Tea Party Express sees 3,000 at Oklahoma City rally
BY MICHAEL MCNUTT
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Published: November 5, 2009
Carol Conway, of Duncan, Okla., poses for a picture near a Tea Party Express bus during a rally on the north side of the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma CIty on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. By John Clanton.
The bus was late, but that didn’t seem to bother the estimated 3,000 people who showed up Wednesday night for a rally to protest the federal government’s bailout of financial institutions and automobile manufacturers and plans to nationalize health care.
No one was seen leaving the state Capitol’s north plaza early as the Tea Party Express, on its way from a similar tea party rally in
Wichita,
Kan., was nearly an hour late.
Organizers with the
Oklahoma City Tea Party group, who started the rally an hour before the bus was scheduled to arrive at 6 p.m., simply found more speakers to talk about their frustrations with the federal government’s growing role in their lives.
Many in the group were energized by Tuesday’s election results, in which Republicans won gubernatorial races in
New Jersey and
Virginia, and the success of grassroots conservative activists in
New York who pressured the moderate Republican Party candidate to withdraw in a congressional race even though the Conservative Party candidate lost to a Democrat.
"It’s a start,” said
Margie Drescher, director of the Oklahoma City Tea Party. "Those elections showed that people aren’t going to take it anymore.”
Many in the group carried American flags or smaller yellow "Don’t Tread on Me” flags. Signs read "Worship God Not Gov’t,” "Go Green - Recycle Congress” and "Taxed Enough Already.”
Stuart Jolly,
Oklahoma director of
Americans for Prosperity, urged the crowd to contact their congressmen to tell them to vote no on a health care bill that House Democratic leaders could bring their health care bill to the full chamber for a vote this week.
"We the people are still in control of this country,” he said. "We just don’t want the government to come between you and your doctor.”
The Tea Party Express national bus tour, which began Oct. 25 in
San Diego and concludes Nov. 12 in
Orlando, Fla., features speakers and singers. After staying overnight in
Oklahoma City, the group will travel today to
Amarillo and
Lubbock,
Texas.
"Leaders of both (political) parties are selling us out to the socialists,” said
Mark Williams, a commentator and author who speaks during the bus stops.
"People are angry,” he said later. "They’re frightened. If you wander in the crowd, you’ll probably find that there’s a wide divergence of political opinions on specific issues, but broad agreement on the fact that the system that allows us to hold these ... (rallies) is under attack.”
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CBO has scored the republican "health care plan". In a nut shell, under the plan the number of unisured Americans would increase to 52 million by 2019 and it save 32 billion dollars less than the Democrats plan.
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Now you argue against big business? Its GE's fault for being in the green-energy sector for decades? Every energy company has had ample time to start-up a green energy division but they haven't. But Crybaby Beck won't tell you that, will he?
Look at these polls Willis and tell me Conservative values are the norm. Maybe in Oklahoma Willis, not in the rest of the country:
Pew Report: http://people-press.org/report/312/trends-in-political-values-and-core-attitudes-1987-2007
Party ID: http://www.pollster.com/polls/us/party-id.php
Values chart: http://www.pollster.com/blogs/2009-05-21_PewSocialCons.jpg
Well if you all can't take it, don't dish it out.
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2009/11/military_veteransbill_coburnhold_110309w
Apparently they don't feed the coffers the way the CLUB for Growth does. Douche bag.
These same types of small minds protested civil rights, social security, medicare and medicaid. They cannot accept the fact that America in 1776 was a completely different socio-economical structure from what America is today and
THEY INSULT OUR FOUNDING FATHERS
by pretending they would have the same stances now as they did when America was run by wealthy, white land owners and on the the backs of slave labor.
These anti-American, domestic terrorist should pack up and head to Somalia where there is no government interference with the populations' lives.
But, you got to love them...the are killing the GOP.
All of that was ok. But now we have a problem. Amazing.
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Gates: Bush lacked Afghan strategy
By Jordan Fabian and Aaron Blake - 09/27/09 10:06 AM ET
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on Sunday said that the United States has faced difficulties in the Afghanistan conflict because the Bush administration did not have the same kind of "comprehensive strategy" that President Barack Obama does for the nation.
Gates served as Defense Secretary in the Bush administration, under which American forces first arrived in Afghanistan in 2001. Gates replaced Donald Rumsfeld in January 2007.
