Tea Party Protests

i'm going to the next tax day protest in NH

God bless those americans who are not fooled by smooth promises, but are sober enough to recognize the fascist actions of the govnment.
You are more keen than millions of gullible americans.
Thank You.

they can pry my taxes from my cold dead hands

You know what. I'm going to come out and commend them for doing such a Tea Party. They have showed themselves that only something our generation can witness. I will feel bad for the future generation that will not bear witness to such events made by the teabaggers.

They're digging their own graves and I'm enjoying it.

think before you speak Voyager. The top 25% of wage earners pay 85% of the taxes.
This "class envy" you project is pitiful yet I'm sure your film god is Michael Moore, who is living in the lap of luxury himself due to his bashing of the so-called Ripusoffican party...

This made my head hurt. I am so glad I don't have the "right" to vote. . .nor does it matter...

hey mark701, How many presidents have we had that has required a Collage to cover up the word God before they speak there ? None !! But Barack and the new Congress has no problem with the word Allah, Now if this is what you people want for this guy you would fit into the 5% of Americans that don't believe that God should be part of our lives, and part of our Constitution. If this is your beliefs you really need help. Maybe we can also change our flag to the symbol on Baracks plane also and start worshiping him. Tell me who's crazy. In 100 days he has definitely Changed things, just not change we can believe in. Matter of fact you can't believe anything he says at all, everything he has said he would do has changed and is still changing as we speak. We are definitely not better off. Bush wasn't the answer either as far as that goes ! They all need to go

I suggest that all the anti-tax folks who call every social program "socialist", return all social security, medicare, medicaid, unemployment benefits or food stamps whence they came.
And the next time they call city hall to ask that a pothole be fixed, they get a recorded message: "Get yourself on down to Lowes..."

.Dear Addie340, please get an education, learn how to spell or at least use spell check, and stop talking out your ass about your so called majority who has lost every major election since 2006. You lost WE won ha ha ha ha ha! now move along or the nice police officer will have to taze your unpatriotic, rablerousing, getting on my nerves, ass. Sincerely the guy Laughing his ass off watching you all make dueshbags of your selves.

Is it just me or is it a little ironic that the anti-gay party is all excited about tea parties?

iloveravi, if you are through with Americans move, we don't have a problem with it but please take a few million illeagel with you and say the rest of us billions of our hard earned money. If you enjoy paying half of your earned money in taxes say something about it, grow a set. If you can, if not maybe you are through with Americans and would be better off lets say like Cuba where you can't say what you feel. People die every day fighting for our freedoms if you don't appreciate that than get the hell out of here you won't be missed !!!!!

Obama is a liar and an opportunist. I dislike the man for lying to the american people.

That said, the Republican party and this whole tea party bullshit makes americans look like fucking retards.

In fact, I'm done with americans. The whole country is stupid.

Yo argon18 this may have been going on for 30yrs , but not at this rate our new so called savior has spent more money than all the presidents combined. And he thinks this is going to cure the problem. Lets give the same people that got us into this mess billions of dollars that they have already lost and trust them to get us out of this. If you believe this will happen I'm glad I'm not on your planet. These people should be investigated and jailed, not patted on the back and given more money to pad their pockets with. You think that there isn't billions of payoffs taken place, and our white house turning their heads. Fix the problem get rid of these crooks, put them in jail where they belong any and all that had any crooked dealings. This is turning into a dictatorship. Wake up America that what this was aboutm thats why the other media stations are failing. Glen Beck had more viewers than all the failing stations combined !!!! At least some people are waking up in big numbers, we need to realize what is going on and vote these people out on their butts.

obama was a huge mistake for people to vote in as president!!! now we are facing gays to have legal rights,abortion to be passed ,and the spending of money is unreal!!!! he is the antichrist!!! if not he is very close to being that....he sent out special invitations for gay couples to come to the white house , he does not believe in Gods Word,and things are only going to get worse...

I would wager that there were probably a million total people. They actually had one in my "city" Rome, NY (East Bumblefuck, middle of nowhere). I peed my pants when I saw the crowd. The local news reported that more than 2000 people attended the Rome event...and if there were 700+ of these, good lord. If crappy Rome, NY can draw 2000...

the numbers of people that came out for this is staggering...these people all own guns too. jesus christ

WOW ! Who said anything about a black man in the white house, I said nothing racial in my comment !!!! By the way I thought Colan Powell would have made a good President, so if it about a black man in the white house I guess I am only against one in the white house and it"s not because he is black. I think he is going to distroy our Country, and quit frankly I kinda like it the way it was before we spend our way into a bottomless pit !

