Liberals Give the Tea Party the Same Respect They Give Radical Islam?  Every time some Muslim blows up a plane, or a train, or kills innocent people, we hear from the Left how we should not judge all Muslims because of a few extremists.  Our current President tells us, not to "jump to conclusions."  Talking heads on TV try to calm us down and reassure us that Islam is the "Religion of Peace."  Yet these same politicians and liberal media hacks are going on a rampage attacking their fellow Americans because allegedly a few used racial slurs at a Tea Party protest (with no corroboration from numerous video recordings).

Demonizing Everyday Americans.  There appears to be a concerted effort among the political Left and many mainstream media people to demonize and marginalize the expanding citizen-based movement known as the tea party movement.  This effort flows from both a fear of what these tea parties represent and a contempt for everyday Americans.  But those ordinary citizens are poised to be the ones laughing when it's all over, when democracy takes its course.

Lib Talker Malloy Calls for Deaths of Limbaugh, Beck and O'Reilly.  As the mainstream media hyperventilate over what is now regularly being referred to as rightwing hate speak, liberal talk radio host Mike Malloy Friday actually called for conservative talkers Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Bill O'Reilly to commit suicide.

Let's Compare Hate.  The media reciters claim the Tea Party people are the sole instigators of political hate in America.  Let's leave out the fact that I don't recall seeing any reports of arrests from disturbances of any kind, yet whenever there is a political convention or a meeting of an international monetary body, there are dozens of arrests as progressive and anarchist protesters customarily destroy millions of dollars of public and private property.

Media Only Like Protests If They Agree With Protesters.  The media typically love protests and acts of civil disobedience.  Yet, we've learned since Obama was elected that most members of the press only like such acts when they demonstrate antipathy for what they themselves dislike.  As such, protests are only good when the media agree with the protesters.  Sadly, this is what makes most of them advocates and NOT journalists.

CNN Lowballs Nevada Tea Party Event.  If the media outlets are going to report on tea party events, they're not likely to get any benefit of the doubt much of the time.  Case in point -- at the Tea Party Express event on March 27 in Searchlight, Nev., which former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin spoke, CNN's Fredericka Whitfield wasn't quite prepared to give the rally credit it was due as far as participation.  She estimated that hundreds, but if not, "at least dozens of people" were in attendance.

Palin:  Media 'lies' about links between tea parties, violence.  Firing back at critics who say that she and other conservatives had encouraged harassment of House Democrats who supported the healthcare overhaul, Sarah Palin Saturday ripped the media for casting her and tea party activists as violent.  "When we talk about fighting for our country, let's clear the air right now about what it is that we're talking about," she told a crowd estimated by organizers at 20,000 gathered for a rally in a windswept desert lot about four miles north of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's tiny hometown.

Labeling Tea Partiers as racist reflects decades-old liberal strategy.  Since last weekend -- when protesters stormed Capitol Hill as legislators passed President Obama's health-care overhaul -- Tea Partiers have been accused both by Democrats and the media of racism after rumors circulated that protesters had hurled racial epithets and spat on black congressmen.  A number of Tea Party leaders have been doubtful that the incidents actually occurred and have said they would not support it if it had.  Asked about media coverage of the accusations, Blackwell said the press has "been selective in their criticism" and that "they turn a blind eye to individual acts of poor taste and bigotry on the left."

Tainting the tea party.  During the George W. Bush years, the news media were the promoters of protest, the champions of dissent.  Denouncing the president as a brain-damaged warmonger was the most patriotic thing you could do (just ask the Dixie Chicks) and it was guaranteed to please the press.  On MSNBC before the Iraq War in 2003, David Shuster elevated the "anti-war" movement as the equivalent of the United States military, only with a higher morality... My, how times — and standards — change.

Colby King Charges Tea Partiers Are Descendants of George Wallace and David Duke.  "Today's Tea Party adherents are George Wallace legacies," the Washington Post's Colby King charged in his weekly Saturday column, maintaining "they have been culturally conditioned to believe they are entitled to do whatever they want, and to whomever they want, because they are the 'real Americans,' while all who don't think or look like them are not" and so, "without folks like them, there would be no Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity or Pat Buchanan."

In Cantor Case, Media Fanned Flames of Violence:  'There Will Be Blood'.  [Scroll down]  But if you are waiting for the mainstream media to cover this, put down the bong.  Leftist media propagandists and their despotic leaders continue to smear and slander good, decent Americans who are trying to save the country from subversives, traitors, overthrowers and savages.

'Rising Risk of ... Violence'.  While people [in Arizona] are worried about the growing violence on the Mexican border — a Cochise County rancher was apparently killed by illegal aliens Saturday — the Washington Post's Eugene Robinson has other worries:  ["]For decades now, the most serious threat of domestic terrorism has come from the growing ranks of paranoid, anti-government hate groups that draw their inspiration, vocabulary and anger from the far right.["]

A Closer Look at the Capitol Steps Conspiracy.  If it were not for ... ubiquitous video cameras, House Democrats and their media allies would have gotten away with it entirely.  Instead, they must content themselves with a victory only among those who rely for the news on an increasingly myopic major media.  To discover what did happen, I have reviewed video from at least four different sources, talked to several eyewitnesses, and analyzed the early media reports from the scene.  Bottom line:  the [William] Douglas story would seem to meet the standards for libel.  It is provably false, preposterously reckless, quite possibly malicious, and has caused real damage to publicly identified Tea Party leaders.

Rep. Bachmann:  Media Falsely Portray Tea Partiers as 'Toothless Hillbillies'.  Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) told CNSNews.com that the media are falsely portraying "people who are in the Tea Party movement as toothless hillbillies, as rubes from the backwater, who don't know what they're talking about."

Frustrating, stubborn facts.  [Scroll down]  Not only that, they believe they are entitled to their own facts to describe the character and conduct of their political opponents.  The Democratic Party collectively smeared scores of millions of American Tea Party participants as racist, homophobic, violent terrorists in the absence of a single verified fact in support of even one such incident being attributable to a single individual.  Nor did their media pals even bother with the word "alleged."

O'Reilly Notes Blatant Media Hypocrisy on Protestor Anger.  Last night [3/30/2010], Bill O'Reilly used recent instances of inflamed, occasionally violent liberal protests to give his viewers a lesson in Media Bias 101.  Lefties dominate the mainstream press, and are reluctant to cover events that don't suit their agendas, he stated.  "The Mainstream media largely ignores crazy stuff generated by the far left because many media types sympathize with liberal politics."  It's hard to put it more succinctly than that.

NPR Connects Militias to Tea Party, Talk Hosts.  The leftist Southern Poverty Law Center is a National Public Radio staple in analyzing right-wing militia groups — and then connecting them to the Tea Party movement and conservative talk-show hosts.  Imagine a conservative group connecting liberal talk-show hosts and protesters to radical leftists like... Bill Ayers.  Would they get a baldly promotional interview on NPR?  No.

How Quickly Spread the Tea Party Smear.  [Scroll down]  Only two possibilities present themselves, neither of them good:  [William] Douglas had started writing this enormously consequential article in advance and/or he assembled it with a reckless indifference to the facts.  A simple call to the Capitol Police would have killed the spitting story and a review of the video footage would have thrown the screaming of "nigger" by multiple "protestors" into such serious doubt that no responsible paper would have printed it.  The fact that Douglas is himself black and that the McClatchy chain has a liberal bent should not matter, but in this case they both do.  This is not journalism.  This is collusion.

Rep. Steve Cohen bashes Tea Party movement on radio show.  Congressman Steve Cohen of Memphis teed off on the Tea Party movement in a Thursday night [4/1/2010] radio interview attracting national attention.  The two-term Democratic congressman said the Tea Party — "without hoods and robes" — has shown an angry, hardcore side of America that's against any type of diversity.

Olbermann's Smear of Tea Partiers Backfires.  To recap, [Keith] Olbermann, a white liberal, claimed that the Tea Party movement was racist against black people.  This racism accounts for Obama's failures and declining popularity, he suggested.  As proof, he cited racism that he said lurked in the souls of every white person, including his own.  Racism is everywhere, Olbermann said, apparently seriously.

Did State-Run Media Conspire on Racist Tea Party Attack.  The American Thinker did an outstanding job describing the events on March 20th, when democratic members of Congress in Washington DC were reportedly taunted by tea party activists with racial and sexual slurs.  It appears from the timeline of the events that this race-baiting story was in the works before the Black Caucus members paraded through the tea party crowd on Capitol Hill.

More examples of hate crimes that aren't.

Critics of 'Extreme' Tea Partiers Showed Little Interest in Bush-Bashers.  Even as Tea Party "fury" has become all the rage in popular accounts of their protests, some observers say the rallies are nothing compared to the anti-Bush frenzy at Iraq War protests in years past — outbursts that the press generally ignored.  "What's interesting about the media's latest freak-out is that there were radicals aplenty under President Bush [who] protested in the streets [and] talked openly about revolution and killing," said Evan Coyne Maloney, a documentary filmmaker who has followed anti-war protests since 2003.

Network Morning Shows Skip Coverage of Egg Attack on Tea Partiers.  The three network morning shows have skipped any coverage of an attack on a Tea Party bus in Harry Reid's Nevada, reportedly by supporters of the Democratic Senator.  In contrast, FNC's Fox and Friends alerted viewers to the story on Tuesday [4/6/2010].  Co-host Steve Doocy explained, "Now, apparently, they have identified who some of the egg throwers are.  Turns out, they're supporters of Harry Reid."

What the Reporters Saw (and Didn't See).  You'd think that the short stretch of grass and asphalt between the Capitol and the Longworth Office Building were Dealey Plaza, given all the conspiracy theorizing that has emerged in the wake of what may or may not have been an isolated incident of racial harassment on the eve of the Obamacare vote.

(Tea) Party On.  [Scroll down slowly]  There is a still a large faction of progressive Democrats, aided and abetted by a purposefully duplicitous media, willing to use the same tactics to bring down those they consider a large threat to their socialist ambitions.  No one threatens those ambitions more than the Tea Party movement.  As a result, there isn't a day that goes by without some story in the media, or some comment by a Democrat politician (or both) to the effect that Tea Partiers are:  racist, fringe right-wingers, angry white people, crazies, thugs, stupid, scary, etc....you get the picture.

Considering The Source Of Today's News Is Crucial.  [Scroll down]  Circulation figures for many liberal news publications have plummeted and yet this hasn't stopped the continual demonizing of the conservative majority in this country.  It's as if their editorial boards live in a womb nourished by a placenta of left-wing dogma and are totally oblivious of reality.  They still haven't a clue of what the Tea Party movement means and continue to portray it in a negative light.  Reports that come from the Associated Press, Newsday, Newsweek, Reuters, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post need to be read with a jaundiced eye.

CNN:  Tea Party fluff piece not an attempt to woo conservatives.  CNN says a glowing piece by one African-American producer about his experience on the Tea Party Express is not evidence of a scheme by the network to woo conservatives, but the blogosphere is skeptical.  "They're more than a year late and a dollar short," conservative commentator Michelle Malkin wrote.

A Reminder: SEIU Thugs Beat Up a Conservative at a Town Hall Meeting.  The media and the Left (please pardon the redundancy) continue to insist that TEA Party participants are engaged in racist and violent behavior — at the surreptitious and stealth "hate speech" urging of talk radio hosts and Republicans.  These have almost all been phantom charges.  They are leveled by liberals and Democrats, and the media immediately report them as if they were true.

The Mainstream Media:  Fourth Estate Or Fifth Column?  With the left, the demonization of Americans and beatification of our enemies goes back as far as the country does.  It allowed intellectuals to diminish the threat of Nazism, Communism.  And now Jihadism.  The sad truth is that in spite of the web and talk radio, a great many people who live in America still get their view of the world from the MSM.  With only one side of the story they can be quickly convinced that their neighbors are not out in their garages painting "no new taxes" and "Obama lied, the economy died" placards, but in fact are crafting pipe bombs.

Is the American press corrupt?  As you may know, the tea party people have been branded in some media quarters as a bunch of racist, far-right loons.  TV commentators on MSNBC and CNN have actually called the Tea Party folks dirty names on the air — all in an attempt to diminish the growing influence of the movement.  But a funny thing happened on the way to the gutter.  Regular Americans have apparently opted to decide for themselves about the tea party, and the polling is interesting.

Liberal Narcissism and Anti-Christian Phobia.  Americans have always expected national television broadcasters to steer clear of degrading epithets.  On April 14, 2009, CNN's Anderson Cooper established a new low in television journalism when he labeled millions of Americans in the Tea Party movement with a vulgar sexual term.  Other mainstream media journalists and personalities gleefully followed suit.  There was no outcry from the "anti-hate community."  Many liberals do not merely tolerate contumelies against conservatives, but they delight in them.

Will Mainstream Media reporters and editors expose, screen out, or help Tea Party saboteurs?  Have you seen the "Crash the Tea Party" web site?  It's among the most illustrative expressions ever of the thirst on the Left to suppress dissent by whatever means are necessary.  It is Saul Alinsky on steroids.

Study:  Networks snub, malign 'tea party'.  The big three television networks virtually ignored the massive, grass-roots "tea party" surge in 2009, and so far this year have maligned the movement as teeming with racists and violent fringe figures, according to a report by the Media Research Center.

The Inconvenience of Truth.  Protest is the essence of America.  It formed the nation.  To say people attending these rallies are loons is to say the same of those who dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest British taxes.  Yet to read in much of what remains of the mainline press, many teapartiers at Tax Day rallies are nothing good — racists, fascists, gun nuts, gay-bashers, militant separatists.  They are described as generally hateful, ignorant, unhinged, and, of course, extreme.  Most are none of those things.

Public, media should debate, rather than smear, Tea Party.  I talked the other day on the phone with Colleen Conley, the leader of the Rhode Island branch of the Tea Party movement.  As far as I could tell, she failed to match the unfolding media stereotype of the Tea Party activist, being neither old, nor male, nor racist, nor a member of an Aryan hate group, nor bile-filled, nor homophobic, nor sexist, nor Southern, nor secessionist, nor fascist, nor violent, nor extremist, nor even a gun-toting militia member.

At Last, The Truth About Tea Partiers.  [Scroll down]  Responsible journalism would have dictated, of course, that the [New York] Times embark on an objective parsing of this nationwide discontent a long time ago.  Instead, until now, that newspaper mostly gave us a series of impressions and reports designed to inflame the prejudices of its own (largely pro-Obama) readership.  The most egregious example of this was a piece by David Barstow, which weighed in at four-and-a-half thousand words — and was titled "Tea Party Lights Fuse For Rebellion on Right" — and which spun the movement as one comprised of "birthers," militias, John Birch Society types, and the like.

