won't you join us for a spot of tea?

yesterday, cub reporter priscilla scooped the msm and brought z and her readers information about a political rally (a tea party of sorts) that took place yesterday in fullerton, california.  the estimate is that there were about 8,000 participants there to object to california proposition 1a which is on the ballot for 19 may 2009. 

if it passes successfully it will extend the tax increase that our fearless leaders in sacramento passed as part of the 2009/2010 budget for another two years.  yippee!!

one commenter (pat jenkins) wondered who should take on this issue nationally and pris thought perhaps laura ingraham or david horowitz; z thought perhaps we needed someone non-partisan.  however, i have to agree with pris that no one is really non-partisan.  the comments attached to the post are myriad and insightful and got me to thinking. 

for this to be truly successful it has to be a bigger-than-big movement.  but where to start? 

a few weeks ago, rick santelli called for a new tea party, from the trading floor, in response to obama's "pay your neighbor's mortgage whether you want to or not" scheme.  you can see his "rant" here:

after a real quick brouhaha (i mean if you skipped the news one night you missed it), the msm decides to just ignore it.  even as others started calling for regional tea parties, the msm pretended that everyone in the country (well except for a very few of us radical conservatives) was loving the obama bailouts.  and that false representation of sentiments continues to this day.

anyhow, across the country in february there were several of these tea parties held, but none garnered any media exposure to speak of.  this one, yesterday, in fullerton didn't even make the evening news here in l.a.  my guess is the same is true of [at least] most of the tea parties that have been held thusfar.

well now there's a new call out for an organized, national tea party.  as posted by bobby eberle, yesterday, over at gopusa:

When the colonists threw boxes of tea into Boston Harbor, their message was clear: no taxation without representation. The frustration had built to the boiling point and action needed to be taken.

A similar movement is building across America. President Obama is moving his socialist agenda through Congress and into American life, and it needs to be stopped. Faster than any president in American history, Obama has just spent over a trillion dollars that America does not have, and now he wants to pay for it by raising taxes. Enough is enough!

Obama has only been in office less than two months and has already signed on for over a trillion dollars in spending. There is the "stimulus" bill, the mortgage bill, and on and on. Every time there is a problem in this country, the Obama administration calls for more spending. Do he and his fellow liberals have so little faith in the American people? Given more of our own money in our pockets, I'm sure the American people could figure out how to get the economy going. We don't need government telling us how our money will be spent, what charities are "worthy," and what projects are more important.

To call attention to all this spending (and the taxes that will follow), the nationwide Tax Day Tea Party is being organized by a collaboration of grassroots organizations, and GOPUSA is doing its job to help spread the word.

check out the link here and sign up for the fun.  from their recent press release:

Building on the success of the Nationwide Chicago Tea Parties held [in February] in multiple cities around the nation, conservative grassroots organizations and free market activists will once again come together on April 15th to protest out-of-control government spending. Timed to coincide with the date by which Americans must pay their federal income taxes, the Tax Day Tea Party effort will be coordinated by Smart Girl Politics, Top Conservatives on Twitter and the DontGo Movement (www.dontgomovement.com), in addition to other center-right activist groups.

Plans are under way for rallies to take place in nine American cities, with more sites to be added in the coming weeks. The goal of these protests is to call attention to the unprecedented wasteful spending by Democrats in Congress and the Obama Administration.

When asked about the need for nationwide rallies based on the Boston Tea Party of 1773, Eric Odom, Chairman of the DontGo Movement, remarked, "Building on the free market ideas of our founding fathers, and embracing the passion they shared to bring them to light, the Nationwide Tea Party Movement is giving voice to tens of thousands of Americans." Added Stacy Mott, President of Smart Girl Politics, "Average Americans do not support mortgaging away our children's futures, and the time to speak out against it is now."

Information on The Tax Day Tea Party can be found at http://taxdayteaparty.com.

what better day than tax day to hold a rally protesting taxation without equal representation?  i certainly don't feel that i have any real representation for my tax dollars, do you?

please help to spread the word.  please join us on tax day to make this something the msm can no longer ignore.  please help us to make history again.

one more thing - great reminder from my good friend "z":

And make sure you watch Glenn Beck on Friday, March 13....5 pm EST. That should give us some hope.  Remember, the pen might be mightier than the sword sometimes, but our swords need to get sharp; our 'swords' are those tea parties, writing our politicians, demanding that our leaders pay attention to both sides of every issue, writing to the media venues and demanding honesty.   And our blogs are our pens.    Don't give up!  We have a heck of a fight on our hands..............sharpen your pens............and your swords.