Credit for this goes to Eldamon (nicely written too)

Remember the no protest zones of the past. The next time you see someone complaining about the oppressive government infringing on their rights and gutting the Constitution remind of the days where they lost the right to privacy, habeas corpus and lawful detention. Remind them of being called a traitor or unpatriotic for not supporting an invalid made up war sponsored by an invalid made up presidency.

You want change, welcome back to actual free speech. Gone are the plasticine vetted throngs of Stepford disciples that applauded obediently on command at Heir Bush. The irony of it all is outstanding. These people are protesting against what they claim to want so badly and the very ability of them to do so proves that point. Unfortunately their collective IQ prohibits them from seeing the truth right before their monotone faces - that or being tea bagged is covering their eyes.

Wow I can't believe the amount of Obama worshipers on this page, thank God some of the Republicans are on here speaking out. Oh crap I said the God word I'm sorry you dems I forgot now were suppose to bow to allah. You know what screw your allah, all you that don't believe in God and the constitution, and our country. Why don't you all move to some islamic country and take your Sadam hussain Obama with ya. Them people might think you idiots make since but I doubt it, they don't care for Osama either.

My problem with the tea parties are this man just got into office. Just about three months in office you are already protesting about the man. I can understand if you give it a year or more. Most of his policies are not even in a effect yet. Thats my two cent for this event.

I wish someone would fairly represent conservatives on current. I like the whole progressive media idea but this site makes me feel like a one sided bigot.

Hey dumbasses, this is NOT a right wing movement, it is grass roots, with people from all walks of life.
who just happen to be more educated about the history and design and constitution of this country then all you bama koolaid drinkers who will stand by and lets this tyranny happen because you want a free ride in life.
LINCOLN="there is no such thing as a free lunch"

he lowered taxes 13 dollars a week, all the while taking trillions out the back door of the economy

Power to the people!

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is
wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,
it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...
And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is its natural manure."

...Thomas Jefferson

Study for your self and find out that some of the best investigative reporting in the USA comes by way of www.infowars.com and those folks that reports for Mr. Jones organization. Please watch the film "America Freedom To Fascism" if your interested in Tax and money topics. You can watch it for free on google video.

first, who said they were sponsored by fox news? just because they were covering them?

i went to 2 here in new jersey and the only thing i saw mentioning fox was a sign portraying them negatively 'faux news'

the daily show's british dude was here at morristown!

Under President Obama’s proposed budget, our deficit will hit $1.8 trillion this year — quadrupling the 2008 record shortfall and amounting to 13.1 percent of the country’s entire economic output. The Congressional Budget Office has projected $9.3 trillion in deficits over the next decade. That is $2.3 trillion worse than the Obama administration’s early predictions, $1 trillion per year until 2019, four times as much as President Bush’s deficits, and over five percent of the nation’s GDP — a perilously high level that simply cannot be sustained. Under Obama’s budget, the national debt would also double to 82 percent of the country’s GDP.

it really isnt about right or left, their both f'in wrong

as i like to say i hope in 2012 someone gets in who will turn washington upside down and watch all the special interest groups fall out of all these guys pockets!

theres no doubt bush spent alot, obamas on day, what, 93? and he's put in well over 1.3 trillion just for the stimulus, 30k more troops overseas, and has alot more big and expensive plans...theres no denying that

and the fact is...why pays for it? you and me.

If this had been a Fox offering the lead would have read MILLIONS of people spent there day...

Good, everyone who attended a tea party should immediately forfeit their rights to every single tax break and personal tax stimulus rebate. Give the money back, so that people who AREN'T ingrates can use it.

And go teabag eachother somewhere else. If you hate our government's aid so much, and feel the need to spit in the face of people who are trying to help YOUR FAMILY in this time of unprecedented financial hardship, then get the fuck out of the USA and move to a country where they'd watch your family go homeless and die of starvation sooner than offering you aid in a time of hardship. We won't miss you.

