Biggest Ever Tea Party Rally Smaller Than Madison Turnout

Sorry fox news filled that hole up. This is liberal memory so you need to recycle it. Which means we use information.

Wow! Such a great display of thoughtful remarks. This story is more about fantasy and less about facts. I wonder how many were paid during their absence from work, school? I would like to see that get donated to the debt that the progressives seem to like running up.

Actually, the largest Tea Party rally was the 2010 elections, where the largest turn-over in congress for decades took place.nnConservatives took it to the polls.nnLiberals seem to resort to aggressive and angry protests and recalls of the same people who were duly elected in the majority, and who took a stand to do SOMETHING to solve a huge problem.

Hit some nerves here with the tea party crowd. As I recall the biggest turn out was the election for Obama. That will be repeated again in 2012, as well as taking back the Congress. Get me a cup of coffee, I don’t drink tea.

Really? This is the dialog, who has the biggest rallies!!?nn

idiot. so out of touch with working middle class america i mean COME ON! you vote for these republicon-artists that are screwing you and expect anyone to take you seriously? republicons are for the rich and LIE to you, FOX “news” LIES to you! it’s all for the interests of the wealthy. WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nnLol, I am middle class, and I donu2019t support the unionsu2026. Why would I want to give my money to fat cat union execs like trumpka. A man wearing a $3000 suit doesnu2019t speak for the people lol. nI donu2019t support the left /progressives, because they donu2019t support liberty, but rather the nanny state where us u2018childrenu2019 are beholden to our self declared u2018bettersu2019.nPeople that seek to limit freedom are not representative of me. I would rather have the freedom to succeed or fail on my own merit, than to be a slave that can never advance because of a u2018leveled playing fieldu2019nProgressivism punishes the industrious and inventive to support the lazy and mundane. It stifles creativity, and historically has always ended with the enslavement and exploitation of the populations they pretend to protect.nThe left is fond of decrying the naziu2019s and rightfully so, as they were horrible. nBut with that in mind, why should we even allow progressives free speech in this country? Really, if you have the slightest clue of history, then you know that the progressives (under their myriad of different names, communist, socialist, etc.) have butchered and damned many millions more people than the Nazis were capable of.nthe Nazis committed one holocaust, many holocausts have been carried out by the left, and they continue to do so where ever they are in controlnnClaiming to be a progressive, in light of their history, should be akin to claiming to be a nazi. We surely wouldnu2019t tolerate that no matter how nice the current candidate is because of the history of the movement. nShouldnu2019t we view progressives in the same historical light? n

They should open the voting logs, and everyone that voted obama should get a tax increase, and everyone that voted for sanity and reason ( not obama) should get a tax break/ refund/ rebate.nn obama and his ilk have done more to effectively destroy America in the past 2 years than the world wide jihad has been able to do in a decade.nnIts time to recognize the traitor and fifth columnists among us; The left lacks the testicular fortitude to take the country honestly by force, so they use democracy against itself, and steal our freedom and heritage like sneak thieves, well, like dishonest fat cat union bosses anyway.nnThe left wants a civil war, only the grace and reason of the right prevents that, but our patience is wearing thin.nnProgressive= asshat= TRAITORn

I am neither Republican nor Democrat, I am an Independent/Libertarian.nnIn any event, I would never be rude to anyone.nnYour example reflects the behavior of those who stormed the Capitol in Wisconsin, and became violently agitated at a government actually making decisions.

The Tea Party member volunteer to gather.nUnions are forced and bused in from all over the Country.nnThe fact is, the weaker the Unions become, the weaker the Democratic party becomes.nWhy?nBecause the Democratic party is controlled by the Unions!!nnGet rid of one and the other follows!