The Major Networks' War On the Tea Party.  Think there's been a media campaign to disparage and marginalize the grassroots Tea Party movement, almost from its inception, especially by the major networks?  Think the coverage has been blatantly slanted and made to fit the liberal narrative?  Well, maybe you're not crazy.

Study:  Networks snub, malign 'tea party'.  The big three television networks virtually ignored the massive, grass-roots "tea party" surge in 2009, and so far this year have maligned the movement as teeming with racists and violent fringe figures, according to a report by the Media Research Center.  "Rather than objectively document the rise and impact of this important grassroots movement, the 'news' networks instead chose to first ignore, and then deplore, the citizen army mobilizing against the unpopular policies of a liberal president and Congress," wrote MRC Research Director Rich Noyes.

CNN's decline follows rise of grass-roots America.  In a year when America's tea party activists have been surging, cable news networks that slam the grassroots movement have been dying in the ratings.  Is it merely coincidence?  As widely reported, 2010's first quarter ratings for cable news networks were released earlier this month.  Compared to the numbers in 2009, Fox News Channel, frequently reported as a favorite of the tea partiers, actually gained 3 percent over last year's numbers, but MSNBC, whose left-leaning commentary has been far more critical of the movement, has dropped 15 percent of its audience.

White NBC Reporter Confronts Black Man at Tea Party Rally.  "There aren't a lot of African-American men at these events," NBC News reporter Kelly O'Donnell, a white woman, told Darryl Postell, a black man at a Tea Party rally held Thursday in Washington, DC, pressing him, in an exchange she chose to include in her NBC Nightly News story, to address her prejudiced assumptions:  "Have you ever felt uncomfortable?"  Postell rejected her loaded premise that race must divide Americans:  "No, no, these are my people, Americans."

After more than a year...
 CBS 'Early Show' Does First Full Story on Tea Parties.  While the tea party movement began to take shape in late February of 2009, the CBS Early Show did not offer a complete story on it until nearly 14 months later.

Laura Ingraham Rips NYT Columnist for Tea Party Remarks.  Laura Ingraham on Monday [4/19/2010] took New York Times columnist Charles Blow to task for calling last Thursday's Dallas Tea Party a minstrel show.

Crashing the Tea Party:
 A Step-by-Step Media Guide on How to Discredit the Movement.  Over the past year since its inception, the media have worked hard to discredit and denigrate the tea party movement.  News organizations employed various strategies, from dismissing the protests as astroturf, to using derogatory nicknames for participants, and finally labeling it as a violent extremist fringe.  In their futile attempt to get something to stick, the media have become increasingly desperate and irresponsible in their coverage.

TV's Tea Party Travesty.  While the broadcast networks seldom devolved into the juvenile name-calling and open hostility evident at the liberal cable news networks, their coverage of the Tea Party's first year reflected a similar mindset of elitist condescension and dismissiveness.  Given how the networks have provided fawning coverage and helpful publicity to far-less consequential liberal protest movements, their negative treatment of the Tea Party is a glaring example of a media double standard.

Obama's midterm election strategy:  Mock 'Tea Party' members?.  Even diehard Obama supporters had to cringe this past week.  Had to. ... It's one thing to be confident.  It's another to be cocky.

Whistlin' "Dixie" with Frank Rich.  "Dixie" is ... a name for the American South, you know the magical "land of cotton" — and, never forget, the land of slavery.  Frank Rich, columnist for the New York Times, can never, ever forget it, and, more to the point, he wants to be sure that you never forget it, either.  What a moment it must have been in the Rich household when the phrase "just whistling 'Dixie'" floated into Frank's mind as he sat down to write about the "extremist" right-wingers who go to tea parties, hate Barack Obama because he is black, and spew racist epithets at every opportunity.

Democrats and Liberal Media Smear Tea Parties.  Democrats — terrified of the Tea Party movement — are coming out of the woodwork to warn about the so-called dangerous rhetoric of the right.  There are just two problems here.  No. 1, the 1st Amendment protects political speech whether anybody likes it or not.  No. 2, the hypocrisy of the leftist political class is mind-boggling.

Of Frank Rich, Bigfoot and the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.  New York Times' columnist Frank Rich outs himself as a conspiracy theorist in his Saturday column, "Welcome to Confederate History Month," wherein he fabricates a synthesis of current anti-Obamacare sentiments and events.  To build his theory, he connects dots that don't exist, and realigns a few that do, into a mishmash construct bordering on a rant.

I Met Sarah Palin!  [Scroll down]  The signs were hilarious and righteous.  Lots of smiling, singing, and photographs.  There were a few protesters on the outskirts of our rallies, but I only saw one up close.  In Albany, NY standing next to a statue of George Washington was an angry black woman holding a sign that said, "Yes, We Can."  She looked very angry.  The media was on her like flies.  They got shots of our Tea Party crowd with her in the foreground.

Obama's Tea Party Straw Man.  [Bill] Maher offered that the Tea Party people "were venting their anger, their rage, at taxes.  Which of course, in most cases, for them went down."  But if a brief look at the Tea Party contract could aptly elicit the truth of the matter — that tax rates are so obviously not the issue — then why the misunderstanding?  The answer is that there is no misunderstanding; we are witnessing a deliberate misclassification.  The administration and the media are, at all times, intentionally misrepresenting the goals of their opponents.

Media still clueless about Tea Parties.  To hear the media tell it, the Tea Party movement is one of the most mysterious forces ever to surface in national life.  Since February 2009 ... they have been nothing but open about their fears of insolvency, their discomfort with increasing size of the government and their terror of deficits.  The media listen closely to all these objections, and decide they must mean something else.

Leonard Pitts and the Race Baiters.  I've just about had enough of Leonard Pitts.  And Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post.  And just about everyone at MSNBC.  Pitts and people like him are constantly telling us that the bottom-up movement known as "Tea Parties" is racist.  I'm tired hearing a bunch of liberals telling me what I am.

NYT Editor Sam Tanenhaus:  'Extremist,' Know-Nothing Tea Partiers Like Birchers.  Sam Tanenhaus, editor of "The New York Times Book Review" and "Week in Review," and the author of the book, "The Death of Conservatism," went on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC talk show Monday night to discuss her being featured in a fundraising letter from the right-wing John Birch Society.  But the friendly chat soon veered off into a comparison of the nationalist John Birch Society to the Tea Party movement, with Tanenhaus confidently proclaiming "there are no serious ideas left on the right."

Fox News Compares Media Coverage of Tea Parties and Immigration Protests.  As NewsBusters' Scott Whitlock reported Monday, ABC News logged dramatically different reports about the ObamaCare protests on Capitol Hill in March and the virtual riots that happened in Arizona after that state's governor signed a strict anti-illegal immigration law last Friday.  The former was depicted as "very ugly" while the latter, despite the number of riot police and arrests, was described as "mostly peaceful."

Comparing the Tea Party to al-Qaeda.  After accusing the Tea Party of being racist, sexist, homophobic, stupid, fake, and violent Timothy McVeigh prototypes, you'd think that the well of insults would be getting dry.  In his Boston Globe column "Screaming Extremism," Neal Gabler, however, manages to find a new one:  The Tea Party is like al-Qaeda.  His comparison reveals the left's upside-down vision of both the Tea Party and the threat of terrorism.

Eugene Robinson Spouts Anti-Tea Party Nonsense.  Here's the way Pulitzer-winner Eugene Robinson, an associate editor at the Washington Post, and a syndicated columnist, recently described the Tea Parties...

Two-Bit Nitwit.  New York's "mayor for life" conjectured that the Times Square bomber was a Tea Party type, not the Islamist next door.  All that gazing in mirrors is skewing Mayor Bloomberg's sense of reality.

Blame the white man.  There was no joy in liberal land when the prime suspect in the Times Square bomb plot turned out to be a Pakistani-American.  The right-wing terrorist boogeyman vanished.  Leftist racial and ethnic profiling failed again.  The widely distributed videotape of a lighter-complected suspect near the attack scene — almost universally reported as a "white man" — raised expectations in some quarters that this could be the work of right-wing extremists, maybe even — oh dare it be hoped? — a Tea Party Republican.

More about the Times Square Idiot Bomber.

Left Is Certain of Tea Partiers' Motives, but Finds Terrorists Inscrutable.  [Scroll down slowly]  If Shahzad had not been identified as the would-be bomber, the mainstream (i.e., liberal) news media and leading Democrats would have told us repeatedly that a white male — surely a conservative white male — was the Times Square terrorist, and that we should therefore be looking suspiciously at our fellow Americans on the Right, especially those attending tea parties.  For while liberals claim not to know the motives of Muslim terrorists, they are always certain of conservatives' motives:  racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia.

Hypocrisy in the Liberal Establishment.  The Tea Party movement has been front and center in the news lately.  Stories abound of how they are pushing hard against establishment Democrats and Republicans alike.  As the media would have you believe it, these tea party members are strong, both in will and physical stature, and virtually untouchable.  But what is often not reported is the ridicule and constant assaulting these patriots receive, and how the Left's media operation allows the perpetrators to get away with it.

The Sons and Daughters of Liberty.  From "astro-turfers" to "tea-baggers"... from "racists" to "domestic terrorists"... the men and women of the American Tea Party movement have been consistently vilified by the powers-that-be in this country.  The political elite in Washington, D.C. are determined to malign and destroy the Tea Party movement, and the media elite are fully complicit in that assault.

Bruce Bartlett's Intellectually Dishonest Smear of the Tea Party Movement.  Last week, Bruce Bartlett, the fair-weather supply-sider who recently converted to Keynesianism, embarrassed himself by launching an intellectually dishonest smear of the Tea Party movement.  This shouldn't come as a surprise.  Mr. Bartlett has been trying to smear the movement since we began voicing our opposition to Obama's $787-billion "stimulus" legislation, which Bartlett himself so enthusiastically defended.  A year and a half into that economically disastrous program, Mr. Bartlett is looking to change the subject, hoping, perhaps, that his own ill-advised support for that fiasco will be forgotten.

Matthews Teases His Documentary About Scary and Violent Tea Party.  If Chris Matthews' preview, on Tuesday's [6/15/2010] Hardball, of his heavily promoted MSNBC documentary Rise of the New Right, is an indicator of what his special will be like expect a lot of rehashing of Matthews' various attacks on the Tea Party over the past year as he links them and Rush Limbaugh with the birther movement and ominously warns of their potential for violence.

When was the last time Chris Matthews did anything worthwhile?  I caught most of Chris Matthews "documentary" — I think that term applies very loosely here — on "The Rise of the New Right."  I do not exactly know what America Chris Matthews is living in, but it's one where hyperbole, misdirection and a flimsy grasp of history seem to rule the day.

Newsweek Blogger:  Tea Party Coverage Isn't Harsh Enough.  Newsweek blogger Ben Adler thinks the national media are giving the Tea Parties gentle treatment.  "Unfortunately," Adler wrote in a June 21 post, "what appear to be false notions of objectivity — or perhaps a lack of interest in policy — is preventing that coverage from illuminating what the movement actually represents and what it would do if empowered."

Blackout:  MSM Continue to Bash Tea Party, Ignore New Black Panthers.  Stunning that the MSM still fosters the impression that the Tea Partiers are a hotbed of armed, racist resentment, when a group that actually is a hotbed of armed, racist resentment sails blithely beneath the mainstream radar.

Keith Olbermann Thinks NAACP Resolution Against Tea Party 'Was Kind of Mild'.  Keith Olbermann on Wednesday [7/14/2010] said the recently adopted resolution by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People condemning alleged racism within the Tea Party "was kind of mild."

Far-left Think Progress Fabricates Examples of Tea Party Racism for Bogus Video.  Liberal activists are so desperate to paint the Tea Party as racist that some, apparently, are willing to fabricate evidence and fallaciously draw unsupported conclusions to support their point.  Lee Fang, a writer for the far-left blog Think Progress, recently posted a video purporting to show racism at Tea Parties.  But the video was a total fraud.

CBS's Giles Tells Tea Party's Loesch 'Shut Your Mouth'.  CBS News contributor Nancy Giles rudely told St. Louis Tea Party founder Dana Loesch to shut her mouth during a panel discussion on Wednesday's [7/14/2010] "Larry King Live."  In the midst of a heated debate about allegations of racism within the movement, Giles asked, "Where is the Tea Party's outrage when members of their own party spit on members of the United States [Congress]?"  Loesch accurately replied, "That was proved false.  Let's not engage in defamation and libel."  "Excuse me," barked Giles.  "I'm talking so shut your mouth."

Many more specific examples of biased news coverage.


The Tea Party Convention, Nashville, February 6, 2010:

Breitbart Speaks to Media at Tea Party Convention.  Addressing the National Tea Party convention in Nashville, Tennessee, [Andrew] Breitbart accused the press of "contempt for the American people."  "In order to create the perception that the minority is the majority and the majority is not just the minority, but a bad, racist, homophobic, all those buzzwords that they learned in the freshman orientation class at Wesleyan, are used as weapons to try to destroy you and intimidate you to not speak up and to speak your mind," said Breitbart to an enthusiastic crowd.

As counter-media fuels tea party movement, main stream media catches on.  Recounting the exploits of two young reporters who went undercover to uncover the ACORN scandal, online publisher Andrew Breitbart on Saturday exhorted a widely held view among those in the tea party movement:  Liberals and media organizations "can no longer control the narrative."

Sweet Tea for Convention Attendees.  If you read any of the extensive coverage of the Tea Party Convention going on this weekend in Nashville, TN, be prepared for dramatic stories of rampant grassroots infighting, questionable convention finances, and radical convention-goers flocking after polarizing demagogues.  The real story?  Much different.

'Birther' Movement Rears Head in Nashville.  [Joseph] Farah, a conservative newsman whose raison d'etre of late has been to challenge Obama's eligibility to be president, used the bulk of his remarks to hit that point — and got quite a welcome reception from the hundreds of tea partiers in the room.  "Where's the birth certificate?" he asked, echoing the words from a controversial billboard campaign he started.  "It's a simple question and it has not been answered."

Media descends on Nashville for first national Tea Party Convention.  At Nashville's Gaylord Hotel, where grassroots activists paid more than $500 each to attend the first National Tea Party Convention, the national press has descended.  This is despite initial reports that most media outlets would be barred from the Tennessee Ballroom.  "Unlike the promises of this administration, we actually have C-SPAN covering our convention," convention spokesman Mark A. Skoda said.

The State of Sarah's Union.  Sarah Palin's speech to the Tea Party convention in Nashville showcased all of the former Alaska governor's strengths.  She was confident, funny, down-to-earth, at times emotional — and she took a scalpel to the Obama administration and congressional Democrats.  Ignore the critics who will say Palin spent too much time looking at her notes; her off-the-cuff approach and decision not to use a TelePrompTer was clearly calculated to highlight President Obama's reliance on scripted events and canned speeches.

