March on D.C. draws 2 million! UPDATE!
Photo courtesy of Michelle Malkin. For the actual ariel time-lapse video of the march today, click here for the Rhetorician (via Instapundit). In addition, 50 photos from the event are posted by The Patriot Room.
The photo above is a view of part of the crowd of protesters who gathered in Washington, D.C. and around the country today to demand control of reckless runaway government spending and to voice their opposition to the government takeover of healthcare.
Police agencies estimates the crowd at 1.2 million. ABC News, however, reported this afternoon that the crowd was estimated at 2 million.
No matter which way you cut it, the size and scope of today’s citizen march on Washington is an historic, groundbreaking event. Ordinary citizens who have been called ‘the great silent majority’ normally do not protest…at least not in public. That day is long gone.
The outrage expressed by normal, everyday citizens from across the nation at the town hall meetings in August is a case in point. Never before in recent history or memory have citizens been so clearly, visibly–and audibly–enraged by the actions of their government.
These are the people who go to work everyday, pay the bulk of the taxes of the country, raise families, and do their best to provide a safe environment for themselves in their local communities. They don’t have time for ‘political activism’ as the hippies who protested the Viet Nam war.
Yet these dedicated men and women, at great personal expense, took the time to travel to Washington to make their voices heard in a tsunami of collective rage, mainly because they have become convinced that their elected leaders are not listening to them any longer.
And you bet they want ’change.’ They want to replace most if not all of the Representatives and Senators in Congress for being hopelessly out of touch with the citizenry. They want a President who loves liberty, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and who reflects that love in the policies that are proposed. They don’t want leftwing, radical extremists who espouse everything from forced abortions, healthcare rationing for the elderly, limiting free speech on radio, and other social and political engineering from bureaucrats who sit comfortably in their Washington offices while demanding that ordinary citizens in the heartland adhere to edicts that the politicians have no intention of following.
Further, these patriotic ‘peasants with pitchforks and torches’ clearly do not want the trillion-dollar proposals that add mind-boggling burdens to the national debt and budget deficit for generations to come. And they don’t want their taxes raised to pay for the Washington elitists’ insistence on unheard-of government spending that is sending the nation into debtor’s quicksand to the tune of 400 billion dollars per month since Obama took office.
The question is, will Pelosi, Reid, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Steny Hoyer, Charles Rangle, and Barack Obama get the message and alter the present course? Don’t count on it.
But one thing is for sure. The sleeping giant of the ‘great silent majority’ has been awakened, and they aren’t going anywhere.
First of all, you aren’t silent and you aren’t a majority. ROTFL
Hey guys,
I just drove home there were to date 2.1 million and that doesn’t include the ones around the country which can then be estimated to 3-3.5 million protesting. One important thing to remember and get out it….was there were more people ther to say GOODBYE Obama that that were there to say WELCOME at his inaugaration day that speaks VOLUMES!
It’s our house and we cam back for a visit today!
“WE OWN THE DOME!”
Dream on Karen the people are waking up, just wait and see when they come to take the usurper by his oversized ears and drag him from the Whitehouse. Final destination Gitmo.
Poor Karen,
She’s been dogging this site for weeks with doubt and bad news. Your cred is the pits, now! 50,000 you said! Ha! We are the majority, but sure as Hell aren’t silent anymore! The Usurper is the great uniter, he proved it today. Just look at the pictures!! Obamunism is exposed as the totalitarian internationalist conspiracy that has run Washington for decades from behind the curtain.
David,
After he is exposed and loses the protection of the Secret Service he’ll be damn lucky to get to Gitmo!
Longknife and David,
Yes, Karen is definately on the wrong end of this one as well. There is eons of difference between even a million and 50,000. Those are the kind of people who put that flop eared Kenyan into our White House.They have been so decieved and just don’t have a clue as to how confused they really are.
The sheer mass of the Patriots in Washington and elsewhere should cause an alarm to go off in the Congress as well as the White House. But still, those idiots won’t get the message. They are just plain stuck on stupid!