Um, “Brilliant” – you claim you’ve “solved” a huge problem. Funny thing, though, your majority leader not only voted for the first stimulus package in 2008 along with 169 Republicans (with only 25 voting against it) – which acknowledged that stimulus funds were necessary to curtail a disaster – but he helped write it. THat’s your majority leader: i.e., the one who helped write the first stimulus bill which enabled wall street executives to award themselves bonuses a few months later. At least with President Obama’s stimulus bill, we are receiving dividends back. nnJust what “stand” are you referring to “Brilliant” – the stand to use terms antithetical to what you actually do? Like “Brillliant” and watching a fake news channel run by Roger Ailes? If you want to actually do something that isn’t stupid, try renting the documentary, “Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story.” And let me explain to you something, “Brilliant” as to why Mr. Atwater could claim the RNC didn’t produce the Horton ad. It’s because Roger Ailes was the one who produced it. So how “brilliant” are you, “Brilliant” when you sit in front of the idiot-box and lend such a station legitimacy and repeat the moronic rhetoric you pick up from it.nnDo this country a favor. Next time you lose a federal election, make good on your threats to secede because YOU are the huge problem. And btw, Bill Maher was right – our founding fathers would have hated your guts, and vice versa.

Um, “Brilliant” – you claim you’ve “solved” a huge problem. Funny thing, though, your majority leader not only voted for the first stimulus package in 2008 along with 169 Republicans (with only 25 voting against it) – which acknowledged that stimulus funds were necessary to curtail a disaster – but he helped write it. THat’s your majority leader: i.e., the one who helped write the first stimulus bill which enabled wall street executives to award themselves bonuses a few months later. At least with President Obama’s stimulus bill, we are receiving dividends back. nnJust what “stand” are you referring to “Brilliant” – the stand to use terms antithetical to what you actually do? Like “Brillliant” and watching a fake news channel run by Roger Ailes? If you want to actually do something that isn’t stupid, try renting the documentary, “Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story.” And let me explain to you something, “Brilliant” as to why Mr. Atwater could claim the RNC didn’t produce the Horton ad. It’s because Roger Ailes was the one who produced it. So how “brilliant” are you, “Brilliant” when you sit in front of the idiot-box and lend such a station legitimacy and repeat the moronic rhetoric you pick up from it.nnDo this country a favor. Next time you lose a federal election, make good on your threats to secede because YOU are the huge problem. And btw, Bill Maher was right – our founding fathers would have hated your guts, and vice versa.

Nanny state? WTF are you rambling on about. People who fought for your rights and stood up on behalf of working people aren’t “nannies” – you’re the nanny. A coward. A venal coward too chicken-sh*&t to stand up for him/herself and others. You’re a scab and a coward. People fought for the rights you have and some died. You should be ashamed of yourself, you’re nothing but a sniveling jealous right-wing hack who has nothing to offer but a bunch of trite, overdone, rhetoric – talk about lazy. You’re so lazy, you can’t even do your own thinking – you rely on a stupid fake news channel and fat rich right-sing hack pundits to recite catchphrases for you to grab and regurgitate. You’re the one who is clueless when it comes to history – a typical graduate of Glenn Beck U. You’re an embarrassment to our country and to all the brave men and woman who worked and fought for the work week and the holidays that you now take for granted. SCAB. COWARD.

