UPDATED AGAIN!! Apparently, I have made the national news with my little Fox Appearance! Friends in NC called to tell me they saw me! Woo-hoo! Next stop...Capitol Hill!!
Updated: My archive was missing this post even though it shows up when you click me, so I cut and pasted and added some links below. the comments will be on the other post and new ones started. Go to
http://defendusa.vox.com
and click the photos tab at top to see the pix. Sorry, I just couldn't figure out how to get them here.
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. Of course the leftists pshaw it and call us names but you already know when they can't back up anything, they resort to name calling and invective.
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 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
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.
Go to the Chicago Bungalow Page below and see him speak at about 2:27 or so...that was my "Amen" in the background while he was speaking.
http://chi-townbungalow.blogspot.com/2009/02/nationwide-chicago-tea-party-videos.html
There were a few losers out there who chose to bash us tea party protesters and when I find them I let them have it.
http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2009/02/27/weak-tea/
This guy's site above is apparently from Chi-town and what I like to call a chest puffer. I let him have it, but someone alerted Michele Malkin and she wrote a column at her blog...
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/03/02/the-tea-party-bashers-clueless-bitter-and-wrapped-in-tinfoil/
And here's to Jonn Lilyea who managed to embed the video on his site...
ThisAin'tHell
http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=8144
The photos are not right here but I think if you click photos, they appear? I am Stoopid when it comes to this!! Enjoy.