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April 20, 2009

Tea Parties: Tax Day Anger Becomes Everyday Anger

The Obama Administration, the Democrats in Congress, the mainstream media and the flaming liberal media are attempting to downplay the organized anger expressed by hundreds of thousands of people on April 15 at Tax Day Tea Parties across the country.

The president issued a press release on tax day restating all the platitudes he has touted ever since he was running for president. As usual, his rhetoric does not match the agenda being steamrolled through Congress by his Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

The Democratic National Committee issued a statement on Thursday, April 16,which acknowledged people’s frustrations and suggested that “what’s clear is that the overwhelming majority of folks support President Obama’s plan to get the economy back on track, and provide 95 percent of working families with tax relief, because they are not going to accept ‘more of the same’ as an answer.”

People not accepting “more of the same” is an accurate message of the tax day events, but overwhelmingly supporting President Obama’s plan is a joke.

Here are some of the signs at the Las Vegas tax day event where I attended:

“Stop the spending. Stop the bailouts. Stop the tyranny”

“Got change? Hide it before Obama taxes it!”

“The only thing wrong with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”

Is that overwhelming support? And is the $8 a week for a single worker and $13 a week for a working couple tax relief? That’s the tax relief for 95 percent of working families the president and the Democrats are talking about.

And of course Speaker Pelosi weighed in with equally misleading statements when she said, “This tea party initiative is funded by the high end – we call it Astroturf, it’s not really a grassroots movement. It’s Astroturf by some of the wealthiest people in America to keep the focus on tax cuts for the rich instead of for the great middle class.” Translated, let’s talk about class warfare.

I have warned readers in the past that when liberals disagree with a conservative, or when they are in denial of the facts, they change the subject. Casey Hendrickson of KXNT 840 AM out of Las Vegas appropriately calls this maneuver a WMD – a Weapon of Mass Distraction. 

USA Today’s lead headline the day after the rallies read “Thousands rally at Tax Day Tea Parties”. Adding up the mostly understated news reports of crowd sizes in over 2,000 events around the country would suggest hundreds of thousands is more accurate. But the liberals are not counting.

And a flaming liberal publication, People’s Weekly World Newspaper, claimed that “Tax Day Rallies cry ‘Tax the Rich!’”. What planet are they from?

I attended the Las Vegas tax day rally, which attracted 2,500 people, and I did not see one sign that said to tax anyone more. I did not see one sign that proclaimed overwhelming support for the “Obama Plan” of trying to spend our way out of this financial crisis. And I did not see one sign that said “socialism now”.

But I saw lots of signs that were clearly not in support of the Obama-Reid-Pelosi direction of the country. Lots and lots of those signs!

Mr. President, Senate Majority Leader Reid and Speaker Pelosi, the anger is directed at y’all! You have ignored the message and the people again.

It’s not just tax day anger anymore. It is now everyday anger.

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