Palin Brings Tea Party Convention To Its Feet.  If Sarah Palin is the future of the conservative movement, then one thing can be certain:  leadership isn't going to suffer from a lack of support.  Her keynote speech at the Tea Party Convention brought the audience to their feet eight separate times, and every major point was followed with applause, whoops, and cheers.

Populist Constitutionalism and the Tea Party:  The Tea Party is a unique populist movement and moment in American history.  There is no charismatic leader of the party.  The Tea Party has more grass roots movers, shakers, and members, than any populist movement ever seen in our country.  So what makes it so different from previous populist political factions?

Nashville storyline:  MSM at Tea Party.  Distrust of the mainstream media has been among the strongest sentiments uniting philosophically diverse tea party activists, who almost universally believe the national media have purposefully underestimated their ranks, highlighted their extremes or portrayed them as racists, rednecks or worse — that is, when it wasn't ignoring them completely.

Bill Maher:  Tea Party Protesters Just a Bunch of Stupid Cultists.  The left's comedic mud-slingers have been working overtime lately. Bill Maher injected his latest bit of invective Friday [2/19/2010] when he labeled the Tea Party movement a "cult" and hurled epithets at major conservative figures.  Angry that Americans would dare object to his particular brand of ultra-liberal politics, Maher has recieved a bit of press lately for his unending stream of hatred for anyone who disagrees with him.

Nashville Shows Tea Party Is America's Third Great Awakening.  I attended this past weekend's National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, and I came away feeling that I had seen something important.  The Tea Party movement is part of something bigger:  America's Third Great Awakening.

Breitbart's Keynote Address To The First National Tea Party Convention.  [This article includes] the entirety of Andrew Breitbart's remarks during his Keynote address to the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville last weekend.  During Breitbart's 33 minute long address, he threatens to upend the entire media establishment, calling them out on their hypocrisy while demanding they change their ways, or else.


Town Hall meetings

Apparently the teeming masses aren't going to sit quietly while the Socialists take over the country.  Imagine that.  The resistance seems to be organized loosely, if organized at all, but the radicals on the far left are evidently quite worried about it.  Thus we have begun to see what appears to be the return of the old Snitch on Your Neighbor program.

Town halls gone wild.  Screaming constituents, protesters dragged out by the cops, congressmen fearful for their safety — welcome to the new town-hall-style meeting, the once-staid forum that is rapidly turning into a house of horrors for members of Congress.  On the eve of the August recess, members are reporting meetings that have gone terribly awry, marked by angry, sign-carrying mobs and disruptive behavior.  In at least one case, a congressman has stopped holding town hall events because the situation has spiraled so far out of control.

Temperatures rise at health-care meeting.  If any political prognosticators wanted proof that President Obama faces a tough sell on his health plan, they merely needed to show up at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia yesterday.  A raucous standing-room-only crowd of more than 400 cheered, jeered, and booed Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter.  "I'm happy to see democracy is at work," Sebelius said, no detectable irony in her voice.

Audience Shouts Down Sebelius, Specter at Health Care Town Hall in Philadelphia.  Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Sen. Arlen Specter got a preview Sunday of the tough sell lawmakers will face over health care as audience members booed and jeered them during a town hall meeting in Philadelphia.  Among those at odds with the officials touting the $1 trillion, 10-year plan was a woman who earned loud applause when she said she doesn't want Washington interfering with her health care choices.

Durbin warns other lawmakers of healthcare town hall 'sucker punch'.  Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) warned other members of Congress against antagonistic audience members at healthcare town hall events who may be funded by industry interest groups.  "I hope my colleagues won't fall for a sucker punch like this," Durbin told the liberal blog ThinkProgress.  "These health insurance companies and people like them are trying to load these town meetings for visual impact on television," he added.

'Town Hells'.  Now you can see why President Obama was in such a rush to have his way with your health care.  "Angry protesters shouted down Democrats at public events from Texas to Pennsylvania over the weekend, leaving the party only one real hope for getting its message out over recess:  a backlash," Politico reports.

Those "Town Hells":  Some of the Democrats who want to hijack American health care are not exactly getting a warm welcome from voters back home.  It's inspiring to watch our system in action.

Town Hall Twilight Zone.  Mostly comprised of seniors and veterans, these large crowds at the town hall meetings are actually reading the healthcare bill and asking the tough questions.  Democrats are stunned that these Americans are angry about being lied to about the government takeover of healthcare.  The growing majority of Americans — at this point 52% now oppose ObamaCare — are under full frontal assault from the White House, the Democrat Congressional leadership and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

At Meet-And-Greet, Rep. Chris Murphy Meets Some Hostility.  [Rep. Chris] Murphy, a Democrat who represents the 5th District [of Connecticut], routinely holds informal office hours at supermarkets and strip malls, but such gatherings are generally uneventful.  This time, many of the 150 or so attendees were so boisterous that Stop & Shop management called the police to ask that the crowd be moved from the store's entrance.

Getting In Their Faces For A Change.  The candidate who told his supporters "to argue with them and get in their face" now finds the shoe on the other foot.  So they're taking names and encouraging you to turn in your neighbors.

Pelosi's Swastika Claim Is A Crock.  Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) proclaimed that those attending health care town hall meetings are "carrying swastikas."

Insult and Injury.  President Obama likes to pose as the tribune of the common people, but Americans who show up at town-hall meetings to object to Obama's plans to nationalize health care are, in the words of Obama's Democratic National Committee, "the mob," a bunch of "extremist" yahoos who must be publicly denounced and ridiculed.

Congressmen Turn to Tele-Townhall Meetings — Where They Control Audience.  Members of Congress are increasingly turning to virtual townhall meetings — conducted by telephone — in an effort to reach more constituents while avoiding the potential that informational meetings might be disrupted by angry and persistent questioners or protesters.  One advantage to these telephone townhalls is that the Member of Congress controls the audience and the questioning.

Firing up the leftist base.  I've been watching the media onslaught aimed at these townhall protesters, and now think I understand why we saw a huge pickup in coverage on the birth certificate controversy over the last 2 weeks.  Media Matters and other 527s, like Moveon, send daily communiqués to left-leaning media with their issues highlighted, and talking points suggested.  Clearly, they decided to hype attention to the birthers over the past couple of weeks, so that they could now use them to try to discredit other legitimate protest, especially that occurring over the health care takeover.

'You Are Terrifying Us'.  We have entered uncharted territory in the fight over national health care.  There's a new tone in the debate, and it's ugly.  At the moment the Democrats are looking like something they haven't looked like in years, and that is:  desperate.  They must know at this point they should not have pushed a national health-care plan.

Organizing the 'Wrong' Community.  Get this:  The party of "community organizers" is now whining that President Obama's critics are organizing communities — against his health-care scheme.  The nerve of 'em, huh?  Faced with mushrooming opposition to ObamaCare, Democrats have launched a multi-media campaign that attacks foes as "extremists" who've "called out the mob" to "destroy President Obama" and "intimidate and silence regular people."

Health Care Town Hall Turns Violent in Tampa.  A town hall meeting to discuss President Obama's health care reform descended into shouting and violence in a Tampa, Fla., suburb Thursday [8/6/2009] as angry opponents clashed with event organizers.

Some people learn more quickly than others.
 Castor heartened by reaction to town hall tumult.  U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, the focus of tumultuous reaction at a town hall meeting Thursday night [8/6/2009], said in an interview this morning that the event has strengthened her conviction to support health care reform.  "It has strengthened my resolve to stand up for families and seniors," Castor said. ... "A healthy debate is good, but the rude behavior is not helpful," she said.

Sneak & Speak on Health Rx.  Congressman Anthony Weiner yesterday [8/6/2009] held the city's first town-hall meeting on health-care reform — and, with little advance notice, it was free of the angry protests that have marked forums elsewhere. ... The event was not publicized to reporters until a few hours before its 11:15 a.m. start time, and the majority of attendees said they hadn't even known Weiner would be there.  Many said they happened to be at the center for other activities, including the $2 lunch.

Tea-Party Bashers Gone Wild.  The activist Left can't stand competition.  Last week in Long Island, N.Y., opponents of the Democrats' government health care takeover legislation outnumbered Obama supporters 10 to one.  The Tea Party activists toted American flags and signs that read "WE CAN'T AFFORD FREE HEALTH CARE
" — prompting one foe to stalk into the peaceful crowd, gesticulate wildly and shout unintelligible threats at the top of his lungs.

Dems Fear Town Hall Meetings.  We are witnessing something really disturbing in America.  Our Congressional members — coming home to enjoy their taxpayer funded recess — are facing angry constituents at town meetings.  These people — most of whom are voicing concerns we all feel about the economy and what the Democrats are doing to it — want the congress to rein itself in.  But instead of listening and understanding the constituents' concerns, some congressmen and the Obama White House are condemning the voters and saying that they're just shills for Republican groups.

SEIU boss denounces 'terrorist tactics' of the Right.  Dennis Rivera, health care chairman of the Service Employees International Union, denounced "radical fringe right-wingers" this afternoon [8/7/2009] for using "terrorist tactics" to thwart the discussion of health care reform.  His remarks came one day after SEIU members allegedly assaulted a conservative protestor outside a town hall meeting in St. Louis County, Mo. The end of the attack and its aftermath were caught on tape.

Mr. President, Americans are not an 'angry mob'.  They aren't carrying swastikas, either, contrary to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's rant about the legions of worried citizens who have been standing up in multiple town halls and congressional forums to demand straight answers from their congressmen about what they are doing under the guise of "health-care reform."  Pelosi's attempt to smear honest citizens as Nazis is only the most reprehensible manifestation of a White House-directed propaganda campaign to discredit anyone who disagrees with President Obama's health-care proposal.

Health Care Debate Shifting Into Free Speech Battle.  The tensions and passions flaring on both sides of the health care reform battle are starting to overshadow the substance of the debate itself.  It's a tinderbox that threatens the health of the reform package being pushed by Democrats.  Both sides of the aisle are playing hardball.  Though Democrats first accused Republicans of leading "mob rule" at health care meetings, health care reform supporters are now responding in kind.

Cynthia Tucker:  45-65% Of Townhall Protesters Are Racists.  Are you opposed to ObamaCare?  Willing to attend a town hall to express your disapproval?  Odds are good you're a racist.  Just ask Cynthia Tucker ... As Clay Waters has noted, Paul Krugman alleges that racist motives are at the heart of the town hall protests against ObamaCare.  On this evening's Hardball, Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution was willing to get specific, estimating that "45 to 65%" of the protesters are motivated by racism.

The left can't understand why people don't like Obamacare.  America's liberals have gone from swooning over Barack Obama's ascension to the White House and gloating over their Bush-induced domination of Congress to near-hysteria because ordinary middle-class Americans are rising in anger against the Democrats' planned hijacking of the nation's health care system.  MSNBC's Chris Matthews worked himself into his characteristic spittle-laced frenzy while sputtering about the legions of protestors showing up to make meetings designed to sell Obamacare into "Town Hell" occasions.

Fear and loathing at New York town hall.  He wasn't shouted down or chased to his car.  But freshman Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) still felt the heat during a two-hour health care town hall meeting Thursday night.  The fervor came from both sides, although opponents to Democrats' health reform efforts appeared to outnumber the supporters.

41% View Town Hall Protesters Favorably, 35% Don't.  Forty-one percent (41%) of U.S. voters have a favorable opinion of the people opposing health care reform at town hall meetings now being conducted by members of Congress, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.  But 35% view the protesters unfavorably.  Twenty-three percent (23%) are not sure what they think of them.

Peddling the Edsel when nobody's buying.  The congressional poodles, soon to be fanning out across the country to sample down-home sentiment, will hide out as much as they can.  Nobody likes to be shouted down or risk receiving his daily serving of fruit and vegetables served on the fly.  Some congressmen will handpick their crowds, hiring smaller auditoriums to keep the numbers down.

Grass-Roots Anger, Not Crowd Control.  [Most Americans] don't have time to be glued to C-Span all day.  Many don't even know who their congressman or senator is.  They're busy living life, raising families, building a career.  This is what makes the recent protests over Congress' proposed health care "reform" bills so striking.  In New York, Rep. Tim Bishop tells a crowd that "no one is talking about the government taking over health care."  And the crowd boos, because they know that's not true.

Prairie-Fire Anger.  The approval ratings on nearly every one of the President's key policy initiatives — cap-and-trade, health care overhaul, government take over of industry and finance, deficit spending, stimulus — are already less than half of polled voters.  Obama's own popularity has fallen dramatically and hovers near fifty percent.  A number of well-publicized town meetings have erupted in shouting, as administration and congressional representatives try, often in condescending fashion, to explain the Obama agenda.

The Democrats' Hypocritical Demonization of Health Reform Protesters.  As members of Congress go home for the August recess and face questioning and sometimes angry crowds at local town hall meetings around the country, the White House and the Democratic leadership are busy characterizing this opposition as astroturfers. ... It's a tried and true method of political posturing:  demonizing the opposition.  It's been especially popular with the Obama administration and the Pelosi-Reid Congress.

Atlanta TV Exposes Dem Congressman Yelling At Healthcare Questioner.  As national media outlets and their employees depict town hall meeting protesters as right-wing outsiders organized by conservative organizations, the Atlanta affiliate of NBC aired a segment Friday evening that should act as a fine example of how this uprising in America should be covered.

Know Your Town Hall Mob Agitators!  [Scroll down slowly]  Behold the face of infiltrators and saboteurs, citizen! Look at the surly anti-American anger and carefully practiced dishevelment.  Note that their signs are scrawled, fiendishly tricking cameramen into closeups.  All are expertly handmade, an expensive graphic design luxury only affordable to their puppet masters in the drug and insurance cartels.  Note these mobs are so well paid for their agitation that they actually arrived in their own cars and expensive non-matching t-shirts.  Fishy?  You bet!  Report them at once!

Report them?  You mean... snitch?

The photo ops are going so wrong.  For years, Democratic politicians have rolled out the town hall meeting as a photo op that shows the wise congressman or senator meeting with real folks to learn about their problems.  Unions and other activists (one man's activist is another man's lobbyist) would pack the meetings with people who just happened to agree with the congressman on whatever controversial subject was coming up.  Not all town hall meetings are fixed.  But if there is a TV camera, the odds of stage management shoot up markedly.

