RNC SIGN COVERUP AT D.C. TEA PARTY

Several Tea Party groups arrived in DC. for a Rally on the 16^th to resist the current Obamacare Health plan under consideration by Congress.  Occurring on a Tuesday, it was nowhere near the tens of thousands during previous highly advertised events, with some pro-Obama adherents mocking the low turnout.  Freedom Works, Tea Party Express, Tea Party Patriots, Nationwide Tea Party Coalition,  and a myriad of other conservative groups denounced the latest Congressional tactics of  forced reconciliation and passing a rule ‘deeming’ the bill passed without actually voting per se for it.  The week’s events were labeled “Code Red” or “Take the Town Halls to Washington.”

Most Tea Party constituents hold both major parties as culprits of big government spending and control freaks contributing to dysfunctional governance and are skeptical of usurpers claiming credit or hijacking the grass roots conservative insurgency.  It is with annoyance and a distraction that the RNC paid for buttons and signs distributed for the event, but later covered up that fact by placing black tape over the claim at the bottom of signs.  Take a side by side look at the same sign. The GOP will no more buy off protesters with paid signs anymore than other tricks in the political grab bag.  While the sign issue is minor, the principle is major, especially  when compared to the prime reason for the protest as Tea Party adherents know that their most effective means for changing how Washington works is not who paid for a sign but how their vote is cast in November.

Kill The Bill Rally- Minneapolis-St. Paul, Mn.

Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann:  “We have a duty to resist tyranny. This isn’t a joke.  And these men had guts our founders, these were no pantywaist wusses, and neither are we by the way!”

Michelle Bachmann was the keynote speaker during the Saturday 13^th Rally in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Capital.  Several political, medical, and radio personalities were present including:

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann

Congressman John Kline

Twila Brase, CCHC

Ed Morrissey, Hot Air Blog

Dr. Lee Kurisko, M.D.

Rep. Mark Buesgens

Barb Davis-White

Emceed by Sue Jeffers, KTLK Radio

“Leading the Pledge of Allegiance to open the rally was Paul Wheeler, an Indiana Tea Party activist flown in from his home in Indianapolis and outfitted in a Revolutionary War costume.

"I just want to remind people to rethink the basic principles and values of the Founding Fathers," he said. "I think this bill would make them turn over in their graves."

Leading the pledge, he welcomed "the mob, the fringe, the gun-toting nuts and fellow right-wing extremists." He paused before the clause that includes "under God" and bellowed "under who?"

"God!" came the reply, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. Full Article

Text of my remarks:

Greetings to all Tea Party Patriots of the Twin Cities and meet-up groups, Minnesota Majority, the Citizens Council of Health Care, 912 project members, fellow members of the mob, gun toting citizens, and fellow right wing extremists. 

This week a lawsuit was brought into Federal Court claiming One Nation ‘under God’ in the Pledge of Allegiance was unconstitutional and violated one’s religion.  A second part of the suit says the same thing about the ‘In God We Trust’ motto on our currency.

But on Thursday, the 9^th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled in favor of the people of the United States of America that the Pledge ‘Under God’ IS Constitutional and does not infringe on religious beliefs.  One of the judges wrote: “The Pledge of Allegiance serves to unite our vast nation through the proud recitation of some of the ideals upon which our Republic was founded.”

Join with me as we give our respects to the Republic as One Nation Under God.”

Various news sources have attendance from 1,000 to 4,000.  There was an enthusiastic crowd despite the bitter wind, and yes, there were real pitchforks present and a real pig representing the pork in Congressional bills.  Click here for more pictures and rally article.

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And I thought I’d Heard It All!

Sarah Palin Wows Right To Life Rally

Sarah Palin lived up to her billing as a national spokeswoman for the Right to Life.  Already a pro-lifer, coupled with supporting her decision to not abort her Down syndrome child, she told her story to 3,000 to 4,000 enthusiastic admirers on Friday in Columbus, Ohio at the packed capacity Aladdin Shrine facility.  They came by the bus load and shuttles; the elderly, the church groups, young people, all waiting to hear her story and listening as if entranced to each carefully chosen word.  By those in attendance, she did a great job and hit a lot of bases, even citing a Biblical proof text, Isaiah 49:16  to respond to those who criticized her palm notes:  "See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me." Who else can mix hilarity, God, the Bible, and palm notes at a Right to Life Rally.  Clip here: Video

"If what was good enough for God, scribbling on the palm of his hand, it's good enough for me, for us," Palin said. "In that passage he says, I wrote your name on the palm of my hand to remember you. And I'm like okay, I'm in good company."

The Rally opened with the Worthington Christian High School Choir singing the National Anthem. Video

Her introduction was by football star Chris Spielman.  Video

Sarah Palin did not disappoint fans as they thronged to the front stage for autographs. The event may not have persuaded her detractors, but it gave enthusiasm to prolife supporters.