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Tea Party Express III: Tax Day Rally
at Freedom Plaza

Posted on | April 15, 2010 | 20 Comments

11 a.m. ET — “People’s Tax Revolt” in downtown Washington, D.C. Smitty is already on the scene. Barbara Espinosa and Pete Da Tech Guy (“Have Fedora, Will Travel“) and I are running late.

UPDATE 11:20 a.m. ET — Michelle Malkin tells how to spot a Tea Party infiltrator. More from Jimmie Bise at The Sundries Shack, Darleen Click at  Protein Wisdom and Ed Morrissey Hot Air, as well as The Lonely Conservative

Update 11:48 (Smitty) On site at the rally.
Grover Norquist gave a fine chat on tax reform. Thankfully, immigration is not the topic of the day.

Update 11:58 (Smitty) Jill of Pundit & Pundette just came by with Stacy.

Jennifer McManus from NorthGeorgia912.com says hello and thanks to Dick Armey.
These are all to the tune of Yankee Doodle Dandy.

and then

Victoria Jackson is doing “There is a Communist in the White House”

Update 12:48 (Smitty) Stacy managed to shoot the following clip of Victoria while I was blogging:

Jeff and I managed to get our picture taken with Victoria.

‘Oh yeah?’ said Stacy, ‘I got my picture taken with Michelle Bachman.’

‘Me too,’ said Jeff.

Update 13:26
Some crowd shots. The crowd definitely filled the park to capacity today, however many thousand bodies that makes.




Category: Barbara Espinosa, Da Tech Guy, Tea Party

Comments

20 Responses to “Tea Party Express III: Tax Day Rally
at Freedom Plaza”

  1. Joe
    April 15th, 2010 @ 3:40 pm

    To borrow from Jeff Foxworthy:

    If they smell like patchouli, they just might NOT be a tea party patriot.

  2. Joe
    April 15th, 2010 @ 10:40 am

    To borrow from Jeff Foxworthy:

    If they smell like patchouli, they just might NOT be a tea party patriot.

  3. Bob Belvedere
    April 15th, 2010 @ 6:26 pm

    Three Cheers for DaTechguy!

  4. Bob Belvedere
    April 15th, 2010 @ 1:26 pm

    Three Cheers for DaTechguy!

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  6. Robert Stacy McCain
    April 15th, 2010 @ 6:53 pm

    Bob, you should see Da Tech Guy at work. He really is amazing, and is beginning to attract his own cult following of blog readers.

  7. Robert Stacy McCain
    April 15th, 2010 @ 1:53 pm

    Bob, you should see Da Tech Guy at work. He really is amazing, and is beginning to attract his own cult following of blog readers.

  8. Miss Sharon
    April 15th, 2010 @ 8:07 pm

    Fabulous signs & crowd! Michele Bachmann is gorgeous through & through! Is Jeff one of the twins?

  9. Miss Sharon
    April 15th, 2010 @ 3:07 pm

    Fabulous signs & crowd! Michele Bachmann is gorgeous through & through! Is Jeff one of the twins?

  10. Robert Stacy McCain
    April 15th, 2010 @ 8:14 pm

    Jeff is Smitty’s buddy.

  11. Robert Stacy McCain
    April 15th, 2010 @ 3:14 pm

    Jeff is Smitty’s buddy.

  12. Bob Belvedere
    April 15th, 2010 @ 8:21 pm

    Stacy: I believe it and he’s earning it. I linked five postings he did [!] on yesterday’s Boston Tea Party and two from his On The Road trip to DC in my trackback above.

    Have you had a chance to see the pics he took yesterday? Man, he was able to cover a lot of angles. It’s really good stuff.

    For those of you who have seen DTG’s photo work, click here:
    http://datechguy.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/inital-photo-batch-boston-tea-party-414/
    and here:
    http://datechguy.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/more-tea-party-pictures/

  13. Bob Belvedere
    April 15th, 2010 @ 3:21 pm

    Stacy: I believe it and he’s earning it. I linked five postings he did [!] on yesterday’s Boston Tea Party and two from his On The Road trip to DC in my trackback above.

    Have you had a chance to see the pics he took yesterday? Man, he was able to cover a lot of angles. It’s really good stuff.

    For those of you who have seen DTG’s photo work, click here:
    http://datechguy.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/inital-photo-batch-boston-tea-party-414/
    and here:
    http://datechguy.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/more-tea-party-pictures/

  14. Bob Belvedere
    April 15th, 2010 @ 8:22 pm

    should be ‘haven’t’

  15. Bob Belvedere
    April 15th, 2010 @ 3:22 pm

    should be ‘haven’t’

  16. Live Free Or Die
    April 15th, 2010 @ 9:06 pm

    Color me green with envy, for your good fortune of having met the Honorable Michele Bachmann. My guess is you didn’t have to remind her to ‘act like a lady’.

  17. Live Free Or Die
    April 15th, 2010 @ 4:06 pm

    Color me green with envy, for your good fortune of having met the Honorable Michele Bachmann. My guess is you didn’t have to remind her to ‘act like a lady’.

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  19. Suzanne Ferreira
    April 16th, 2010 @ 8:36 pm

    So Michelle Bachman gets the crowd going over the stimulus bill spending and bailouts like she had nothing to do with it. SHE VOTED FOR IT!!! What a hypocrite.

  20. Suzanne Ferreira
    April 16th, 2010 @ 3:36 pm

    So Michelle Bachman gets the crowd going over the stimulus bill spending and bailouts like she had nothing to do with it. SHE VOTED FOR IT!!! What a hypocrite.