"I will tell you, I think that the strategy the president put forward in late March, is the first real strategy we have had for Afghanistan since the early 1980s," he told CNN. "And that strategy was more about [the] Soviet Union that it was about Afghanistan."
On "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, Gates said "having the wrong strategy will put even more soldiers at risk" when pressed on whether failing to send more troops will endanger current forces.
"I think success in Afghanistan looks a lot like success in Iraq," Gates said, noting that Iraqi troops are increasingly taking the lead to protect their own territory, go after insurgents and protect their own people.
The Obama administration is currently undergoing a strategic review of the American mission in the war-torn nation. Casualties mounted in July and August, which led Gen. Stanley McChrystal to call for additional forces. The administration has maintained that it must develop a new overall strategy for the nation before considering the U.S. and NATO commander's request.
On CNN, Gates briefly offered his thoughts on the Bush-era fight against Taliban in al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, saying "we were fighting a holding action...We were too stretched to do more."
Though the White House is under pressure to send more troops from top military officials and high-ranking Republican lawmakers, Gates asserted that President Barack Obama would make his own decision based on the new strategy and the results of the country's controversial elections.
"I think the president always has a choice; he's the commander-in-chief," he said.
Gates said that the White House needed to take time to determine the right course of action, saying that the Bush administration took three months in late 2007 to launch the now-successful surge in Iraq. Gates added that if more troops are to be sent that they would not arrive until January at the earliest.
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1. Stimulated the economy with cash for clunkers, oops, that was Japans economy.
2. Closing Gitmo, the one place that we could get terrorist info and make us safer.
3. Tripled our national debt in 7 days to rescue trillionaires.
4. Allowed HIV infected people to come into the U.S.
5. Apoligized to the world for us attacking people and making us look weak.
6. Being surrounded by more corrupt politicians than any president in history.
7. Trying to get the olympics to come to America (not his job)
8. Appointing a known racist to the U.S. Supreme court.
I could go on forever. Obama zombies, get back in the closet, face it, your great black hope is all hype.
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The Washington Independent takes a look at the tumultuous infighting that has caused a rift in the conservative tea party movement.
The paper reports that Amy Kremer, co-founder of the group Tea Party Patriots, recently joined the group Tea Party Express, a project of the conservative Our Country Deserves Better PAC. Many in the Party Patriots group were concerned that Kremer's work with the PAC would jeopardize the group's tax-exempt status and urged her not to become involved with the group.
Kremer turned down the advice and took the plunge, signing up for the Tea Party Express's next tour. On September 27 she was removed from the board of Tea Party Patriots. She responded by locking the Tea Party Patriots email account, a problem that the other members of the group quickly solved, but one that rankled.
"It appears that Amy has chosen the Tea Party Express over Tea Party Patriots," said Mark Meckler, a Sacramento, Calif. organizer. "That's her decision.
The Independent reports that Kremer's departure has caused a deep divide amongst movement leaders, many of whom view the Tea Party Express as an Astroturf organization under the direction of Republican strategists.
Kramer, who helped organize some of the Tea Party Patriot's largest rallies, told Newsmax in May "We do not want it to be a GOP movement. There are many organizations that are trying to hijack the movement."
According to the PAC's FEC filings, it has paid out $106,455.65 this year to Russo, Marsh & Associates, a Republican consulting firm. Sal Russo, that firm's principal, is the chief strategist for Our Country Deserves Better PAC and Move America Forward, the political group that shares much of OCDB's leadership.
An astoturf organization controlled by the GOP and former GOP leaders such as DICK Armey. Anybody thinking this is a populist movement is blind.
Americans for Prosperity is the creation of the owners of Koch Industries, one of the largest privately-held oil and gas interests in the world. Koch also holds interest in pharma and medical device companies. Americans for Prosperity is all about sustaining the corporate communisim in America. They are NOT about helping the average citizen, whether it be in taxes or health care reform.
I crack myself up.
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The theory of total economic organization advocating public or direct worker ownership and administration of the means of production and allocation of resources, and a society characterized by equal access to resources for all individuals with a method of compensation based on the amount of labor expended.
Teabagging:
The act of one's testicles hitting the chin of their partners during the act of fellatio. Usually referred to as a homosexual act.
Explain it for us, Milkman.
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I crack myself up.
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CHOOSE LIFE CHOOSE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL
Please call him and tell him to get his priorities straight - less money to bribe his buddy's mistress; more money to give vets necessary medical care.
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2009/11/military_veteransbill_coburnhold_110309w/