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They have their right to protest, just like the Anti-War rallies have against Bush. People shouldn't be hateful towards them just because disagreement over issues.

If people can be understanding enough to listen to each other, we wouldn't have such a ideological divide among the government and us. And yet we are more and more polarized from each other and more unwillingly to listen to complaints. Even the media which suppose to help us regular folks to news that are non-partisan, non-santimonious, and non-bias are starting to pick sides. This is the start of a dangerous trend that may divide us permanently if people do not wise up and show tolerance to people with different opinions.

More white people promoting hate and rascism. If you look at the signs the people are holding in the picture none of the signs have any facts.

The teabaggers should not worry about a public option. They can always choose the private option if that is what they want. If the private insurance companies can provide better service than a public insurance program, such as Medicare, they have nothing to worry about. Harvard seems to do just fine against government-subsidized public universities. If the private insurance companies cannot offer better service than a public insurance program, they should be allowed to fail, just like the banks.

Why can't Democrats take any responsibility for anything????? Who are you going to blame after Obabm is out...can't wait for that day to come...Hope we still have some rights left!!!!!

How do Democrats attack a leaderless revolution? Pay union cronies to try to shout them down. What they don't realize is that this same leaderless revolution will turn on organized labor as soon as socialized health care is defeated. A headless monster will beat corrupt cronies every time. Just watch and wait.

No, the nopublicans, need to stop drinking your own koolaide. And 2010 and 2012 is over for you. If Obama don't get his plan through, the real Americans wlll be upset at the republicans for messing things up. It is too many people without healthcare or affordable healthcare, that will be pissed off. And when the healthcare do past, the only ones who will be made is the nopublicans. You only attract your base anyway and don't count!!

well after looking at this picture of a bunch of air head blonds-i dont know what to say. they dont have a clue about taxes or anything else for that matter. where were these little morons when bush put this country in financial ruin. they were at home sipping their whiskey sours and white wine while the rest of us were out trying to earn a living and pay for rotten health insurance. these ladies(i use that term loosely) dont have a job or else they would not be attending their little tea party protest. if you asked one of these simpletons who they were married to you would find doctors, attorneys, brokers,republican politicians, bankers and wall street scum. may they all burn in hell.

I wish they WERE delivering tea, rather than lies by the truckload.

I bet these wimp Tea Baggers won't drive through the city touting that garbage. We should not let a few people affect health care reform. No matter how loud they shout, they still represent very little of America. I don't care what polls say after they call 500 people from red states...haha....polls are politics and they are owned by partisans like the rasmussen poll on Fox. These people are from states where there are just 4 people in town. Get out of our country if you don't like it.

What an embarassment. Honestly, these protesters are simply repeating talking points and meaningless slogans. They moan and groan about Medicare when a lot of the older citizens who are the most fervent protesters rely on Medicare!

And I'm sure there are plenty of private insurers that can't wait to insure these older citizens at a reasonable cost! After all, insurance companies really care about our citizens and not making money... oh wait...

I wonder how many of these people have voluntarily refunded the government their social security or medicare checks.

Unless and until that happens, they're simply hypocrits.

It's fun to create a strawman argument – such as "Obama wants to kill old folk" – because it keeps these stupid people from having to bother thinking about the way an uncertain, complex world actually functions.

Look, people: The GOP talking points on health care come from the health care insurance companies. We DO have a crisis in health care - because the insurance companies want more and more of your money. Hospital fees are high because insurance companies simply do not pay hospitals for 70% of patients that are supposedly covered by private insurance. Health care insurance companies add ZERO value – yet because they exist, they want more and more of your money. The reason for a "public option" is to increase covered procedures while decreasing cost. And of course it could be done.. because .gov caps salaries/benefits, while private insurance simply skims more and more of your money while paying for fewer and fewer treatments.

Are they short busses?

Really, these people are marching about a tax increase that hasn't happened and a healthcare bill that isn't even written.. What is happening in this country when the truly stupid can affect the media and get attention. Let me make it easy for you Clinton = Budget surplus, Bush = Budget deficit. Where were these teabaggers for the last 8 years??

I'm all for the Tea Party rallies/marches. I just wish they'd started under Bush. Unfortunately they didn't, so we're stuck with idiots claiming that this is because Obama is President, yadda-yadda-yadda.

Frankly, I'm pleased that America finally elected a non-white as President, but this doesn't detract from the worthiness of the Tea Party movement .

Look at all the red. These are the same people that will get help from the President's health care reform. What a bunch of ignorant idiots. These are the last of the racist people in this country left. Thank God their voice is getting smaller by the day. What will they do when minorities are the majority in 20 years. I have advice for all you Tea Party baggers....Get the f out of our country and move to a better one if you don't like it. And by the way, don't use any of the govt option when it is implemented. These are nothing but Jerry Springer's with no jobs. Get a life Republicans! We're all laughing at you hatin on the Prez!.....

I'm not against Health care reform, I am against the cost. This nation is 9 trillion dollars in debt as of today, double the Bush debt in 7 and half months. This reform is estimated to cost upwards to 3 trillion dollars. I am taxed out folks, I pay over half of my gross income in taxes, and I only make 60 K a year. The middle class can not afford a tax increase, show me where the spending is being cut to offset this new spending and I'm all for, if not we must stop this before we drive this nation into bankruptcy.

Heard about the "strategy memo," issued by the Connecticut-based group Right Principles, calls on conservatives to "pack the hall" and "yell out and challenge" lawmakers.

The group's leader has ties to FreedomWorks, an advocacy organization headed by former House majority leader Richard K. Armey (R-Tex.).

Armey said in an interview that the widespread protests over health-care reform could not happen unless people were "truly scared." "If you are going to go ugly, go ugly early."

Sound like true "grassroots" ???.

I like the person that said hard working people are for health care reform – we just don't have time to go out and make fools of ourselves with the lies they are spreading.

BTW Repubs I hope you don't lose your insurance any time soon or you will be begging for health care reform.

First Teabagging next thing you know they will be wide standing in the airport bathrooms.

I think that if I had a TV show on Fox News and spent several months telling people that housecats were actually called tigers, i could probably get a decent segment of the population to eventually believe it, especially if I preface it with the headline that cats are out to destroy America.

Let all versions of the health care reform legislation die with Ted Kennedy. Americans don’t want it and will hang this on the Democrats and vote them out of office. Obama, the teleprompter president may see the light as too what the American people want. Stop piling on more DEBT, this is driving our nation into bankruptcy.

Maybe they would appear to have some credibility if they weren't all white? Time to tear down the walls and stop being so selfish. Embarrassing.

Here we go again with those clowns...these people are really a joke!

To say these people are not pointing toward a specific party or politicain is an out right lie.. Where were these fools over the last 8 yrs..
12 out of the last 16 yrs Repubs have controlled both houses.. But, these braindead fools can't remember names like Phil Gramm, Newt, Bob Dole etc.. I have no problem pointing out that Clinton signed the Gramm, Leahy, Bailey bill.. Both of these parties are theives..

Steve-Michigan

Nothing but another band of Repug idiots that can't think for themselves, let alone take some time-out from their tantrum-throwing to actually get some FACTS. Pretty sad!

Obama more than doubled Bush's deficit in his first 6 months in office – WAKE UP. If any of you sheep would pay attention Bush's number were extremely the last 2-3 years because conservatives were sick of excessive spending. I doubt that will happen with Obama since most of his sheep would follow him off a cliff.

Take one trip in any country on this planet and come back say our country is headed the wrong way We are the beakon of the world in any way and form. You can drive your car all across our great country without touching the ground as well walking if you so desire. Personally I don^t care how much my Government tax me so lone the money go for a good caause as well for a fellow American. One do not apperiate what we have untile you are in some dump country. Bless you all.

It is important that these uniformed right wing nuts do all this to protect millionaire lobbyist Dick Armey's high paying job with the health care industry.

'These' people are you Moms, Dads, Grandparents, cousins, neighbors, doctors, lawyers, you corner store owner, you small buisness owner, etc.................the way things are going...either the top elite that are pushing this are going to have to dumb down their policy objectives or throw the whole idea in the garbage and start anew. People are REALLY upset with what they are reading and hearing and they are not settling down. Do I smell a revived America that speaks up?

Nice tribute to the late great Senator Kennedy who could at least argue very effectively the merits of the topics being debated – way to go Liberal's for only knowing how to insult ordinary Americans and not debating the facts of legislation pushed in Congress.

