“Here we see His Majesty the Obamessiah smoking a cigarette and holding a large screw representing OBAMACARE in his gloved hand. Around his neck dangles a greatly devalued Nobel Peace Prize which he won for just being HIM. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid look on in awe at their splendiforous leader, the ultimate Chicago Corruptocrat, his loftiness, BHO.”
I’m hoping to make it to the Teaparty Express event in Denver on wednesday. But I’ve been sick, so we’ll see if I can sneak away to party with my Patriot Friends.
“I can just say that the irony could not be greater. The press is barking up the tree that the tea party movement is the one that is unhinged, that is frothing at the mouth, that is violent… I could just say that the irony could not be greater.”
Andrew Breitbart
After Harry Reid Supporters Attacked the Tea Party Bus
Searchlight, Nevada
Andrew Breitbart witnessed first hand today the cunning manipulation and violence of the unhinged left. Harry Reid supporters stood on Highway 95 outside of Searchlight, Nevada and held signs steering tea party protesters heading to the Tea Party Express Showdown in Searchlight Rally in the wrong direction. Andrew also witnessed these violent leftists attacking the Tea Party Express bus with eggs as it drove by. The Harry Reid supporters then swarmed him, harassed him, threatened him and made false statements to the police.
And, yet the state-run media wants you to believe that the tea party protesters are the violent ones. Don’t look for this protest story to make the front page of The New York Times or be the lead story on CNN like other bogusprotestreports.”
Tens of thousands of tea partiers from across the country are descending on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s hometown Saturday to demand an end to his term in public office – and many say it will be the largest political event in town history.
“This is going to be, by far, the most memorable and unique tea party that has ever been, since Americans actually threw tea into the Boston Harbor,” Tea Party Express spokesman Levi Russell told WND. “The setting will be out in the middle of the desert with nothing but sagebrush and Joshua trees around. We’re transforming it into a ‘Conservative Woodstock.'”
The owner of the rally location has offered his land as a campsite Friday night for anyone who arrives with a motorhome, camper or tent to pitch. For those who prefer to stay in a hotel, Las Vegas is just a one-hour drive from the rally. Russell said there is still time for Americans to make plans to attend and urged voters to come and make their voices heard – by Reid himself.
“We’re two miles from Harry Reid’s house, so he can sit out on his porch swing and hear us talking about him,” Russell explained. “I think anyone who misses it is going to regret it.”
The event is free and will feature Gov. Sarah Palin and a host of other guests, including 2008 libertarian vice presidential candidate Wayne Allyn Root, WND columnists Roger Hedgecock and Melanie Morgan, Joe the Plumber, commentator Andrew Breitbart and former “Saturday Night Live” regular Victoria Jackson.
“We the voters are about to have a showdown with Harry Reid in his hometown of Searchlight, Nev.,” a video invitation from Tea Party Express announces. “And you’re invited to help us kick Harry out of the Senate and send him back home for an early retirement.”
Organizers ask attendees to bring their best signs, lawn chairs, blankets, snacks and bottled water. Dozens of buses are coming from as far away as Texas.
“Most importantly, bring your patriotism and determination to take our country back from the failed politicians,” Tea Party Express advises.
“We want Reid to be out there sipping some ice tea and thinking about his retirement, which is coming very soon,” Russell said. “We’re going to be welcoming him home to Searchlight by throwing him a great retirement party.”
“Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) told Sean Hannity tonight that her property was vandalized and that she received several threats. The Minnesota conservative said she did not make a big deal out of the attacks because, unlike democrats, she did not want to stir the crazy pot.”
My only advice to fellow teapartiers is to just watch everything he says and does. Any politician is potentially suspect when they seek to “lead” this movement. We do not need politicians to keep up the fight for freedom. We need educated patriots willing to fight this on the streets and in the courts as well as the court of public opinion.
“It seemed a strange fit to begin with — a former House Republican leader turned $750,000-a-year Washington lobbyist who resurfaced as perhaps the single most identifiable leader of a populist, anti-Washington movement.
And in recent weeks, Dick Armey has found himself targeted by a quiet, but concerted campaign from fellow conservatives challenging — and seeking to undermine — his status as a leader of the tea party movement.
Critics ranging from prominent conservatives to bloggers to grass-roots tea party activists have called into question whether Armey’s stances on illegal immigration and social issues, his candidate endorsements and his past lobbying work are fundamentally inconsistent with the tea party movement. They also have suggested he raised the white flag too early in the fight over the Democratic health care overhaul and is beholden to corporate benefactors, and have accused him of trying to hijack the tea parties to serve those benefactors or his own personal political ambitions.
To be sure, some of the resentment seems to stem from jealousy over adept positioning by Armey that has put him and the small-government nonprofit group he co-chairs, FreedomWorks, at the vanguard of tea party activism, which everyone on the right — from theRepublican Party and its elected officials to the groups that emerged from the 1960s restructuring of the conservative movement — has jockeyed to harness.
But the attacks on Armey, which started as a whisper campaign and have spilled out into the open in the past couple weeks, also highlight deeper tensions within the loose confederation of local and state groups that make up the tea party, as well as the broader conservative movement, about whether there is any need for national leaders, and whether social and national security issues should be part of the agenda.”
