Here is my article on the Tax Day Tea Party in Albany. Wow. Some lively characters at that big afternoon of zany.
There is some confusion about the number of people who turned out: According Al Roney and Fox News, "more than 2,000 people" turned out for the bitch-fest, whereas I reported the number at a humble "well more than 1,000." Not to be out-done, the Times Union reported that there were more than 2,500 people(!!!). Holy shit!
I am sticking by my number (until I am proven absolutely wrong). As far as I know, the Hudson Amphitheater at Corning Preserve seats about 800, and according to the Albany City Web site, the venue can host more than 1,000 people, a number that probably includes for the loungers and late-comers who sit on the grass.
Regardless of the number, it was an impressive crowd. I'll give them that. Yee-haw.
And let's try to clear up another point of confusion, this one intentional: This was not a nonpartisan rally of concerned citizens brought together by a single point of protest (TAXES), as Roney wants us to believe. Not even close. This was a crowd of REPUBLICANS. They wore tricorne hats and called themselves Constitutionalists, flirted with Paultards and libertarians, and puffed themselves up with the idea that they could actually go out and start a viable, national third party, but in the end, all these people want is another shot at Morning in America.
The Tax Day Tea Party of 2009 was a gathering of the disgruntled, frustrated, marginalized, and spurned Children of Reagan who really, really hate politicians now that most of the ones in power are DEMOCRATS. And then there's that SOCIALIST...
Joy Andreassen of Leeds was left holding her husband’s sign: “Obama—we are proud of America. If you aren’t proud leave. We bow to no one!”
“Everything about Obama offends me,” Andreassen said. “I am very pro-life, and he is very, very anti-life. So everything he does offends me.”
This isn’t her first rally; she has marched on abortion issues in the past. When asked if the rally is nonpartisan, she was quick to say, “Yes, absolutely.”
“I don’t like the way the country is going in any way, shape or form. And he has only been in for a few months,” she said. “As soon as he got in, he took away a day of prayer. Who does that? And then he went right into abortion, and changed everything there. He is giving our money away, the future of our children.”
As for the previous administration’s responsibility for the financial issues the country is grappling with: “There is plenty of blame for everyone, but I don’t really blame Bush.”
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