Are We In America Or Amerika?  Their increasing anxiety and fear of failure are typified in the words of the leader of their party, who wants Republicans to keep their mouths shut while he "fixes" health care.  "I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking," the president said Thursday [8/6/2009] at a political rally in Virginia.  "I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess."  So much for the promises of bipartisan lawmaking.  So much for open discussion.  So much for understanding who really caused the "mess" in the first place.

Obama vs. the 'Outside Agitators'.  Whereas it was once lively and brave and culturally imperative to depict George W. Bush as Hitler, complete with swastikas and squared-off moustache, or cast aspersions on the character, intelligence, morals, and family life of Bush or Dick Cheney or Karl Rove, it appears to be something approaching a hate crime to depict President Obama in anything less than hagiographical mode.

GOP Congressman Booed for Telling People to Turn Off Glenn Beck.  The media would like folks to believe that only Democrats are hearing it from constituents at town hall meetings this August, but given what happened to Rep. Bob Inglis (R-SC) Thursday evening, nothing could be further from the truth.  As he spoke to a group of 350 citizens at the Upstate Family Resource Center in Boiling Springs, he asked an outspoken attendee why she was afraid of Barack Obama.  Someone in the crowd suggested the Congressman watch Glenn Beck.  Inglis replied, "Turn that television off when he comes on."  This was not well-received by folks who started loudly booing their Representative as many stood up and left the building.

Protest for Me, But Not for Thee.  [Scroll down]  What we are seeing now in townhalls across this country are middle-class people demanding that their government drop any and every plan to convert America's healthcare system to one like those failing throughout socialized Europe and Canada.  Anyone who honestly believed that a man, who had done nothing whatsoever in his entire life but go to school, shout slogans at rallies, and run for office could be an able president, have now been disabused of that fantasy. ... Honey, even a complete nitwit knows that a president, who hires out his real job to 32 czars, is not CEO material.

The Chutzpah of the Town Hall Libel.  If the few shout downs you wring your hands over amount to mob rule in your book, you better go back and read your history.  Don't forget to include the Bush years when mobs, anger and derangement ruled the day.

Outbursts, Hot Tempers Fill Town Hall Meetings Across U.S..  Loud outbursts, hot tempers and pleas for civility at town hall meetings around the country Saturday [8/8/2009] foreshadowed a long, hot August as Democratic lawmakers returning home faced resistance to proposals to reform the nation's costly health care system.  At a meeting in Des Moines, Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa, was interrupted several times by people in the audience shouting criticism and questions, even though he said he didn't expect Iowans to take part in what he called "scare tactics, misinformation and obstruction."

Town hall tension:  Meeting turns ugly over health care.  Hundreds of people crowded into the BRIDGES building in Downtown Memphis on Saturday [8/8/2009] for a congressional town hall meeting that quickly deviated into a raucous shouting free-for-all, requiring extra law enforcement officers to watch over the scene.  The meeting, hosted by U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Memphis, was scheduled to address constituents' concerns about Social Security and veterans' benefits, but the real topic of the day was health care reform legislation being crafted by Congress.

"Almost Entirely White and Irritable Crowd" of "Angry" Obama-Care Protesters.  After years of mainstreaming and idealizing anti-war protesters and marches supporting illegal immigrants as "grandmothers with canes, parents with children in strollers," dissent against a president's policies is no longer cool in Timesland.  The [New York] Times finds the newest batch of protesters against Obama health care to be "angry," "irritable" crowds of whites taking marching orders from conservative talk radio and web sites.

Remember when protest was patriotic?  When handfuls of Code Pink ladies disrupted congressional hearings or speeches by Bush administration officials, it was taken as evidence that the administration's policies were unpopular, and that the thinking parts of the populace were rising up in true democratic fashion.  Even disruptive tactics aimed at blocking President Bush's Social Security reform program were merely seen as evidence of boisterous high spirits and robust, wide-open debate.

The ObamaCare Revolution Wages War on American Democracy.  The Obama administration has cynically tried to hijack the Town Hall by transforming into a one way series of meetings, in which enthusiastic carefully chosen citizens voice their approval of his proposed policies.  That is not an American Town Hall, it is a Soviet party meeting.  In a Town Hall meeting, citizens question their elected representatives.  At a party meeting, they give them their wholehearted approval.  But it is a part of a pattern for the Obama administration, which works to put an All-American stamp on its un-American program.

Town Hall Rallies — Orchestrated by Those Who Care.  There has been a lot of talk in the news lately about the town hall protests being organized. ... The left wants the public to think that the "evil" insurance companies are behind them, and that this is all a tactic to save their profits.  They might also say that it is the Republican party that is behind this, and that it is all an attack on the President and the Democrats.  The only attack I see is the attack the liberal media is making against people exercising their first amendment rights.

Pro-Obama Group Urges Members to Attend Town Hall Meetings.  As the Democrat leadership and their media minions dishonestly depict town hall meeting protesters as an angry mob ginned up by conservative organizations, the group that helped get Barack Obama elected president is urging its members to show up at such events to counter dissenting views.  Will this get much press attention in the next 48 hours?

At Obama's town hall:  Civil disagreement isn't extremism.  The Obama administration and the Democratic leadership in Congress dismissed, and even belittled, the taxpayer tea party protests this past spring.  Then, ignoring legitimate questions from concerned citizens, they embarked upon an arrogant rush to remake one-sixth of the U.S. economy without giving anyone a chance to read the details.  And they wonder why people are showing up at town hall meetings angry and upset.

Something Fishy.  For liberals, the morally correct stance on every issue is by definition the liberal one.  It is a moral imperative that everyone have health insurance, consequences be damned.  To cite possible negative repercussions of liberal policies is to reveal yourself to be ethically and intellectually degenerate.  Just look at what liberal pundits and politicians are saying about anti-Obamacare protesters:  Paul Krugman vilifies them as racists; to Nancy Pelosi, they are literally Nazis.  Got that, America?  If you're against government-run health care, you're not just a Nazi, you're a racist Nazi.

Recycling the contempt.  Angry lynch mobs (to hear House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her sidekick Steny Hoyer tell it) of elderly gents on walking sticks and little blue-haired ladies in their 80s have descended on congressmen at town meetings across the country — in California, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Maryland, Ohio, Georgia and other places.  They're taking out their anger and frustration at the Obama health care "reform" in the robust American way, but Mrs. Pelosi professes to see "reform" adrift on a turbulent sea of Nazi swastikas.

Health care outrage is plenty real.  When two of Congress' most powerful Democrats bash disagreeing citizens as "un-American," you know the hinges have fallen off.  Their smug lecture in a USA Today op-ed piece this week radiates the sanctimonious condescension that is dragging down President Barack Obama's suddenly human approval ratings.  "Health care is complex," professors Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer warn.  The attendant message:  Those displeased are stupid; if they were smarter, they would agree with us.  This is an old game for the left.  Only they are the smart, virtuous and responsible stewards of the mountains of taxpayer money that is their lifeblood.

Town Hall in Upstate NY:  Locals vs the Zombies.  I went to a town hall meeting held by my Congressman Scott Murphy (D) yesterday.  Here's my report.  I found out about the meeting by searching Congressman Murphy's website.  The notice was put up less than 24 hours before the meeting.  I got to the meeting an hour early.  Organizers were already there writing their pro health care reform posters.  They brought about 40 people, mostly very nice elderly Democrats who must be on call for such things.

Clown Hall Meetings:  Rep. Gene Green has voted against bills that require people to present a photo ID before they vote.  But don't show up at one of his public gatherings without a driver's license.  You won't get in.

Dem Rep Who Opposes Photo ID To Vote Requiring Photo ID For Town Halls.  Congressman Eugene Green, Democrat from Texas, [is] telling the world that if you're not from his District, you're not welcome at his future town hall meetings — oh, and how he'll enforce his new rule... How many dozen other Congressmen who oppose voter ID laws are going to hypocritically enforce voter-ID rules at their town halls — And does that mean that controlling their meetings more important than controlling the voting process?

Did someone mention Voter ID laws?

Obama Lies on Single-Payer, Disses Post Office.  In a just-completed New Hampshire town hall meeting, President Obama stated that he never said he supported a single-payer health care system.  But as clearly evidenced by [a YouTube] video, in 2003, he declared:  "I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care plan."  Meanwhile, at another point of today's town hall meeting, Obama was pushing back against the idea that the creation of a new government-run plan would drive private insurers out of business, and he said that UPS and FedEx were doing fine, but "it's the post office that's always having problems."  Oops!

The Alinsky Way Vs. the American Way.  It takes neither a genius, nor a shrink, to see why Alinskyite Democrat pols are so confused by all this 1776 Redux confronting them in their home-district townhalls.  Since they are so accustomed to calling up pals in unions and various other community agitators for a little rent-a-mob action to bolster support for their agendas, they naturally project this tactic onto anyone opposing their issue positions.

Sen. Cardin Booed, Jeered at Health Town Hall.  Sen. Ben Cardin had to shout his way through a town hall meeting Monday evening [8/10/2009], where angry constituents booed and jeered as the Democratic senator from Maryland tried to explain health care reform working its way through Congress.  Cardin was booed and jeered repeatedly throughout his 25-minute presentation and the question-and-answer period.  The crowd had to be asked to calm down to allow him to continue.

When the Right Protests, It Must Be Wrong.  Americans are not supposed to protest the incredible overreach of government.  Congress can pass a $787 billion stimulus bill and not even read it, but the people they work for, well, can sit down and shut up.  The president can seize control of the auto companies and give a huge stake in ownership to his union supporters, but challenge that and you are somehow standing in the way of Obama fixing the economy.  Next, voters are supposed to watch as the Ego-in-Chief tries to destroy the world's best health care system so he and his buddies can run that too.  Raise a stink and you get union thugs pushing you around at town hall meetings, or just outright beating you up.  And the news media thinks the protesters are to blame, calling their rallies "nasty" or "unruly."

Protester warns:  'You have awakened a sleeping giant'.  Nancy Snyder says she kept quiet when abortion was legalized and prayer in schools was eliminated.  Not this time.  "They did it for prayer, they did it for abortion, and they're not going to do it for our health care," the 70-year-old nurse from Philipsburg, Pa., said Wednesday [8/12/2009] as she and her husband Robert, 74, a retired coal miner, waited in a long, snaking line for Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter's town hall meeting.  "We're not standing back this time," Snyder said.

Raucous Crowd Greets Cardin at Health-Care Town Hall in Hagerstown.  President Obama's call for civility in the health-care debate fell flat Wednesday [8/12/2009] in Maryland's first congressional town hall meeting after his plea.  An increasingly rowdy crowd of 450 packed a community college auditorium in Hagerstown and repeatedly shouted down Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin (D-Md.), even screaming at questioners who did not quickly make a point.

There's Something Happening Here.  It began with the tea parties.  People of all ages joined in huge protests against the massive spending approved in Washington.  They gathered by the thousands in cities and towns from coast to coast to speak out against the huge stimulus plan.  Yet, for months not much was covered by the mainstream media and President Barack Obama told the press that he didn't know anything about the tea parties.

Obamacare Meltdown.  It appears that community organizing and grassroots are terms reserved solely for liberal activism.  A number of taxpayer and patients rights groups post the location of town halls on the internet, and Democrats in charge act as though it is an abomination to democracy.  Yet when then Senator Obama throws together an operation of a million liberal activists, so organic they created an iPhone app for it, that's just good old fashioned political organizing.  Right!

Rep. Green to require photo ID at town halls.  A Texas congressman, worried about disruptions at his town halls, wants to weed out people who want to attend but don't live in his district.  Rep. Gene Green (D-Texas) has announced on his website that he will require attendees to show photo identification to get into his town halls to prove that they're his constituents. ... His decision drew derision from Republicans who noted that he voted against a Republican amendment that would have required Medicaid recipients to prove they are citizens by showing photo ID.

Yes, They Really Are Mad.  Inside, Arlen Specter was taking 30 questions, most, as befits the general well-mannered nature of Central Pennsylvanians, polite if forceful.  Only one man invited an invitation to leave, instantly making himself cable fodder.  "You have awakened a sleeping giant," said a 35-year old woman captured on camera who confessed she had not heretofore paid much attention to things political.

Jackson Lee says she wasn't trying to keep away health plan foes.  Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee ... denied she had attempted to dodge opponents by giving short notice and not widely publicizing her town hall meeting ... Occasional chastising punctuated the rest of the meeting, some comments accusing her of wasting time when introducing a state politician who had joined the crowd and other jeers when she talked on her cell phone while a constituent posed a question to her.

Sheila Jackson Lee Is A Liar, And Not A Convincing One At That.  Queen Sheila, known more informally as haughty Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), doesn't even have the decency to apologize for gabbing away on her cellphone during a healthcare townhall meeting and ignoring a concerned woman who was asking her a question.

Health care event attendee lied about being doctor.  U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee on Thursday [8/13/2009] distanced herself from a University of Houston graduate student and Texas Obama delegate who falsely identified herself as a pediatric physician at the congresswoman's health care reform town hall meeting this week. ... Jared Woodfill, chairman of Harris County Republican Party, on Thursday said Mayer's misrepresentation "shows you what we've known all along."  "The Democrats," he said, "will do anything it takes to pass Obamacare, whether it's misrepresentation, deception, trickery or outright fraud.  It appears there are no boundaries to what they are willing to do."

Why Sheila Jackson Lee Is the Least Respected Lawmaker in Congress:  During a townhall meeting, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), stopped to take a call on her cellphone.

Obamacare's Fake Doctor.  I guess since Obama's spent the last month insulting surgeons and otolaryngologists, it's no surprise that Obamacare supporters would have to get a fake doctor to come as Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee questions about it.  The Houston Chronicle is just catching onto a story about Obamacare's non-doctor that California conservative blogger Patterico broke last week after the Chronicle credulously publicized her question as "from a physician."

'Town Halls' a Chance for the President, Not the Public, to Vent.  What the White House is calling a "town hall meeting" does not quite follow in the tradition of the public-driven forums that sprouted centuries ago in New England.  It's more like a press conference for the public.  In an orderly fashion, selected members of the audience pose brief questions, and the president elaborates.  And elaborates.  And elaborates.

Obamacare Or Logan's Run?  The important thing to remember is that the Founding Fathers gave us the opportunity to survive bad administrations by voting the miscreants out of the House every two years.

Sorry, Snobs: Town-Hall Rage is Real Democracy.  The best moment of almost every YouTube video of the raucous town-hall meetings on health care is the same:  It's the nonplussed look on the face of the senators and congressmen who have rarely suffered such indignity.  Be assured:  No one talks to them that way in the "members only" elevators in the US Capitol.  Nancy Pelosi and Co. insist that the town-hall protesters are the tools of special interests.  Not likely.  Almost all of the special interests have been enticed or bullied into cooperating with ObamaCare.