Thank you for showing all to see what the Democratic party is all about – we had Tom Delay ruin the Republican party and now you have Nancy Pelosi ruining the Democratic party, keep it up and welcome back Republicans into power in 2010 and hopefully they will return fiscal responsibilitiy back to our Government that has been missing since Speaker Gingrich in the mid 90's

Yep those small women in t-shirts and shorts sure look like Nazis to me! Wake-up lefties..... this is the REAL America we are hearing at these tea parties. Good, decent, hard-working, tax-paying, responsible Americans, every one of them.... they are everything the lazy, irresponsible, race-bating, entitlement spoiled, me-first, I want more, gimme gimme Obama-bots are not.

The fact there is this level of response in one day tellsme the Tea pArty Express is already a success and the liberals can't handle it. WHat's the matter? It's OK to rant and rave about the War in Iraq and call the President every name in the book, but as soon as someone else has an opinion the liberals lose their sense of Free Speech? Who's the hypocrite?

The Tea Party movement is full of people who make this country work. Hard working, decent Americans who can't stand to watch the government fork over more and more money to people who just take and take.

Tea Party Express organizer Mark Williams said Friday. "Is it health care? [Ted] Kennedy care?"How disrespectful****Sean,Rush, and Beck are sooooo Proud of this Freak Show !!!!

This is not a party thing.
I m a Democrat and totally sick of the government assuming
they are the end all for all problems.

Screaming right-wing lunatics do nothing but discredit themselves and the Republican party. They demonstrate, every week, that they are against reform, will never compromise and try to intimidate everyone who disagrees with them with overtones of violence and hate. This leaves the Democrats no choice but to force their agenda using reconciliation. The Democrats can do it, will do it, will get away with it and will not pay a big political penalty. Why? Because these "Tea Party" animals, funded by Republican-leaning corporations and tacitly endorsed by the Republican party, are drowning out any and all intelligent conservative arguments. This is another example the Republican party narrowing their focus to extremists leaving moderate conservatives with nothing. That's why the GOP can't gain ground.

Where were all these CARING ??? people during the last 8 years

This planet is soooooo full of HYPOCRITES ...

yeah when Bush was president these folks just sat back and took whatever was given to them...no tea parties then were there? Yet Obama has become president and it supposed to fix it in 8 months. All this anger is just a response from those on the right that are still angry that they are no longer in power, and even worse some that will not accept that their president is no longer one that, shall we say "looks like them". If that wasn't the case then there would be no racists signs that show up at a lot of the rallies. I too don't like high taxes, too many taxes, but it's not totally the fault of the current adminstration. If these tea parties had started last year or the year before they would have more creditability in my opinion.

I just don't get why the people on this website don't seem to care about what O'Bama is spending...on Healthcare and everything else. None of us like what Bush was spending, but O'Bama is quad-droopling it (or however you spell it). Maybe the one's who don't care can pay for most of it...and the one's who do care...just pay for what is right and fair.

They seem to forget (or not want to admit ) the DEMS were a HUGE part of getting us into this economic mess (they were in control since 2006 and the housing market crash was caused by the lack of Fannie and Freddie Regulations from the Barn, Chris and Waters brigade). George W. and McCain did warn and was ignored).

This Tea Party crew is definitely proof that we stricter enforcement of our incest laws.

Wonderful...the ignorant and uninformed are taking to the streets and protesting against imagined fears. These are some of the most uniformed people in the healthcare debate, but of course, they are also the most vocal. Conservative operatives have whipped their feeble-minded drones into a frenzy and unleashed them upon the world to spread fear and misinformation.

Oh good – mobile tea tantrums for the recidivist right.

Democracy in action: Code Pink, Tea Parties, etc.

Why weren't these people protesting the $1.2 TRILLION that Bush gave to private insurance companies in 2003?

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The worst thing about this, is that it is obvious that these people are incredibly misinformed about what reform would actually mean. I can not believe that the Republican Party, Michael Steele, Sarah Palin, Rush, Newt, and the entire cast of Fox News can be allowed to distribute such unfactual information. These protests seem incredibly ignorant in the eyes of the world. Insurance company fat cats are sitting back, laughing at how gullible the American people are and how easily they will do their bidding.

All the talking heads can say is that these people are opposed to healthcare. When will they listen and understand that we are against all government control in our everyday life. Against socialism. The media and administration would like to make the issue healthcare, but people have started to realize that our freedom is the real issue.

"What brought everything together was the Obama-care idea, which contains every odiferous objection."

Odiferous Objection #1: Barack Obama, a black man, is President of the United States.

Odiferous Objection #2: Barack Obama, a black man, might be a successful President of the United States if we do not stop him.

I wonder if these are the REAL "odiferous objections"?

Some people just like living in their fantasy bubble that has no grounding in reality that even when presented with facts, they will cling to a lie......March on O ye Americans. Its your right, even though you are flat out WRONG.

TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party is good. They're standing up for America, they're from every walks of life , democraps, republicans, greene, libertarian, independents. The biggest group of TEA Party goers are Independent voters; they're also the BIGGEST group of voters. Democraps will be losing a lot of seats next year, people are angry, very angry with democraps.

So sad....these are surely the same folks who brag about going to church every Sunday and you ought to be generous and giving....

but to SUGGEST....that they give a little money out of their pockets to help people get the most basic of .....that sends them into a RAGE!

What are these people talking about. Obama hasn't raised taxes. Oh wait. They must be responding to the Republican position that a new health care plan will raise taxes. It's funny how the Republicans didn't complain that taxes would go up when Bush spent billions on the ill-sdvised war in Iraq. How do they think we are going to pay for the war?

Great Reality Show Entertainment. They have been brainwashed by Communists. And they call themselves Patriotic. Don't these people work or are they collecting government unemployment. I am sure they are not refusing govrnment help, how many traded in clunkers, their gramdma gets social security or medicare, their children or grandchildren attend public schools(local, state, federal money. They need to get a life and a GED, because the federal government helps everyone. They are traveling on Interstate highways(federal money). Don't get me started. Have a Great Weekend Everyone. Yesterday is Gone, Today is Here and Tomorrow is a New Day.

These people probably all have health insurance and don't care about anyone else. It might be interesting if some of them get a serious illness and are dropped by their insurance providers so that they have to spend thousands of dollars or go into bankruptcy. Then they might look at the health care issue quite differently

isn't it interesting that when the left was protesting the war...they were "concerned citizens" but when these people express their views and cocerns about government they get trashed.......does anyone know how to spell "hypocrites"

You see, this is what happens when people actually believe the garbage that Limbaugh and Beck, et. al. spew.

They probably think Iraq attacked us on 9-11 as well.

some of you have a nerve talk about people on Welfare well they are people too not everyone wants a handout i worked hard all my life as well every since i was 13 i started working with my Mother doing side jobs i also worked on the farm as well and their was a time i was on welfare but i wanted to do better so i worked my way up and now Thank GOD i work 2 jobs a partime health care worker and a full-time production worker for a pharmeucetical company. so just because i voted for President Obama now dont mean im on welfare which nothing is wrong with if you dont have a choice and want and are trying to do better. Everybody will need help at 1 point in life and some have to welfare or whatever to make it and some may have the support of family that can afford to help them. So im glad that Government is there for the sake of people like me which had no choice but to turn to.

The morons are on the march!!

The democrats have done a pretty good job so far at redistributing the wealth in this country from the ones who earned it to the "poor". The only question is when do you start the transfer of land and property owned by the rich to the poor. It worked so well in Zimbabwe.

Thank God for those good Americans willing to say something against the Supreme leader. Obama is the worst President of my lifetime. Any mid-level executive in my company has more experience than who we have running the country. He is a sham and a joke and its clear the Amerincan public has buyers remorse.

Typical liberals...attempt to discredit the messenger instead of simply answering the questions. I that because there is no reasonable answer to a few reasonable questions? I guess that's all they can train you to do in the new employee handbook when you join ACORN.

Please continue...the Flat Earth society still exists today (no kidding), with staggering opposition to evidence that our Earth is, indeed, roundish.

What I'd like to know is what segment of this crowd also believe the Earth has only been around for 6,000 years? It's a valid question.

Too often facts, evidence and science are ignored in lieu of hear-say, misinformation and a stubborn will that rejects any valid argument against one's stance. History has left this segment of people behind, much like the conspiracy theorists of the past, which is helpful to those of us wishing to move forward.

What a bunch of dead beats. They know nothing about why they are protesting and nothing about healthcare. Wait until they need it. It will be mighty expensive if we don't pass healthcare, NOW. Deal with insurance companies and have them tell you what they will do and what they won't do, and what medication to take and when to stop a medication, because they want you to take another kind.

Where are these people coming from? Mars?

This both sickens and irritates me. I think the real reason these protesters are trying to destroy health care reform is that working toward being rich isn’t nearly as enjoyable for them if they can’t see the difference when it comes to how much better their health care is versus the suffering of everyone else. I would argue that they don’t see how bad things really are outside of Suburbia, except I think they do. I think that they are riding the thrill of schadenfreude as far as they can, and using it to bolster their belief that they personally did things “the right way”.