Amazing turnout!!! I feel so encouraged by the DC Tea Party attendance numbers. I feel like more and more of us are finally speaking up and taking action!
We cannot afford complacency!! And We the People are realizing that!!!
Excellent news!
Hmm, David, why did you not let the article by ABC get through moderation? What are you afraid of? You are right, the truth will come out.
WHOEVER KAREN IS, SHE IS REALLY ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THIS, GERALDO EVEN SAID THIS WAS THE BIGGEST SINCE, WHEN? I THINK IT IS GREAT, HOW DO YOU GET HIM OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE? DO THE PAPERS PELOSI SIGNED WITH THE LAST SENTENCE TAKEN OUT ON THE ONES SUBMITTED TO THE STATES HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH HIM BEING ARRESTED??????????????????
Well Karin I am certainly did not censor your comments, let me point out to you that I am an expat located Central Europe. I have been reporting until 5 in the morning when I finally went to sleep.
Of course I really feel deeply ashamed to have made you wait. Furthermore ABC is but one source that on top of that is not really objective to say the least.
I am happy to see so many blacks and retirees at the protest! Two groups that have long been exploited and lied too by the Lefty/Lib Demos. The Usurper has really shown his hand to retirees, after 50 years of Dems, promising Golden Years from SS so they would spend instead of saving, he cut the COLA , plans to cut gov’t-driven out of control Medicare, and give us Obama/Death/Care!
How can even the fuzzy brain libs trust this liar! He throws away money like Saudi prince while putting the bill on your credit card, and you get to pay the interest forever to the Banksters!! They are as stupid about economics as they are about the Constitution!
Who believes Always Broadcast Communism (ABC), anyway. Really Obots, pick a lie you like and run with it, is that the plan?
Karen here is a NEWS FLASH! We are the majority 52% don’t want healthcare! Obama only won by 53% to 47% so it was no landslide! Get your facts straight……Also, ABC did report 2 million people it came across the lines yesterday as we were all standing there so again get your facts straight! CNN reported 1000 LMAO! Just remember….there were more people to say goodbye to him yesterday than to say welcome in his inaugaration that is a FACT!
IT’S OUR HOUSE AND WE WENT FOR A VISIT YESTERDAY & WE OWN THE DOME!!!!!!!
One last thing when the final tally comes up it will be close to 4 million because the count across the country hasn’t been completed yet. There were 25,000 in Quincy, MO.
David,
My apology. I certainly understand the need for sleep. By the way, my name is Karen with a e.
Linda,
Actually, US already has a several govt. run health care programs: medicare, VA Hospitals and Tricare. Rep. Wilson who opposes govt. run health care has Tricare and he also voted to provide funding to reimburse hospitals for health care for illegal immigrants.
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/09/10/joe-wilson-s-dirty-health-care-secret.aspx
Excerpt
“To be fair, Wilson has been consistent in his policymaking if not his personal life: according to his last congressional opponent, Wilson voted 11 times against health care for veterans in eight years, even as he voted “aye” for the Iraq War (during the debate on the war vote, he even called one Democrat “viscerally anti-American”─several times). He voted to cut veterans’ benefits─not his own─to make room for President George W. Bush’s tax cuts. He repeatedly voted for budgets that slashed funding to the Veterans Administration and TRICARE. And perhaps most bizarrely, he refused─repeatedly─to approve Democratic-led initiatives that would have extended TRICARE coverage to all reservists and National Guard members, even though a disproportionate number of them have served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan─and many lost access to their civilian work benefits when they did so.
There’s one other notable exception to Wilson’s tough-on-government record: In July, when the health-insurance debate just started heating up, he offered an amendment that would exempt TRICARE from any system of employer mandates in a health-care bill. It’s not clear whether this is necessary, since most such bills in Congress keep government benefits exempt from the rules as a matter of course. But Wilson took the opportunity to make his stand.”