You keep claiming you did something. What. Lay people off from work? That’s some mandate! Wow! You voted for representatives who are now threatening to lay off people. Brillliant! Or how about the fact that your majority leader – a venal hack who can’t stop crying for himself – is the same guy who helped write the first stimulus bill and thus acknowledged that it was necessary – only it was not that well written, thus enabling Wall Street executives to award those huge bonuses a few months later. Brilliant! Or maybe you just like granting apologies to BP when you’re not shouting “Drill, Baby Drill!” Brilliant! Or having your representatives show their distaste for government health care – not by cancelling insurance policies that they enjoy on our dime and forming a co-op (not very good at demonstrable problem-solving, now, are they), but by trying to repeal reform altogther! Brilliant! Wow! That’s some mandate you voted for! John Boehner as your majority leader, billions in subsidies to the oil industry that’s already making money hand-over-fist while claiming fiscal prudence, a denial that our country needs any revenue while awarding more tax loopholes and cuts for people who don’t need anymore tax cuts or loopholes becuase they already have far to many, and no health care reform at all, and LAYOFFS! BRILLIANT!!!!!nnAnd I just love how your “representatives” sqauandered that surplus that Clinton left – that was such good stewardship the your represntatives demonstrated. And before you attribute the success of Clinton’s surplus to the Republicans, let me correct you in advance, “Brilliant” – he REPUDIATED the Republicans’ demands for tax cuts to the rich. And it was three Republicans – GRAMM, LEACH, AND BLILEY, who formed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act – which not onlly allowed investment firms, insurance brokers and commercial banks to consolidate but allowed the newly-merged banks to take on riskier investments while at the same time GETTING RID OF any regulations requiring them to maintain enough equity, exposing the assets of its customers. nnWe were those customers, “Brilliant” – your representatives are about as noble as a ponzi scheme. They even have Roger Ailes – another John Birch Society Lunatic – as president of a fake news channel. And here you are, “Brilliant” reiterating their banal while at the same time demanding politeness. You’ve got to be joking.nnBet you never head this on Fox “News” –nnUNDER OBAMA:nn1. Ordered all federal agencies to undertake a study and make recommendations for ways to cut spending.nn2. Negotiated deal with Swiss banks to permit US government to gain access to records of tax evaders.nn3. Shut down offshore tax safe havens.nn4. Ended a previous policy of offering tax benefits to corporations who outsource American jobs.nn5. Steered us clear of an economic free-falling disaster. In December of 2008, we lost over 500,000 jobs in that one month alone – that last quarter in 2008 saw us plummeting into a depression. But “brilliant” idiot-box watchers of Fox “News” have the attention span that is as vast as the length of time it takes for a piece of bread to pop up out of a toaster.nnOh, yes – the US is once more in compliance of the Geneva Convention. This president will be able to set foot in Geneva Switzerland without getting arrested, n”Brilliant”. nnGood stewardship is something you have absolutely no familiarity with. Your representatives are over-run by a bunch of John Birch Society lunatics – not “polite” society. Just a bunch of bigots well versed in sc&mbag politics. nnDo you want me to say it to you politely and according to your rules of etiquette, “Brilliant”? Here then: If you lose the federal election, next time do our country a favor. Secede. nnNews Flash: The John Birch Society is not “polite” society.

What? Fact! The Koch Bros paid for the buses at all the Tea-bagger rallies and paid some people to go. One group is in it for themselves (The Kochs) and the other is a collective group, and not one Union member was forced, that would be akin to kidnapping and illegal.

YES! Unions need to keep their foot on the throats of the American taxpayer!

Who cares for these over paid government employees?? There overpaid, most are very uncaring of the Tax payer who is in there office at the time, and now they want us to help there over paid A____ . Go out an get a real job, show up on time, not your 14 paid Federal Holidays…., and be concerned about losing your job when you don’t work!!! Like the rest of American….Thank God for the Gov. standing up to you lazy gov’t union employees….

Get a job..instead of having the Unions protect your lazy bums…..Get a Job….stop paying the fat cats to keep your job….the end is near the lazy gov’t employees…and shop stewarts…

You obviously had a very lazy set of teachers, considering your nonsensical ramblings.

No, my parents paid property taxes for the NON-UNION teachers here …THANK GOD…Not the Lazy ones were seeing in WI>.making well over 100K a year….and their NOT in the classrooms, but eating up their mental health Days..at the Capitol…to bad they can’t be fired and replaced by people that want to work…The UNION will not let that happen…i am sure you have a UNION Protected job….were close to voting union out here in Missouri…YEAH!!!

Do you work Jen, or Live in the Liberal “Ivory Tower”?? And look down on the problems….

The largest and best “Rally’ will be in 2012 …when the President will be sent home to Chicago….An I a life time Democrat…He has DONE nothing….and will continue on doing nothing until he leaves…An of course he is a lot like the Union members…he has never had to work either….

We need Bill Clinton so bad, or someone who cares as he did…As compare to the “Ivory Tower President” we have now!!! He has never worked at a “real” job…worried about the Utility Bill, cost of food, the cost of gas, or anything…An I a life time Democrat, but I am over the lies sold to us from the Democrat party…An I agree with your statements regarding the Republican party…but the Dems are just as bad….Oh Bill or Hillary back in the White House….some one with a HEART!!nnWere hurting and the Prez, does not care….

