The President , and his Party Enforcers , will NOT be aware of the range and scope of his Opposition, UNTIL he is made to resign. A big collective NO! as an act of resistance , is the next step.
A MILLION OR TWO people is hard to ignore, and the Dem Power Elite, with Zero at the top, will only be doing themselves a disservice by pretending, as their spinmeister/strategists were this morning, that it’s entirely normal , and this protest is basically no different from Code Pink’s presence at Anti-Bush/Iraq war rallies. Their tune will have to change a little when the actual numbers are figured out, and then submitted to the
“Dem Strategists” over the next several days. I can’t wait to hear how Bad Bobby Gibbs handles this, but I think there is bound to be official word from the WH itself that will be designed STRICTLY TO ASSUAGE WHAT IS GOING TO BE A GROUNDSWELL THAT IS GOING TO GO ON IN A HUNDRED DIFFERENT WAYS ALL FALL AND WINTER IF NECESSARY. The absolute first order of business, though, should be a concerted effort to make them pay attention by making every effort to replace THEIR majority with OURS in 2010. CAN ANYONE OUT THERE
post the upcoming elections, who is up for re-election,who the contenders are,and what numbers it would take to get a majority ? JUST WATCH OBAMA, and how he reacts to this: I am sure he is somewhat stunned. I am equally sure he will make a particularly rancid response intended to sooth, and assure the 2 million that he has their interests at heart also.
I was around the Grant reflecting pool. The people all around me were awesome as were the signs. And, yes they were handmade. People from all 50 states, all united in a purpose. I do not know how to estimate a crowd, but when my brother and his wife left around 1:10pm many others were streaming out, but many were still arriving. So, I believe that throughout, many were leaving and many were also arriving.
If you want to use the porta potty method of estimating, there was a block long row of porta potties. Somewhere between 50 and 100 porta potties. There were between 30 and fifty people, in line at each porta potty. So there were between 1,500 and 5,000 in line at any one time. The whole group of people waiting in line for porta potties were not even a drop in the bucket compared to the crowd size.