Obama’s Benchmark for Measuring Tea Party Success
Michelle Malkin’s post today on those who would sabotage and/or smear the Tea Party protests got me wondering if there were a way to measure the success of these protests against increasing taxes and government spending.
And then, recalling how the Democratic National Committee (DNC) had inflated the number of signatures it had gathered on petitions supporting the president’s budget, I realized they provided us a benchmark. Now, if 642,000 people, the amount of petitions the Democrats claimed to have by counting each signature three times, show up next Wednesday to protest that spendthrift budget–and it promise of future red ink and tax hikes, then we can consider the tea parties a resounding success.
We, however, don’t need that number to succeed. We simply need to have more people protesting the president’s budget than signed petitions supporting it: 214,000. Unlike the DNC’s Organizing for America which grew out of the Obama’s presidential campaign, the tea party effort is just getting started. We don’t have a long-established organization in place with the resources of a national political party possessing a database of 13 million supporters.
Not just that, to sign a petition supporting the president’s budget, you didn’t need do so at any set time or in any set place as those protesting the budget at tea parties must do.
So, let’s exceed Obama’s number and get a quarter-million people to the protests. Join me next Wednesday, April 15 from 3 to 7 PM at the Santa Monica pier. My goal is to get ten GayPatriot readers & friends to the gathering.
If you can’t join me in Santa Monica next week, let me know your town and I’ll find a party for you!
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Denver’s is in front of the State Capitol and begins at 11am.
Comment by Pink Elephant — April 6, 2009 @ 6:34 pm - April 6, 2009
Well, I can’t get to Santa Monica but when you start up at 3pm… we will be starting up here in Orlando at 6pm (EDT.)
Comment by Randy — April 6, 2009 @ 7:17 pm - April 6, 2009
Tea Party gear can be found at http://www.shirts4freedom.com
Comment by shirts4freedom — April 6, 2009 @ 8:20 pm - April 6, 2009
I’ll see you at the Pier next Wednesday!
Comment by Iris — April 6, 2009 @ 11:31 pm - April 6, 2009
I’ll be coming to the Santa Monica Tea party!
Comment by Leah — April 7, 2009 @ 12:06 am - April 7, 2009
Greensboro NC…4/15…12 noon…Governmental Plaza
Comment by Mark — April 7, 2009 @ 8:20 am - April 7, 2009
I’m in Yonkers, Ny. I think the nearest one is down in Manhattan. Any ideas?
Comment by ousslander — April 7, 2009 @ 8:58 am - April 7, 2009
I’ll wave to y’all from the Houston Tea Party at 4 pm across the street from the Downtown Post Office, at Jones Plaza.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — April 7, 2009 @ 10:20 am - April 7, 2009
I’ll be at the San Jose, Ca Tea Party at 5:00 that day. Wish I could make it to Santa Monica!
Comment by Annie — April 7, 2009 @ 11:19 am - April 7, 2009
Is there a website that shows where/what time these tea parties are taking place?
Comment by Chuck In Del — April 7, 2009 @ 11:20 am - April 7, 2009
#10 – Try Google. But be warned – we’re all on the alert for leftist trolls trying to disrupt our inalienable right to “assemble peaceably for a redress of grievances” as per the First Amendment.
And I for one will have both a camera and a can of mace at the ready.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — April 7, 2009 @ 3:05 pm - April 7, 2009
Good luck to all of you with the Tea Party, wherever it is held. I am not in the USA and not a citizen of the USA.
I think you are doing the right thing to protest. Beware that the left could try some nasty tactics to smear this campaign.
I am with your efforts all the way – maybe we need something like this in Oz to stop KRudd from his excesses.
Comment by maggie — April 7, 2009 @ 5:06 pm - April 7, 2009
We need more patriots like the guy in Pittsburgh!!! He rose up and took action! FIGHT SOCIALISM!!! As great patriots like Beck, Malkin, Hannity and Michelle Bachmann have made it crystal clear, we need to meet this threat with a revolutionary force and fight them head on just like in Pittsburgh and these tea parties are the perfect avenue to do it and WE WILL DO IT!!! The poor chap in Pittsburgh was a hero! A Revolutionary! A true patriot and how dare the leftist liberals and their obedient media smear his good name because they’re threatened by our cause. THE 912 PROJECT HAS PROVEN TO BE EFFECTIVE IN PITTSBURGH!!!
RICHARD POPLAWSKI IS A MODERN DAY JOHN GALT, PAUL REVERE, JOHN ADAMS thanks to the revolutionary leadership of Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin, Sean Hannity and Michelle Bachmann. These Liberals should guarantee that there is going to be a lot more Poplawskis at these tea parties and we’ll be heavily armed and ready to fight the revolution to take back our nation.
Comment by Syntax — April 7, 2009 @ 9:14 pm - April 7, 2009
Syntax,
your trolling aside (first post, spreading lies and hate) the fact is the only person threatening mobs of people rising up is the President of the United States
So take your bile and direct it at the people actually doing what you accuse others of.
Comment by The Livewire — April 8, 2009 @ 6:49 am - April 8, 2009
Savannah GA Tea Party is April 15th @ Rousakis Plaza on River Street, 12-1 pm, there will be a march through downtown @ 5pm…..everyone is welcome!
Info @: SAVANNAH TEA PARTY on Facebook!
Comment by Missy — April 8, 2009 @ 10:03 am - April 8, 2009
I’ll be waving from Des Moines, Iowa where we will be assembling at the foot of our beautiful state capital. I am listening to the song from Les Miserables “the People’s Song”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VR1bOha40U&feature=related
*”Do you hear the people sing, it is the song of angry men! It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again!”"
Comment by Terri from Iowa — April 10, 2009 @ 1:14 pm - April 10, 2009
I’ll be waving at you from Macon GA Tea Party in the afternoon, and the Leesburg Tea Party in the evening (catching it on the way home). My 81 year old mother and her friends have made t-shirts and signs and are ready to give the government a piece of their minds. They all want to be alive to see this thing through. These actions by all gives hope to the seniors who realize that their very lives are being threatened by the bailouts, socialized medicine, higher taxes, etc. My mother is a life long democrat (fiscal conservative) who feels betrayed by her party. Not to worry, she is now INDEPENDENT and waiting for the Party that is inclusive to ALL AMERICANS. I will toast you on Wednesday Gay Patriot!!!!! Thank you for your patriotism.
Comment by MotherRedDog — April 13, 2009 @ 10:48 am - April 13, 2009
[...] I wrote last week, to consider the tea parties a success: We simply need to have more people protesting the president’s budget than signed petitions [...]
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