10,000 Show Up at Lenox/Joliet Tea Party!

Direct from American Power:




Incredible! Just flipping fantastic that this many people care enough to put their holliday aside and join together for a good cause.



From Smitty:



This is:


outside of Barack Obama's bastion of Chicago. And guess what - we had by far the largest crowd yet!



Feeling realy proud right now!

I Am Fishy And Un-American

As a single parent without child support I worked two jobs to support my family.

I have voted in every major election (and most lesser ones) since I was eighteen years old.

I pay my taxes.

I love my country.

I am fishy and un-American.

For the first time in my life ordinary Americans are being demonized because they are exercising their First Amendment rights and because they are becoming involved in the democratic process. For the first time in my life good people are being racist because they oppose the President not because of the color of his skin but because of the content of his radical policies. For the first time in my life decent citizens are being compared to Nazis, not because they are anti-semitic but because they dare to raise their voices in the streets.

Call me what you want. I won't let petty name calling silence me. I am a conservative woman and I will stand up for my country whether the Left likes it or not. Get used to it.

Community Organizing or Astro-Turfing?

When handfuls of Code Pink ladies disrupted congressional hearings or speeches by Bushadministration 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. On May 23, 2005, the Savannah Morning News reported:

“By now, Jack Kingston is used to shouted questions, interruptions and boos. Republican congressmen expect such responses these days when they meet with constituents about President Bush's proposal to overhaul Social Security.
Glenn Reynolds AKA Instapundit, writing about the changing definition of dissent:

This was just good, boisterous politics: "Robust, wide-open debate." But when it happens to Democrats, it's something different: A threat to democracy, a sign of incipient fascism, and an opportunity to set up a (possibly illegal) White House "snitch line" where people are encouraged to report "fishy" statements to the authorities.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calls the "Tea Party" protesters Nazis, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman --forgetting the events above -- claims that left-leaning groups never engaged in disruptive tactics against Social Security reform, and various other administration-supporting pundits are trying to spin the whole thing as a deadly move toward "mob rule" and – somewhat contradictorily -- as a phony "astroturf" movement.

Remember: When lefties do it, it's called "community organizing." When conservatives and libertarians do it, it's "astroturf."

Under the current administration, dissent is de-legitimized. This would come as quite a shock to the patriots who felt so strongly about citizens' right to dissent that they guaranteed this right in our First Amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Let them call us an "unruly mob" and liken us to "Nazis." Our Founding Fathers had a name for us-Patriots.