The Etiquette Czar's Rules for Patriotic Protest.  [Rule #5]  No mean signs.  That 11-year-old daughter of a Massachusetts Obama donor and campaigner who was randomly chosen to criticize the scary posters held up by town hall protesters in New Hampshire was right.  "Mean" signs are, well, mean.  Never mind the placards that blared "Bush is the only dope worth shooting" in Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco and the assassination art depicting former President Bush with a gun to his head in Chicago.  "Obama is a socialist" is a sign too far and cannot be tolerated in a civil society.  Period.

Roadblocks Devised to Push Back Against Health Care Town Hall Protesters.  Americans who want to express their opinions on health care reform at town halls across the country are encountering a host of roadblocks, ranging from fake schedules to a demand that they show their driver's licenses or photo identification.  Supporters of President Obama's plan say they are pushing back against opposition that is disruptive and designed to shut down debate.  But opponents say the supporters' tactics are underhanded and designed to undermine democracy in action.

The Anti-Obama Groundswell Begins?  The citizens complaining at town hall meetings are not "plants" but a real grass roots swell.  The people want their country back.  The DNC is firm in their belief that the RNC would use exactly the same tactics as it has used in the past.  Planting people at political rallies to cause a raucous is not only a DNC trick, but also the documented behavior of ACORN.

NY Times Blames GOP for Town Hall 'Hostility'.  The New York Times suddenly isn't so fond of community organizing, now that the right has gotten into the game, attacking Obama's health-care proposals in clamorous town halls held by Democratic congressmen over the August recess.  In fact, the Times agrees with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that such meetings have become "hostile" and "extreme."

Protesting the Protesters.  How odd that in a different context, with different protesters, these disruptions would be seen as brave.  But it's not brave at all, according to the media.  That's because, for once, the media is not on the protesting side.  Instead, the media is the "power" that's being spoken to -- and that confuses them.  And so they mock.

Protests are now Un-American! ... Huh?  [Scroll down slowly]  I suggest to you that one of the early steps in the creation of Leviathan in the USA is to outlaw dissent that is not to the Sovereign's liking.  To resist this is to be freemen, these are not the actions of a mob.  It is our duty to our posterity.  Do we really want to become a secular progressive, collectivist paradise with chronic unemployment at 15% or higher?  Do we really want to minimize spiritual values and substitute materialism?  Do we want to throw out the US Constitution and make up the rules as we go?

The Hope of Obama vs. the Wisdom of Madison.  [Scroll down]  Obama is trying to ram through a massive, wholesale reinvention of American health care, which is alarming and even frightening people, especially the elderly.  They, in turn, are reacting en masse, with thousands of people turning out for town halls in venues that can accommodate only several hundred.  President Obama has embraced a my-way-or-the-highway approach, and it is stirring up fierce resistance, not just among Republicans, but also increasingly among independents (where Obama's support is dropping at a startling rate).

The People Are Angry?  You Don't Say.  What's becoming apparent to the American public is that we have an imperious Congress full of big egos and little minds, greedy, near-sighted people who are drowning future generations in debt and have the gall to demand that people calm down.

Thousands in Atlanta protest health care reform.  A few thousand people gathered Saturday [8/15/2009] in downtown Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park to protest a health care overhaul led by the president and other Democratic leaders.

Obama's Forfeited Credibility Sabotaging Obamacare.  Nothing could be so real as the American people, emboldened by their passion for liberty, standing up against a callous, dishonest government trolling for its freedoms in exchange for false promises.  All the proof we need that Obama and Democrats recognize the authenticity of this grass-roots protest is their hysterical reaction to it.  They wouldn't be hyperventilating about it if they believed it to be fake, but would use their super-majorities to ram through this bill.

ABC Tries to Tie Health Care Town Hall Protesters to Hate Groups.  ABC News correspondent Brian Ross tried to connect the health care town hall protesters to hate groups on Friday's [8/14/2009] GMA.  Ross cited the Southern Poverty Law Center, whose left-wing political affiliation he omitted, and used two sound bites from the SPLC's Mark Potok, who hyped that President Obama supposedly "triggered fears among ... white people ... that they are somehow losing their country."

Elite Meltdown.  The face-off between the ruling party and the people continues to unfold, as Democrat politicians hold town hall meetings across the country to build support for the Obama administration's latest power grab, misleadingly labeled 'health care reform.'  The faux outrage politicians manufacture on demand has been replaced by real outrage.  Outrage at the American people for failing to understand the nuances, the broad outline of a 1,000 page plus bill that most politicians haven't even read.

Opposition for 'Obamacare' voiced.  If the crowd at a town hall for Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., was indicative of eastern New Mexico, it's a safe bet the region does not approve of health care reform making its way through Congress.  Those in attendance made grievances known to Bingaman at the Clovis Civic Center on Tuesday night [8/18/2009].

Who's Crazy Now?  Talk of death panels and crazy signs is, if polls are to be believed, a tiny fringe of the many Americans who do not like this health care plan much.  It's even, as far as I can tell, a small minority of the many Americans attending town hall meetings to harangue their congressmen.  Democrats appear to think that blowing those people up into the totality of the movement will help them win the PR battle on healthcare.

All stirred up at Tea Party.  About 7,000 people crowded into Falls River Square Wednesday night [8/19/2009] for the first Akron Tea Party.  Organizers said it was the largest Ohio Tea Party so far.

'Tea Party' Organizers Plan Anti-'Obamacare' Rallies Across the Country.  If Democratic lawmakers thought all the furor over President Obama's health care plan expressed this month at town hall meetings was dying down, they might be in for a surprise Saturday [8/22/2009].  That's when citizens are planning anti-"Obamacare" rallies across the country Saturday in all 435 congressional districts.  And their message is clear:  We will not stand for socialized, government-controlled health care.

Explaining the Town-Hall Protests.  For the most part, these individuals are not funded or organized by anybody.  They really are grass roots.  Sure, there may be a few top-down "astroturf" groups and some special-interest groups that are secretly gleeful.  But there is no way the kind of spontaneous outpouring we've witnessed could be bought or organized by anyone.  Why are they so angry?  The reasons are manifold, but the single biggest reason is the arrogance of our elected officials in Washington.

February Prediction Proves True in August:  Obama Is New Jimmy Carter.  It's as simple as this:  Just as semi-rural Georgia politics of the mid-1970s couldn't be imposed on the Washington establishment, Chicago-style, brute-force politics doesn't work, either.  Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress started digging a hole when they decided to force-feed massive health care reform on the American people in the middle of an unprecedented financial crisis.  And with every town hall meeting, press conference and leak of a new strategy, they just keep digging that hole deeper.

Trinkets that stick it to Obama start to sell.  In the political paraphernalia department, "Yes, we can" is becoming "No, he can't."  Anti-Obama memorabilia — from T-shirts to bumper stickers to buttons — is increasingly emerging in the marketplace as the president's economic and health care policies polarize supporters and detractors.

Obama supporters, not health care protesters, are real mob.  [Scroll down]  The town hall and Tea Party protesters, in contrast, make for a poor mass movement, however discontented they may be.  They do not feel empowered — quite the opposite — they have no charismatic leader, no majorities in Congress, nor a clear, overarching alternative agenda to support.  They are generally disillusioned with the leftward lurch of the Obama administration.  They share a common fear for the nation's prosperity, the exploding deficit and an overreaching Congress.

An Open Letter To Obamacare Protesters.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Ca., however, has characterized your protests as "un-American."  The DNC has called you an "angry mob," and stated that you are all in the pockets of "special-interest" groups.  And Arlen Specter, D-Pa., has stated that you are "not really representative of America."  Apparently, it's OK for buses full of ACORN, AFL-CIO, SEIU and HCAN members to roll up to town hall meetings to challenge you while you protest. Those people aren't in the pockets of "special interest" groups; they are merely engaging in "community organizing."  When you try it, of course, you're an "angry mob."

Why Americans are Up in Arms.  [Scroll down]  These talking heads glossed over a crucial detail:  the man carrying the AR-15 was black.  They were dishonestly trying to portray the group of gun toting citizens in Arizona as racists.  MSNBC cleverly edited the video footage to show only the semi-automatic rifle, hiding the face of its bearer, Chris, an African American.  The liberal media conveniently ignore that in 2000 at one of George W. Bush's events, Black Panthers demonstrated while carrying firearms.  The Black Panthers actually have a history of murder and violence in contrast to the Phoenix demonstrators.

Stop playing the race card.  As an American who happens to be black, I say to those who are playing the race card in the healthcare debate:  Stop it!  The very people who do all the hand-wringing about racism are the first to use it to divide us, and we are tired of it.  The racial denigration of those who show up at town meetings as "angry white folks" is disgusting.

More about liberals and the minority voter.

Cheers, jeers ... and fears at Town hall forum hosted by Michele Bachmann.  The national debate over health care turned into a boisterous and sometimes angry argument Thursday afternoon [8/27/2009] in Lake Elmo during a town hall meeting hosted by Republican U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Stillwater.  The auditorium at Oak-Land Junior High School was filled with Bachmann's passionate supporters and opponents, and they frequently erupted into shouting matches during an hourlong question-and-answer session.

"It ain't (America) no more, OK?"  The very same leftists who won't debate, who shout down, while professing to embrace free speech, have yet again shown the world just who has spat on the First Amendment on their road to fascism.  This video was taken on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 at Rep. Jim Moran's (D-VA) Town Hall meeting on Obama Deathcare (Howie Dean was there too) held at South Lakes High School in Reston, VA.

Thousands attend tea party protest in ABQ.  A vocal crowd of over a thousand people gathered near Montgomery and Louisiana Boulevard in Albuquerque Wednesday [9/2/2009] to protest the federal government's spending habits.  Retired teacher Yvonne Estrada gave up her bowling night to join thousands of other New Mexicans Wednesday who turned out to voice their concerns about the economy and the federal government's spending habits.

Congress Is Shooting the Messenger.  So convinced is the left that their health care reform is right, that not only are all others wrong, but their very opposition means they have committed a wrong.  They have dare challenged the pharaoh's view and now they must pay -- in the past, with their lives; today, with their reputations.  If they hold a tea party to protest, they're quacks.  Vent their rage at a town hall, they're stooges.  Question the president's agenda, they're racists.

Protest Signs Banned From Dem Health Care Reform Rally.  [Scroll down]  Insiders said a blanket e-mail was sent out to known President Barack Obama backers in Columbus, encouraging a strong showing of support.  Rally placards were handed out.  Opponents said they were treated unfairly at the rally, though.  Those who oppose the measure said they were told to check their signs at the door.  "They said no outside signs, but they had union-printed inside signs.  So, it's just troubling because we really care about our country, and we really care about all these people," one opponent said.

Media Mislead With Coverage Of Town Halls.  Health care reform is said to be in trouble partly because of those raucous August town hall meetings in which Democratic members of Congress were besieged by shouters opposed to change.  But what if our media-created impression of the meetings is wrong? ... There is an overwhelming case that the electronic media went out of their way to cover the noise and ignored the calmer (and from television's point of view "boring") encounters between elected representatives and their constituents.

What I Learned From the 'Mob':  I spoke with thousands of voters at town-hall meetings this summer.  What I gathered from them is that it's not just the proposed overhaul of health care that has them upset.  Many also expressed a sense of betrayal.  In spite of their hope for change, it still appears that the government in Washington is run for its own benefit and the benefit of special interests — not for the benefit of the American people.

It ain't America no more.  In America, school security guards don't get to revise the First Amendment to suit their whims.  Nobody does.  But that's exactly what happened at a Reston town-hall meeting sponsored by Alexandria Democratic Rep. James P. Moran last week.  Fairfax County Public School Security Officer Wesley Cheeks Jr. took it upon himself to decide that one sign — among a panoply found outside the event — crossed the line.

Most Voters Say Town Hall Meetings Should Be for Congressmen to Listen, Not Speak.  Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters nationwide say that it's more important for Congressmen to hear the view of their constituents rather than explain the proposed health care legislation.  The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 37% hold the opposite view while 7% are not sure.

Inhofe blasts Obama at Grove town hall.  Right-thinking Americans can only hope the country will survive the next 16 months of the Obama administration until Republicans can regain control of Congress, U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe said Wednesday [9/2/2009].  "I never dreamed I would see an administration try to disavow all the things that have made this country different from all others," Inhofe told more than 300 people at a town hall meeting in the Grove Community Center.

Health care costs money; real rights don't.  With all due respect to Cassandra Barham of Cincinnati, whose personal desire for health insurance is perfectly understandable, and to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, whose confusion is not:  Health care is not and cannot be a "right."  Barham drew boos at a town hall conducted Tuesday [9/1/2009] by Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown when she said, "You know, health care is a right."

Jaw Dropping Arrogance From Obscure Congressman.  It is not just the career safe seat members of Congress and the Senate who are vulnerable to getting caught up in the arrogance and elitism of power.  Relative back bencher Baron Hill from Indiana's 9th District might well have surged into the lead in the contest to see which member of congress had the most out of touch and arrogant attitude during the town hall meetings.

The Reason for Our Discontent:  The arrogance of power and disdain for average Americans is what fueled much of the dissent expressed in town hall meetings.  Growing numbers of people see a small cadre of government, academic and media elites caring nothing about them, except when it comes to their tax dollars.  Many, especially those who are conservative and even worse, religious, are viewed by these elites as enemies of progress and sophistication.  They are mocked as NASCAR-loving, flag-waving, God-worshipping trailer trash.  The people are getting the message and properly expressing themselves by peacefully (and loudly) assembling and petitioning government for a redress of their grievances.

The Liberal Media's Favorite "Republican":  On the day of the protest, September 12, the Washington Post used an old liberal media trick — trying to depict the protesters showing up in Washington, D.C. as extremists.  In order to give this attack some semblance of credibility, the paper ran a story quoting "a former adviser" to Republican senator and 2008 presidential candidate John McCain as saying that he was afraid that "right-wing nutballs" and "freaks" would dominate media coverage of the event.  But the real "nutball" or "freak" was the adviser, Mark McKinnon.  The Post, which is referred to by critics as the "Compost," failed to disclose that McKinnon is a well-known liberal who panders to the "mainstream media" in order to get headlines.

Shouts, insults fly at Rep. Israel's health care town hall.  Rep. Steve Israel gamely tried to explain the proposed health care reform Monday night [10/5/2009], but was often shouted down during his town hall-style meeting at Suffolk County Community College in Brentwood.  Israel (D-Huntington) at one point pleaded with those in the crowd yelling at him to "stop calling me a liar and listen."  Judging by the ever-increasing decibel level, he did not win over many converts.

