Whispers in the Loggia reminds us:
“…it was year ago tonight when, not far from where I’m sitting now, I got to behold a beautiful, almost magic experience unfolding in these streets.
The Big PopeTrip to the nation’s capital and this “capital of the world.”
This would be funny if it didn’t make you want to cry. James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal reports what Abe Greenwald in an article for the New York Times that passes for serious commentary wrote about Pirate Blowback:
“This is pirate blowback! Did the president think we could use billion-dollar equipment to shoot some raggedy ransom-seekers out of their rowboat without inviting retaliation? By flaunting our material superiority we merely whet their appetites for treasure. And by demonstrating that we value one American life more than three Somali lives we’ve turned a handful of desperate thieves into a sympathetic movement with recruitment potential.
And all for the sake of one seized ship??? . . . Let’s face it: on Sunday, we only created more pirates.”
Are we seriously to think, we should not police or defend anything for fear of stifling young aspiring pirates? I guess I never understood why we needed a President to “sign off” on an action to save a man’s life clearly threated by a gun at his head.
Cambodia and Viet Nam can attest to the damage and serious threat to life and limb that guns in the hands of the young and misguided can do. Where are the adult and serious thinkers in the media?
They came, not as a mob but as individual citizens, one by one.
They were not the privileged few but the America of old, some tried, some tired, some little noticed, all true. They came, the grateful of the Nation, privileged only in that this Nation keeps them free.
They came, the young, with a touch class and a bit of flash.
They came, the younger still, with hearts and flags and wishes.
They came, determined and undeterred.
Flag- draped and be-signed, they gathered.
With humor and with gravity….
They raised the Nation’s voice.
Eloquent in its simplicity……
Commanding in its brevity!
They came, one by one.
Not without a message….
Not without surity…….
Not without encouragement….
Not without support…….
They gathered, one by one, until they were a people gathered as one.
Really great turn outs and more photos from Michelle Malkin
Contemptuous CNN
Allahpundit thankyou for showing us CNN with their teeth bared and as we’ve come to know them.
Americans took to the street across the Nation. Was Washington listening or hiding out? I saw lots of people and no one admitting to be a politician. Now that the people have found their voice perhaps Washington will wake up and listen. Our country needs statesmen who remember their oaths of office, the Constitution and the American people whom they service.
I was told there was a school guard prepared to show their colors for this event. They had to back-out contrary to their desires because they were told the Tea Party demonstrations were anti-government.
There were plenty of flags flown and worn and no shortage of people and spirit. Horns blared and drivers-by gave thumbs up in full support. The police were absent from the event. Organizers were told they couldn’t be spared for the Tea Party event; budget restrictions, you know? If only Washington could be so fiscally responsible. I did see a police car amid the drivers-by. He honked too!!
Praise God in Whom we trust and God bless America!
Ed Morrissey says the writing is on the wall.
Michelle Malkin has grassroots history of Tea Parties 2009 and great pictures of the events across the Nation.
More great party pictures from Glenn Reynolds
Michelle Malkin is making it easy to catch up on tea party history and doings for MSM who may have missed its grassroots beginnings.
Feb. 15: Keli Carender, who blogs as “Liberty Belle” spread the word about a grass-roots protest she was organizing in Seattle to raise her voice against the passage of the trillion-dollar stimulus/porkulus/Generational Theft Act of 2009. It’s the first time she had ever jumped into political organizing of any kind. She is not affiliated with any “corporate lobbyist” or think tank or national taxpayers’ organization. She’s a young conservative mom who blogs. Amazingly, she turned around the event in a few days all on her own by reaching out on the Internet, to her local talk station, and to anyone who would listen.
Feb. 16: An energetic crowd of about 100 people came downtown to lambaste the Chicken Little process and the lard-up of the stimulus bill:
Word of the Seattle protest spread across the blogosphere. Readers suggested there should be a Denver protest on Feb. 17 to greet President Obama for the porkulus signing. Separately, the local chapter of Americans for Prosperity was already working to put something together on the fly. I met the head of the state AFP for the first time on the steps of the Capitol. No conspiracy here, tinfoil hatters. It was a union of like minds in an impromptu show of outrage against the legislation-without-deliberation process in Washington. Also there: Jon Caldara of the libertarian Independence Institute on one end of the spectrum and Tom Tancredo on the strict immigration enforcement end (hundreds of the protesters were mad about the absence of E-Verify standards for the stimulus funding):
More big-money conspiracy! I promised to bring a roasted pig. Paid for out of pocket. No corporate lobbyist pitched in. Tasted great and worth every penny:
Speaking of pigs, you can’t leave out the tax-and-spend revolt campaign against Chuck Schumer in response to his arrogant statement that only the “chattering classes” cared about the “teeny, tiny” pork amendments in the Generational Theft Act. Local radio host Leland Conway in Kentucky called on listeners to send Schumer pork rinds. A mountain of 1,500 bags poured into the station on Feb. 16 and was shipped to Schumer:
The history unfolds here
and we can’t forget Santelli’s rant which tapped the American pulse:
Be Holy! 