All credible media reports say there was between 50 - 70 thousand people in DC. BTW, all in attendance were not part of the protest.
To even imply the event yesterday compared to the number of people who attended the 2009 inauguration is beyond pale.
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/09/size-matters-so-do-lies.html
“Malkin herself did not lie; she merely repeated a lie. It does not particularly call into question her character. It does, however, call into question her judgment. The reason is that if there had in fact been 2 million protesters in Washington yesterday, there would have been no need to lie about it — the magnitude of the protests would have been self-evident. I was in Washington for the inauguration, an event at which there really were almost 2 million people present — and let me tell you, it was a Holy Mess. Hotels, charging double or treble their usual rates, were booked weeks in advance. Major stations on the Metro system were shut down for hours at a time. The National Guard was brought in. At least 3,000 people got stuck in a tunnel. Essentially the entirely of the National Mall, from the Capitol to the Washington Monument, was dotted with onlookers. Heaps of trash were left behind. The entire city was basically a warzone for a period of about 20 hours, from midnight through mid-evening.”
Then to imply up to 4 mil, well, you might want to check out this bit of information:
http://www.census.gov/
U.S. 307,436,115
The problem with this “movement” is that there has been too much “fiction” and not enough “facts.” Dr. Taitz is a prime example of what I am referring to.
Poor Karen! I feel so sorry for you and your liberal buds. What will you do when you wake up one morning and your messiah is gone? He will be gone, you know. The true, loyal, Constitution loving patriots in this country will put up with delays because we know that justice wins out. We have no place to go but up. You have no place to go but down. Get on the right side of this issue or you may want to consider moving to North Korea, Iran or even Kenya. Some place where you can remain with your head in the sand. When all of the problems come to light the sand will be turned over and you don’t want your head in there forever.
“I am happy to see so many blacks and retirees at the protest! Two groups that have long been exploited and lied too by the Lefty/Lib Demos.”
http://washingtonindependent.com/58811/demint-blames-lack-of-crowd-diversity-on-timing-media
DeMint Blames Lack of Tea Party Crowd Diversity on Timing, Media
By Aaron Wiener 9/12/09 3:58 PM
“The turnout to today’s Tea Party was indisputably high — likely in the hundreds tens of thousands (though organizers claimed it reached 1.5 million). But racially diverse it was not. And according to Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), that’s the fault of the event’s timing and the media coverage.
“If anyone does a fair analysis of the crowd, it’s a cross-section of the population,” he said in a phone interview.
I agreed that it was a geographically and economically diverse crowd, but I noted that the protesters were at least 99 percent white — in fact, in my four-plus hours at the event, I’d only seen three African-American demonstrators.”
Karen,
You are wrong. It should be your name is Karen with an e, not a e as you wrote. Just wanted to make sure David got it right.
Morgan,
Correct. My name is Karen not Karin.
My apologies Karen, your name is Karen and not Karin like one of my co-workers.
David
Morgan,
Did I miss something here? I think I have just discovered that Karen (with an ‘e’) is a little dense. I think she never realized that you were not correcting the spelling of her name but you correcrted her grammar! LOL
Poor Karen,
Still quoting wishful thinking. As for the total number of Blacks at the rally, after reading the lap-dog MSM I expected none! Even conservative Christian Blacks would have to be exceedingly brave to face all those violent, red-neck racists! I’m surprised anyone survived! See the Parks estimation map. Also the picture above appears (to this old helicopter pilot) to include about 3 blocks of crowd before it gets to the estimation area. Notice the for-ground (1st block) how much wider the street is, the building is set back a considerable distance from the next block. Better & larger copies of this and other pictures are posted here.
Delaney,
You surely didn’t miss anything. You are absolutely correct in your analysis! I just beg to differ a little on your determination that she is a “little dense”. I tend to believe those on the “left” are greatly dense and that is why they will never acknowledge truth.I just wanted to insure David got it correct, LOL.
