After a Tea Party-Thoughts
More than 5000 were at the Denver Tea Party yesterday. Families and ordinary plain speaking people made up the crowd. Most of the attendees were attending a rally of this nature for the first time. It was strictly an amateur affair not slickly structured with professional signs. The people were not radical types, but simply deeply concerned Americans gathering to demonstrate those concerns.
The only chant taken up by the crowd was “Where is Ritter”? “Where is Ritter”?
The biggest crowd of demonstrators in many years on the Capital steps in Denver did not elicit a greeting from the Democratic Governor Ritter. He did not think it was worth a walk from his office to say a few words to this large, respectful, orderly gathering of Colorado citizens.
In the meantime the CNN national reporter was providing the most despicable coverage imaginable. She was confrontational to those she questioned and dismissed the whole gathering as a Fox News event by right wing radicals. Her coverage made no attempt to disguise her bias in favor of the Stimulus and other financial moves made by Obama. Does CNN recruit it’s reporters from a list provided by the Obamanistas? Their coverage falsely depicted the event and can only be described as outrageous. The local NBC coverage was almost as bad in its’ description of the event and the concerns being expressed by the gathered crowd.
The police comment was that this was the most orderly gathering of size that they had experienced within recent memory. No damage took place, no traffic was blocked and when the event ended there was almost no cleanup required. These were American citizens demonstrating how political actions should be held. Governor Ritter you should have said hello!
Coincidently the Department of Homeland Security released a report warning of the gathering danger of radical right wing strengthening their arsenals preparing for undefined atrocities. Warning examples were the recent killings of people by deranged unemployed gun owners of conservative persuasion.
This was a heavy handed attempt by the new head of DHS to diffuse attention from Conservative opposition to Liberal fiscal excess. It unfortunately is a sad example of the willingness of the Obama administration to falsely attribute nefarious motives to any group that voices opposition to the administration policies.
Politics has always been a rough business but there were standards and out of bounds lines not crossed. The Obama administration has erased the lines and does not recognize any rules as to agency use, for political gain.
“A game without rules is a game for fools” The administration doesn’t seem to understand this old adage. They do not recognize the importance of what happened on the Capital steps in Denver and at hundreds of other gatherings all over America. The true strength of America was on those steps. They were ordinary working Americans with little interest in the labels pasted on political philosophy. They were there to express their anger at the debt being placed on the children still in their strollers by the Obama fiscal actions. They were there to express their displeasure with the growth of government under the direction of both parties in recent years. They were there to express their understanding that we were a country built on law and illegal is illegal. The politicians need to remember that truth. They were gathered to demonstrate using their First Amendment Right, a right which is not understood or recognized by the Obananistas with their fog horns trying to deny that right.
I think the administration should take notice and seriously consider what the Tea Parties represent and what is happening across America. Remember the promises of transparency made to us in the campaign. Has the meaning been misplaced for the moment or is it totally forgotten?
If you enjoyed this post, please consider to leave a comment or subscribe to the feed and get future articles delivered to your feed reader.
Very well stated Buck! You need to be seen and heard on Fox news. Dick