Silence dogood

7pm EDT update

New Mexico: A crowd of thousands are gathered near Montgomery and Louisiana to protests the federal governments spending habits. Party goers say they are ticked off with both parties, saying both Democrats and Republicans are responsible for over spending and over taxing. Texas: Austin draws hundreds: Protesters said they oppose high taxes, careless government spending and stimulus and bailout packages....

Silence dogood

6pm EDT update

Kansas: Salina: Romm estimated 500 people had gathered to protest the tax-and-spend — or is it borrow-and-spend, or borrow-and-stimulate, or borrow-and-bail — policies of the federal government. Many in the crowd carried signs with such sayings as “Don’t Tread on Me,” “Give us Liberty, not debt,” and “Obama and Pelosi, the Detrimental Duo.” North Carolina: Thousands of protesters across...

teablogger

Crowd estimates (updated)

Pajamas TV is keeping a running tab as figures come in. Our readers are sending in their pictures and numbers here, on a post we are continually updating. Here’s another website collecting crowd...

rbarnes

An Internet Tea Party fit for Millions

Hi all.  This is my first, and likely only post.  One night in March when I heard about this site on Fox News, I went to the site’s URL only to find it unreachable. Being a technical kind of person (I run an Internet hosting and IP transit company), I looked a little closer as to why the site wasn’t online, and determined that it was either from a Denial of Service attack, or a barage of hits...

Silence dogood

5pm EDT update

Connecticut: Nearly 10,000 embittered state residents took part in a nationwide Tax Day Tea Party on the day their taxes were due. They protested in downtown Shelton, on the Green in New Haven and on the north steps of the Capitol in Hartford. Others gathered in Greenwich and New Milford. They brought tea bags, sang “God Bless America” and shouted demands they hope the General Assembly and...