'Tampa Tea Party' Pours Scorn On Stimulus Package

[brooklynite]

TAMPA - There were no tomahawk-wielding Colonials dumping boxes of English tea into the Hillsborough River, and fortunately, nobody was tarred and feathered.

But the protesters who gathered today on the steps of the federal courthouse in downtown to protest President Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus bill came with a message similar to their brethren 236 years ago: Take your tea and shove it.

"We wanted to let the people in Washington know how angry we are about the stimulus bill," said John Hendricks, a Tampa-based consultant who organized the gathering.

...snip...

About two dozen protesters held handwritten signs with slogans like "Keep Your Bailout; I'll Keep My Freedom" and "Wake Up Washington." They chanted "No More Nelson" in response to Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson's support of the stimulus.

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/feb/27/271405/tampa-tea-party-pour-scorn-stimulus-package/

Today was the day for national "Tea Party" protests. DKOS has a nice story about the CPAC gang turning out their thousands of...er, hundreds of...okay, dozens of minions (and Joe the Plumber) to strike a blow for something or other. Any word on how the rest of nation fought off the chains of socialism?

[monmouth]

1. I saw about 12 people in a pic in Cleveland for their event..Ha...n/t

[LynnTheDem]

2. 24? Where were the other "hundreds of thousands"???

:rofl:

[YOY]

7. They had to work! They're not "losers!"

You have to consider that!!!

[phantom power]

3. Brave, brave revolutionaries!

:eyes:

[yurbud]

4. did they object to Wall Street bailouts too, or just help to non-criminals?

[YOY]

5. Call me Karnak.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5146938&mesg_id=5146952

[kanrok]

8. Call me KANROK

Go ahead.

[YOY]

10. Why oh why wouldn't I?

n/t

[kanrok]

14. I can think of no reason.

I'm going back to sleep now.

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. 500,000 people protest war on National Lawn

Press scoffs at "crazies."

Twenty some odd people protest stimulus LAW in Tampa? Must have AP story of the day.

Journalism FAIL.

[wryter2000]

9. Supposedly 100 in Orlando

But a DUer counted 34 in the picture.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5149544

[NYC_SKP]

13. Maybe 36 or 37, one draped in an American flag. oh. my. god.

It's a mob-lette. A moblette of teabaggers. :P

[ejpoeta]

11. i am assuming they all had homes to have their tea parties in. they weren't

worried about foreclosure or anything or else they would not be having a 'tea party'.

[NYC_SKP]

12. Teabaggers, huh?, out there "teabagging"?

I'd pay to see that... :evilgrin: