The second annual Minnesota Tea Party is coming up this afternoon on the State Capitol grounds.\u00a0 It’ll start at five, and run well into the evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Last year, at least 7,000 Americans turned out in Minnesota – among a turnout of at least 600,000 nationwide that stunned the nation’s newly-installed “elite”.\u00a0 It turned out that for a good chunk of America, Obama didn’t bring the change they’d really <\/em>hoped for.\u00a0<\/p>\n Let me say that again; 7,000 Minnesotans (or, as the media said, “dozens), working people with families and lives, turned out on a work day, Tax Day besides, to…protest.\u00a0 Something that “conservatives” have never <\/em>done as a group.<\/p>\n It’s going to be much bigger this year.\u00a0 Polls show more people support the Tea Party’s ideals than those of the President and his administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n And the Parties have the Liberals running scared.\u00a0 They tried to ignore the movement last year – which lasted until the headcount crept into six figures.\u00a0 Then they tried mocking them – the constant, thud-witted “teabagger” references that have become a sign of a sandblasted intellect among smart people.\u00a0 Finally came the attacks – literal ones, like the SEIU thugs who put the black conservative protester in the hospital at a town hall meeting in Saint Louis, and figurative ones like the tsunami of defamation in the past month.<\/p>\n More substantive signs of their fear?\u00a0 If the Tea Party were not a harbinger of a wave of discontent, Pelosi and Reid could have relaxed a bit, and not jammed Obamacare down with the Chicago-like ruthlessness they had to use.\u00a0 They are scared out of their wits.<\/p>\n I’ll be speaking first at the rally today.\u00a0 I’ll hope to see you there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The second annual Minnesota Tea Party is coming up this afternoon on the State Capitol grounds.\u00a0 It’ll start at five, and run well into the evening.\u00a0 Last year, at least 7,000 Americans turned out in Minnesota – among a turnout of at least 600,000 nationwide that stunned the nation’s newly-installed “elite”.\u00a0 It turned out that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10095,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10094\/revisions\/10095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}