Dick Armey leading rally in Atlanta today. "15K expected"

[CurtEastPoint]

Source: Atlanta Journal/Constitution

Opponents are hoping to make the rally at Centennial Olympic Park the nation’s largest gathering in protest of the reform efforts. Organizers have tapped into some 20 national and local groups and expect to draw 15,000 people to the event, which runs from 1 to 4 p.m.

...

Virginia Galloway, the interim state director for Americans for Prosperity, a national group that advocates limited government and free markets, said metro Atlanta is a perfect place to draw big numbers against the proposals.

She pointed to Georgia’s strong conservative base and the state’s proven ability to draw masses to similar issue-oriented rallies. Several of the groups involved with the park rally organized the Tea Party at the state Capitol in April, which drew more than 7,000 people to protest the Obama administration’s spending to stimulate the economy.

The keynote speaker at Centennial Olympic Park will be former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, who fought Hillary Clinton’s earlier efforts on health care reform.

Read more: http://www.ajc.com/news/health-care-rallies-attract-116305.html

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Gathering of idiots...

I just watched (gag) a snipped of it live and PROMINENTLY in the background are 2 GOP political signs: Handel for Gov and Oxendine for Gov.

Blathering fools.

ON EDIT: Here's a link to the LIVE VIEW! Woo Hoo! Some f'ing doctor clown says to keep the government out of the system! WHAT?
http://event.playonsports.com/widget.html?eventId=6563

[Rage for Order]

1. And I'm sure it will be an army of dicks

15,000 of them.


Sorry, it's just too easy

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Led by the head dickhead, or is that redundant? n/t

[Joe Bacon]

42. No, just THE HEAD DICK

and Armey surely fills that part!

[D-Lee]

27. Army just decrying "government" health assistance -- yet, he has lifetime government health care

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080219104901AAanXuN

As a retired member of Congress, he has lifetime health plan coverage.

Anyone want to bet he hasn't turned it down?

[KakistocracyHater]

45. exactly-someone should go there & ask why he is still using gov health

coverage? Obama should just pass it, OHA the "Obama Healthcare Act" & then tell everyone that Republicans will automatically be opted out but if they change their minds they can later opt in. The Right can track who's registered as what & so can the general government, so have those registered Democratic automatically opted in, with those under 18 &/or not registered(or Independent)send a letter, letting the parents/guardians/person then decide whether to opt in or out.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

61. He's got his

Screw the rest of us.

[tooeyeten]

35. bawaahaa

LOL

[Arkana]

3. 15K...so that's about 15 in Freeperish?

[EFerrari]

11. Let's check that number after the event.

:)

[CurtEastPoint]

14. OMFG... Ralph Reed was just speaking and invited everyone to see HANNITY next week in Gwinnett.

along w/Ollie North, Isakson, etc.

WHERE DO I GET TICKETS? LOL!

[CurtEastPoint]

17. OMFG2... Karen Handel is PANDERING to them as 'true patriots'

I had respect for her at one time as Fulton Co. Chair but she is now ... well, she's a true republican. Figures.

[peaches2003]

56. Quayle and Perdue

She has worked for Marilyn Quayle and Sonny Perdue. That says it all about what Karen really is right there. She is a neighbor of mine, but no matter what she did as Fulton County Commis, I would never vote for her. All she wants to do is keep moving up and plans her next job conquest before doing a job she was just elected to do. She's a smart Sarah Palin.

[sasquatch]

4. And this will be the biggest rally of Southern White Boomers until the first SEC football game

[mitchum]

49. I really did laugh out loud

A sea of Treys and Cindys

[sasquatch]

50. Talkin' about how they get to act like asses because their daddy's killed commie at Okinowa(spelling

:eyes:

[tridim]

5. Is Vagina Coastguard going to be there too?

[Turbineguy]

33. Vagina Coastguard?

What are the requirements to get in?

[Ikonoklast]

44. I hear the entrance exam is quite

...stiff.

[Turbineguy]

46. Then I'll need time

to study.

[MisterP]

6. the rabid 20-percenters--whipped up--in Olympic Park? look out for backpacks *shudder* n/t

[tomm2thumbs]

7. they can all lick each other's wounds 2 month from now when health care moves forward

it'll be group therapy -and then some

[onehandle]

8. Georgia is moron central, U.S.A.

The wingnut donut around Atlanta is full of racist, selfish idiots.

Whenever I drive out of Atlanta it is Always to go to another state.

