The 'Tea Party' rally today is not about health care. It is about ignorance, bigotry and hate.

[flpoljunkie]

Photos from Politico...

Tea partiers descend on Capitol
By: Jonathan Allen and Meredith Shiner
November 5, 2009

The Tea Party holds no seat in Congress, but at least 10,000 of the party’s members descended on Capitol Hill Thursday to rally against a Democratic-written health care overhaul.

A plan first hatched and heralded on FOX by iconic conservative Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) grew over the weekend as she e-mailed with a handful of colleagues. By the time activists started arriving at the foot of the Capitol around 8:30 a.m., it was clear no Republican leader could stay away.

Minority Leader John Boehner, Republican Whip Eric Cantor and Conference Chairman Mike Pence all spoke.

Inside, Democrats were working to finalize a trillion-dollar health care bill that they say will deliver insurance to tens of millions of Americans who currently lack it, improve the quality of care and rein in costs both for individuals and the government.

Outside, on the grassy lawn just steps from where Barack Obama took the oath of office, an endless lineup of rank-and-file lawmakers and conservative All Stars – Bachmann, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, actor Jon Voigt and Mark Levin, author of “Liberty and Tyranny” – demanded that the health care bill be torn asunder.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29183.html

[ElboRuum]

1. Of course it is...

In fact, you can take the title of your OP:

"The 'Tea Party' rally today is not about health care. It is about ignorance, bigotry and hate."

Make the small modification thusly:

"The 'Tea Party' rally today is not about <blank>. It is about ignorance, bigotry and hate."

And fashion yourself one doozy of a "multitasker" of a statement.

[flpoljunkie]

11. MORE "Tea Party" PHOTOS from the D.C. rally today. These from talkingpointsmemo.com

(This moron brought multiple signs.)

[AndyA]

2. Yes. Everyone there is full of hatred and they can't stand it that a black man is in the White House

Idiots are OK. (George Bush)

Psychopaths are OK. (Dick Cheney)

Crooks are OK. (Richard Nixon)

But blow jobs are not permitted, and neither are black people!

[beltanefauve]

17. Not just a Black man

A Black man who is smarter than they are!

[Graybeard]

3. The faces of bigotry.

Angry, hate filled bigots. As ignorant as they are ugly.

[flpoljunkie]

5. And, ignorance. Don't forget ignorance. I suspect many are Glenn Beck/Faux News followers.

[Mist]

4. Aren't all tea parties about ignorance, bigotry, and hate? That's all these folks have. nt

[flpoljunkie]

6. 'Yes, they are!'

[murray hill farm]

7. They just appear to be very much..

Intellectually and emotionally limited beings. A sort of sub species of human not able to have any level of ability to sort through their own ignorance and out of control rage.

[flpoljunkie]

8. I would be willing to wager they all have health care--most on Medicare, in fact.

[AspenRose]

9. An excuse to get their hate on, under the guise of political free speech.

And they're fooling no one.

I'd actually have more respect for them if they just came out and said, "We hate Democrats, we hate liberals, we hate minorities, gays and 'uppity women,' and we're going to bitch about it at every opportunity, so as to dominate the news cycle for the next 3.5 years. And if no opportunity exists, we'll create one, because we know the media will be there."

[Kdillard]

10. Yep that is it in a nutshell.

[Joe the Liberal]

12. Very diverse group of people there. n/t

[jillan]

13. Hey stupid lady - the WH is not RED -

It's BLUE! We just got the RED out of the Whitehouse earlier this year - THANK GOD!

[mucifer]

14. looks like they won't be the number one story today.

[kwolf68]

15. ITS NOT about race

Geezus. Get some new material. These people are purely driven by ideology. THEY HATE DEMOCRATS.

What did these type of idiots do to John Kerry? Trashed his service to the nation? Ridiculed and slandered a decorated Veteran.

That was not about race and neither is this.

This is about their ideology.

It's a stupid and nieve ideology, but ideology no less and one these people will march like hell for.

[Sabien]

16. Don't Tread on Me

flags are showing up all over the place lately.

One just went up a pole down the block.

[Cha]

18. Gee, look at all those fubared people

gathered in place so they're easy to spot.

[Armstead]

19. All I caught of it was Jon Voight talking about the Great Acorn Conspiracy

As if that had anything to do with healthcare