120 heckle Rep. Holt at 'town hall' meeting.  As Rep. Rush Holt prepared to talk economy, health care, education and national security inside Marlboro Memorial Middle School tonight [1/25/2010], Ian Gratton of Farmingdale was sending a message of his own.  "We are wide awake...and you're fired," read a sign Gratton held up for passersby outside the school.

Dem lawmaker cancels town hall due to security concerns.  Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) canceled a town hall on the new healthcare law Tuesday [3/30/2010] because of concerns about the security of the event.  The congressman's office cited safety issues at the facility where the meeting was to take place and threats to his office, according to a report by News21.

Some Dems get earful back home for supporting health reform bill.  Some politically vulnerable Democrats are getting an earful from constituents about their yes votes on healthcare reform.  The criticism from constituents is not as fervent as the feedback members of Congress received at last summer's town halls.  But some voters have let legislators know they were not pleased with the passage of healthcare reform.

Congressman:  'I Don't Worry About the Constitution' on Health Care Overhaul.  Confronted by an angry Tea Partier with a camera Thursday [4/1/2010], an Illinois congressman said in front of several constituents at a town hall that he doesn't care whether the new health care law violates the Constitution, as some critics have claimed.

Again in 2010:
 Democrats Skip Town Halls to Avoid Voter Rage.  If the time-honored tradition of the political meeting is not quite dead, it seems to be teetering closer to extinction.  Of the 255 Democrats who make up the majority in the House, only a handful held town-hall-style forums as legislators spent last week at home in their districts.  It was no scheduling accident.

'Party of the People' Hides from Them.  Remember those hoary days of yesteryear, those days when Democrats puffed themselves up as "the party of the people," of that "party of the common man"?  Flash forward to 2010 and we find that those stalwart homespun congressmen, born of the people have set a policy to avoid those "people," the voters, at all costs.  This summer break instead of coming home to visit with constituents and hearing them out at traditional townhall meetings that are usually held by members of Congress returning home, today's Democrats are skulking into town quietly and once home refusing to hold such meetings where they can see their constituents.

Dems Shy From Town Hall Anger.  If you were hoping for a repeat of those town hall meetings last summer where Democrats were confronted by angry voters who opposed President Obama's health care bill, well, forget it.  They're cancelled.  Democrats passed government-run Obamacare, despite strong grassroots opposition in their states and districts, and now these so-called "public servants" are unwilling to go through the democratic ritual of having to listen to what dissatisfied voters think of them now.

Congressman blames town hall incident on opponent, apologizes.  Video emerged Monday [7/12/2010] that shows Rep. Ciro Rodriguez (D) and an audience member getting into an argument over his vote for the healthcare reform law.  The attendee suggested that the lawmaker stretched the facts about the Congressional Budget Office's analysis of the provision.  He shot back, saying "Don't accuse me of not saying the truth."

Rep. Rodriguez, D-Tex., loses it.  Rep. Ciro Rodriguez, D-Tex., is partying like it's Town Hall Summer 2009.  He's the latest congressman to go viral for all the wrong reasons, and he's holding down a district that went for Obama with 51 percent of the vote.  His Republican opponent is Quico (KEE-ko) Canseco.

A Congressman, Held Accountable.  If you don't think voters are up in arms about the discriminatory policies of Barack Obama's Department of Justice, check out this video of a town hall meeting held by Democratic Congressman Brad Sherman, CA-27.  A constituent asks him about DOJ's dismissal of charges against members of the New Black Panther Party and describes the case accurately.  Sherman claims not to have heard about it, drawing fury from the crowd.

Congressman Says He Didn't Know Black Panther Case Because Media Didn't Cover It.  Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., in a written statement released late Tuesday, accused Fox News of launching "attacks on me" for showing video of the meeting.  He said he would soon send a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder regarding the incident and "the importance of allegations of voter intimidation," but said the "major sources of information which I rely upon most" did not mention the issue.  But he also offered an excuse for missing the news, saying none of the media he reads covered it.

The Editor says...
 Let's give him the benefit of the doubt and accept the idea that he really didn't know about the Philadelphia case.  But really, if you're a Congressman, you really should not get all your information from MSNBC and the Washington Post.

'Big Spending' Democrats May Face Town Hall Anger Anew.  As members of Congress head back to their districts for the August recess, they could be met by the same rowdy town halls that rocked the national healthcare debate last summer.  But this summer, record-breaking government spending would fuel the voter uprising, conservatives say.

Rep. Pete Stark doesn't believe there are constitutional limits on federal government.  What is Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., thinking?  Following the publication of a video in which the congressman derides his own constituents for their concerns over border security (suggesting that they probably "kill people"), Stark spoke at a town hall in which he noted that there are few limitations on the federal government.

The Stark Reality.  At the end of June, the nation witnessed firsthand the behavior of California Congressman, Fortney "Pete" Stark, towards what he clearly regards as the commoners in his district.  This video received over 259,000 hits from a populace tired of being told by elected officials across the land to "talk to the hand."  Stark's contemptuous behavior just reared its ugly head once again this past Saturday, July 24th at another town hall meeting in his district.

No, Congressman, government does have limits.  When Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., was told during a July 24 town hall meeting with constituents that he and public officials like him were "destroying this nation," he smirkingly replied, "And I guess you're here to save it.  And that makes me very uncomfortable."  This derision of a constituent was particularly poignant, considering that the questioner had only asked what limits would remain on the federal government if Congress could get away with passing a bill as destructive of individual rights as Obamacare.

Stark Raving.  The federal government, according to Democratic Rep. Pete Stark, can do anything it wants.  If there are indeed no checks on the state's power, as the congressman claims, then the state is a tyrant.

Democrats Ducking Town Halls.  Numerous vulnerable House Democrats are refusing to schedule town hall meetings in their districts over the summer recess.  A survey conducted by the National Republican Congressional Committee shows that of 75 Democratic House members who are targeted for defeat by the GOP, 65 have not yet scheduled a town hall meeting with their constituents.


Which side is using "Astroturf"?

Democrats Rally Their Own Activists.  Supporters of President Obama formerly signed up as members of "Obama for America" received an email today [8/9/2009] from Mitch Stewart, the director of the group's current incarnation, Organizing for America, to show up at town halls and congressional offices as a counter to the protestors against the president's health care reform push.

Democrats' Fear Is Showing on Health Care.  The Democratic Party is panicking, lashing out like a cornered animal, all because its effort to take over the health care industry is coming apart like so much wet toilet paper.  Nancy Pelosi, who will get her own bound volume in the annals of asininity, has outdone herself.  When asked by a reporter whether the protests at various town hall meetings represented legitimate grassroots opposition or were manufactured "Astroturf" stunts, she replied, "I think they're Astroturf.  You be the judge.  They're carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on health care."

Left begins smear campaign against Town Hall protests.  The first thing you have to understand is that it is impossible, according to the left, for conservatives to have a legitimate protest.  Only liberals have "authentic" grass roots so the idea of the right demonstrating against anything — in their lights — is a political trick.  We are a "Brooks Brothers Brigade" or, "radicals" or "mobs."  The demonstrations at Town Hall meetings on health care reform are "astroturfing" — planned and paid for by insurance industry lobbyists.

'Grassroots' vs. 'Astroturf': A Pitched Battle Over Health Care.  Is the Astroturf always greener on the other side?  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has characterized outspoken protests at town hall meetings on health care as "astroturf" — or disingenuous grassroots organization by conservative opponents of the legislation.  But President Obama is now calling on his online network of supporters, Organizing for America (OFA), to get involved in the debate.

Grassroots vs. Astroturf.  Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and the White House have called opposition to Democratic health care plans "Astroturf," while organizing their own "authentic" pro-Obamacare rallies at the same time.  But there's one important question I have, checking out these protest photos from Denver... If opponents of Obamacare are Astroturf, then how come all of their signs are homemade, with all sorts of different shapes and sizes and colors and stuff...

Astroturfers offered $10-15 an hour to demonstrate for Dems.  After I recovered from my outrage over the false accusations of town hall astroturfing by Obama opponents,  I became a bit optimistic.  Now that the Dems have introduced the term themselves, it opens the door to serious examination of their own deep background in astroturfing.

The high price of Astroturf...
 Wanted: Obama healthcare reform volunteers willing to be paid $15 an hour.  It seems that, despite all the media attention lavished on e-mail appeals to his political supporters, not everyone pushing for President Obama's embattled healthcare reforms these warm August days is an idealistic volunteer in it for the sake of helping move the country forward and gaining medical attention for millions of uncovered Americans.

Coral Gables healthcare rally turns rowdy.  A rally called to support a public healthcare option outside Sen. Bill Nelson's Coral Gables office quickly turned into a cross-street chanting and shouting match Thursday afternoon [8/13/2009] between about 250 backers and opponents.  The rally, organized by the liberal MoveOn.org, generated the latest in a string of heated and emotional public exchanges about healthcare reform, after opponents of the measures working their way through Congress also showed up.
Emphasis added.

CBS Describes Democrats as 'Orchestrating' Pro-Obama Town Hall in Montana.  On Friday's [8/14/2009] broadcast network evening newscasts, the CBS Evening News uniquely noted that Democrats in Montana had "orchestrated" a friendly environment for President Obama at a Montana town hall event as many Democrats arrived early to secure tickets.  After CBS correspondent Chip Reid filed a report in which he relayed that "this crowd was on [Obama's] side," and that "the questions were mostly softballs," Reid brought up "orchestration" as one of the reasons for a friendly crowd:  "So why wasn't there more anger in here?  For one thing, after accusing Republicans of orchestrating their protests, Democrats did some orchestrating of their own, getting in line early in large numbers and snatching up most of the tickets."

Introducing the Tenth Amendment.  In the era of Obama's imperial presidency, with ever accumulating and unaccountable Czars, explosive debt, bank bailouts, corporate takeovers, Congressional redistricting, tax increases, a lack of any perceptible restraint on the judiciary, the sad reality is dawning on many if not finally on most that we live in a post-constitutional nation  The volume and emotion of the protests comes both from a sincere anger and panic but also from the frustration of an inarticulate and uninformed citizenry that feels what it doesn't know.  People may cry "liberty!" and "hands off" but don't have the education and intellectual ammunition to make a solid case.

Obama and the Upchuck Factor.  [Scroll down]  This is the first time that the American middle class has taken to the streets in living memory. ... All of a sudden average middle-class Americans are organizing Tea Parties and street protests.  The old politics of the liberal "teach-in" has been replaced by the new politics of the town-hall "shout-in."  Liberals are beside themselves with rage.  They are recounting how their parents lost their jobs during the McCarthy period, and telling each other that opposition to the president's program is all about racism.

Another Even Vaster Right Wing Conspiracy.  The vast right wing conspiracy of 2009 has exactly the same purpose it had in 1993 and 1994:  to destroy the Democrat's plan to socialize America's health care system.

Slipping into quicksand:  [Scroll down]  But something funny happened on the way to far-left governance:  The American people began to reject what was about to be inflicted on them.  The Democrats did not anticipate that their constituents might like a say in how they were being governed.  (That whole "government for, by, and of the people" is so 18th-century.)  Mr. Obama has been particularly perplexed by the revolt against his ideas, for two main reasons:  First, he (like the rest of his party) misread November's election results as a mandate to impose a far-left agenda without debate.

Marine Corps Vet Blasts Dem Congressman.  On August 5, Congressman Brian Baird (D-Wash.) likened recent town hall meeting protesters to Nazis:  "What we're seeing right now is close to Brown Shirt tactics.  I mean that very seriously."  On Tuesday [8/23/2009], at such a political gathering in Vancouver, a Marine Corps veteran named David William Hedrick blasted the Congressman for this disgraceful depiction.

Astroturf Liberals vs. Grassroots Conservatives.  Watch this video and notice the difference between the professionally printed "official" pro-ObamaCare signs and the homemade unofficial anti-ObamaCare signs.

Vocal minority greet Howard Dean at town hall.  Groups backing President Obama's healthcare overhaul filled the 2,700-seat gymnasium where Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) held his healthcare town hall with more than enough supporters to drown out a small but vocal minority of opponents.  Organizing for America and Change that Works turned out supporters, handed out signs, gathered signatures and turned the town hall meeting into something that resembled a campaign rally.

The Editor says...
 Unions are, I suspect, a major source of "astroturf".  All these people have to do is show up — the signs (and sometimes T-shirts) are provided, and no doubt they will be told when to applaud.  It is unfortunate that public opinion — and eventually the fate of this country — might be determined by which side shouts the loudest.

Astroturf Video:  MoveOn Activists At An ObamaCare Rally.

Liberal Group Caught Teaching People to Silence Health Care Protesters.  An organizer from the left-wing group Health Care for America Now was recently caught on tape training town hall attendees on how to silence anybody speaking out against reform.

I Saw Astroturf Grow.  [Scroll down]  True to her word, Representative Sue Myrick stayed for four and a half hours (until 11:00 p.m.) all three nights to hear everyone out.  That was too late for the people with the professionally made signs (the actual "Astroturf").  Most of them went home much earlier, while the conservatives kept the heat on to the very end.  That's the kind of passion you must sustain to prevent the government from killing the golden goose of healthcare.

Skeptics Surprise in Skokie.  If Rep. Jan Schakowsky hoped to use Monday night's [8/31/2009] town hall meeting as a pep rally for the "public option," she failed.  It wasn't for lack of trying.  Her staff arrived more than three hours before the event, with boxes of literature and a marked-up version of H.R. 3200 for their boss to use as a prop during the meeting.  The HCAN crowd arrived soon afterwards with their manufactured signs and rolls of stickers.  As the line grew outside the high school, HCAN organizers began handing out signs to sneak into the auditorium, and instructing supporters to block opposing views from being heard in the meeting or seen by the cameras.

The revolt against the elite.  The revolt keeps growing, from tea parties to angry town hall meetings across the country, an uprising against the attempts of an elite to force on us an all-powerful State, about as welcome as grandma's cod-liver oil.

Obama vs. The People.  While the official Republican leadership sat in the corner, information flew back and forth between bloggers, activists and talk show hosts and the result was an authentic grass roots movement.  "The Mobs" that panicked Democratic politicians and their media press corps decry represent the one thing that a phony grass roots movement like the Obama campaign fear the most... being confronted with an authentic grass roots movement.

Boren says Congress should push for removal of unconfirmed "czars".  U.S. Rep. Dan Boren said Congress should use the power of the purse to push the Obama administration to remove so-called czars that do not go through a confirmation process.  Responding to questions during a telephonic town hall, the Oklahoma Democrat said he was glad Van Jones, who resigned over the weekend as controversy continued to build over past statements, has left his post.

Much more has been said about Van Jones, if you're interested.

