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LIVE: People’s Surge vs. ObamaCare 2.0

Posted on | March 16, 2010 | 37 Comments



UPDATE 10:42 a.m. ET: Smitty reports that he just saw the Washington Post‘s Bob Woodward — of “All the President’s Men” Watergate fame — covering the Capitol rally. Somehow, “Woodward and Smitty” doesn’t ring quite like “Woodward and Bernstein,” but . . .



Activists chant “Kill the Bill!” under supervision of Capitol Police

Smitty on the scene via Twitter at 9:40 a.m. ET:

At the freedomworks protest, taft memorial. #th2dc

Smitty is on the scene at Capitol Hill for the People’s Surge, sponsored by FreedomWorks, and we will have more photos shortly . . .

There is also the Code Red Rally at 10 a.m. at Taft Park.

Michelle Malkin has a post about the rally.

NBC has coverage of the rally, which is also being covered by liberal blogs HuffPo and TPM. Here’s an interesting headline:

House may try to pass Senate health-care bill without voting on it  

Nice trick, that.

Linked by Nice Deb, Da Tech Guy, King Shamus and Bunkerville.

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Category: Health Care, Tea Party

Comments

37 Responses to “LIVE: People’s Surge vs. ObamaCare 2.0”

  1. William Teach
    March 16th, 2010 @ 1:24 pm

    Wish I could be there today.

  2. William Teach
    March 16th, 2010 @ 8:24 am

    Wish I could be there today.

  3. Pat
    March 16th, 2010 @ 2:19 pm

    I’m there in spirit! I’m flying my Gadsden flag today and working phones.

  4. Pat
    March 16th, 2010 @ 9:19 am

    I’m there in spirit! I’m flying my Gadsden flag today and working phones.

  5. Fuzzy
    March 16th, 2010 @ 2:42 pm

    Fantastic! Let ’em have it. I can’t be there, but let Jim McGovern (MA, district 3) that voting on this bill goes against the wishes of the people in his district (we went overwhelming for Scott Brown).

  6. Fuzzy
    March 16th, 2010 @ 9:42 am

    Fantastic! Let ’em have it. I can’t be there, but let Jim McGovern (MA, district 3) that voting on this bill goes against the wishes of the people in his district (we went overwhelming for Scott Brown).

  7. Bob Belvedere
    March 16th, 2010 @ 2:43 pm

    WOLVERINES!

  8. Bob Belvedere
    March 16th, 2010 @ 9:43 am

    WOLVERINES!

  9. Joe
    March 16th, 2010 @ 3:27 pm

    Democratic seeding to give a sense of inevitability or inside dope on what they have planned to get this “passed”? It is time to start freaking out, with a special emphasis on emails to members of congress who are waivering (and if your congresscritter is either a dope (supporting ObamaCare) or fighting this mess, you might give them appropriate criticism/encouragement too).

  10. Joe
    March 16th, 2010 @ 10:27 am

    Democratic seeding to give a sense of inevitability or inside dope on what they have planned to get this “passed”? It is time to start freaking out, with a special emphasis on emails to members of congress who are waivering (and if your congresscritter is either a dope (supporting ObamaCare) or fighting this mess, you might give them appropriate criticism/encouragement too).

  11. chuck cross
    March 16th, 2010 @ 4:01 pm

    great pics — wish I could be there!

  12. chuck cross
    March 16th, 2010 @ 11:01 am

    great pics — wish I could be there!

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  14. Ladydi
    March 16th, 2010 @ 4:40 pm

    Thanks to all for showing up and i wish i could have been their with you

  15. Ladydi
    March 16th, 2010 @ 11:40 am

    Thanks to all for showing up and i wish i could have been their with you

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  17. Ian Vaughan
    March 16th, 2010 @ 5:29 pm

    Why aren’t there signs that say-

    “They want to take your jobs and give them to their friends!”

  18. Ian Vaughan
    March 16th, 2010 @ 12:29 pm

    Why aren’t there signs that say-

    “They want to take your jobs and give them to their friends!”

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  21. Ex Dem
    March 16th, 2010 @ 6:26 pm

    Multiply the amount of people there by 500. Thats how many would be there if they could but work and distance are factors.

    Wish I could have gone too but attening my local tea party rally. Stand strong!

  22. Ex Dem
    March 16th, 2010 @ 1:26 pm

    Multiply the amount of people there by 500. Thats how many would be there if they could but work and distance are factors.

    Wish I could have gone too but attening my local tea party rally. Stand strong!

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  25. Americaneocon
    March 16th, 2010 @ 11:01 pm

    American Power tracked-back with, ‘Code Red on Capitol Hill!’.

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    March 16th, 2010 @ 6:01 pm

    American Power tracked-back with, ‘Code Red on Capitol Hill!’.

  27. Bob Belvedere
    March 16th, 2010 @ 11:44 pm

    Stacy: You’ve got to use your trademark inventiveness and come up with a better term than The People’s Surge. It reeks too much of Leftism. They’re always using the term ‘peoples’ and it’s variants in their organizational names.

    You know: The Popular Front For The Liberation of this and that, The People’s Republic Of…., The Populist Worker’s Party, The People’s Front Of Judea, The Judean People’s Front, The Popular People’s Front [splitters!].

  28. Bob Belvedere
    March 16th, 2010 @ 6:44 pm

    Stacy: You’ve got to use your trademark inventiveness and come up with a better term than The People’s Surge. It reeks too much of Leftism. They’re always using the term ‘peoples’ and it’s variants in their organizational names.

    You know: The Popular Front For The Liberation of this and that, The People’s Republic Of…., The Populist Worker’s Party, The People’s Front Of Judea, The Judean People’s Front, The Popular People’s Front [splitters!].

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