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Monday, September 14, 2009
Rich Galen :: Townhall.com Columnist
A Small Gathering in the Capital
by Rich Galen
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None of the national evening news anchors were there to bring you breathless coverage.

None of the networks suspended regular programming to show the event in real time.

A number of the weekend shows were taped on Thursday or Friday and didn't even mention it.

The Washington, DC subway - called the Metro - which regularly puts on extra trains for large events announced it would actually close stations if they became too crowded.

The Washington Times said, "Rally leaders estimated the crowd at about 75,000" the Washington Post said it was "in the many tens of thousands."

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It is one thing for Democrats to have ridiculed the people who turned out to those town-hall meetings as isolated groups of extremists. It is something else to have "many tens of thousands" of people show up on a Saturday afternoon on the West Front of the Capitol to express their dismay over how their government is being run.

The issue for Republicans is simple. Conservatives have shown you the parade route. The question is: Who, if anyone, will be able to race to the front and lead it?

The Republican National Committee didn't organize Saturday's march. The House and Senate Republicans certainly didn't organize it. According to Nafeesa Syeed writing for the Associated Press,

FreedomWorks Foundation, a conservative organization led by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, organized several groups from across the country for what they billed as a "March on Washington."

I didn't know there was an outfit called "FreedomWorks Foundation" so I didn't know that Dick Armey runs it but, as I live in the immediate environs of Washington, DC I have very little idea what's going on in the real world.

Joe Wilson (R-SC) is the early betting favorite. Nancy Pelosi et. al. will overreach and introduce a resolution of censure or reprimand or something because Wilson, who called the President a liar during his speech Wednesday night, and who apologized to the President immediately thereafter, and whose apology was accepted by the President, refuses to apologize again in the Well of the House. Continued...
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Rich Galen has been a press secretary to Dan Quayle and Newt Gingrich. Rich Galen currently works as a journalist and writes at Mullings.com

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Reply # 1
Date: Sep 19, 2009 - 11:16 AM EST
the so-called "mainstream media" . . .
is no longer "mainstream", but partisan "left-wing fringe media".
I would suggest that we use the term "fringe media" rather than "mainstream media".
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Reply # 2
Date: Sep 16, 2009 - 7:33 AM EST
Obama & MSM are Serial Liars!!
Everytime that Obama appears before his trusty telepromper to read his daily propaganda report which is being mass produced by his propaganda machine, lead by David Axelrod, he LIES.

In fact, Obama has become a Serial Liar and the MSM and Liberals in Congress are promoting and cheerleading the Lies and trying to shove this garbage down our throats.

This so-called Health Care Reform bill has absolutely nothing to do with Improved Health Care, but has everything to do with Absolute Power and Control by the Federal Government, which is nothing short of Totalitarian Fascism.

We citizens have sat back for far too long and allowed the socialists in this nation to push their agenda.

This so called health care bill will put your medical records, financial records, including real-time financial transactions into the federal government's data bank, and they will have access to your bank account with or without your approval, PIN, signature, etc. should they deem that you owe them something for health care services not yet paid. Also, this bill will fine you thousands of dollars, if your are a worker, if you refuse to purchase health insurance. Government mandates of this sort are absolutely fascist. You, the citizen, will have no choice whether or not you Choose To Purchase Health Insurance. This is a Health Care Insurance Companies Dream. You, the citizen are Forced By Government to Purchase something you may choose not to purchase.

And, if they can Force You To By Insurance whether or not you want it, then why not also Force You To Buy an Electric Car whether or not you want it, or to buy some other things that you may or may not want to purchase?

You trolls out there better wake up and realize that this Health Care Fascism is only the beginning. What is going to be next? You trolls who happen to work will be under the Iron Fist of this Fascist Government along with every other working man and woman in this country.
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