Was Democrats' Health Care Strategy Written In Federal Prison?  [Scroll down slowly]  A friend and I took turns filming protesters on both sides of the issue.  We caught an organizer from the group Health Care for America Now (HCAN) instructing followers to block dissenting views:  "So if they stand up and start asking questions, and you're in that area, simply stand up, and start chanting... 'Health care now!  Health care now!'"

Astroturf

This is What Astroturf Looks Like.  Note the identical, professionally printed, color-coordinated yellow and black signs.  This is what Astroturf — fake grass roots — looks like.  The signs use the same colors as the International ANSWER signs that are ubiquitous at far-left rallies here in the U.S., but carry no identifier.

Proof That Some People are Being Paid to Show up at Town Halls.  Caleb Howe, from redstate.com, has uncovered evidence of people being paid to get involved in the health care debate.  At last, we have evidence that some of the protesters are truly astroturf.  Unfortunately for Obama and the Democrats, the evidence shows that people are being paid to support ObamaCare, not protest against it.

Astroturfing:  Obama plans to flood conservative talk radio with liberal talking points.  Organizing for America, the powerful activist organization with some 13 million email addresses that grew out of the Obama campaign, has launched a new website ... The purpose of the website is supply the President's supporters with liberal talking points on health care reform.

Dem Astroturfing Campaign Targets Conservative Talk Radio.  Organizing for America  — the campaign arm of the Obama administration — is rolling out the astroturf in an effort to get liberal voices heard on the nation's most popular (i.e. conservative) talk radio shows.  The campaign is called "On the Air."

Obama Calling In The Stoopids.  Liberals always insist that Republicans just recite conservative talking points.  Organizing For America are actually issuing them, and the stoopids will be reciting (as best they can...).

Meet Another One of Harry Reid's 'Rent-a-Thugs': Edward 'Eddie' Gering.  When thousands of peaceful, Tea Party protestors came to Harry Reid's hometown of Searchlight, Nev. last Saturday [3/27/2010], you would have thought that the favorite son of this hardscrabble, mining town would garner tons of local support.  Not so.  Members of IBEW Local 357 were called to action to agitate the crowd and, as we've previously shown, to hurl eggs at the busses carrying them.

Video — The Egg Man Of Seachlight, Nevada.  When we first reported that Harry Reid Supporters threw eggs at the Tea Party Express bus, some on the left tried to blame Andrew Breitbart, claiming that it never happened, or that if it did, Breitbart probably threw the eggs himself to make the Reid supporters look bad.  Too bad for them there is video.  In this clip, a Reid supporting union man is busted egg handed!

Tea Party Bus Driver Positively IDs Egg Throwing Culprit.  Yesterday [4/5/2010] on Big Government, Levi Russel, the communications director of the Tea Party Express posted an update about the status of the police investigation into who threw eggs at the Tea Party Express bus in Searchlight, Nevada.

Is President Obama Using Executive Powers To Organize Protests?  Earlier, we posted about the links between Andy Stern's SEIU and a group called National People's Action (NPA).  NPA, together with SEIU and the AFL-CIO, is organizing a series of angry marches against Wall Street and capitalism.  NPA is a very dangerous and radical group that isn't shy about its radical philosophy. ... President Obama is very close with NPA board member, John McKnight.  Mr. McKnight also sits on the board of the Gamaliel foundation where President Obama worked as a community organizer.

The Media's Untold Story of Astroturf:  Corporate Sponsored Environmentalism.  It's the American way, right?  It is patriotic to exercise the 1st Amendment by petitioning the government for a redress of grievances — unless of course your effort has a tie to some corporation or lobbying interest.  Then regardless of its size, it's phony baloney Astroturf activism.

DNC, Obama Now Astroturfing Talk Radio.  The shameless media manipulators at the DNC have a new campaign designed to promote Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court.  As with previous campaigns, the "Kagan for Justice Action Center" is run via a special website set up by Organizing for America.  It encourages people to write letters to the editors of newspapers nationwide (And we can presume that, as before, local newspapers will publish DNC talking points without realizing it).


Who is behind the "Coffee Party"?

The transparently biased national news media act as if the "Coffee Party" is the brainchild of an ordinary housewife.  As it turns out, there is a lot of money and political clout behind this astroturf movement.

Don't drink the liberal Coffee Party Kool-aid.  Of course, the Coffee Party itself denies any connection with George Soros or his Open Society Institute.  Yet, many other progressive and liberal footprints can be seen leading to and from the java drinkers.  One has to be suspicious when the liberal main line media suddenly falls in love and promotes a new organization like the Coffee Party.  That was certainly not the case with the Tea Party.

NY Times, Washington Post Hide Phony 'Coffee Party' Astroturf Roots.  What product works best for hiding artificial roots?  Printer's ink, of course!  For more information, check recent copies of The Washington Post and The New York Times, both of which portrayed 41-year-old Annabel Park as a concerned citizen from Virginia who became the accidental founder of a new grass-roots liberal political group, Coffee Party USA.

The Coffee Party Con:  The new and much-publicized Coffee Party movement sports a fairy-tale narrative about a spontaneous uprising of concerned Americans appalled at the Tea Parties and determined to restore civility. ... No thanks to the liberal media, we know that its founder, Annabel Park, is an Obama-supporter, filmmaker (she made one for the Obama campaign), and former New York Times strategy analyst.  In other words, she's a progressive activist.

Coffee Party 'founder' in Astroturf hole, keeps digging.  Annabel Park, the purported creator of the Coffee Party movement does damage control with the help of CNN, claiming that her movement, aided by Soros-funded organizations and planned at RootsCamp, a left wing organizing workshop held at the teachers union NEA Headquarters, is actually a spontaneous, self-organizing movement.

Somewhat related...
 Astroturf:  On Heels of Failed 'Coffee Party,' It's 'The Other 95%'.  [Marco] Ceglie's latest project is something called "The Other 95%," which he touts as an activist group to counter the acceleration and rise of the tea party movement. ... It is an interesting angle Ceglie is promoting, to be sure, but no more interesting than the timing of the group's sudden coming out.  The group seems to be a scrambled effort to make up for the failure of the watered-down and bitter "Coffee Party," a previous effort of another group of pro-Obama liberal activists to counter the tea parties.  The Coffee Party received unwarranted accolades and interest from the left-leaning mainstream media as it was founded, but the group quickly fizzled out.


Town Hall meetings by phone

Some of our elected representatives have shown their fear of (and/or disdain for) their constituents by phoning in their town hall "appearances."  If the crowd gets out of hand or starts asking embarrassing questions, all the congressman has to do is hang up!

Don't think for a moment that they're concerned for their physical safety.  The people in the angry crowds aren't that type.  And besides, a member of Congress can summon security assistance whenever they want it.  No, the biggest reason to "phone it in" is to avoid tough unanticipated questions.

Reid plans town hall meeting over telephone.  A day after holding up a square of Astroturf to denounce the orchestrated attacks on Democratic town hall meetings on health care, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office said he would be talking with his Nevada constituents this month over the phone lines.

Klein insists 'telephone town hall' isn't wimpy.  Don't expect any YouTubed confrontations when U.S. Rep. Ron Klein, D-Boca Raton, hosts a town hall meeting this month to discuss the 1,018-page House Democratic health care bill.  Klein is planning a "telephone town hall" that he says will reach far more constituents than an in-the-flesh event.

Nadler Phones It In.  New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler is having his first health-care town-hall forum on Monday night [8/17/2009] — it just won't be with any actual people in the room.  The Democratic congressman will hold a "telephone town hall," where Manhattan and Brooklyn constituents who have been calling his district office to talk about health-care reform will get return calls.

Yarmuth answers questions on health care in call-in meeting.  The debate over health care reform came to more than 5,000 Louisville homes on Monday [8/17/2009] as U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth answered questions in a call-in town hall meeting during which he said he believes that Congress needs to move slowly on the issue.  He also labeled claims that the House plan for reform would include so-called death panels as "ridiculous."

President of Some of the People.  The American people who elected these men and women to represent their interests in Washington are becoming increasingly frustrated.  They are expressing that frustration at various town hall meetings with their representatives, yet these oft-insulated politicians simply don't know what to do in response to their constituents' outrage.  Instead of engaging them and listening to their concerns, they have responded by hiding from them, holding town halls over the telephone, or limiting the public's access to their public meetings.

The next logical step:  total absence.
 Congressmen On Milk Cartons?  It's amazing how frightened of the community the party of the great community organizer has become now that the community has organized itself against his attempt to impose socialized medicine on the country.  They cheered when he told them to get in the faces of their opponents.  Now they won't show their faces, period.  Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois at least had the courage to show up and announce he wasn't going to show up at such events.

AWOL:
 Five Questions for Senator Reid's Town Hall.  Today [8/27/2009] Senator Reid is holding a teleconference where he will accept screened questions from selected constituents.  It's unfortunate that Senator Reid has declined to hold even a single public town hall for his constituents on the principal reform issue of our day, instead ducking debate and calling constituents who oppose his far-reaching agenda names such as "evil-mongers" and "phonies."

And other stealth tactics...
 Sen. Sherrod Brown is Why We're Angry, My Liberal Friends.  Last week I went to a town hall held by Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown.  Since the Senate went on recess I've been blogging, calling the senator's office and writing opinion pieces for my local paper asking him to have a public meeting in my county.  At first the Senator was having stealth get-togethers with supporters and then went back announcing them on his website as "public forums."

Do tele-town halls shield lawmakers from rowdy crowds?  The telephone town hall, a forum that members of Congress insist offers them an opportunity to reach out to more constituents than through traditional town halls, is coming under increasing scrutiny from critics who insist that the events are largely rigged and designed to shield skittish lawmakers from facing hostile questioning.

Somewhat related:
 The White House wages an unworthy media war.  Politicians are sounding a little paranoid about the media these days.  The White House is trying to blockade the largest cable news network.  A House candidate called the police when a reporter asked her about abortion.  Congressional leaders turn to angry media critics as they talk about why support for health care legislation remains tepid.  Lashing out at the press has always been a popular play for politicians in distress, and it's often a precursor to eventual failure.

"When the people fear their government there is tyranny;
when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
— Thomas Jefferson   

A taste of the Obama thugocracy

Six people, including P-D reporter, arrested at Carnahan meeting.  St. Louis County police arrested six people, including a Post-Dispatch reporter, during a demonstration Thursday evening [8/6/2009] outside a forum on aging called by U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan, D-St. Louis.  Two of the people were arrested on suspicion of assault, one of resisting arrest and three on suspicion of committing peace disturbances, police say.  The forum drew an overflow crowd of several hundred to Bernard Middle School gym in south St. Louis County.

Town hall violence — by Obama supporters.  President Obama recently e-mailed followers to attend local town halls, and his deputy chief of staff promised to "punch back twice as hard" in the health care debate.  Neither of them probably expected their backers to "get in the faces" of their opponents quite this much.

Victim of Alleged SEIU Town Hall Assault in St. Louis Interviewed on Cavuto.  On Friday's [8/7/2009] Your World program, Fox News Channel's interviewed Kenneth Gladney, the victim of an assault outside a health care town hall meeting in St. Louis on August 6, along with his lawyer David Brown.  A video of the immediate aftermath of the attack (posted earlier on NewsBusters by Seton Motley) showed some of the suspects wearing t-shirts bearing the logo of the SEIU union, which is a member organization of Health Care for America Now!, a left-wing coalition pushing for the passage of ObamaCare.

Eye Witness to St. Louis Scuffle:
 'SEIU Representative Punched Him In the Face'.  Last night [8/6/2009], as reports began to emerge of unrest at two big health care town halls in Tampa and St. Louis, a man on Twitter claiming to work with SEIU, claimed a handful of arrests in St. Louis had been Obamacare critics, and they'd been arrested for assaulting SEIU members.  His report was dutifully repeated by liberals looking to paint the violence as caused by critics of the administration.  When I went looking for corroboration of his story, I found something quite different in this report from the Post-Dispatch...

They Think You Are Stupid:
 Why Resistance To Obamacare Is Growing Despite Intimidation and Slander.  Appealing as the president did via the White House web for snitches to turn in "fishy" citizens smacks of the lowest sort of thuggish politics.  It took Chuck Colson a couple of years and the repeated leaks of national security information and massive protests of the Vietnam era to get the Watergate-era Plumbers up and running.  A mere six months into his unsteady start, the new president is reaching for the political blackjacks.

Issa tells Rahmbo "this isn't Chicago".  Rep. Darrell Issa, R-CA, has a message for White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel:  "While this type of scare tactic may work In Chicago, it will not work to intimidate me or other Members of the United States Congress."  It's not quite a young Ellot Ness glowering at Al Capone on the steps of a ritzy Chicago hotel, but it may be the next best thing and it could mark a turning point in President Obama's relations with the Congress that is dominated by members of his own party.

SEIU Thugs Teach Health Care Protesters the 'Chicago Way' of Politics.  Last night [8/6/2009] in St. Louis, Missouri, a local conservative found out firsthand about the "Chicago way."  Kenneth Gladney, a black conservative from the city, was handing out "Don't Tread On Me" flags after a Russ Carnahan town hall meeting on health care in Mehlville.  This didn't go over well with the Obama supporters and union thugs who attended the meeting.  They punched him in the face, kicked him in the head, and stomped on him on the pavement.

SEIU Thugs Teach Health Care Protesters the 'Chicago Way' of Politics.  Last night [8/6/2009] in St. Louis, Missouri, a local conservative found out firsthand about the "Chicago way."  Kenneth Gladney, a black conservative from the city, was handing out "Don't Tread On Me" flags after a Russ Carnahan town hall meeting on health care in Mehlville.  This didn't go over well with the Obama supporters and union thugs who attended the meeting.  They punched him in the face, kicked him in the head, and stomped on him on the pavement.

Liberals seek to silence and demonize those who oppose their socialism.  Gary Bauer sent out a special alert yesterday concerning how the liberal politicians and liberal media outlets are seeking to silence those who are speaking out against out of control spending and the take over of vital industries.  The liberals are upset that common citizens like you are exercising their right to free speech, and are using it to let the liberals know they have had enough and are going to let their voice be heard.

Chicago thug tactics.  America has been sucker punched.  The unifier, the great post-racial, post-American President, has adopted the street tactics of Chicago thug politics.  His ACORN/SEIU/Union goons are beating up decent American citizens at town hall meetings.  And with the violence comes vilification: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has claimed that protesters are "carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on healthcare."  Union thugs beat up a protester, Randy Arthur, at Florida Democrat Congresswoman Kathy Castor's town hall meeting in Tampa on Thursday [8/6/2009].  Castor's union thugs also shut the doors to prevent the opposing opinions from being heard.