I agree with you Brilliant, 100%.

I am sure you have some type of Union Job an are protected….Go and try to find a real job with benefits…look at your President and see what HE has done to help the job situation in the USA>NOTHING JUST LIKE HIM…NOTHING…IT IS OVER ,,PACK him up now….

Maybe so but we had jobs, money, people living in their own homes, the stock market was great, and life was better…..you may dislike that aspect, but life was better…a lot better…

Follow the friggin’ money. Who’s got rich? The fancy bankers. How? By screwing all of us. And that started before 2008. That’s who took the jobs. Don’t you dare blame teachers. The right looks for a fall guy and divert us towards fake targets. A classic divide and conquer strategy. Union members are not wearing $3,000 suits.nnMake no mistake, this _is_ class warfare. We won’t get fooled again!

No, the Union Worker (well worker is the question really). The Union rank and file is paying for YOUR leaders to wear the $3,000 suit, limos, huge expense accounts etc.. So they can buy political favors….your Union Dues at WORK!!!nnAnd you know a true Union Person…..does as little as possible to just get by, and wants to get MORE Union People on the job, so they have to do even LESS. If you a Union Person had to really work they would quit…We need to get rid of the Unions: look at what the wonderful Unions have done to the car biz in the United States!!!

Actually, Alan, not just the military have fought and died. People that wanted unions to combat the greed of the rich oil and coal barons of PA and WV fought and died for decent wages, decent health care and education for their children. Much of this in the last 100 years. If you looked at history, you would understand this. But as the saying goes… those that do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Well of course we are majority

If the Tea Baggers aka republicans want to get rid of a public union, why don’t they get rid of the United States Post Office Union. Now that’s a union breakup that this Democrat would support. Somehow, I seriously doubt the republicans will ever breakup the postal union. nnWith regards to breaking up teacher unions, this will bite everyone in the face. In the near future, we will have to import foreigners to teach our American students because Americans won’t work for 70 hours a week for the minimum wage with no benefits. Americans will move to foreign countries to teach. The continued dumbing down of America by the republicans. They think that in several decades from now when everyone has the IQ of Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, etc., they can bring the jobs back to the USA and pay everyone $2.00 per hour with no benefits and have them live on the roof. This is the republican plan. A blind deaf person could figure their plan out.

Great spin, Karl Rove. Everyone knows when you’re the CEO of millions of people you’re going to make big bucks. Thats the current business culture in the US. Duh. nnProgressives in the 1900′s are completely different than today, just like the south all voted Democrat until the civil rights act was passed. nnYeah right, modern progressives are really big on enslavement and exploitation. LOL That’s not even really spin, though. Just unsubstantiated nonsense. Oh and good job for mentioning the Nazi’s, no points for creativity. nnWhat’s interesting to me is the fact you’ll probably won’t be making big money any time soon and may not ever, but you’ll defend the richest 2% in America from being taxed and support their corporate tax dodging practices. nnWhy do you shine the shoes for people who don’t give a fuck about you? Statistically, you’ll never be in their club. No matter how much you want it. Just saying.

When it comes down to it none of this will be solved because both sides can’t get anything done except disputing each other (by putting all of their effort into disputes).

I vote progressive and am a US Army vet. I take serious umbrage at being called a traitor. I think it is you, sir, who wants the civil war and not I. If this is what passes for “grace and patience” in your group, I think you are doomed to fail as a group.

Where do you get your fantasies? Faux Entertainment.

OMG, are you serious??? They are making well over 100K per year? I guess you are getting your facts from Faux News, which means you should check your facts!! The average is between $45,000 to $50, 000 a year and that is for teachers that have been teaching for 20 plus years mostly. And that’s what ALL teachers in this country should be making, at least!! Do you have any idea how much work and heart ache goes into being a teacher in today’s society? No you don’t or else you would NEVER utter anything as foolish as you have written here. Go be a teacher for a week and then let’s see what you have to say.

