Thoughts on the April 15 tea parties

The Wall Street Journal estimated there were about 2,000 Tea Parties around the country. Hard to really tell since many were organized quickly at the last minute. Below is a Google map of the Tea Party locations.


A few Lucianne comments follow:

Attendees were respectfully angry with more government and less liberty. It was not what CNN and MSNBC would have us believe. Anderson Cooper, who usually doesn’t know what to say without a script in his teleprompter, mocked the participants.

When Cooper was asked why the protestors were not ranting and raving, all he could say was “they can’t talk with tea bags in their mouths.”

Cooper’s comment spoke volumes about the mentality of the personalities appearing on CNN.

It was truly a grass roots movement carried out by people making posters on their kitchen tables with no mass-produced signs that are typically handed out at rallies by unions or political parties. Most were posterboard and magic marker on a yardstick.

Signs included: Spread my Work Ethic, Not my Wealth and Stop the War on Success. A child held a sign saying: Please don’t redistribute my video games!.

Left-wing liberals and main-stream media are puzzled and disturbed because there is no clear 'leader' of this movement - no conservative politician to blame. Whenever a local politician spoke the comments were not “anti-Obama.” It was “anti-federal spending and big government and the resultant higher taxes to pay for it all.”

What frightens the administration is this is truly a movement of the American people that must be stopped.

In Washington, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano introduced James Carville (pictured) today as the new Right Wing Extremism Threat Assessment Czar.

"Dr. Carville has an unparalleled understanding of the danger the right poses to President Obama’s vision of America," Napolitano said. "He will work with AG Holder and Democratic Attorneys General across the country to ferret out and expose subversion masquerading as dissent."

So, who are these people the administration calls “extremists masquerading as dissenters?”

They are “rank and file” America. Folks that get up early, send their kids off to school and go to their jobs every day. They pay their bills, provide for their families and pay their taxes.

When the Vietnam War protestors began, their numbers were small at first but continued to grow as the movement gained momentum. This movement may do the same.