What a bunch of Loosers!!

You know, we conservatives WERE complaining when Bush wasted billions on construction projects in Iraq that were poorly managed. But you liberal loonies get something straight...Bush defended our country against terrorism...that's in the constitution, just in case you didn't know (and it's obvious you don't). Why are we conservatives upset now? Because Obama, Pelosi and Reid insist on trillion-dollar give-aways intended to serve only one purpose...get them reelected. And how are these trillions of dollars being used? To dismantle our democratic republic and replace it with an elitist-controlled, Government-owned socialist dictatorship. Where is that in the constitution? I tell you what...you get the constitution amended to include what this treasonous government is doing and I'll stop fighting against it. As for me, I still honor the oath I took as a Marine to support and defend the constitution against all enemies...foreign AND DOMESTIC. Guess which category left-wing radical socialists fall in?

Keep drinking the kool-aid libs...it all ends in 2010

It just amazes me that people can't put two thoughts together on this whole debate! What the USA has now is disciminatory and should be against the law!
Don't people understand it's the insurance companies and doctors who are putting all this BS into the media to fire up people who don't/won't take the time to understand on their own. Once again, being lead like little mice by the wonderful Insurance Pipers.
I listen intently to people on tv talking about 'death panels' LOL
Give me a break!! What do you think your wonderful insurance companies have been doing for decades? They decide every day if grandma is going to be treated any longer for her long term illness!!

Proud to be Canadian where EVERYONE, regardless of how much you can afford, is treated without question. And if you believe the propaganda that the Canadian health care system is so bad – ask the hundreds of US people who come by bus loads across the border to get their pescriptions. Ask a Canadian – don't trust a US politician with an agenda.

I love these folks!!!

Got to love people who spout about healthcare for everyone when they refuse to use it themselves( senators ). The new care will increase the demand with out raising the supply. How do the senators plan to fix that problem? Why is the government telling me that I have to have health care anyway? I'd like to do that myself thanks. I'm still not completely dumb, my rights are my rights.

A bunch of nuts with a lot of time on their hands. All contrived and funded by the "health" insurance lobby.

Repubs dont love America, ONLY MONEY. Dont believe their lies, and donate to the DNC, and Moveon.org now.

I wonder how well these protestors actually understand health care...HIPAA, COBRA, the difference between a PPO, HMO, etc. This debate isn't about who can scream the loudest, it should be about what is right and best for the American people. In the long run, it costs our country less money to take care of people who have had insurance and have been able to use it. Pharmaceutical companies are worried that the rates of heart disease and diabetes will go down, because then people won't need to be forced to take medication for the rest of their lives. And insurance companies love taking money from healthy people and dropping coverage for the sick. Insurance is about spreading the risk, and they haven't been doing this. We need reform now!!!

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Buddha

Here comes the Hate Obama tour to your town. Get your tickets to the Just say NO march on Washington.

Not only do they not have jobs, but they homeschool/brainwash their children so that they think this is the right thing to do.

As others have said, silent as church mice for 8 years while our 401K were gutted, we lost tons of jobs because of lack of government attention to Wall Street shenanigans, we spent trillions on a war in a country we had no business being in, but let someone suggest something like healthcare for all, which would save us all money on the amount each one of us spends, not to mention resolve half of the bankruptcies in this country? Oh, yeah... they're all mad now.

The hypocrisy and outright lies so-called conservatives probably shouldn't amaze us as much as they do. I guess some things you just don't get used to. I wish the reporter had asked Mr. Williams why, if they're as mad at Republicans as they are at Democrats, we keep seeing Obama's name on the signs with nary a Republican name in sight. Or maybe he should have been asked why, if they're protesting taxes, so many of the signs are off-topic and/or racist.

This is no "silent majority". This is a crowd of activists paid to shout hatred and ignorance.

If we could only harness the gas coming out of the mouths of the TEA partiers, we could tell the Middle East to go packing.

Where were these people when we sent thousands of men and women to Iraq to die? Why didn't we all protest? Why can't we now sit down and work out the problems of our country instead of SCREAMING AT EACH OTHER ???? I believe there is not a problem that can't be solved if we care enough to resolve it. What happened to country first instead of party? In this country now, you're going to hell if you're a Democrat and only Republicans are going to heaven – this has got to stop.

First, let me say that I appreciate people exercising their right to peaceful protest. What concerns me, though, is the idea that these Tea Parties are divisive in their intent. They seem more concerned to stir up anger and discontent rather than in creating a dialogue between the parties. I also take issue with the concept of the Tea Parties themselves. Historically speaking, the Boston Tea Party was the result of the American Colonies discontent of "taxation without representation" but these people have a voice in our government under our current system just like everyone else.

What saddens me is that the election of Barack Obama has brought out the best and, yes, the worst in people. I have heard more negativity from both sides and my heart breaks. We're on the same team people, but we will never move forward, we will never go anywhere if we keep on digging in our heels and refuse to do something positive.

This is America, for God's sake! It's about time we start acting like it!

OMG...Are you serious. These people are crazy. The last 8 years of "BUSH" is the only reason that our defict is out of controll. The Republicans said nothing with all the spending that Bush made. God forbid that Obama try to help the people unlike Bush and gets hell for it. We can see that the Republicans care nothing for the American people but only for their on selves and their own pockets.

The health care industry is spending 1.5 million a day to spread lies, fear and hate among the gullible.

I seem to recall that 0bama ran on a campaign of "hope and change." Yet all his style of government has been has been "ruin and bully." And all I ever hear from the 0bama supporters is "Bush this and Bush that."

Quit whining and offer something besides socialism and maybe the rest of us real Americans will give you clowns the time of day!

Who pays for the buses? The people riding them do. They are not whackos. They're your neighbors and mine. They're single, partnered and family people. They have everyday concerns like paying for property taxes, Federal, State and local income taxes, Social Security taxes, sales taxes, self employed taxes, utility bills, food bills and more. They're trying to save for their childrens' college educations. They worry about their families and friends in the military and the health and safety of their communities. They were raised on the American dream in school, temple and church. They admire the successful and want to move up the same ladder for themselves and for those who follow. They love this country and want it to always be the best. What they have seen their government doing lately concerns them. They want to be heard. Let them speak.

It is true most people want Healthcare reform but...... most people do not want the Government Option!

Just more lies by liberial socialists.

JUST OPEN YOUR EYES, Dumbocraps, and you can see the headlines of > $9 Trillions deficit now thanks to Obama "Helping" the citizens of this country. No thanks, we don't need more of the same. How many more trillions will Obama add to the deficit with Obamascare? Who the devil do you think is going to pay for all this?

They're stupid, gullible lemmings that have been convinced that health care reform is bad. If they did they're research, they'd realize that they'd be the beneficiaries of of solid, cost effective health care system for years to come.

So it's ok to go into debt for needless wars, but it's wrong to spend on millions of Americans to benefit. Dolts.

I think that the reporters need to do their diligence in checking out the funding for this lunatic show. It reminds me of the things the La Rouche organization does.

I can't believe what sore losers the Republicans are.......Bush created the deficit that we now have and Obama is attempting to get out of the mess he inherited. Fools come in all shapes and sizes.....

These folks are the willfully ignorant and uneducated, they are the result of 8 years of the dumbed down , fear mongering GWB presidency.

Americans must focus on reason and civility over contrived irrational, fear driven emotionalism from the shrill right wing.

The Tea Party is working for the common man just like Ted Kennedy.

Why is CNN villifying them in such a manner.

They want fiscal responsibility and more in the pocket of the common.

Yet we read comments that are vulgar and offensive. Ted Kennedy would be sad indeed. Ted was a saint don't you know.

CNN – just another cable outlet filled with bias and censorship.

Can spreading lies and misconception still be considered "educating". CNN you might want to amend the article to use the right terminology.

Doesn't anyone see this trend in GOP politics and antics ? The GOP loses and the right wing wierds come out. Remember history 1993, Waco Texas, a right wing religious disaster. 1995 the bombing in Oklahoma, and what was McVey wearing ? The same shirt the idiots wear at the town halls that Obama attends. The religious right gets more involved, more abortion doctor killings. Do we see a pattern after the GOP loses an presidental ? I am for the 2nd amendment but lets be fair. When our founding fathers created it they had no idea about technology and the vast amounts of easy access to automatic weapons. I hust and fish but I don't use a ak 47. This really scares me when you see whats going on. GOP control your right.

