OBAMA TO AMERICA — I win, you lose.

UPDATE: a Stupak payoff? I don't believe in coincidence.

THIS IS A GREAT COUNTRY. There were three protest rallies around the Washington Mall on Saturday. A Tea Party rally against health reform on the Capitol steps:

A “Coffee Party” rally for jobs and education in Lafayette Park behind the White House:

And an antiwar display on the Ellipse in front of the White House.

In what other nation could all that happen – without violence – within a half-mile radius?

THE “COFFEE PARTY” LIBERALS want an end to war, more ‘edjumakation’ and jobs.




The “protestors” numbered at most a hundred or so, a few aging hippies mixed in with a largely young (college-aged?) crowd. For a while, the Secret Service and Park Service police nearly out-numbered the protestors.

My sense is that if these were indeed college students, more education would be a waste of time, and based on dress and attitude, I can understand why they’re unemployed.

SIGNS OF THE TIMES from the Tea Party healthcare protest rally at the Capitol steps on March 20, 2010.

Congress’ end game; control everything.

We deem you fired.

We want our country back.

You can’t fix stupid.

How many billions to buy a sleazy liberal?

Luckily, I’ve already had ccncer.

Tear down this bill.

Use the “back” buttion - change it back.

Beck: faith, hope, and charity.

Jefferson, on elective despotism.

Pork payoffs: some pigs are more equal.

Lay off Congress instead.

The Constitution is more than a piece of paper.

A self-evident truth.

For the most part, the signs were hand made; a fact that did not go unnoticed.

ANTI-OBAMACARE RALLY at the Capitol steps. We arrived about 9 am. The intital rally took place on the Capitol steps, to be followed by ralliers making rounds of Congressional offices and a final “surround the Capitol” rally at 5 pm. We had to leave around 2 pm, so didn’t see thenend.

All told, roughly 30,000 people showed. The area from the Capitol steps to the reflecting pool between Maryland and Pennsylvania avenues was full, with some spillover down onto the Mall. This video was taken just after the opening ceremony, before attendanced peaked. I’d estimate somewhere close to 20,000 were present when this was taken.



People came from all over, and on very short notice: DC, Maryland, Virginia, obviously; also West Virginia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiania, Illinois, Ohio. One couple we met drove all night from Maine.

The protest rally was passionate, but peaceful. And clean. There were no trash barrels at the protest site; protestors carried their trash with them.