Comments

[Z]

Great piece, Heidianne! Thanks for mentioning me AND my terrific CUB REPORTER!! Priscilla's terrific!

To set the record straight, HOWEVER..AHEM! I said we need NON PARTISAN but I did not say PEOPLE.. I meant "Non Partisan Cooperation!" It's why I said I thought no ONE person could be in charge of this, we would need one Left and one Right. There ARE no non partisans left, you are so right about that!!

UNITE, PEOPLE! We have a COUNTRY TO SAVE! Go to that tea party, WRITE your politicians, cancel your newspaper subscription! WORK FOR AMERICA! Super post, Heidianne!!

[Angel]

lets hope this makes a dent in THE ONE'S plans to rule the world Heidi!:)..

[heidianne jackson]

z, sorry to misrepresent your words. i doubt that you'll find any dem or liberal spokesperson who will champion this cause. however, i'm certain there are a large number of democrats who are with the conservatives on this!

[heidianne jackson]

angel, i couldn't agree more! i hope you'll be joining in in nyc!

[Law and Order Teacher]

Nice post. Great point. I just posted a video you might find interesting, especially the last line. It's about time to make ourselves heard. As John Locke said we are given natural rights by our creator and government exists only to protect our rights. Maybe its time to alter or abolish our government.

[Brooke]

I say it's time to abolish it, and start with a clean slate.

[FJ]

Don't you first have to start out by forming a Committee of Safety and organizing a militia, then you boycott the government's "goods" and form a Committee of Inpsection & Observation to identify the non-boycott participants and make your enemies list, then you form a Committee of Correspondence to coordinate your rebellious activities amongst other dissenters and then you plan your teaparty in the "Secret Committee"?

Only AFTER you've done your homework are you supposed to proceed to the "teaparty" phase. ;-)

[Americaneocon]

The press is not covering these tea parties, Heidi. It's a joke. If you have radical gay rights protests, they're all over the front page at LAT. Nada with the anti-tax stuff...

[JMK]

I don't know exactly WHAT it will take, but I'm sure of one thing, Americans voted for "change" to RENEW the prosperity they had in the late 1990s.

Ironically enough, that was almost entirely due to the Gingrich Congress CUTTING the federal budget for the first time in 100 years, for slashing the Capital Gains tax by 1/3 FROM 30% TO 20% and by saving states and localities BILLIONS via welfare reform and workfare!

That is the opposite of the path we've been on for the past six years or more.

G W Bush was a Republican Keynesian (like Nixon was) and he's being follwoed by another Liberal (and woefully naive) Keynesian Democrat Obama (now) and Carter (then).

I don't how bad things will have to get, maybe as bad as they were under Carter????

A staggering 22 point Misery Index, Stagflation (double digit interest, inflation and unemployment rates) AND a prime lending rate of 23.5% is what Carter bequeathed to Ronald Reagan....we may be headed there again.

[FJ]

......~(&:>

[Steve Harkonnen]

I only hope the tea parties have an impact. We're going to ours in Fishersville this evening with friends and afterwards for dinner. Let us know how yours went!

Oh and I added you to my blog roll. Thanks!

[Ducky's here]

JMK, I'm more interested in your bizarre thesis that junk financial paper represents wealth, or did you mean temporary wealth.

I enjoy your misery index postings. You really glommed onto that one like a sad sack dog on a bone. Now, how do people factor in the loss of equity in their homes and their loss of net worth? How is that factored into your "misery index"?

Sorry, bubba, anyone with a brain knows this is a bigger problem than anything that happened under Carter. Yes sir, that Gingrich stuff sure worked out great, didn't it.

Look, your laissez-faire boys did boom-boom in their pants, allover the floor and then smeared it on the walls. Rand is dead, Milton Friedman is dead, van Mies is dead and even your average Libertarian stoner knows that Hayek was a utilitarian who didn't care squat for this individualism manifesto of yours ... check that, you probably don't know it.

[Ducky's here]

If wealth is infinite then why didn't they just keep writing paper?

Really, if it's infinite then why don't we all just join Wall Street and write bad checks.

Or does there have to bee some underlying asset? Bummer that. Bring commodities into this and all of a sudden the Malthusian arguments get a little more significant, right FJ.