The Obama Administration has been making a series of miscalculations, each of them putting American taxpayers into the newest deepest hole we have ever been in. They underestimated unemployment so the 'first' $1 trillion stimulus did not keep it at 8%.
They overestimated the economic recovery so that the defecit for the next 10 years is going to be $2 trillion higher.

Every indication is that they will continue spending and march us into deeper and deeper debt. What is the magic number that liberals will finally choke on ( $100 trillion ? $250 trillion ) before they admit this is a problem and how much time will this administration get before it starts looking at actually managing the Federal spending? How many more expensive programs can they blow money on with no results?

Yes, it's time now to march and wave signs. This has already gone too far and nothing is getting fixed. The more noise the better!

I don't like all these taxes and gov't spending either, but some of these people need to get a job, and a life.

What the heck do you people think acorn is, it is a bunch of nuts that run around trying to stir up trouble every where they go, Same as the service union's people. Both are paid to raise cain for obama.

Get jobs people.

Isn't that cute. The petty bourgeois are up in arms again and having a teabagging party. Funny, I don't see any "people of color" in that picture. Have a nice day!

A lot of independents and even a few "conservatives" underestimated the damage that their protest vote against Bush and for Obama would ultimately cause and now are having second thoughts. There was no mandate, just an anti-bush vote. You only have to look at the recent poll of how 96% of jews feel that Obama is NOT favorable to Israel and yet he got a huge amount of Jewish votes. That will not happen in the next election.

Wait... how are these people traveling across the country? Dont they have JOBS? After hearing them say – "I want the Government to stay away from my medicare" I'm going to go ahead and assume they dont work... and probably didnt finish HS. Ahh good old grass root americans. By the way, I think you will find it easier to spot Waldo in any of these pics then a minority...

"This is not people upset over one particular politician or one particular party," Williams said. "In fact, if you ask the Republicans in the crowd, you'll find they are just upset at their party as they are at the Democrats."

Brought to you by FOX NEWS!!!!

Riding bus across the country and ending in a 3 day march? These people need to get jobs.

I'm with you..., 1.8 trillion times over this year alone!!

I hate to bust those people's bubble, but it isn't Obama that's causing the healthcare problem, It is the American people. Therefore they need to own up to the problem and debate it in a peaceful way. The only thing they are protesting is having a new president and aren't acceptable to change. Most of them are misinformed, misguided, idiots, rednecks, and Republicans

Teabagger Alert! Whining and Pouting Abroad!

Is there a law against "stupid"? how about meaness?

there should be some legal way to make these idiots shut up and go away.

silent majority? I think you must be confused, randy. They are a minority and not very silent. What are they really protesting? All I can figure out is they don't like OUR President and don't want to hear any explanation of any legislation or anything that comes out of a Democratic Administration. You can't have it your way, all the time. There is a Democrat in the White House, but because he's Black, these people carry signs with Hitler's face superimposed on President Obama's and bring guns to protests and wonder why no one wants to listen to them. You do not have a choice as to how 'your' tax dollars are spent, any more than I do – I didn't want my tax dollars spent on wars and contracts with Halliburton, but I didn't try to incite violence against those I didn't like. Additionally, you guys keep bringing up ACORN and Code Pink (I'd never heard of either until this past election), but I don't see either group attracting this much attention, so they obviously have little impact.

Can someone tell me how Obama became a millionaire? I wonder how much his net worth will have increased after his term is over.

There's nothing standing between us and being uninsured other than an employer who woke up this morning feeling like they could still afford to provide you and I with insurance.

It would be nice to see a grassroots effort but when its backed by lobbists it smells fishy. If you have concerns ask for a copy of the bill, read it and then deside. And for you non DEM or Independents ( GOP ) have someone with intelligence read it to you before you disrupt a peaceful town hall.

Typically, when people protest it is becasue they want to bring attention to thier needs, but here tese people are protesting to stop health care reform that would clear;y be in each of thier best interest – so sad and even after it was reported that the Insurance industry spent Big $ to learn what buzz words would upset the old and stupid.

March on you Stupid people voicing your support for making the Insurance Industry more rich.

I am guessing that Fox will have an on-air personality on the bus the entire time for all the reports??

Can't WAIT to see those. You know how OBJECTIVE they are. LOL

What a bunch of gulliable hateful people will support war to kill people but wont support healthcare to save people,Will support torture but wont support helping these people are truly from the evil side!

TEA Baggers?... they should call themseves Sand baggers,.. because they want to hold the Obama tide back, and stop the progression of the waters of reform. Just a storm in a tea kettle if you ask me.These people are paid, manipulated, morons , with nothing better to do.

Ignorant and extremist behavior based on lack of courage, fear mongering and hopelessness.

Look at all that diversity in that picture eh?

Did the bus come right from a McCain/Palin rally?

Why are 90 percent of the tea party clowns senior citizens? Its because they don't like a black man being President. If they really cared about spending, they would have been protesting when Bush was President. But no, they have to blame everything on President Obama.

It seems that the G.O.P. obviously has no interest in a healthy America and have indoctrinated their supporters with fear mongering lies. Why?

These lib posts are killing me! "Whats wrong, don't these people have jobs?" Here is a key answer numbnuts, No they DO NOT and in alot of cases they are the same people that were paying 50K /year in taxes last year. Instead of focusing on the economy and creating jobs, Obama has been off on a left wing nut course of politics set on destroying capitalism, creating massive debt the likes that have never been seen before in HISTORY! We are now in an escalating war in Afghanistan that we will never win and our country is a mess and on the verge of total social unrest.

Gee, yeah, go Obama!

Look at those signs.

Why are the most vocal always the most uneducated and ignorant?

It scares me that so many people can be so easily lead by bold face lies and fear tactics. When did we become such a selfish people that we no longer want to look out for one another. A society that does not take care of their people will eventually perish.

Thanks D.P. That's what I've been asking for some time. Where the heck were ya when millions on millions of dollars (tax payer dollars) were disapering with NO acountability??? These freaks and the birthers are a scary bunch. Shows our education system needs some help.

Republicans don't believe in government. Why do they run in government? We pay them for doing nothing?

I guess we pay them to do something for the benefit of the common interest. – ie. health care for all Americans. The businesses – in particular, the insurance business – pay them to do nothing – or stand out of their way. The politicans pocket both ways – and I guess how they sway depends on who pay them more.

It's sickening. When you are healthy, and you can handle the burden to help other people, you don't mind really. In fact, you are happy to make a difference in their life. But when you are not healthy, and you don't think you can handle the burden, you feel burdened. and feel angry that other people are putting more burden on you. So, don't feel mad at them, feel bad for them, since they are not healthy, they are weak inside ... even though they may shout loudly outside.

Obama has caused massive deficits and is showing no signs of slowing down as he takes the nation further toward total bankruptcy.Maybe this is the plan. The tea baggers are ordinary citizens who are fed up with the give away mentality of this admin.

You spelled that wrong you put T where a P should be and they certainly are....they republicans...can you believe they come from America......

These people aren't even aware what they are protesting. over 90% of our federal budget is tied up and untouched. It's mainly spent on the military, Medicare, Social Security, and, of course, the interest on the national debt. Nobody talks about those. If anything,. republicans make up myths and try to protest any cuts to to any of those, despite the fact that the spending under Obama increased for the military, and is projected to increase for both Medicare and Social Security as well. And yet republicans don't want those cut. Instead, they are protesting less than 10% of the federal budget spending. (and based on the specific items they mention, I'd say less than 2%) Thank God Americans don't know math!

The pro-healthcare buses will be in DC about then as well. I hope they wear bullet-proof vests since these right wing nutters are probably armed and god knows unwilling to let other people have differing opinions.

Amen! God please watch over them and keep them safe from the right wing gun nuts.

Have any of these people even read any of the proposals or are they just out there because someone told them to?

As soon as these protestors can express an opinion with fact, I might listen.

Why is everyone in the picture white?

Why can't these Republican protest peacefully like we Dems do at the global economic summits?

The original tea party protesters were against raising taxes because the money would not be used in America, and they had no right to oppose the King's laws and thus had no real representativity and the lack of response from the authorities led to independance ideals.
The current tea party protesters are against raising taxes when the money is to be use din America and in Americans, they have the whole right to protest (as long as they do not purposedly disturb the place were they are) and have real representation, but they are not in command of the situation anymore...
THAT's why they are protesting!

Wow with all these posts you'd think republicans are the party of tolorance. When did all of you liberals get so nasty!

I can not believe the number of willfully stupid people out there. Makes me want to move to a small island way far away.

Little did Ronald Reagan know that when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, his entire party would eventually suffer the same fate.

Yes, our country does - deserve better - especially considering the garbage George Bush handled off to Mr. Obama on January 20, 2009.