Union thugs aren't helping Obama on health care.  I wonder who's the genius who first thought up the idea of having a bunch of thugs all wearing the same colored shirts show up to intimidate opponents of the government.  Now I remember!  It was that funny little guy with the mustache from Austria.  What's his name again?

Union Thugs Beat Up Man at Anti-Obamacare Meeting.  The St. Louis Tea Party movement is incensed that thugs from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) beat up an African-American conservative that had come out to a recent anti-Obamacare protest.  The attack sent the man to a local hospital.

Guess who beat up Gladney?  Bill Hennessey of the St. Louis Tea Party Coalition reports per Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light that the man who beat up Mr Gladney is an SEIU official who is a candidate for Mayor.

SEIU Thugs Teach Health Care Protesters the 'Chicago Way' of Politics.  Barack Obama told a crowd of supporters in Philadelphia back in 2008, "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun."  He added, "That's the Chicago way."  Last night in St. Louis, Missouri, a local conservative found out firsthand about the "Chicago way."  Kenneth Gladney, a black conservative from the city, was handing out "Don't Tread On Me" flags after a Russ Carnahan town hall meeting on health care in Mehlville.  This didn't go over well with the Obama supporters and union thugs who attended the meeting.  They punched him in the face, kicked him in the head, and stomped on him on the pavement.

Obama's Three Stooges.  The Service Employees' International Union made its presence felt in the 2008 election, spending a reported $150 million to elect Obama and Congressional Democrats.  And they're showing up at the town hall meetings in considerable numbers.  We've all seen the video of people wearing SEIU t-shirts pushing and shoving — physically assaulting — protesters outside one town hall meeting.

Nancy Pelosi Will Be Appalled at the 'Un-Americanness'...
 SEIU Recruits Obamacare Supporters to 'Drown Out Voices' in Conn..  Town halls have indeed been rowdy (although instances of documented aggression have all gone one way:  Obamacare supporter to protester), and sometimes not ideal for discussion of the ins and outs of health care reform.  But Democrats and liberals have largely used one memo from a libertarian activist in Connecticut to claim a national, nefarious campaign of conservative disruption by mischaracterizing the memo and fibbing about its provenance and distribution.

Obama Rent-A-Thug Program moves into High Gear.  As Obama already had SEIU (Service Employees International Union) in his back pocket, it was easy for him to have his union management friends pay overtime to SEIU rent-a-thugs at several recent Democrat Town Hall meetings.  Interestingly, as appears on one of the videos of the ObamaThugs referenced below, after one of the SEIU purple-shirted thugs beats Ned Gladney the thug pretends he has been injured.  Note:  This is part of the Obama and Alinsky Chicago Way — attack another unmercifully then claim to be the real victim.

"Brown Shirts" vs. Purple Shirts:  Who are the real thugs?  Democrats attack congressional town hall protesters as "Brown Shirts" — likening taxpayer activists across the country to Hitler's storm troopers.  But it's the Big Labor hoodlums clad in identical purple shirts — the uniform of Service Employees International Union members — who own the mob label.

The Real AstroTurf:  The White House and Congress claim the anti-ObamaCare uprising is artificially organized.  But the violent — even racist — union counterattacks, urged on by Democrats, are the real Rent-a-Mobs.

MoveOn.org is Trying to Mobilize Activists to Attend Town Hall Meetings.  While President Obama has focused attention on "special interests" that are mobilizing to try to defeat his health-care plan, the liberal group MoveOn.org is trying to mobilize people to attend congressional town hall meetings to push for the plan, and especially to push for a government-run "public option" insurance program.

Obama Brings Chicago-Style Intimidation.  Obama's staff and retreads from the Clinton administration are using Chicago-style intimidation to rescue his extravagant health-care bill from its decline in public opinion polls. ...At Rep. Russ Carnahan's, D-Mo., town hall meeting on Aug. 6, SEIU (Service Employees International Union) thugs, clad in purple shirts, punched in the face, brutally beat and kicked in the head when he was down an African American named Kenneth Gladney, while hurling a torrent of racial slurs.  The SEIU goons were following White House advice:  "Don't do a lot of talking," and if they encounter resistance, "punch back twice as hard."

Obama's Pitchforks:  [Scroll down]  This frustration and anger came to the fore during town hall meetings this summer with Congressmen and Senators.  However, the only violence that has occurred has been by SEIU union thugs beating up on average citizens showing up to voice their constitutionally protected rights of free speech and assembly.  Although there are usually police present at these town hall meetings, they are not needed to protect the politicians from the public, they are there to protect the public from the "volunteers" brought there by the Democratic Party.

Union thugs try to silence critics of Obamacare.  [Scroll down]  When it comes to organizing angry mobs, the real professionals work at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).  This union has organizing resources and experience that ordinary citizens can only dream about.  Their goon squads have heckled, harassed and even assaulted concerned citizens who favor less-costly private options to government-run health care.  Just ask Kenneth Gladney, the victim of an assault outside of a town hall meeting in St. Louis last week by a group of thugs wearing purple t-shirts emblazoned with the SEIU logo.

Obama, ACORN, and the SEIU?  They Go Way Back.  The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has been acting as the president's thug squad, attacking ObamaCare protesters across the country.  Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius reached out to them when the administration needed "backup" for the town halls...

Obama and the Thugs.  A videographer at a Tampa, Florida townhall got roughed up by union thugs and had his camera smashed.  A local doctor from Douglasville, Georgia was shouted down by his own congressman and accused of not being a constituent, a charge that was later shown to be blatantly false.  A very fishy swastika was painted on the Congressman's office sign the next day.  If any side has been guilty of astroturfing at townhalls, it is Obama supporters.  People posing as doctors have turned up at various events, hailing the President's plan, only to be found out later.  Vandals smashed windows at the Democratic Party office in Denver early this week.  More astroturfing, apparently.  As Gateway Pundit has detailed:  "The young vandal who smashed windows at the DNC headquarters in Denver on Tuesday worked for a democratic politician, was paid by a SEIU-related front group, and was arrested at the RNC convention last year in St. Paul."

Obama Critic Gives MoveOn the Finger — Doesn't Get It Back.  Well, William Rice didn't actually give MoveOn the finger — his pinky was forcibly removed by an Obamacare supporter's teeth.  Rice, a 65-year-old real-estate appraiser from Newbury Park, Calif., expected some heated arguments when he went to a health care protest in Thousand Oaks.  He did not expect to leave without his finger.  Rice was part of a small group of counter-protesters who showed up to a MoveOn-sponsored "We Can't Afford to Wait" vigil.

Healthcare reform activist bites off fingertip of 65-year-old man, authorities say.  Authorities today are searching for a healthcare reform activist who they said bit off the fingertip of a 65-year-old man during a fight at a MoveOn.org rally in Thousand Oaks.

Hush Money.  Seniors have come out in droves to town-hall meetings to voice their displeasure of the liberals' ill-conceived concept of health-care reform.  Their radical proposals call for unwarranted government interference between patients and doctors and seniors know that reform means an increase in their taxes and a decrease in their benefits.  The president hasn't taken their dissent lightly, that's why he's now relying on The Chicago Way to buy their silence.

High School student in danger for disagreeing with Obama.  [Scroll down]  Leadership comes from the top down.  When SEIU (Service Employees International Union) thugs attacked and beat a black conservative for selling "Don't Tread On Me" flags at a town hall meeting, I believe the thugs felt Obama would approve.  Some believe the thugs acted on orders.  Folks, they put Kenneth Gladney, a kind and gentle man in the hospital.  Kenneth had been laid off his job.  He was selling Gadsden Flags simply attempting to earn a living while spreading his belief in conservative principles.

Exclusive:  Police Report on Gladney Beating by SEIU Thugs.  It has been more than three months since Kenneth Gladney was viciously attacked by SEIU employees.  The assault wasn't an accident, but a deliberate attempt to intimidate and silence tea party activists and town hall protesters.  The morning of the Gladney assault, the White House presented to Senate Democrats a 'battle plan' to quell the protests.  The White House advised Democrats "punch back twice as hard."  Gladney was the first casualty.

Does Justice Move Faster For Democrats in St. Louis?  Three months after Kenneth Gladney and Kelly Owens were assaulted in the Bernard school parking lot following Russ Carnahan's town hall the charges still remain in hibernation at the County Counselor's office.

Six charged in town hall disturbance.  Six people arrested in August outside a raucous town hall meeting in south St. Louis County have been charged with misdemeanor ordinance violations.  The six, including a Post-Dispatch reporter, had attended a demonstration outside an Aug. 6 forum called by U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan, D-St. Louis, at Bernard Middle School in Mehlville to discuss health care reform.

Something Rotten in River City.  On October 9th, 2000, Patricia Redington, a newly appointed St. Louis County Counselor showed such dedication to her job, that she opened the office on the Columbus Day holiday in order to file assault charges against Republican candidate Bill Federer.  This is in contrast to the way she handles the typical case and the way she is handling the case of Democrat SEIU members pounding a businessman.  St. Louis area patriots smell a rat and show no signs of letting up until justice is served.

No Justice For Kenneth Gladney.  The beating of Kenneth Gladney by people wearing the purple shirts of the Service Employees International Union outside a Missouri health care town hall meeting three months ago met all the classic definitions of a hate crime.  Time was, the beating of a black man outside a protest rally, and the arrest and prosecution of the perpetrators, would be headline news.

Harry Reid Supporters Egg Tea Party Express Buses in Route.  Supporters of Senator Harry Reid have just thrown eggs at the Tea Party Express bus caravan — striking at least one of the three buses (the red Tea Party Express bus) with multiple eggs.

Meet Another One of Harry Reid's 'Rent-a-Thugs': Edward 'Eddie' Gering.  When thousands of peaceful, Tea Party protestors came to Harry Reid's hometown of Searchlight, Nev. last Saturday [3/27/2010], you would have thought that the favorite son of this hardscrabble, mining town would garner tons of local support.  Not so.  Members of IBEW Local 357 were called to action to agitate the crowd and, as we've previously shown, to hurl eggs at the busses carrying them.

SEIU thugs terrorize banker and his family.  Protesting in front of a Congressman's house is one thing.  He is a public servant and deserves little privacy.  But a banker?  SEIU thugs, bused in from around the region, descended on the private house of Bank of America deputy general counsel Gregory Baer.  More than 500 strong, they terrorized the banker's teen aged son while screaming through bull horns about bank "horror stories."

Hypocrisy in the Liberal Establishment.  [Kenneth] Gladney is African American.  And the SEIU thugs reminded him of his color as they beat him to a pulp, using the N word repeatedly.  Two members of the SEIU are under indictment and 4 others are under investigation.  Why didn't the main stream media bother to tell this story?

Who's To Blame For SEIU Thug Tactics at Bank Exec's Home?  [Scroll down]  Yeah, we have problems all right.  The problem is the actions of the jerks who claim to be with the Tea Party movement were condemned immediately by Republicans, conservatives and the Tea Party organizations themselves.  Meanwhile, the Democratic Party and the Obama Administration are practically behaving as cheerleaders for the SEIU home invasion.

Obama's Thugocracy.  From the G.M. bondholders, to the Black Panthers at polling stations, to ACORN to the mobs showing up at the homes of private citizens, Obama is running a Hugo Chavez-style thugocracy.  This past Sunday, in one of the most aggressive and offensive intimidation tactics to date, hundreds of members of the largest union — the SEIU — stormed the front yard of Bank of America deputy general counsel Greg Baer's home.

A thug too far, part 2.  Nina Easton's account of the SEIU demonstration that terrorized the son of her next-door neighbor — the deputy general counsel of Bank of America — has drawn remarkably little attention.  That's the way that SEIU wanted it; the union only alerted one of its handmaidens at the Huffington Post of the event.  Easton notes that only "a friendly Huffington Post blogger showed up, narrowcasting coverage to the union's leftist base.  The rest of the message these protesters brought was personal — aimed at frightening Baer and his family, not influencing a broader public."

IBD Rips 'Mob Rule from SEIU'; Media Virtually AWOL.  Investors Business Daily called attention to an alarming story that goes back to Sunday, May 16 in a Monday evening editorial.  A protest noticed by the target's next-door neighbor who happened to be home at the time, namely journalist Nina Easton (who also took the photo at right), occurred in a Metro DC suburb in Maryland marked the next round of a national labor union's attempt at persuasion through intimidation.

Video:  Disgruntled Liberal Punches Tea Party Protestor.  Outside of Rep. Mel Watt's office (D-NC) in Greensboro, North Carolina this week a disgruntled liberal attacked a group of local Tea Party protestors peacefully chanting "no more bailouts."  "Don't touch my property again, and don't push me again" the cameraman said calmly.  "Then get the f*** out," said the aggressor, a black man in his 50's, before he punched the cameraman in the face.

The Wealth of Nathan Tabor.  Former congressional candidate and longtime Canada Free Press (CFP) columnist Nathan Tabor was assaulted in front of his wife and daughter at a Greensboro Tea Party gathering, protesting the proposed government bailout of credit cards.  You can see what Tabor describes as the "sucker punch" from the in-yer-face attacker.

Obama Supporter Assaults Tea Party Protester.  An enraged supporter of President Barack Obama attacked former congressional candidate Nathan Tabor during a Tea Party demonstration in North Carolina.  On Tuesday [6/8/2010], the North Carolina Tea Party Patriots were holding a legal political protest against government bailouts.  The Tea Partiers were in front of Rep. Mel Watt's (D-N.C.) Greensboro, NC office.


Thuggish activity is not confined to the town hall meetings

The Business Consequences of Challenging Obama's Statist Policies.  Whole Foods — the organic grocery retailer — is in the midst of a public relations crisis stemming from a commentary on health care reform by [John] Mackey.  In his strongly worded opinion piece, "The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare," published in the Wall Street Journal, Mackey rejects Obama's proposal because it would result in "a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system."

Just how over the top can a pro-ObamaCare pitch get?  The Heritage Foundation's Rory Cooper describes a post on BarackObama.com, the Web site of Organizing for America, the Democratic National Committee's permanent campaign.  The post urges Obaminions to "burn up" the Senate's switchboards with phone calls demanding the enactment of ObamaCare.  (Switchboards?  What's the matter with telegrams and carrier pigeons?)  The idea is to concentrate the calls on a single day to get the senators' attention.  The day:  next Friday.  That would be Sept. 11, the eighth anniversary of the attacks that changed America before Barack Obama changed it back.  The significance of the date is not lost on the organizers of the war-dialing effort.

Tea Parties targeted by the Dems' Alinsky Attack Machine.  [Scroll down]  It is clear that in terms of racial politics the Alinsky Attack Machine tactic is to accuse the conservative / Republican leaning Tea Parties of the Democrats' segregationist actions in the South during Jim Crow and the civil rights' marches.

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