Glenn Reynolds on Tax Day Tea Parties

Glenn Reynolds, publisher of Instapundit.com, is an enthusiastic supporter of Tax Day Tea Parties, which are being held around the country on April 15. He appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal.

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[eddiepeay]

The tea parties were left nor right, Republican nor democrat, conservative or liberal. They were composed of all of the above and then some. They were composed of average, everyday, hardworking Americans who do not like everything they have worked for being fleeced out of their hands by our government and the central banks. Do not let the mainstream media divide us by turning this into a left right paradigm. Divide and Conquer...oldest trick in the book. Long live the Republic.

[justicecallicles]

You shouldn't give them too much credit. They're the type who drive recklessly, then blame the mechanic for how much it'll cost to clean up the mess.

[Zapppo]

@toolfreak6661

Where were YOU?

The tea parties were formed in 2007!!

Where the F were YOU???

What~ just bc Bush did it, it's OK for Obama to b GWB's 3rd term???

Everyone has their breaking point & when Obama's criminals got in there & jacked up & accelerated Bush's unconstituional policies & reckless spending when he was supposed to bring change, that was our breaking point. Up off the sofa & out into the streets. Now that were here, we won't relent until Washington is cleaned up.

[PadraikKasier]

Hooray for freedom!

At 3:25, it doesn't sit well with me that he calls them "revolts". They're just demonstrations and protests and such. They're not revolutions yet.

[AtlasShruggery]

Glenn Reynolds: InstaPutz. Another right wing Republican shill.

[eddiepeay]

Doesn't matter now anyway. The Fake left and Fake right mainstream media have already made it a left, right divide once again and all the little lemmings went to their sides. The oldest trick in the book works once again.

[ashleytube]

No they werent. They were put on by FreedomWorks, which is the organization of Dick Armey (R). Try again.

[InuThompson]

Thank you. You seem passionate as well.

[InuThompson]

Struggle is one thing, but violence and bloodshed is entirely another. That isn't how we do things here. If you want to do something like what Ghandi did, or if you want to grow a beard, smoke pot, and become a hippie then fine. But if you go for bloodshed, I'll be part of the crowd that stands between you and the people you pretend to protect. By the way I belive your actions would bring about what you pretend to protect against: the dissalution of this nation. Either you're crasy OR I AM

[salvadoredelle]

Got a doctor! And I am a crazed futher mucker too. I ABSOLUTELY DO want to see social unrest here. How else will there be any change? do you think you can simply ask them not to rape pillage and plunder US and the rest of the world too?

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, its the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead

Thanks for your comments and replies. You seem passionate about it. I respect that even if i don't agree.

[salvadoredelle]

"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did and it never will." Frederick Douglass, 1849