Thankfully, we elected a president up to the task.

Whatever the agenda these tea baggers have, it is laughable at best. The damage was done long before Mr. Obama became president.

So they're taking time off work to be unpaid shills for big insurance companies? How embarrassing...

Those of you who keep saying that our President is ruining our country let me remind you where was this country about a year ago? I remember well when the dow crumble fannie mae and freddie mae went under and i dont want to criticize G. Bush but where was he then where was he during Hurricane Katrina. And because this President who i voted for and i have no regret wants to put this country back on track all we hear is he is a socialist he is a columist or whatever! And you know what im glad he took the bold action that was needed to try to fix the economy im glad he want to Reform healthcare and do other things that will help this country, The right opinion is just different from the left the left wants to help people get on their feet the right want to save and hold to what they got and hope that someone will help.

I particularly love the woman with the "Line for Dying Starts Here" sign. These are the same people who supported a president who went to war with a nation with admittedly false intelligence and killed hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. I guess they were in the line for dying too...they just didn't know it. I think it's safe to say that Republicans now are for one idea: Change the world to fit your perceptions, but heaven forbid that we change to keep up with the rest of the world. Maybe since they are all so nostalgic we should replace their semi-auto assault rifles for "protection" with replica muskets...

God, please protect us from these idiots who have nothing better to do! You delivered us from Bush, please do the same with these STUPID, CLUELESS, HEARTLESS HYPOCRITES.

Praying everyday for CHANGE!!

How many of the bus tour folks are insurance industry workers being paid from the premiums their employers receive from customers? Must be nice to get paid to go on an all-expenses-paid two-week cross country sightseeing tour.

Where, oh, where were these protests for 'fiscal responsibility' when Bush Jr. doubled the national debt and hence doubled the tax burden of the interest on that national debt? Oh right, they were just enjoying their 'tax cuts.' A tax cut IS the generational theft they so self-righteously protest! While we have deficits people should NOT ask for tax cuts for themselves. That just increases the debt, and hence the interest payments their OWN CHILDREN have to pay!

You have awakened the sleeping population of middle class TAX PAYING CITIZENS of the United States of America. Our current form of radical Government will now suffer the wrath of transparency, removing the obscurity of the bureaucratic curtain form which you ALL operate. American citizens will demand accountability from our elected officials for the mess in which we find ourselves and the waste of our hard earned dollars. For those in the "Government family network" you will soon find out we are on to you and your ideology of reshaping OUR Nation is futile! Once you have lost the middle class tax dollar, you have nothing, who will pay to support your programs for the non-deserving masses? If you can't deport 12 million for illegal entry, you can't arrest 12 million for failure to fund your corrupted government!

It's Redneck season again....

For you dopes asking where were we the last 8 years?

#1) Wasn't happy about the BUSH deficit either.

#2) But I guess BUSH was a much better President than we thought since it has taken OBUMMER 8 months to quadruple the deficit that Bush accumulated in 8 years.

#3) Yeah, you dumocrats alwasy want someone else to pay for you. Well, I for one, will not pay anymore tax increases. I'm going to be like the DUMOcrats, sit back, cheat on my taxes, and join the Obummer Welfare train.

Go ahead and whine, but the FACTS don't lie. Unemployment UP. Taxes UP. DEFICIT, way UP. Yeah, Some Change? An ignorant fool who has never successfully run a business and couldn't manage a MOM and POP store.

...I say when they get to DC that a human chain be stretched across the roads to prevent those idiots from entering the city, or we just follow them around and shout the truth back at them.

Oh never mind!

Ah, a cross-country idiot tour. Sure hope they don't come by my neck of the woods, because I don't care a single bit what they have to say. I'm tired of having ignorant drivel spouted at us by people like this....

What taxes are they protesting? What taxes has Obama raised?

Rising deficit?

Jobs gone?

Giant sucking noise?

Republicans/Democrats – blaming each other while furthering the downfall of our country.

In my eyes – Bush and Obama are the same results – just different politics.

This is just another Repub party dirty tricks squad. They can't come up with anything new so they have to dig into the past to resurrect some of Nixon's programs. Even Rushbo couldn't come up with something from that twisted mind?? of his.

What a bunch of idiots the Repub party has become!

Quit giving these small bands –these rogue groups– undue airtime. It just makes it seem like there are more of them than there really are.

Nice "red" shirts, it's too bad some of my "well-informed" countrymen and women didn't take more time to understand the issues instead of forming their opinions based on short-sighted and irrational fears. Let me see if I can tune into Bill O'Reilly or Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck, or some other nut job that corpoarte America puts on television to keep Americans in the dark....

John R.

go get 'em tea parties,,,,,,congress and obama are digging thier graves deeper and deeper

I thought Dick Cheney said that Ronald Reagan 'proved that deficits don't matter'...

"Halliburton you ignorant people was the only US compnay that could have been hired"

It's easy to be the only "qualified" corporation when you're the one writing the specs.

What a fun group!! Sprading hate and lies across America! What great Americans!

I tell my kids that life is an IQ test and some people don't score very high. The Deathers, Birthers, and Tea Party proponents demonstrate how little critical thinking happens for some folks. The Repubs have spent decades now "educating" people that government is bad ... but don't we have ample evidence that corporations do not have the best interests of non-shareholders in their sight? I had hoped that electing a President that clearly is capable of critical though might inspire others to do the same. Instead, we get pitchforks ... or the public display of sidearms.

I'll be attending mine here in Austin, Texas in September and I can't wait!

My 401k has rebounded, home sales are rising, home values are rising, unemployment is decreasing . . . where's the bad? Everyone needs healthcare at some time or another so everyone should have access to it. Who can argue with that? And end of life discussions are important. Just because science and medicine can prolong your life, doesn't mean it should. People should be able to have comfort measures for ailments and let nature run it's course. In my opinion, quality of life is more important than quantity of life. Anyway, President Obama has been in office 8 months and is working very hard to make the change he promised during his campaign, with some success. He is faced with old school politics at every step. No one comes up with better ideas, they just criticize his. Give the man a chance.

They look ridiculous. None of them have read the bill. They are force-fed mis-information from the likes of Limpbaugh, Hannity and O'Reilly. Drive from here to the moon if you like. You're in the minority and you're shouting out like donkeys.. against your own best interests.

ROCK ON! Time to take this country back from the tax and spend loons hiding in the democrat party thus giving democrats a bad name.

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Why are all of the tea party goers white? Is this just a coincidence?

Healthcare needs a good debate; we need to hammer out the details to make it the most win-win situation possible. Guess what though -we can't have a debate if the GOP is flooding the airwaves with misinformation. Yelling, screaming, and interrupting said debates with outright lies isn't going to help us get better health care.

GOP can you say scorch and burn? How about Thanatos complex?

Go to work, you lazy bums. You didn't have a problem with big government spending when it was your party doing it.

Great, the teabagger hypocrisy is back again. They're angry and not going to take it anymore (now), yet they were silent for past 8 YEARS. Give me a break.

It's ok for teabaggers to waste funds on an unnecessary war, but they protest when our country wants to offer compassionate health care for people in need. Priorities please.

YEA GIVE ME A BREAK! I GUEST THEY ARE GOING TO PACK THEIR GUNS TOO!

It's funny that all of these anti-tax protesters didn't say a word when President Bush was raising taxes and spending like there was no tomorrow, But then he was a white Republican, wasn't he?????????

I love it when people who don't seem to work always have time to make fools of themselves.

bunch of poor uneducated people working for a pay check from the insurance companies

Everyone of those participants either work for insurance companies or is related to someone who does...
They are defending their interest... insurance company GREED...
We the people rule.. No more Greed...Greed is a sin..

This group is against wasteful deficit spending? Where were they for the past 10 years? Where were they when George W Bush grew the federal government more in 4 years than Clinton did in 8? Oh, wait... a Republican was President, so they could have cared less.

Hypocrites.

Idiots being led by the nose by the interests of corporate big shots! I've been watching the situation for American working folks deteriorate since the early 70's. Where was the outcry for justice when the wage freeze was in place back then? Yet suggest that some overpaid nitwit executive type not receive a bonus and all hell breaks loose. These are the guys responsible for America's working and middle class decline. Give them your ear if you must,, I'd rather give them a boot in the ,,,well you know.

If only they would protest on facts & not spread the bull further!

They should rename their group "Tea Bagger Express" or for Dick Armey "An Armey of Dicks". Health carereform will probably be killed or so watered down that it won't have any effect. Ten years from now when 200 million will be uninsured and the rest barely making ends meet because of it we'll be demanding a public option. A 10% per year increase isn't sustainable.

Where were these people two years ago. GOP chairman Steel and his cronies are hijacking our health care reform. It is not going to work this time.