:delaney // Sep 13, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Morgan,
“Did I miss something here? I think I have just discovered that Karen (with an ‘e’) is a little dense. I think she never realized that you were not correcting the spelling of her name but you correcrted her grammar! LOL”
Nope, I got it. I simply chose to ignore it.
Linda,
“There were 25,000 in Quincy, MO.”
Are you sure this is accurate? Don’t think so.
http://www.whig.com/story/news/QPD-091309
“Despite three major events Saturday, including about 2,200 people in Washington Park for the Quincy Tea Party gathering, there were no issues for the Quincy Police Department. ”
http://www.whig.com/story/news/Tea-Party—-WEB
“Quincy police estimated Saturday’s crowd at between 2,000 and 2,200 at 2:30 p.m. Those running shuttles from parking lots told of visitors from Nebraska, Des Moines, Iowa and Wisconsin.”
Here is another piece of interesting info.
http://www.census.gov/
The 2008 population estimate for Quincy city, Illinois is 39,983.
Karen,
Are still trying to sell a bunch of bad news and Obot nonsense? Here? Do they pay you by the comment or are you a masochist? Every point you tried has been disproven.
There were only 50,000 demonstrators at DC– get a grip.
Maybe you need a plexiglass navel so you can see better, silly Obot.
Karen,
I can’t even imagine how it must suck to go thru life with the total lack of truth that you possess.You need to take a math course because it is evident you didn’t perform too well in the last.
But then again, anyone who would vote for or support an illegal alien from Kenya, a closet homosexual (ask Larry Sinclair), crack smoker, community organizer who has never held a job,Jumbo flop eared Zebra, communist fraud like Obama can’t be wound to tight. Karen, even for an Obot, Your elevator sure doesn’t reach the top floor!
I believe that Karen and 78 are working together to harass Patriots on this and other sites.
Furthermore, I believe they are paid to do this with George Soros money, made by screwing up our economy and money trading. No sane person would continue to lie and embarass themselves, but some money-grubber. Only the worst kind of a spiritual whore would take that kind of money. Only a devout international socialist and/or Black Nationalist could still support the Usurpers marxo-fascist plan to destroy our economy and the middle class. Ignorance is no longer an excuse for them. They obviously have been exposed to the facts and willfully ignore the truth because they can not dispute it. They believe they will somehow profit by the destruction of America is why they wish to discourage honest Patriots. They know we often argue and even fight among ourselves, because we are independent people. And they hope to sow seeds of doubt and discord among us, but they have failed. I for one throughly enjoy teasing and ridiculing them and their paltry efforts to discourage us! I know it is childish to act this way, but they have proven over and over they are not to be trusted or taken seriously, except as devoted Obots, and enemies of America and our Constitution.
Let the games begin!!
Longknife and Morgan,
Hurling insults instead of providing credible sources pretty much says it all. To consider Larry Sinclair as a credible source amazes me.
It is the other way around, every point you have tried to make has been unsourced and has been disproved by sourced credible information.
Good day.
It is the other way around, every point you have tried to make has been unsourced and has been disproved by sourced credible information.
Good day.
That is the best news we received Good Day. I guess that means you though trying to demean the patriots on here. Take your census stuff and shove it.They are driven by Acorn and politics. You were shown poof beyond belief and you still want to dispute the facts. I would venture to say the Patriots won’t waste
their time with a cancer that has gone to far. You have been pronouced TERMINAL.
I in fact told Linda not to waste time answering your dribble, as we have more inportant things to focus on, not answer OBOTS
Have a nice Life.
tpgow,
I fully agree with you that Linda or any other patriot should not waste time and effort in answering the likes of Karen and Veteran78. For a matter of fact and in spite the fact that I try to uphold the first amendment as much as possible I believe it slowly on is becoming justifiable for me to put an end to their nagging by no longer moderating their useless propaganda.
So Karen and Veteran78 don’t waste your own time posting your obama propaganda as if you do your way will be the highway.
David