LiveBlog of Wilmington Teabaggery

Filed in National by on April 15, 2009

Donviti is on the ground in Wilmington covering the teabagging. These are his remarks as best as I could transcribe them

>Copeland talking. Talking about repaying the debt. “My children are too young to protest for themselves.” Debt and spend liberals. Someone tell Copeland that his children are Duponts.

>Protack coming up. One MC thanked Protack for getting the event together. The moustache looks good.

>Mike Matthews And Dana Garrett are also here.

>Mike Matthews has a live blog going.

>It is really packed.

>The amount of signs are unbelivable

“Is this what we voted for?”
“Impeach congress”
“US out of Iraq”

> They have Pork sandwiches for $5.00

> Not one African American on the scene. Older people mostly. One asian.

>People are too suspicious to interview.

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  1. anon says:

    One MC thanked Protack for getting the event together.

    Is there no end to the damage this man can do to the Delaware GOP?

  2. jason330 says:

    DV reports – “End Foreign Aid” signage. No mention of anti-gay signs.

  3. jason330 says:

    First “abortion is not healthcare” sticker spotted.

  4. anon says:

    Is Copeland working the crowd, or do they make him feel icky?

  5. RSmitty says:

    I am extremely disappointed our state gop decided to not only endorse the event, but SPONSOR the damned thing…let alone a PROTACK event.

    Protack organized it, eh? Kind of makes me think my comment yesterday (on DV’s invasion of the Facebook group) about it sounding Protackian may have been spot-on.

  6. Von Cracker says:

    The DE GOP must have demanded that all 400 of its members have to show up!

    Must smell like an assisted living home in there…..

  7. Copeland wants to be free–free to deposit his inherited millions in secret Swiss bank accounts to avoid those onerous taxes. That’s what he and his ‘to the manor born’ kids are fighting for. His way of life indeed IS threatened. And he gets a bunch of gun-totin’, tebaccy-chawin’ wingnuts to carry his Perrier for him.

  8. June says:

    The thing that bothers me the most about this tea-party protest is:

    In all the Bush years with so much to protest, why the heck couldn’t the Liberals put something like this together? What are we — a bunch of dimwits?

  9. liberalgeek says:

    I just got back. I spent 30 mins or so milling about and saying hi to people. I have to say that I did not enjoy it one bit. It was downright scary.

    I felt like I stopped into the wrong church on Sunday. Jensen was up there working the crowd. Asked how many Independents, Republicans and Democrats were there. The only time it was quiet the whole time I was there when they asked how many Dems were there.

  10. John Manifold says:

    Ed Osborne swimming with his “property-rights” friends.

  11. jason330 says:

    June,

    The only way liberals could have put something like this together would have been is there was a liberal cable TV news channel, a web of interlocking radio stations pumping out daily talking points, and a network of liberal billionaires willing to fund the 24/7 PR campaign leading up to it.

    When it comes to propaganda – we are as outgunned by conservatives as they are out gunned by us when it comes to common sense and reason.

  12. There are some really angry people there. In my opinion it really is people that are afraid and scared. The party has been told to be scared for the past 8 years. It’s like the Japanese guys left on the remote islands that still think there is a war to fight.

  13. jason330 says:

    If they just teabag hard enough McCain can pull out the upset of the century!!!

  14. a. price says:

    “The only way liberals could have put something like this together would have been is there was a liberal cable TV news channel”

    jason, do you mean like MSNBC?

  15. jason330 says:

    Ass,

    Two hours of programming does not a liberal network make.

  16. a. price says:

    oh come now jason. the Ed show, 2 Hardballs, Keith, and Rachel, anything David S says…
    you know i politically agree with you and MSNBC 99% of the time, put your teeth back in, retract your claws and let’s be honest.

  17. pandora says:

    Chris Matthews is not liberal.

  18. a. price says:

    are you kidding me? ok fine. he is a blue dog democrat. he hates bush, loves Obama….. look so do i. I have absolutely nothing wrong with a left leaning station to balance Fox. REALITY has a liberal bias, so it isn’t THAT big of a deal. I just think to remain credible and legit, we cant pretend MSNBC is straight down the center….. yes i know Morning Joe… it is not a serious show and everyone on the show other than Joe is a lefty.

  19. cassandra_m says:

    I agree with Jason that wingnuts have a better monopoly on propaganda, I noted that earlier today, DougJ over at Balloon Juice answered June’s question:

    Finally, why do we have to pay attention to 100K tea-baggers when 10 million anti-Iraq war protesters were considered a focus group?