First let me start this by saying that If you make 250,000 or more a year you are rich! Period! So all you people who are at the tea bagging parties who make less than that amount ether you are just too stupid to understand that your taxes are lowered or you are lackies to the rich. Ether way 5000 people (not that I believe even the most attended of these tea bagging parties where that well attended) does not a movement make. There were marches held to protest the Bush policies too those brought out hundreds of thousands even millions in some places not just in this country but around the world now thats a movement. So if your little group wants to act all indignant that the majority of your country men think your opinion is worth spit then go ahead have your tea bagging parties and talk about how you think that there should be another succession from the US. Just don't think for a minute that you have even an iota of support and if you want to try something violent like the other right wing nut jobs, Timothy Mcveigh, Harvey Oswald, or any of the other abortion clinic bombing, murderous SOBs that your twisted ignorant ilk have produced. You will be put down like all of them and the South will not rise again! Count on it! We will not return to the good old days of “This is our state, so if we want slavery we'll have it!”. Now for those of you rich A-holes I don't want to hear about how you don't think its fair for the government to tax you to pay for services for those who are drowning in poverty, too bad, suck it. I didn't want to bail out the wall street fat cats but they decided to blackmail the American people by threatening to crash our financial system unless they kept their jobs and got paid their bonuses. They where able to do this because of the republicans starting with Regan and ending in Bush Jr. Anyway I hate even trying to explain this to someone who cares and you all tea baggers don't and you rich don't care period. So go ahead and try and succeed, if you feel frogy then jump, you are no longer the majority and we (the majority) are going to fix this fucking mess that you helped create with you lies and wars and rampant greed orgies on wall street and there is nothing you can do to stop it. Every one sees you for the ignorant manipulated people you are and the fat cat fucks who try to hide behind you and spur you with their hate rhetoric. And one last thing if you don't get Tea Bagging and why its so funny then you must love fish sticks in your mouth you gay fucking fishes! Yours sincerely, LMAO all the way to the future of this world.

Rednecks! guuuu...gguuuuu... guuuu

Bush was allowed to spend to bring us down and Obama is trying to fix you're @#$%. I'm pretty sure most of the anti comments on here are part of the rich republicans that started this "movement". You've been catered to for a long time now and so what if you have your taxes cut and you earned your money have you ever heard of greed. IMPEACHMENT............you're out of your mind right? Sit back and deal with it like we had to just deal with Bush. It's the top 5% that got us here to begin with so stop crying and take your punishment.

This is such garbage. If any of these people were really concerned with their children & grandchildren's future they would have protested against getting involved in unnecessary wars and get more involved in our environment. save natural resources and work toward fixing/ending climate change. This is all about money.

I bet none of these people will vote out their representatives during the next election. They'll just continue to vote down party lines like they always do.

But this *is* about being on the right. The groups protesting were organized by right wing groups. The right wing news stations are sympathizing with them.

The problem is that Obama has lowered taxes for the average Joe - not by 95%, I don't know where that came from - and raised them for the super rich.

Still the rates are not as high as Reagan made them!!!

Oh, the hypocrisy bred by stupidity!

If you think this is all about "right vs left," or even think there's really much real difference between the two "parties," you're completely missing the point. These people having these teaparties aren't just republicans or democrats, they're Americans. And if you say they all should just "shut up and stop whining and go home" then you're really saying that patriotism is dead, protesting (which is the height of exercising your rights as an American) is pointless (when you don't agree with the protester's message) and that you have willingly given up your right to liberty as an American (not a democrat, not a republican, an American) and have accepted the grand lie that is being fed to us all by the ruling elite.

yeah, i saw this story on the news (i live in tn, so they had local footage...yaaaay......). it came right before a story about tn recieving its share of the stimulus package to fund and reinvent schools, rebuilt roads, and possiblly cover for loss in the law enforcement buget. oddly enough, while everyone (who broke out of the asylums) were hilariously protesting so-called "taxation without representation", not a soul complained about my state recieving funds.
isn't that somethin?

Hallelujiah! This is not about party affiliation nor personalities or whether you believe government is spending to much or not. This is about freedom. thank goodness we still enjoy it here in the US.

Change Congress!!!

The only thing Obama has done in regards to taxes is LOWER them for the average Joe. He rescinded the major tax breaks Bush gave to those making over 250,000/yr. Now they are paying ALMOST what they paid under Reagan.

Now they can cry about taxes all they want, but then they ought to get out of the parks (paid for by taxes) and lose the police protection (you guessed it, our taxes).

These brilliant folks have labeled themselves "teabaggers". PLEASE, if you do not see the hilarity in that, google it!!! And then watch this:

http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2009/04/13/msnbcs-david-schuster-explains-...

Just wait until these people realize income tax is illegal, They will go CRAZY!

Is it really that hard for you so called "conservatives" to see through your splendid aura of ignorance? You guys lost! When the person who you disagree with wins an election, he/she is probably gonna do things that you disagree with, its inevitable. Us liberals had to deal with you Neo-Cons for the last eight years, suck it up big guys! Have your little tea parties, you guys are in the minority now and I for one love it!!

