Iowa Tea Party protest numbers DOWN 2/3 FROM LAST YEAR!! [View All]

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"Thursday's tax day rally might not have come as big as advertised - more than 1,000 tea party supporters showed up on the west lawn of the Iowa Capitol - but organizers called it an impressive display of the political force the movement has gained.

Rally organizers called Thursday a success, although they had hoped for several thousand people, and an estimated 3,000 attended last year's Capitol rally.

Still, the crowd was large for a Capitol grounds political rally. Large gatherings in the past 20 years have typically drawn hundreds, not thousands."

The comments from the TPers are just priceless - it is the ultimate Hypocrisy Fritatta!!

"Still, that didn't stop Ina Breeden, a 70-year-old great-grandmother from Gowrie, from saying that Obama wrote in "Dreams From My Father" that everyone he's been surrounded by in politics is a Marxist. (That's not in the book.) Breeden said she hadn't read the book, but had heard others talking it."

"Her friend, Diana Clancy, 67, of Gowrie nodded her head vigorously. "Everything he's done," she said of Obama, "he's followed the same orders as Hitler." She paused. "Don't put that," she said. "He's going to come after me."" :eyes: :eyes: :eyes:

"Rick Jenkins, a Monticello man who serves in the Army Reserve, took the day off work to bring his two daughters to Thursday's rally. He held a sign with a hammer and sickle: "USSA: Socialist States of Amerika?""

"People's reasons for attending spanned the conservative political spectrum, from anger with the Iowa Supreme Court's decision on same-sex marriage to anger at government bailouts that started under President George W. Bush and continued under President Barack Obama.

One speaker laid out five things for the tea party to lobby for: Terms limits in Congress. Free enterprise. Limited federal government and empowered state government. Fiscal responsibility. Taking guidance from the Constitution."

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20100416/NEWS/4160366/-THIS-IS-A-CALL-FOR-ACTION-