Posted by
Nee on Friday, February 27, 2009 5:04:49 PM
After standing by and feeling helpless and watching Rick Santelli ask the President if he was listening, I was prepared to go to Washington, DC and join the "Chicago Tea Party" there to protest the Porkulus bill and then some. Then I found out that we were having one here in downtown Chicago.
Voila. I got on TownHall.com and looked up any Illinois Blogger and tried to post notes asking them to try and attend. I didn't meet anyone I knew or "knew" from the blog world. But that's okay. The point was to stand up and say we're not going to take this sitting down. Many of the people there had the same sentiment as Arturick, From Right Wing Hate Machine. He said he had to work for a living. I heard that statement several times when I asked people what made them come. They had to work!!! Unlike the left minded counterparts who will take hand-outs over responsibility, perhaps? Ugh. Curse them all who will take it and not think about the repercussions to the rest of us making an honest living AND paying our bills.
I did get interviewed by the local Chicago Fox Afilliate. He asked me why I came out and I told him it was my duty to support and defend the Constitution. I told him that the President had basically committed treason by signing a bill that had not been read in it's revised form, therefore we were effectively being taxed without representation. I turned the tables on him, too. I asked if it didn't tick him off to be paying for others mistakes? He offered that he didn't own a home yet. And I told him that he wouldn't ever if he had to pay for other people's mistakes. He was young and taken aback. Stunned for a moment, even.
The crowd got to be rather large. Word from the organizer was that we had 350 RSVP's and there were definitely more. We were apparently not allowed to be in the center of Daley Plaza and forced to the surrounding sidewalks. Not to be deterred, we held our signs and yelled toward the street and to each other....
Don't Tread on Me, Pay your own Bills, Read the Bill. USA, not the EEU! One sign, I loved was the one that said, "Honk if you don't want to pay my mortgage!" Needless to say, there were plenty of honks.
We made our way from Daley and walked to the Freedom Museum where larger than life figures with suitcases represented the American Dream.
We chanted all the way and were greeted by honks and thumbs up. Anyway, the whole point was to stand tall for what you believe. I did meet one guy who said that he "was just a smart black conservative who doesn't drink the kool-aid and my parents don't even know I am a conservative." His T-shirt had a pic of Obama and Hitler side by side.
He pays his cronies back with our money!
The Great Communicator! (I'm from the Gov't and I'm here to help.)
Indeed, spare us! Obama robbing us all blind
The Tea party travels to the Museum of Freedom
The link below is of the local Fox channel and the guy who interviewed me. Don't know how to embed it, sorry!
I am the "Chicago housewife."
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/TeaParty
This is the DC Tea PArty at Jonn Lilyea's ThisAin'tHell
http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=8144