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It's the fifth anniversary of the Tea Party movement.
Party like it's 2010.

"There are no crazies here. They are all in Washington, D.C."

A report from the Denver Tea Party.
h/t Instapundit

When did you stop beating your wife?

The distraction continues. Thinking racism underlies the tea party movement.
This post links trying to keep your position in society to slavery. Slave owners wanted to preserve their spot in 1787 America, thus anyone fighting President Obama must be a racist.
Like the question in the headline, it tries to throw supporters off their game. A question for distraction, not illumination. Racism is the only thing these people see. No answer satisfies.
To extend the author's thought process, since Democrats hold the power in Washington now, they should all voluntarily give it up next election. No trying for a second term for President Obama in 2012. To do so would be racist (maintaining their privileges through local political control).
You boil down the tea party movement's opposition to President Obama in two parts - first, it won't work. Second, when it doesn't work, those who said it wouldn't work will bear more of the pain.
The only race in the tea party is the race to save the country.

Thanks, President Obama

Barack Obama sure is a great community organizer.
Look at all the communities he organized Thursday. All of those people gathering together to work on the country's problems. Even at the University of Michigan.
Too bad for him, most of them think he's the problem.
All of the tea parties would not have happened without President Obama. We owe it all to him. Because we don't want to owe all we have to the government.

One flew over the Trog's nest

Troglopundit has a cool angle to show the Madison, Wisconsin tea party.
Maybe Doc Brown took the photo. Right after reconnecting the cable to send Marty back to the future.
No Sheeples has a big roundup, and Smitty's blog-fu is high.
Instapundit joined the Cincinnati Tea Party coverage.

The other 95

The protesters of the Tea Party protest include "the other 95." They are named for:

1. The 95 percent of people who received tax cuts.
2. The size of the tax cut - 95 cents
3. The number of years we'll be paying interest on Obama's first year.

"I am paying for this stimulus"

From Ronald Reagan, an oldies but a goodie. Don't mess with the man who is paying the bill.

Simple Simon

Atlanta held one of the biggest tea parties on April 15, but the one planned for July 4th is in jeopardy. Donald Douglas and Instapundit are on the case.
And someone using a simon.com web address had unusual interest in the Atlanta tea party organizers and their website.
People interested in protesting taxes could wear shirts for the cause at the Peachtree Road race that morning. That might get some attention.

September Tea Party

The Evil Angry People Always Rarely Tolerating You (Tea Party) groups are organizing another gathering for Sept. 12 in Washington. (Isn't that is what Tea Party stands for, according to Keith Olbermann and friends?)
The Other McCain gets the hat tip for the latest update.

Teabagging silly season

The weirdest part of the left's criticism of the Tea Bag Parties was the word "teabagging." It was "ha, ha, snicker, snicker, They don't know what teabagging really is."
We also don't know what horse crap tastes like. And we're proud of our ignorance in that.
We have to remember lessons we learned on the elementary school playground.
1. Act your age, not your shoe-size.
2. I'm rubber and you're glue. Everything you say bounces off of me and sticks to you.

So many good things to choose from

Pundit and Pundette got to enjoy Mark Steyn's column before me. And it's a good one.
Don't know if I like this quote best
Talk-show host Michael Graham spoke to one attendee at the 2009 Boston Tea Party who remarked of the press embargo: "If Obama had been the king of England, the Globe wouldn't have covered the American Revolution."
or this one.
Doing the job the Boston Globe won't do, Glenn Reynolds, the Internet's Instapundit, has been posting many photographs of tea parties. For a movement of mean, angry old white men, there seem to be a lot of hot-looking young chicks among them.
Read and decide yourself.

New castrati

For several years, Rush Limbaugh has used the term "New Castrati" and "Testicle Lockbox" to blast Democrats, especially when Hillary Clinton was the frontrunner.
Then, when conservatives hold the first major protest of the Obama administration, the testicles come out of the lockbox. Strange.

Best day ever

Thanks to interest in the tea parties, my blog had its best traffic day in the five months since I added Sitemeter - 117 visits. Hope everyone found something helpful here.

Augusta tea parties in the news

The News Leader and News Virginian offer good takes on the Staunton and Fishersville tea parties. Nice color from the News Virginian.
Despite an initial roar from the crowd as organizer Michael Nash took the stage, protesters’ handwritten signs and one-on-one conversations provided most of the emotion

Charlottesville party makes instapundit

Photos here from the Charlottesville Pavillion. Great job, making instapundit.com.

Augusta Expoland tea party report

Wednesday at Augusta Expoland, the parking lot was full. The chairs were mostly filled and people milled about. Plenty of tea bags, homemade signs and passion. Probably 300 people, many who obviously knew each other. Young and old, a cross-section of Augusta County.
Then Michael Nash got up to speak. The man sure can suck the excitement out of a room.
He got three applause lines - when he prayed, mentioned Glenn Beck, and said he was concluding. The rest was quite confusing.
After he talked with WHSV-TV, a member of the audience came up to him and said "We came here for a tax rally and got conspiracy theories." Nash didn't answer, and instead walked away.
That was my cue to walk too. While a nice little old lady talked about resolutions from the 1960s and regional governments or something, I joined about half the audience in going home.
It was sad. There's people who are ready to protest taxes and spending like all the other tea parties across the United States. The ones they saw on Fox News and heard excited reports from on talk radio. But they didn't get that in Fishersville.
I know there's interest out there. Since this party was not on the list of other Virginia tea parties, I got over 50 hits from Google search and other search engines looking for Fishersville tea party. Now I know why it wasn't on the list.
Please, if you are interested in the tea party movement, check out instapundit.com or rsmccain.blogspot.com or Glenn Beck's site or Hannity's. This isn't the end, but the beginning of something great.

Tea party disappointment

There are tea parties scheduled in 50 states today. But, while campaigning last year, President Obama said there were 57 states. What seven states are we missing?

Somebody didn't get the memo

I caught a snippet of CNN's coverage of a tea party in Chicago. The reporter pulled a guy out of the crowd who said "Obama is a fascist." She asked why, how can you say that about the president. He said "Because he is."
Can't expect that everybody got the memo about how to behave at the tea parties.
Remember, one bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.

Augusta tea party

The News Leader talks with leaders of the Fishersville and Staunton Tea Parties. Hope this helps everyone who has searched for info on the Fishersville Tea Party and landed on my blog this week.

Have you thanked your taxpayer today?

Many people will be attending Tea Party rallies today across the country today. The left has even organized rallies in support of the President's tax plan. I even found a post discussing the positive things that come from paying taxes.
But, do we ever thank people for paying their taxes? Do we ever show some appreciation for their hard work?
After money goes to government, it's usually the elected officials who talk about what they have brought back to their constituents. Without our tax money, they got nothing. The fuel for the tea parties is not against all taxes and all government. But worries that taxes and government are growing too big, and not to help all people but to help current politicians earn reelection.
The stimulus package is being used as a two-sided bat. Democrats say "Look what I got for you." and "Those Republicans don't want you to have what you need."
Instead, it's the money of current and future taxpayers. Is this the best use for it?