Tea Party Time

posted at 3:34 pm on September 12, 2009 by Track-A-'Crat

Readers, friends, conservatives,

Some pics from the DC Tea Party for your viewing pleasure. I was there, along with the crew of the Political Castaway, and The Other McCain was floating around somewhere, as well.  Forgive me for the lack of accompanying text, but (a) a picture is worth a thousand words and (b) I’m still not quite up to par today (having turned 30 yesterday).

So without further ado, the immediate view from stepping out of the Archives metro stop:

My sentiments exactly:

I think they’re being generous to the guy, but where would we be without Al “I created the internet” Gore:

Waitaminnit.  You’re telling me that a job is better than hand-outs?

The ultimate all-American family:

Now we’re talkin’:

And the obligatory shot of the feeble counter-protest:

To surmise, it was what you’d expect from a conservative rally.  Civil, good-natured and, of course, incident-free.  No smashing up of McDonalds or any other symbols of global oppression/imperialism for us, thank you very much.

It’s beyond me how anyone can ever accurately estimate (or pretend to, at least) the number of people at this type of event, so I’m going to say that there were 15.72 million people there.

Yep, sounds about right.

2010 – bring it on.

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