[mitchum]

51. Absolutely...when I drive from Athens to Atlanta...

I am always reminded that the area between the two is just Tobacco Road with subdivisions

[geckosfeet]

9. And the msm missed the 150k+ anti-war protest in DC. Astounding.

[HughBeaumont]

40. Several of them. I should know because I was at a few.

Each time, I'd call mom in the suburbs: "Is this on any major news channel? There's like, 250-300,000 of us here. This thing's going for blocks and blocks."

Mom: "Nope . . . there was like, 20 seconds of it on a local news channel. I tried to see if we saw you, but there were too many people."

Telling you . . . the corporatists learned their lessons from the 60s, where they televised cops beating kids for the world to see. If it ain't on TV . . . it never really happened, and that's that. Pigs.

[bluestateguy]

10. Protesting against their country

Disgusting.

bin Laden enablers.

[roseBudd]

12. that's not 15k, Obama at ault park in cincinnati oh was 15k so I know what 15k looks like

[colinmom71]

13. Wow. Just watched a bit of video from your link...

Hmmm.... They have to import their supporters. Strange hearing the Palin-esque sounding woman addressing the "crowd"... I'm not surprised to see such a thin crowd, especially considering the traffic issues in Atlanta today. But that is such a white group. All 100 of them. :eyes:

OMG!!!! Ralph Reed just said "let's end the Obama administration in 2010." Hmmm, can't imagine what he really meant... :mad:

[Butch350]

15. Are you referring to a Man, or the GOP?

[Dinger]

16. Add Two More K's And That'll Be Correct (nt)

(15 KKK)

[tosh]

43. +1.

:fistbump:

[Dinger]

52. Thank You : )

15 KKK people, if they're "lucky."

[hwmnbn]

18. Bwahahaha.... there's MAYBE 2000 people there...

FAIL!!

[JanusAscending]

19. Can't wait to see ........

Rachell up against DICK army on Meet the Press tomorrow!! This should be a good one!

[pattmarty]

31. I've got it "set" on my TV. Gonna be good, IF they let her speak.

[Cha]

48. That was stupid to put out such

high expectations. They should have said "200".:silly:

[Odin2005]

20. Dick Armey's army of dicks?

:rofl:

[sudopod]

21. They're all privates. :3 nt

[ribrepin]

22. Now the insurance company executives are up

It looks like an insurance company pep rally!!! Go Blue Cross!!!

[ribrepin]

23. The first thing we need to do is stop the fraud in medicare and medicaid

and invoke Ronald Reagan. Go Team!!!

[Politicalboi]

24. Will they bring their guns?

I wonder if The Dick Army really feels safe with so many iditos armed. Or are guns not allowed?

[boomerbust]

25. PITIFUL....

JUST PITIFUL

[Critters2]

26. CNN's covering it. Doesn't look like 15k to me. nt

[Daphne08]

29. Yes, I saw that as well.

I don't remember the cable shows being interested in the Medicare Drug Bill when it was being written. Perhaps they did cover it and I just wasn't paying attention.

[yellerpup]

28. If he's expecting 15,000 then he probably paid twice that many

to show. I wonder if anyone will show up armed -- or are displays of firepower reserved for Obama? F* Armey. :kick:

[defendandprotect]

30. Right wing fascist rallies pay better than being a lawyer . . . ???

[Turbineguy]

32. The Coalition for Unhealthy Bankrupt Americans

needs your help. Somewhere out there a poor CEO needs a bonus.

[CBHagman]

34. Yeah, we all know how well free markets worked.

Beginning last fall there was a veritable pall of economic misery in my area.

[tooeyeten]

36. didn't look like 15,000 to me

well short of that number.

[Stephanie]

37. Brought to you by FreedomWorks' Corporate Sponsors

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/14/lobbying-clients-teaparties/br%20/[br />
FreedomWorks Orchestrates ‘Grassroots’ Movements To Serve Dick Armey’s Corporate Clients

ThinkProgress reported last week that corporate lobbyists are helping to orchestrate the anti-Obama tea party protests. These lobbying-run front groups, along with promotion help from Fox News, are organizing the tea parties by calling right-wing activists and asking them to organize. They are also coordinating conference calls among activists, writing press releases, providing sign ideas, building websites supporting the protests, and distributing talking points so that the protesters can stay on message.

Today, FreedomWork’s Adam Brandon responded to the criticism that its efforts to organize these anti-Obama protests are ‘astroturf,’ saying that the organization’s work in coordinating and planning the events would be akin to “MoveOn’s model.” However, MoveOn is not run by corporate lobbyists and is funded by actual grassroots activists. On the other hand, the leader of FreedomWorks, Dick Armey, who is ranked as one of DC’s top “hired guns,” is a corporate lobbyist with a history of directing FreedomWorks to support the goals of his lobbying clients. For example:

• Armey’s FreedomWorks is actively organizing against health care reform. Indeed, Armey’s lobbying firm represents pharmaceutical companies, such as Bristol-Myers Squibb, that oppose comparative effectiveness research in the health reform plan because such a program may cut into revenue for branded drugs.