    Liberals and independents will come out for the right thing — it gets harder when the people you are trying to communicate with tell you they won’t listen. It is easier for the wingnuts of the species — they are given neat and tidy scripts for their displays of outrage like for today’s events and like this memorable one. These kind of demonstrations are the performance part of their endless litmus tests.

  20. Unstable Isotope says:

    I remember lots of protests against the Iraq War. I don’t think they are very effective.

  21. rhubarb says:

    What I learned….

    Some people don’t like taxes. Some people really don’t like taxes.

  22. that’s it? Oh….I learned way more than that. Take a look at the photos I just posted

  23. cassandra_m says:

    Also, the current dKos front page reminded me of the March for Women’s Lives which had about 1M people in DC.

  24. Good Evening.

    Today’s event was a very special occasion because the majority of the people who attended are not activists or regular political groupies.

    Quite a few people worked hard to make the event a success, nice job.

    As for some of the comments which are a bit shrill here are the items I highlighted.

    1. The government works for us, we do not work for them.

    2. The budget process should be transparent, no earmarks and no pork barrel spending.

    3. Taxes should be fair, easy to understand and easy to enforce and along the way should promote savings, growth and investment.

    The event was not a protest or demonstration but a reaffirmation of freedom, liberty and opportunity. We will see where it all goes, I am optimistic.

  25. a. price says:

    “1. The government works for us, we do not work for them.”

    do you mean the majority of americans who voted for the current government? because those americans sure are happy. NOT the minority who lost.

    “2. The budget process should be transparent, no earmarks and no pork barrel spending”

    it is all online. if the repubs who funded the tea parties Richard Mellon Scaife being one of them… learned how to love technology instead of theocracy and guns…. you all might realize that.

    people also fail to define pork. it seams “pork” is spending on anything that sounds funny… like fruit fly research….. something that is easily mocked, but is actually for researching autism and downs syndrome….. Pork is also any spending not in “your” district. if it isn’t spent on you, it must be wasteful. get your damn head out of your ass and realize there are other people out there.

    “3. Taxes should be fair, easy to understand and easy to enforce and along the way should promote savings, growth and investment.”

    i agree, which is why those who make the most money…. those who funded these “demonstrations of freedom” should pay the most. those who attended, will actually see their taxes drop… a fact they would know if they weren’t being fed propaganda bull crap from Fixed News and Newt and Rush and Scaife.

    have a good night

  26. Feeble and emotional arguments as always.

    “1. The government works for us, we do not work for them.”

    do you mean the majority of americans who voted for the current government? because those americans sure are happy. NOT the minority who lost.

    “If you are happy with trillions and trillions of debt and ongoing budget shortfalls then you will be thrilled for the next few years.”

    “2. The budget process should be transparent, no earmarks and no pork barrel spending”

    it is all online. if the repubs who funded the tea parties Richard Mellon Scaife being one of them… learned how to love technology instead of theocracy and guns…. you all might realize that.

    ” again you miss the point, transparency has nothing to with the internet it has to do with off budget spending and emergency spending and reconciliation resolutions which adds to spending”

    ” I do not love theocracy or guns, nor do I hate them”

    people also fail to define pork. it seams “pork” is spending on anything that sounds funny… like fruit fly research….. something that is easily mocked, but is actually for researching autism and downs syndrome….. Pork is also any spending not in “your” district. if it isn’t spent on you, it must be wasteful. get your damn head out of your ass and realize there are other people out there.

    ” very sad, pork barrel spending is done for the career politicians who need to move on and stop fleecing America. Pork barrel spending is indeed wasteful and bad for the country”

    “3. Taxes should be fair, easy to understand and easy to enforce and along the way should promote savings, growth and investment.”

    i agree, which is why those who make the most money…. those who funded these “demonstrations of freedom” should pay the most. those who attended, will actually see their taxes drop… a fact they would know if they weren’t being fed propaganda bull crap from Fixed News and Newt and Rush and Scaife.

    “you are dead wrong and incredibly misinformed. Go to the IRS website and you will see the Top 1% and Top 5% are paying more taxes as a percentage and in total dollars. The bottom 50% pay less than 5% of federal taxes.
    The more complicated you make taxes the more people spend to avoid them and pay less of them.

    Maybe we can get Bob Rubin who made over $100 million for Citi who had no formal responsibilities or Franklin Raines who made $90 million as he cooked the books at Fannie Mae to head a commission on tax`reform. No wait, the Treasury Secretary wants that job as long as he doesn’t have to pay taxes.”

    Bring your brain next time and leave the useless talking points where they belong-in the trash can.

  27. a. price says:

    “Bring your brain next time and leave the useless talking points where they belong-in the trash can.”
    do you mean like the words “pork barrel spending”?