Tea Party Activists: Make it Count!

I'm just so fired up with the Tea Party movement it's hard to pull away and focus on something else - but that's just a report, not an apology! I love it!

El Marco sent me his report from Denver on Wednesday night, "Evil Right Wing Extremists Who Would Destroy America Gather in Denver":

Also, Darleen Click has some beautiful shots from the Rancho Cucamonga Tea Party:

Also, Michelle Malkin's syndicated column is up, and she exorts conservatives to make it count, "The Million Taxpayer March":

Let’s use liberal math to calculate attendance at this week’s nationwide Tax Day Tea Party protests. When left-wing activists make crowd estimates, the algorithm is: Six figures = one million. An incomplete survey of newspaper accounts and organizer estimates pegged the Tea Party protest population at a minimum of 250,000. We can now, therefore, officially call it the Million Taxpayer March.

Or the Million Rightwing Extremists March if you work for the Department of Homeland Security.

To George Soros-funded grievance professionals, 250,000 is an insignificant number. But unlike recent anti-war and pro-illegal immigration rallies padded with union workers, college students, and homeless people, the Tax Day Tea Party demonstrations featured small business owners, working taxpayers, and families. This wasn’t a weekend or holiday, mind you. A quarter million people took time off in the middle of the work week to raise their voices against reckless taxing and bipartisan spending.

Read the whole thing, and God Bless Michelle Malkin!

Related: Bruce Bartlett tries to throw water on the movement, in "Tax Tea Party Time, Part Two" (via Memeorandum). But the notion that "it's all about taxes," seen in Bartlett's piece, misrepesents the diversity of outrage we're seeing on the ground.