Ah, now the real story comes to the front. The thing the repubs don’t like in this, is the fact that the union provides benefits and the private sector doesn’t. Just sniveling and sour grapes. Get a job.

Yes, that is just in WI. In 2008 we had over 100K at the Obama rally at the Arch grounds. Plus who bused us in?

Tea Baggers are the GOP version of grassroots that they bus into a rally. (Astroturf) This was one state, WI. 100K in WI, 100K at Obama rally in 2008 in STL, Election night in Chicago had more. Numbers? During the Health Care debate on Twitter they told me they had a majority. Bull Hockey! They were counting the fleas, ticks on their dogs with the bugs in their heads on that one. Keep the Fires burning, ROCK ON!

I agree Mr. Levy…..it is really bad, and most people do notrnunderstand….how bad it really is , and has gotten worst….

Wow, Fox News should hire you as their new pundit. I would love to see any kind of fact or context behind any of these statements. What exactly is a “fifth columnists,” by the way, do share.

n”Liberals seem to resort to aggressive and angry protests”=== OK. First? Pot, kettle, black, dude. Remember the town hall meetings over the HCB? nSecond, you’re a boob.

Yeah. Those Republicans just loooooove the working class, baby. Love us enough to raise our taxes (after saying they wouldn’t) and giving tax breaks to the top 1% and corporations because “they create jobs”. Bullshit. You just keep on following those guys Lambchop.

Its a half-assed reference to V

Dude Teachers are paid barely enough to live by o.o wtf are you smoking?

Remember Juneteenth? There have been several demonstrations and strikes that have led to bosses simply slaughtering their workers

In response, we give Obama too much credit with the economy. The thing is that unemployment is due to several reasons including heavy outsourcing to Mexico and the fact that jobs are shrinking due to several reasons. The banks near-collapse which the stimulus was to save (You know, because the last time that happened was the Great Depression), and the credit and housing crisis orchestrated by the American spirit of over-maxing credit cards and you know, not paying a lick of it back…plus heinous tax increases to people that can’t afford them while leaving the rich up and dry without having to ink back a dime to help public funding which is the benchmark of this country…but no your right…all Obama’s fault.

So you listen to NPR everyday…sounds like the junk they deal to thernpublic….It is sad yes, Obama had to deal with a lot, but has done nothingrnto help the Middle Class or anyone really…Those wonderful fat cats hernhelped in the banking field…are holding a American by the short hairsrnnow…and not loaning money to the housing market at all….if the housingrnmarket does not come back soon….your dreams of the depression will be herernsoon…and your “Ivory Towers” that “Obama is from and lives in…will berngone for sure….Obama and the girls are going back to Chicago tornlive…YEAH!!

I think you may have to do a recount and get your numbers right. Plus the numbers would be way lower in madison if you eliminated the wingnuts at that protest.

I take it you’re both dumb and blind.

I think you have me mixed up with someone else.

brilliant – i was at the capitol in wisconsin, and i want to state there as not ONE PERSON arrested. NOT ONE. during all of the protests not a single person has been arrested. There have been people from all of our communities – teachers, lawyers, firefighters, cops, families with small children, students, senior citizens – EVERYONE – and NOT A SINGLE PERSON WAS ARRESTED – so, please tell me how the protests were “VIOLENTLY AGITATED” as you say they are. i want to know. because I WAS THERE. you, obviously were not.

Tiny issue here, the rally in question for this post was 3/12/11…a SATURDAY so teachers and students were off from work on the weekend.

Forced? As in someone came to their house, dragged them out, and forced them on the bus? And then once they were there someone took them off the bus and forced them to walk around the capital in the cold and the wind? Really?

Time will tell. nnYou must be extremely strong!!!

Not really, they were not in control….the Democrats were in power….

Actually Levy, unemployment was at 7.6 in January of 2009 when Obama took office and had been steadily increasing since April of 08. Election was in 08. Rant’s are so much better when they are based on fact.

