Last Saturday, Mr. Mo and I attended the Taxpayer March on D.C. One of my friends who used to live in our area but moved to OH a couple of years ago called me to see if we were going. Indeed! So, she and her husband drove down and we met up at the Dunn Loring Metro around 8:00 a.m.

We purchased tickets and waited for the train which was delayed due to track maintenance. Around 8:30 we found a car that had a few seats available. We were lucky. The train filled to capacity, and we were packed in like sardines.
Everyone was friendly and excited. For the majority of us, this was the first time we've ever done anything like this.
I went to two Sarah Palin rallies last fall, but nothing prior to that.
This is a cause that we all feel so strongly about. Our government is and has been out of control for quite some time, and we've had it. They aren't listening to us, they ignore our letters, emails, and phone calls.
Enough is enough. They need to start representing us.

Many of us had signs, and some were really clever and made us laugh.
I came up with this idea when I recalled a Rita Rudner skit in which she said PMS stands for "pardon my screaming".



BTW, that's a "Proud Conservative" baseball cap. Check out Trent's site. He's got some great T-shirts and other goodies.

When we got off at our stop (Metro Center) and just before rounding the corner, you could hear a roar that wasn't recognizable as human voices at first, and as we walked a couple of blocks to Freedom Plaza, it sunk in that this thing was going to be huge. The crowd was fired up and we were getting goosebumps.



We just kind of milled around, and I think we all realized that this march wasn't going to wait until 11:30 as scheduled. People started walking past us to Pennsylvania Ave., and around 10:40, we joined in.
We were lucky in that we were far enough ahead that we snagged a couple of spots along the west lawn of the Capitol. I took this video with my regular camera (sorry about the horrible audio when the crowd cheers-- it's apparently a cheapo mic built in).





Everyone was well-behaved (countless others have reported the same thing) and we didn't trash the place (unlike those who attended the 2009 Inauguration).  The trash bins were overflowing, but at least the trash was confined to that area.

It was the most awesome thing I've ever participated in. People traveled great distances and spent a lot of hard-earned dollars to get there.
I was so proud of these fellow patriots, especially the ones who had disabilities, and the elderly.
God bless them all.

Freedom Plaza:








Notice the Joker depiction under the yellow flag. It had BOTH Obama's and Dubya's likenesses.
We are ticked at ALL of them!


         


      

 


And anyone who believes the leftwing media's estimates of only 75,000 people is being fed a lie. There were easily 100,000s of thousands and much closer to if not a million.  They are relying mostly on Metro ridership numbers, and forgetting that there were a ton of buses from all over the country.   Additionally, the traffic cam timelapse that most everyone has seen by now was shut off around 1:30, doesn't capture the people who went directly to the Capitol instead of starting from Freedom Plaza, plus there were still more people coming in that weren't captured on traffic cams whom we saw as we walked the several blocks back.