The Tea Party Rally in DC

I’ll start off with an apology. I couldn’t get on the internet to save my life at the rally today. The only thing I can figure is that there were so many cell phones, I kept getting bumped off. I spent more time trying to get online than I did taking pictures.

I’m not even going to guess how many people were there – I’ll leave that to the experts, but according to concretebob, the Park Service made them start the march an hour and a half early because there were too many people in Freedom Plaza. Two hours later, the police ended the march and several thousand more people streamed in on the sidewalks.

You tell me how many were there;

Here’s the video I took from Freedom Plaza to the Capital of the march route at about 10:30. I took it from my bicycle so you might hear me cuss a bit when folks wouldn’t get out of my way. I haven’t seen it yet, so I don’t know how it turned out;

And some photos;

This is my favorite sign;

From the West Lawn of the Capitol looking back west;

It was MILF City;

The LaRouche crowd was there, too, so if the media tells you there was nazi imagery, you know where it came from. LaRouche is a perennial Democrat presidential candidate.

I caught Uncle Jimbo doing a “Free Fly” on Pennsylvania Avenue.

The cops were pretty bored. I guess they were more of a tourist attraction than keepers of law and order today;

As always, more pictures are at my Flickr Photostream.

In conclusion, this is the most people I’ve ever seen in DC. The biggest crowd I ever saw was for Ronald Reagan’s funeral. They estimated the crowd at 800,000 then – this one was way bigger. I heard estimates of a million and a half people – but like I said, I won’t make a guess. I do know it’s bigger than any ANSWER rally – so if we use ANSWER math, I figure there were about 50,000,000 people.

And a shout out to Tankerbabe, Uncle Jimbo, DefendUSA (and the cutest kids in the world), Yankeemom and concretebob for keeping me company.

Category: Protests/Rallies