Tax day tea parties protest bailouts, spending and taxes

Ridiculed by the liberal media, reports are coming in about the thousands and thousands who took time on tax day to show up at Tax day Taxed Enough Already (TEA) parties to protest excessive government bailouts, spending, taxes, and debt.

The following SRCC07 video covers TEA party protests coast to coast including: hundreds in Chicago, thousands in Cincinnati, hundreds in Green Bay, Los Angeles, hundreds in Philadelphia, hundreds in St. Louis and thousands in San Diego:

In yesterday's Wall Street Journal, Glen Reynolds of Instapundent, writes about how tax day became protest day:

The tea-party protest movement is organizing itself, on its own behalf. Some existing organizations, like Newt Gingrich's American Solutions and FreedomWorks, have gotten involved. But they're involved as followers and facilitators, not leaders. The leaders are appearing on their own, and reaching out to others through blogs, Facebook, chat boards and alternative media.

The protests began with bloggers in Seattle, Wash., who organized a demonstration on Feb. 16. As word of this spread, rallies in Denver and Mesa, Ariz., were quickly organized for the next day. Then came CNBC talker Rick Santelli's Feb. 19 "rant heard round the world" in which he called for a "Chicago tea party" on July Fourth. The tea-party moniker stuck, but angry taxpayers weren't willing to wait until July. Soon, tea-party protests were appearing in one city after another, drawing at first hundreds, and then thousands, to marches in cities from Orlando to Kansas City to Cincinnati.

As word spread, people got interested in picking a common date for nationwide protests, and decided on today, Tax Day, as the date.

Contrary to the spin the spend too much, tax too much and borrow too much Democrats and their supporters in the still Obamamania infected mainstream media would have you believe, this is not a Republican or a Fox News movement. No the TEA parties movement is a spontaneous grass roots protest.