Report on my trip to DC for the Tea Party!

I arrived in Washington DC at 3:30 pm on Friday the 11^th. Knowing I had a long wait until my right wing nut job posse was to arrive. I took the metro rail down to see the sights. While riding on the train I notice the entire car was full of people sitting quietly with their eyes wide open afraid to talk. This prompted me to ask, “Are you guys here for the Tea Party?” The entire car exhaled at the same time and said “Yes!” It was then that I thought this thing might be bigger than expected. I was sitting on a train full of right wing, carpet bombing nut jobs afraid to open their mouths. I was officially intimidated by them, just like MSNBC and CNN said I should be. These were truly a fringe element of wacko’s.

Once arriving at the Smithsonian stop and emerging up into the middle of our capital city it got scary. I noticed at least 80% of the people walking around were wearing t-shirts, stickers or buttons that indicated they were there to wreak havoc! I stood appalled as I watched them touring the sights. I noticed at the WW II, Vietnam & Korea War Memorials they were subdued.  They bowed their heads as if to pray. They took pictures and I even saw a few of them actually remove their hats out of respect.  Who were these LOONS? Did I actually want to be seen with them? I decided then and there that I was going to have to get away from these lunatics. I went to supper and waited on my ride until almost 3 a.m.

Saturday morning started with a continental breakfast and a drive in from Alexandria Virginia.  We were moving hotels to downtown DC. We dropped off our luggage and car and proceeded to the rally. We were met with hostility right off the bat. Upon approaching Pennsylvania Avenue we noticed that they had decided to start without us. There was a sea of people as far as the eyes could see either way. We jumped in at 10^th street. We were amazed to see so many people in one place at one time. They were all way up to the Capital steps and as far as you could see the other way.  It was during the march that I was first accosted by these carpet bombing fringe nuts. A man pushing a stroller with his grandson in it rolled over my foot. He immediately turned to me and said, “Excuse me.” I said, “No problem.” I was on the verge of tears from the total fright. He actually patted my back while apologizing! I fought through it though, because I was here on a mission. We walked to the Capital and they moved us around to the lawn on the right side of the steps. We could not see the stage, but we could see all the way back to the Washington Monument. This had to be over a mile back. There was not an open spot as far back as we could see. It was a sea of right wing, redneck, carpet bombing racist.   Reports were saying tens of thousands. I have been to Texas Motor Speedway on many occasions. It holds over a 120,000 people. I saw at least four Texas Motor Speedways.  You do the math. We heard reports of 1.5 million up to 2. I am not sure that was the case. I would venture to say that there were at least half a million. That is over 50 tens of thousands! CNN and MSNBC said a few thousand. I saw 80 portable bathrooms with an average of 16 people in each line. That means over 1200 of the few thousand were waiting to relieve themselves. The rally had a ton of speakers and the signs were what made it great.

Some of my favorite signs:

Recession=Your friend loses their job.

Depression=You lose your job.

Recovery=Obama loses his job!

The President said he was going to call us out.

Well Mr President

HERE WE ARE!

(A woman in a wheelchair was holding this one)

I am 91 years old and I am not done yet!

Hey Mr President! Let God and I decide when I am through!

(This one was funny)

WE NEED AN IMPEACHMENT CZSAR!

The rally ended with riot police shooting tear gas into the crowd and beating us back to our hotels with knight sticks on horseback! Just kidding. Actually, when the speakers started winding down, half a million people went to have a late lunch and see more of the sights. I found it ironic that there were NO trash cans anywhere. My guess was they expected people to just throw down their trash so they could say we made a mess. Of course not these looters! They actually found trash cans blocks away and set everything in or around them.

Yesterday I arrived at my home around noon. The kids were waiting with fresh brownies and a present for dear old dad. I had missed my birthday with them and they wanted to surprise me. I got bubble gum and a couple of cd’s.(I am supposed to teach my four year old how to blow bubbles) Kathy got the boys down for a nap and then she …………never mind!

Thanks for all your well wishes. I had a blast and would ask everyone to keep voicing their opinion. The President is not paying attention to the trouble he is in. I cannot tell you the number of people I met who actually voted for him. I am not making this up! One had a sign that said “I am sorry! Can I have my change back?” I met people from Rhode Island who said they had buyers remorse. They didn’t like Bush, but this was worse. It brings a smile to this old mans face!

God Bless!