Southern Gentlemen, your comment really made me laugh. These are individuals who have the American Dream inside of them. An American Dream that does not want the government involved in their businesses. That's what is called a free country.

Your buddy Obama wants to control everything which isn't right.

Also, you say these are people who don't want to pay taxes. THAT IS NOT THE CASE. That is faaaaar from the truth. These are people who do not want to see our children's future in jeopardy because of a ridiculous deficit. These are people WHO WORK FOR A LIVING and do not sit and collect welfare or WIC or go to school for free or receive free health insurance and decide not to work. They work and pay their taxes as it is their obligation. They are Americans.

Where were these idiots when Bush was spending this money for a worthless war? We could of had a balanced budget with Health care and even fixed Social Security and Medicare with that wasted money! Where were you then? The last three Republicans Presidents have ran us into this ditch and Now they have a few people who follow then blindly protrsting the guy who is trying to fix it. Can anyone tell me who in the Republican party leadership you would call a Christian, I mean someone who believes in the ways of Jesus?

The conservative movement is going to stop Obama in his tracks. The only stupid people are those who are so blind they don't see it comming. LOL far left liberal Dems. America does not want you.

you're all a bunch of idiots. Stupid dems.

Is the bus driver going to let them carry their guns? Just askin'

Right-wing extremists are so pathetic Guess they don't have anything better to do then listen to Rush and Beck . Hey while you were all out tea bagging Rush said to go jump off a bridge .

Whether I agree or disagree with paying more taxes, they have every right to protest. This is a free country last time I checked.

Nut jobs on parade, how lovely. I'm sure we will be subjected to more of their low IQ "logic", example: Stop gov't spending, but where is my COLA increase to SSN. I don't want gov't healthcare but don't touch my medicare, look at me and my big gun, I'm so cool. The sad thing is no one making $250,000 plus will join these losers, sure folks like Lyndon LaRouche and Dick Armey will finance it, lets see them put their mouth where there money is. Please folks feel free to stop off in NY on your way to DC, we could use the laugh and you can visit the madrassah known as Fox to pay your respects.

We havent had this much fun since Santa came to an Eagles game.

CNN, where are your reports on how members of ACORN and SEIU attacked people at townhall meetings? Punched, shoved, slapped and were allowed into the meetings in advance so those from the district could be turned away saying there was no more room.

You can only blame Bush for so long, especially since Obama has outspent him many times more than the Iraq war. Wake up people.

Be escared, be vewy, vewy befraid. How many villages will be missing their idiots?

yes, they are back to do exactly what democrats have done for years!

I wonder where all these people were when George Worst-Ever Bush was spending a trillion dollars on the war of lies in Iraq. These people are nothing more than a gang of bigots and hypocrites. I guess thay are going across the country searching for their GREAT WHITE HOPE.

Look at all the hate coming from the right wing.

I hope we can start seeing some intelligent debate rather then regurgitated chants or hypothetical conspiracy theories. Let's back our stuff up with facts, not a twisted story of how we IMAGINE things will play out. Facts and facts only. I'm so tired of seeing things that are simple MADE up on the spot.

We need some people to step in to reality for a change, to include the people on those buses. They have no valid opinions of their own, and as such I can not respect their thinking when they didn't do it for themselves. I certainly hope they are cancelling their Medicare since they are so against govt run healthcare, it would be the honorable thing to do.

First, I agree with an earlier comment...where were all these people when billions was heading over to the Middle East under the Bush administration?

Second, you don't like Obama's ideas? Fine. That's your right and I'll support you for having a differing opinion. But instead of screaming fits about it, why not offer viable alternatives? You think you know so much, offer a different set of ideas!

Where were these people when Bush was running up the defecit???

Is this really anything new? The U.S. health care system has consistently been held hostage by private health care insurers and the various special interest groups and pacs they keep in their collective back pocket.

This current dust-up over health care legislation is the latest indication that public education in this country has gone to pot. Almost half of our country is comprised of people who have been told their entire lives what to think – and never taught how to think and reason for themselves. As sad as it is, some of these people are just simplistic dupes, who blindly believe, without examination, the latest lies they hear on Fox "News." Others are just racists who want to see the President fail.

I would encourage anyone inclined to know the truth to actually sit down and read some of the legislation and try to find proof of any of the outrageous claims being made.

In this case, the President should steamroll the minority. Forty politicians should not be permitted to stand in the way of health care for forty million.

Thanks for the warning. I'll be on the lookout for expensive charter busses packed with white people shouting about how unfair life is.

These people aren't protesting taxes. They're not protesting Health Care Reform. They're protesting Obama. That's the bottom line. Obama could erase the federal deficit, bring peace to the world, and make the weather pleasant 365 days a year and these people would still be getting on a bus, painting signs with ludicrous/hateful slogans, and yelling at the cameras.

I agree with everybody who's asking where were these idiots when Bush was spending all of our money on an war with somebody we shouldn't have even gone to war with? Republicans have got to be some of the biggest retards out there...and you should never go full retard.

I know they miss the grand ol days of george w bush:
Trillions spent on an illegal war based on a lie
5 million jobs lost in 2008
TARP
Deregulation
Over 5,00 Americans killed in the illegal war
Over 100,000 Iraqi civilians killed in the illegal war
Recession
Bank Bailouts
Loss of civil rights – Patriot Act
World hating us
Oh, what they wouldn't give for those good ol days...

Arm these people and take back Washington.

seriously? Obama hasn't caused the deficit? Bush did? Yes, Bush spent way to much money however Obama is like Bush on Steriods when it comes to spending. WAKE UP AND LEARN THE FACTS

the stupidity of these people is beyond comprehension. A bunch of screaming idiots – with their hate filled signs. If you see this bus – make sure you get names, addresses and take their pictures. then post them on the internet and a threat to national security. Also you might want to notify their families so that they will make sure to have them committed upon their return.

Could these people even cite one increased tax they now pay as a result of the Obama administration? I know my paycheck is little bigger due to the President but I haven't seen any increased taxes.

It's interesting the signs in the photo show "Grandam run over..." and "...Dying...". Their protest is based on a pack of lies (death panels anyone?). What a sad joke.

Those "Tea Baggers", "Birthers", and other right wingers are typically paranoids who live in seclusion while listening to Right Wing Radio and watching Fox News.. They blog about the latest conspiracy of the day, death panels, tsaking guns away, abolishing marriage. These are some pretty sad, twisted individuals. From an Economic standpoint they vote against their self interest...all in the name of Conservatism...

When libs protest it is "grass roots and for the people", when conservatives do it it is wasting gas and unpatriotic. I personally don't protest–I get the facts, ask questions, and let my elected officials know what side I am on. I hope that those who object to the tea party protests will also object to the lefts who protest. No? It figures. If people on either side think that they, only, should have a right to protest, they make themselves look ridiculous. I would like to ask those who are for public option health care why they think many are opposed to it. Do they think the "nays" LIKE paying high premiums (those who get it through their employers could realize bigger paychecks if the employer didn't pay for health coverage and those who private-pay could save a LOT of $$)? Do they think the public option will give them better services, but, still oppose it? Or, do they know what happens when the gov't tries to run anything? Name one gov't run program which is not rife with graft and waste. Also, maybe they have read the bill–have you? It must be read realizing what is being said, what isn't being said, and how that can be interpreted/twisted.

I have yet to see any minorities out protesting health care. looks like a bunch of white people who hate to see money being spent on minorities. that is basically what this is about! so lets just continue to downplay racism and the republicans role in keeping america white. there are just too many minorities in the u.s. now to get away with this. that's why the republicans are looking for their "Great White Hope".

These idiots think they care about spending? Well health care costs are soon going to take 30% of your pay if we don't enact health insurance reform.

Leave it to idiots like these Teabaggers to act against their own interests. No matter how much the insurance companies rob them blind, they still act like a bunch of kiss-ups to them!

Never knew there were this many idiots in America....huh...go figure...

Hope not one of them ever loses their jobs (if they even have one) and need health care. Talk about fighting against your own best interests!

Only one President in the last 30 years has no ran a dept. What do you suppose these good "non-partisan" tea-baggers would say to having Bill Clinton address one of their rallies?

Where were your protests when trillions were being spent on the war based on lies?

These people are ridiculous!

How come progressives are un-American, un-Patriotic traitors when they protest. But, right -wingers are allowed to do it and think they are doing somebody a favor?

Well, I guess it comes down to another shameless example of conservative hypocrisy.

Byt the way, FOX News sucks. I'd love 5 minutes in a parking lot with Glen Beck. He'd be eating the fender of somebody's car.

Whether you are for or against the Tea Party Tour and the Obama Health Car Tour........one thing is for sure.