House Majority Leader Cantor is pretty much synonymous with Boehner.. Really are they all that different?

Sounds good…have the teachers start packing now…. The Foreign teachers would come in be a real teacher instead of a Union Member.The Foreign workers would very happy to have employment. As compared to the very lazy Union Teachers…Benefits they have Obama care now so health care is not an issue….

The average Union Teacher in the state of WI is making 100K a year..barely making it they must be spending the money on other things besides smoke!!!! There Union protected…so unable to get rid of the very lazy teachers…

And knowing the Union Contract probably got Thursday and Friday off to be ready for Saturday….I am sure the (Union Teachers) applied their paid holiday somehow…the taxpayers of WI paid for it somehow…

So what they were working!! Under Obama more are unemployed. So the point is?? The Koch bros paid to have people there GREAT…helping the American people feed their families …better program that Obama’s…

The Republican Party in 2010 when they VOTED OUT the lazy Democrats… And the paid teachers to show up at the rally in WI>>.wow

So you’re okay with illegal aliens teaching your children?nnBTW, very few people have “Obama care”.nnIf people want to get rid of the unions, why not get rid of the police, fire department and postal unions as well? The United States can bring in illegal aliens w/ machine guns from Mexico to patrol our cities. We can pay them the minimum wage and no benefits. We can do the same with the fire department. When they ruin their health, we can deport them. With regards to the post office, hey I might start getting my mail for once. They probably had an education.nn

They all put in for their health care, it’s not just free. As well as what they put into their pensions. Why is it such a crime to be able to have good health care and a pension when you retire?? Like I said, you go do the job of a teacher for even one day, much less a week, and then we will talk about the work load that teachers actually have and how much they give our communities and our society. This is not just about left/right, rep/dems. This is about rich vs poor/middle class!!

Meh I don’t believe the Ivory Towers exist. We are all on a boat. Anyhow, It is sad but its not the things I listened to on NPR, its the stuff I saw every day back in my home town where the Recession probably hit the 3rd worst behind Cleveland and Detroit. People maxed out their cards and bought Cameros and then saw their houses foreclosed and because of these people overmaxing on the houses too, the costs skyrocketed and now my parents who have worked every day of their lives are having trouble just paying for the damn house. I do agree Obama should be at least telling congress to appoint a bill for this, but…-shrug- it might just have to wait. Also unemployment has been a steady thing globally. Jobs are just overbooked and now are working in lovely Mumbai. So it goes.

No, I do not want illegals teaching my children….but I want NON-Union teachers that will work, as compared to the lazy union ones we see now….that are upset at there 100K a year job.nnYour reference to the illegals with guns etc…have you been the Southwest part of the US…come to PHX, AZ…the Mexicans own the streets…so not much of a difference of what you stated….you have no idea….nnI agree get rid of the Postal Union, the Post office would make a profit..instead of the US taxpayer being the supporter of it…the service level at most Post offices…is so out of what customer service should be in a business….the lobby full of people…”It is my break time”…customers with money, credit cards in hand…but let them wait……I have a break coming I have worked for 50 mins…the Union at its finest…..eating up the clock so they can be paid the highest for nothing….just like the teachers in WI…lazy…at 100K a yea..or 9 mos…rough..

LOL…50K for 9 mos of work..not to bad really…get your facts correct…100K even by liberal CBS News…not Fox……Why should the taxpayer pay for their benefits and retirement…why can’t they be like most of us…and pay our OWN way, or that is right their UNION and protected…

How many teachers (K-12) do you know of are making 100k annually? Do you have a link to a website that shows Wisconsin K-12 teacher salaries?

You may criticize anyone you choose. You may NOT call someone a traitor without proof. Assuming democratic thinking to be against the constitution is heresy. My defense of the constitution stops short of defending belligerent militaristic zealots bent on destroying that constitution and its bill of rights.

Dude, how much do you get paid to spew this filth. Are they hiring? I’m sure we can get just as nasty for a little money. What do you think?

You might want to lay off the propaganda you’re being fed my friend- you sound retarded at times which doesn’t help your argument.