Tea Parties Are Not a Joke

I have been watching to see how the Tea Party demonstrations were going to come off. You have to understand the context. It is not insignificant. The last time people took to the streets to protest the government in cities across the nation about anything was the Viet Nam war.

Oh liberals will tell you that there are plenty of demonstrations going all the time, environmental protests, gay rights events, etc. But those are carefully organized leftist charades made to look like the genuine article. The Tea Party demonstrations are the real thing. The passion is spontaneous. Ordinary people, not counter-culture people are painting signs, driving great distances and protesting the current Administration of our country.

Leftist organizers have to admire this. As a matter of fact, they tried to steal some of its thunder. Below is a photo of an organized effort by leftists against who they believe are the real culprits of the financial crisis: the evil banks.

Pathetic. Thirteen people in St Louis. They chose a middle-class town in the center of the country. Sounds like the best place for a photo op to steal a little thunder from the Tea Party demonstrations. One person remarked that there were so few people show up they couldn’t have even had a softball game.

Now below is a photo of a spontaneous demonstration, typical of what are hundreds, maybe even over 1000 demonstrations across the county around the week of April 15. But this one is in the land of the leftists, Pittsburg. More unemployed people, more Union people, more Democrats per capita than just about anywhere. You would think that there would be horrible attendance there and perhaps even efforts to discourage the demonstration.

This is something that even Barney Frank can’t shout down. I hope the Democrats are noticing. I bet if you took a poll, you would learn that the people who are attending these Tea Parties have never demonstrated about anything in their entire lives. It is happening across the country. It is happening on the Democrats’ watch. And it is all about protesting their actions. If you are a Democrat and you think you can rationalize that they are there to protest what Bush did also, then just show up and listen. If you would like to offer the lame Obama comment that this problem was there when he took office and he is just trying to fix it, then show up and listen to what the protestors are saying. They are not buying it. That is why they are out there. Democrats – this protest is for you!

Instapundit had the photos