It's GREAT to be American and have our freedom of speech.

I wouldn't live anywhere else......

Where is the diversity?

Where were these folks when the Bush administration was doubling the national debt:? I also didn't hear any complaining when we were spending billions every month on a pissing contest with Saddam. I agree that we should be controlling spending but at least what's being spent and/or proposed right now is being spent/proposed on things that, for the most part, are to help people.

What did the republicans do for you tea baggers the last 8 years besides destroy this country and run up the debt with their illegal war?

The right is grabbing onto the "death panels" like they latched onto the "lipstick on a pig" comment. It's just not true. Even some republicans are admitting there is no language in the bill about "death panels." Oh, and the bill does not give free health care to illegal immigrants. These protesters are irrational people.

Woohoo a bus load of loonies. LOL only in America!

Obama hasn't caused the deficit! Who are these people?? Why din't they protest when Bush was president? This is so transparent & decisive!!

Never underestimate the power of completely stupid people in large groups.

I have a grande green tea.

Sure would be nice if some of these radical democrats could be a bit more informed instead of just opinionated. Keep drinking the koolaid guys...it all ends in 2010.

The Wah Wah Express coming to a neighborhood near me? Far out. I can always use a good laugh.
The GOP lost in 2008. Wah Wah. Get over it. They will lose in 2010 and especially in 2012 when the GOP runs a Palin/Limbaugh ticket.
The GOP always tells us that government doesn't work. Then they get elected and prove it! This is why the GOP is now only a rabble touring in two buses. RDRR!

If Obama's healthcare plan called for sterilization of "welfare queens" and deportation Hispanics and euthenasia for homosexuals, these people would be kissing his feet. I don't know if they are more stupid than evil, but either way their folly will eventually come right back at them.

Let them talk let them protest majority support healthcare reform that is true

Hard working people support Health care reform they don’t have time to go on the street support health care reform

The deficit for 2008 was 455 billion yet the national debt rose by 1 Trillion – hey tea baggers explain why that is ? Cause Bush NEVER put the cost of the war in the budget

Yawn . . . . These are the same people who are too stupid to realize that their 401K's were stolen by Bush and his buddies on Wall Street and at the SEC. Too bad our country is being held back by this bunch of blathering idiots.

Do these people have jobs, or are they collecting a government check each month? Maybe their so rich they don't need health care.

Where were these people when Bush et. al. lied to the nation about an 'immnent threat' and Iraq's non-existent ties to Al Quaeda in order to launched an unnecessary 7 year war, wasted the lives of over 4000 servicemen and servicewomen, and destroyed their families?

I understand disagreement but I wish people would disagree intelligently.

Don't these people have jobs??? I wish I could travel across the country for two weeks. I, however, have to work to pay my mortgage and health insurance.

Great, the teabagger hypocrisy is back again. They're angry and not going to take it anymore (now), yet they were silent for past 8 YEARS. Give me a break.

It's ok for teabaggers to waste funds on an unnecessary war, but they protest when our country wants to offer compassionate health care for people in need. Priorities please.

Can someone, anyone, please tell me where all of the outrage about spending was when George W. Bush spent this economy to the brink of disaster? The massive hypocrisy of the right never ceases to astound me.

Where were these people during the Bush years? Trillions in Iraq, $700B tarp. Why have they waited until now to start their "rebellion"?

I doubt that they even understand the difference between the Tarp and the stimulus.

What do they mean when they say they want "their" country back? From who? The man that the majority voted into office?

Is it really taxes or is it the fact that the president is African American? I find it hard to believe that the teabaggers and the town hall protestors are truly that upset about their taxes.

Just more of the "I got mine now screw you" mentality that permeates American society today. They'll scream "no more taxes" until some government program used by them or someone close to them gets cut, then it will be a different story. I see it in Florida all the time. We vote to cut property taxes, thereby drastically limiting government revenue, then when plans are announced to cut services, everyone is up in arms! People if you want services you have to pay for them.

Tea Baggers are nothing but a bunch of hippies/commies.

Blah Blah Blah – where were you the last 8 years ?

and the statement " when I run out of money, I quit spending", so why is it that people are up to their butts in debt, oh that's right "credit cards"...guess he forgot that one.

I wonder why these Good Bushies are not protesting the 2.5 trillion dollars we have spent on dumb dumbs useless Bush War in Iraq?

The swiftboating of America continues...........

Remember the year 2000, when Washington was running a 250 billion dollar surplus, and the White House and CBO were arguing over how big the surplus would be by 2008? Now we come into 2009 with a 1.2 trillion deficit, plus stimulus kicked it up to about 1.6-1.8 trillion.

What the heck happened from 2000 to 2008? Where'd all the money go? Maybe these tea party folks could enlighten me...

Republicans a bunch of hypocrite. After Clinton gave them a surplus in the deficit they turn around and make us broke and they are blaming the democrat. What a bunch of fools.

Thes people are just plain crazy. They really need to start their own country. They just do not get it. I do not want to base my reason on fear to reject a proposal. If they could read i guess they would understand the proposal. I also agree that all of this is because our president is a black man. It they had a choice between Obama and a Zebra they would pick the Zebra to keep the balck man dow. I hope that America see how racist the republican party is. They are showing their true colors now. Running around with guns at the town hall meetings, hanging nooses, looking for the great white hope, hate gays. You name they have put it out there. I am really ashamed of this country. They do not realize if we do not move forward there will be no America. We will be left behind because of thes unthinking idiots.

what I find ironic is all these incredibly stupid people not recognising that we fought a war with England over the same this these people are portesting peacefuly about. Why all the vitriol? Many men and women have died so we can peacefully assemble and protest.

And for good measure as if that were not stupid enough they are still bringing up things that have absolutely nothing to do with the issue.

Halliburton you ignorant people was the only US compnay that could have been hired. the only onther company qualified was located out of France....lord, learn to read wil you?????????

Bush didn't put the cost of "his" wars" in the budget, where Obama did, which gives a clearer view of why the budget is as high as it is. I guess it is "if not seen, then it didn't happen" some people are dumber than a box of rocks. How many of your budgets exclude car payments etc etc., I guess everthing is rosy isn't it. Fox and the fringe need to get a life, like the line from the sign "Obama' health care line 4 dying starts here, I guess they still believe the garbage they hear on FOX, RATIONING is happening now people people are dying because of it.................

I hope they come to West Philly,were still waiting for Santa Claus to come back

let the tea bagging begin amongst these sheep.

I certainly am glad we live in a country that everyone has the right to peaceful assembly and protest. I am also glad I live in a country where I can look at these people; call them a bunch of loons and tools for big business, and not listen to whatever daffy comment Glenn Beck fed them for the 5 o’clock news. Before you call me partisan, I think the wackos in Code Pink are just as bad. They should get together and have a “Pink Tea” party…sheesh.

Another bunch of idiots! Just goes to show you where the GOP is taking the nation. What about all that spending that cheney and bush did in Irag? Funny how people have forgotten about that. Obama spends money to help the economy and improve health care. Bush spends money on a pointless war that increases the deficit by billions. Yet, these idiots blame Obama. Something stinky about these tea parties!

It is amazing how hateful the comments are coming from the Democratic party... I am an American citizen first and Obama is trying to take take take.... Regardless of your party will you at least clear your head of all the lies that this so called President is saying... And please don't come back with well... what about the last 8 years , he inherited this, NO.... enough !!!! Obama did this mess ,Obama is spending the money ,Obama has gone back on every promise he has made, So wake and be truthfull !!!! Thankyou to both Parties that actually care about our rights!!!! Keep on !!!!

Okay so we have the Obama Health Care tour bus .......joined by the Tea Party Tour bus.

Hmmm........Sounds like.......there will yelling and screaming to the left and yelling and screaming to the right.

Plenty of entertainment for all.

The fact that these people now know much of what they're saying is lies but they STILL continue this charade says more about them than anything.

These absurd tea parties are hardly patriotic protests: they appear to be further evidence of corporate manipulation of the America people.

A significant portion of the American people will believe anything corporate America tells them!

Do these people have jobs?

If these people really understood and believed what they were saying, there would be no teabagging parties, etc. I mean, c'mon! "Obamacare: the time 4 dying starts here"? Come again? I heard a lady in one of these events CRY to a senator that she's afraid what will happen if the government starts messing with her healthcare. And guess what? SHE'S ALREADY ON MEDICARE! JEEZ PEOPLE, WAKE THE HELL UP AND THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING / SAYING!

Aim high!

Where were these MORONS when Bush blew a surplus? When Ronnie Raygun RAISED taxes?? When Daddy Bush RASIED taxes???? Give me a break.....IT'S CALLED FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET....here kitty kitty kitty!!!

