Saturday, 5/24/14, Public Square

Wednesday, 10/23/13, Public Square

Sunday, 9/8/13, Public Square

Tea Baggers WIN in Mass

If this tea bagger movement isn’t a tool of the Republican Party (and they have a long way to go to prove they aren’t), can electing Senator Scott Brown be the wake up call needed to remind democrats and President Obama about the change that was promised?  The elections in 2006 and 2008 meant something, and they’ve let the people down.

Between now and the mid-term elections they can learn to govern or they too can go home.  Obama and the democrats tried compromise, they gave away everything and got nothing.  Now is the time to use the majorities the voters gave them and improve America for all Americans.  If they don’t, in an election coming to you soon we’ll be seeing Palin elected POTUS.

The 11-04-09 Teabag gathering

   

There were still people filing in to the Teabagger event when I left at 12:40 p.m., but I am estimating that attendance was about 300 – which would be 1/10th of 1% of the population of Wichita, KS.  Thank goodness their numbers are so small.  When I first got there a guy asked me:

“Do you work for the FBI?”  He had noticed me taking photos.

For a split second, I debated whether I should act like I did not hear him and get out of there.  But I finally replied, “No, sir, I don’t.  And I don’t think that anyone has ever asked me that question before.”  That seemed to satisfy him.

There is always the horse rider that shows up at these events and the ever present Abortion Protest larger than life photos on the “Truth”-Truck.  I remember the first time my daughter saw one of those gory signs – I cannot recall her age, but she was still riding in a car seat – she said, “Oh Daddy, those pictures don’t make me feel so good.”

     

What was real noticable was that among all the signs against socialized medicine, it did look like well over half of the protestors were old enough to recieve Medicare – the granddaddy of all socialized medicine programs.  You know, they should have had a sign saying “Socialized Medicine is okay for me, but not for thee!”

I did not see anything that looked like a counter-protest anywhere.  That was disappointing.

It did appear to me that the teabaggers were enjoying themselves.  They were laughing and greeting new and old friends alike.  Maybe something like this should be planned on a daily basis – might keep those folks off the street and out of the way… of progress.

iggydonnelly

Saturday, 08/08/09, Public Square

This made me think of the Republian Party.  They don’t have a leader (well unless you count Rush or Palin or other ludicrous pretenders) and they are envious.  I think it explains the ‘birthers,’ the ‘tea-baggers,’ and the ‘health-care reform disrupters.’

fnord