• Armey’s lobbying firm represents the trade group for the life insurance industry. Indeed, FreedomWorks mobilizes its members for deregulated life insurance reform.

==snip==

Last year, the Wall Street Journal exposed FreedomWorks for building “amateur-looking” websites to promote the lobbying interests of Armey.

FreedomWorks represents a top-down, corporate-friendly approach that has been the norm for conservative organizations for years. As Obama prepares to push to close corporate tax loopholes, reform health care, and transition to a clean energy economy, we can expect more corporate lobbyists to create astroturf protests to oppose change.

[ima_sinnic]

38. fweepturds, teabaggers, birthers, and astroturds are so stupid, they whore for the corpos for free

I can just see the insurance co. and big pharma execs clinking glasses over their perfect scam: free lobbying by dumber-than-doorknob, easily exploitable, "angry" know-nothings to whom they owe nothing and who will get nada, zip, zilch in the end.

[Historic NY]

39. so how many show up & did they have enough port-a-potties for the BS

[daggahead]

41. What is ironic is ...

... Now so many of these people that side with the Tea Baggers have suddenly embraced democracy. Why were they silent between September 18, 2001 and October 2008? They had no qualms about an Administration wiping their feet on the Constitution ...

[JayMusgrove]

47. Who writes that stuff at the Atlanta Journal? "The Democrat-led reform package makes them fearful"

Democrat-led? Why can't the AJC say "Democratic Party - led"??

Obviously bias in the writing in that paper.

[Doctor_J]

53. 15,000 terorists in one spot

...

[struggle4progress]

54. ... A few thousand people gathered Saturday in downtown Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park to protest

a health care overhaul ...
August 15, 2009 05:55 pm
http://www.northwestgeorgia.com/statenews/local_story_227175605.html

... far short of organizers’ goal to draw a crowd of 15,000 ...
12:58 p.m. Saturday, August 15, 2009
By Craig Schneider, Shelia Poole
 and Jim Tharpe
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
http://www.ajc.com/news/health-care-rallies-attract-116305.html

... Hosting the event ... former GOP majority leader Dick Armey, Joel Arron of WGSK 920 Radio and Herman Cain of WSB 750 Radio ...
by Winston Jones/Douglas County Sentinel
http://www.times-georgian.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Local+candidate+among+speakers+at+Olympic+Park+town+hall+event%20&id=3190628-Local+candidate+among+speakers+at+Olympic+Park+town+hall+event&instance=west_ga_news

... The rally’s speakers included ... Ralph Reed ...
12:58 p.m. Saturday, August 15, 2009
By Craig Schneider, Shelia Poole
 and Jim Tharpe
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
http://www.ajc.com/news/health-care-rallies-attract-116305.html

... Speakers included Republican candidates for governor Secretary of State Karen Handel, state Senator Eric Johnson and state Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine ...
Posted: 4:04 PM Aug 15, 2009
http://www.wctv.tv/APNews/headlines/53303582.html

[proteus_lives]

55. 1,000 tops.

That's my guess.

[KyleA]

57. William F Buckley is rolling over in his grave

The ignorance of the American right has reached new depths.

[jaysunb]

58. Didn't some terrorist set a bomb in this park

where people were killed during the Olympics .

How fitting......:evilfrown:

[Alcibiades]

59. An anti-socialist terrorist

Eric Rudolph would certainly stand with the teabaggers. A quote from him, taken from wikipedia:

"In the summer of 1996, the world converged upon Atlanta for the Olympic Games. Under the protection and auspices of the regime in Washington millions of people came to celebrate the ideals of global socialism. Multinational corporations spent billions of dollars, and Washington organized an army of security to protect these best of all games. Even though the conception and purpose of the so-called Olympic movement is to promote the values of global socialism, as perfectly expressed in the song Imagine by John Lennon, which was the theme of the 1996 Games even though the purpose of the Olympics is to promote these despicable ideals, the purpose of the attack on July 27 was to confound, anger and embarrass the Washington government in the eyes of the world for its abominable sanctioning of abortion on demand."

"The plan was to force the cancellation of the Games, or at least create a state of insecurity to empty the streets around the venues and thereby eat into the vast amounts of money invested."


Murdering right-wing terrorist Eric Rudolph

[Hubert Flottz]

60. The Armey of Dicks!

That crook belongs in jail along with the rest of the GOP bandits.