The ACORNS and SEIUs and other supporters of the radical left wing agenda have had their say. The Obama administration has demonstrated their desires for change...yeah, change from democratic republic to socialist dictatorship. Well, the silent majority is silent no more. We were complacent and didn't bother to show up to vote in 2008, and we've paid a huge penalty for that. We understand. When 60% of the silent majority doesn't vote, the left APPEARS to have the majority. What a surprise it will be to these loonies when we vote with a vengeance. The Congress is already terrified of how many seats are going to get turned over in 2010. The question now is...do we allow the pretender to complete his term as president, or will we have to impeach him to prevent any further destruction of the nation?

The sad part is........some of these people actually believe what they are doing is helpful. They would have more credibility had they raised these same issues of the deficit during the last administration. As it is, they are being manipulated in the worst way........which could backfire on the Republican Party in the future, because when someone finally realizes they were manipulated, they tend to lash out at those that duped them. Hopefully, this will occur soon.

HA.

They're a little late with their "protest". Bush gave away our future with his deficit spending for the war and 75% of the Senate voted to bailout the banks. They should get their own house in order before they scream at others.

It would be nice to see the millions of uninsured and those who are denied treatment by insurance companies stopping the path of these busses all across America. Perhaps then these idle rich will see the enormity of the problem in America rather than looking at the rising value of their shares in "health" corporations.

You guys didn't care about spending when it was for an un-just war. A war based on lies.

Why are you protesting taxes when the majority of the people who go to these tax tea party groups got a tax cut from our current President?

The government was spending at a deficit long before Obama. So, what is really going on here?

And fear of raising taxes?!? I, for one, would not mind a slight raise in taxes at all. I think paying taxes that go for our roads, our schools, our parks and yes, even healthcare for me and you.

Where were all of you over the past 8 years? We're you all just sleeping or do you just pick and choose which things you care about? No credibility by nutcase groups such as this. They may have a point, but let's get real on credibility.

The revolution to take back the country has begun. Obama and his band of thugs, along with former Nazi sympathizer George Soros and the culpable media thought they could use lies, deception and slight of hand to install a radical puppet president and then systematically destroy the country. They got away with the first step but people are finally waking up to what is really going on. Democrats are going to take a severe and well-deserved beating in elections to come.

These people are clueless and bring nothing to the discussion. I ignore them.

I can not imagine this many ignorant people at one gathering...one thing for sure the right wingers believe what they are told to believe & don't have to worry about thinking for themselves.

The signs in the picture should read, "Obama-Scare", that's what this is all about.

2010 and 2012...buy-buy dems...

Yes!!! I applaud you, take our nation back!!!!!

ridiculously ignorant!

Whooopie...a bunch of morons wasting gas...that some how don't work because they have all this time to spend tea bagging each other....these are my kind of people...think I'm gonna go drive across the country being a domestic terrorist too..because us republicans don't like america!

I find it ironic that by protesting against taxes being raised, they are in effect supporting the slashing of medicare, medicaid and social security benefits to themselves and their parents and grandparents. There is simply no way that we as a country can continue to pay out all of the benefits that we have promised without massive tax increases. If they don't want to see their taxes go up, we'll instead see massive benefit cuts. I hope they like the idea of not being eligible for social security until age 75.

This bunch of republicans is something else, they cant even late their hate lie still till at least senator kennedy is in his final resting place. Why dont you take Sarah along with you she has extra money now that she has from her PAC account and take the fox news gang along with you cause hose people will be cabinet when alaska puts her in the white house.

More fools amongst us!

These tea partiers are just using the same strategies by code pink etc... the liberal groups to attack Obama. They simply pick the smallest of things, make it big, and then attack anyone on every front.... it's not like a war, or whatsoever. Where were they when Bush and Reagan overspent?

i wonder who pays for the bus fair,and who supprts these wacky people who are dividing the country.

Having seen a rally in Bremerton, Washington while on vacation, the group of about 10 – mostly seniors? – had signs, etc. The most interesting part of the 5 minutes I observed the event was the comments of individuals passing the group of protesters. The individuals watching the group shared comments like – wow they are all eligible for medicare – don't they know their healthcare is currently funded by the government. All 10 were white, over 65 and alone having attracted maybe 5 onlookers.

Let me try to explain things, Tea-Baggers ...
Because of failed Republican policies, the economy was in free fall. People were not spending money, which further damaged the economy. So Obama had to inject tax payer money into the economy to keep it from completely coming off the rails. Now, things are starting to look up.
There's your lesson. Think about that before you hop on that silly bus and make fools of yourselves from coast to coast.

Our country does deserve better than mindless opposition, nay saying and fear mongering. Unfortunately that seems to be all we're getting from the conservatives. I'll stick with forward motion and Obama.

What a great country that we can protest peacefully with out worrying about violence and arrest! You go guys. Get those greedy pigs out of our pockets!

Oh good grief - another round of nonsense and stupidity. I have never seen so many temper tantrums from supposed adults in my lifetime.

That the GOP is entirely leaderless has become abundantly clear. Are there no adults in this party that can control the over grown cry-babies we the majority must cope with month after month?

What an embarrassment the GOP has become.

Don't these people realize how much the extremists, lobbyists and big business are using them?? How can they be so blindly led?
How can they justify their actions when the last eight years almost
destroyed our country??

There is no doubt that comments about tea baggers, right wing nut jobs, whackos, nazis, swastikas etc, etc will appear on this ticker.

Apparently the 9 trillion dollar deficit that Obama has racked up is of little concern as long as we can get 'health care'. That number's just a drop in the bucket when you start adding cap and trade and all of the other mostrosities the clowns in Washington are now proposing.

When reality hits, many are going to really be bummed out.

Our own delusional right-wing-nut, Michelle Bachmann, had a town hall meeting and people were very upset. "Why do you persist on distorting the president's plan?" asked Ilya Gorodisher, 46, of the Stillwater area, accusing Bachmann of "stretching the truth to the point of lies." That's the entire point of the Republican party: Lie about health care, or anything else that will fix the mountain of problems the GOP caused while in office. Personally, I trust the government a lot more than I trust the for-profit HMO's, Insurance Companies, Lobbyists, and Politicians who are spreading the lies.

boring..... tired of this non constructive blathering....

Right-wing slime. Where were these selfish nuts when Bush was president and running everything into the ground? I say we round up these dirtbags and throw them in jail for treason.

Just some rich people who can affored to take that much time off of work to protest increased taxes on the wealthy. The rest of us will still be working...let us know how it goes.

ho hum..... get a life.

Where were they 8 years ago?

Before these people go marching around the country they need to research and read how our countries monetary value is under attack and why government spending is necessary. Is there anybody out there that does their own research for the whole truth and not let politics influence your intelligence.

NO MORE TAXES
NO MORE TAXES
NO MORE TAXES

See if you DUMOcrats can figure that one out

Who's paying for this? They are wasting gas. Are the taxpayers paying for their days off? Are they using annual leave? Is the bus driver donating his services and will he show this on his taxes? The money they are spending could help a homeless person eat and have shelter. Will the PAC provide the American people with a itemized statement re: this journey? Is Mark Williams paying his own way or using the contribution money?

These right-wing extremists are so pathetic. They have no idea what they're protesting and if our President was white, they wouldn't be doing it! They are so transparent, they have no reason to hate Obama except for his skin color. They are absolutely clueless and without common sense. But the saddest part is they actually think they're making a difference.

Our country does deserve better.

KEEP THESE IDIOTS OUT OF THE NEWS.............

Change all those red t-shirts to blue Obama or ACORN t-shirts and they would be call Americans expressing their views. But... watch the liberals start the name calling.

The pro-healthcare buses will be in DC about then as well. I hope they wear bullet-proof vests since these right wing nutters are probably armed and god knows unwilling to let other people have differing opinions.

The silent majority has come alive. The people who pay taxes and make this country run off of there hard work. No more sitting around and letting a bunch of criminals give money to the leeches of society. Tired of seeing people with 4kids by 4 dad buying drugs with our tax dollars. God Bless America!!!!!!!!!!

Dick Armey,another wannabe cowboy from Texas,[that other country],with his gang of people who work for the insurance companies,and have been told to march or look for another job.hahaha

Nothing but a bunch of hippie/commies who dont want to pay taxes.

Where were they when Bush was spending trillions needlessly on a "war of choice"? Where were they when Haliburton and other Texas businesses started enriching themselves at taxpayer expense? Where were they as the rich got richer and the poor got poorer? Where were they for the past eight years? Seems like the conservatives only complain about big spending when the benefit is going to the average hard-working American.

based on lies and fears...a house built on sand will surely crumble into the sea