I think Jon Stewart explains it best; please, please, please if you're a "conservative" or just a right wing nut job, please check out the link.

I was actually at one of these parties today. While I was leaving, some guy stopped me and said "thanks for being the only black guy out here". I didn't have the heart to tell him I was just walking on the sidewalk.

ha.

Tea Parties are great and all, but I wish people like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh would stop hijacking the liberty movement!

Ron Paul started the Tea Parties back in 07' with his "Campaign for Liberty" and the "Ron Paul Revolution".

Left? Right? It's all a joke. There are no party lines, it's all just one big conglomeration.

"Right Wing Extremists"? Hardly. Those who truly want to fight for Liberty know that civil disobedience is the way to go. Violence is a last resort at best.
Would I fight for my liberty if I had to? OF COURSE!

LIVE FREE OR DIE TRYING!

Liberals are on their way out

wow a lot of negativity here. People, please put left and right issues aside.. these tea parties are about telling the government to stop treading on us.

When Bush took over our economy was great....we had surplus......thru the greed of the last 8 years, the unregulated businesses policies, favoring the elite and rewarding run away speculation, the republicans broke our economy and now they actually hope that anything that Obama might try will fail.....they broke our economy and now they don't want to help fix it......says alot about who really cares about this country!!!!!!!!!!! It was a brave man who cares that got elected and it is going to take time to undo all the horrible policies and abuse that we have suffered from the past 8 years..........

you know i just dont get it..if they were SO concerned about spending where were the tea parties say..6 months to a year ago or even 2 or 3 years... when we were Clearly spending way beyond our means..and borrowing from China....judging by that obama sign in the crowd this is about a lot more than spending and taxes:-/

I wanna hear more succession talk, that the sexy part of the discourse...

Liberals wanted to more cuz they were beaten( cheated...but their soft asses deserved to).

The right wants to LEAVE the union because they lost in a democratic 'FREE' election...

Wholesomely awesome

This has to be the greats shit ever! I'm seriously just LOL@this goofy ass country right now.

Do any of you really believe that a lawyer...trained at Ivy league schools is a Marxist or out to save your goofy poor, retard asses?

This guy is not Hitler (LOL@that...dude has not even done anything but talk...and go one some trips yet).

Or Jesus (which is even stupider, because that guy was made up...and ain't do shit for people anyways.

You Republicans, WOW!

First, it was your party that is largely responsible for the economic situation we are in today.

Even though Obama gave a tax reduction to 95% of Americans, you like those how have been victimized have embraced the victimizer. Obama is helping you.

Why spend? Revisit HISTORY already!!!! Obama and his advisors has studied American history and is doing what he is because he and his cabinet learned from that history.

Despite the superficial understanding, ignorance of many Republican supporters of the real facts and how things work, your Republican buds are playing all you regular people for fools. Your taxes haven't been raised, they've been lowered. So, who are you having this little tea party for? Wealthy people sitting at home in the warmth of their mansions will you continue to embrace your victimizer.

I see Paratus is off his meds again.

My understanding of the $700 billion stimulus package was that approximately $275 billion went to direct tax relief and another $140 million went to states to offset the tax increases THEY were contemplating. So more than 60% of the "spending" these people are complaining about went to reduce the "taxes" they are complaining about. I gained the foregoing understanding from reading the newspaper. Perhaps we should have a few tea parties about this country's obvious "inability to read the English language" problem" as depicted in the clip.

By what, 20 dollars a week? Any president who claims they lowered your taxes is lying if the cost of living stays the same or goes up. I haven't noticed it going the other way. It simply gets absorbed then, and it won't matter to the hundreds of thousands of people who will continue to lose their jobs. I think people in both parties need to stop putting the man before the issues. Republicans did it with Bush, and now some Democrats are doing it with Obama.This isn't about defending him, this is about being realistic about what these policies will bring our children down the road. How long will my son have to work now to pay for this before he can have a life, and why should we leave such a burden on future generations? What right do we have to do that? We have no right to bind them to this. From Reagan to now what have we truly seen happen that has actually lifted a majoirty of the American people out of poverty? What?

BTW, everyone, I just got back from my second tea party and it was AMAZING!!! And a lot of fun too! Despite whatever the media says about low turnout, both parties were packed with thousands of people.

He's lowered taxes for 95% of the people? Strange, I must be one of the 5% whose taxes actually increased!! And even stranger, the rest of my family and many of my friends must be in that 5% bracket as well!