Can you hear us now?

Thom Moses | September 13, 2009, 9:12am | #

I was there. We were told to meet around 8am freedom plaza. By 9:15 we managed through the metro and had to wait in line as the doors opened on the subway car. It was one continous steam of happy “angry mobsters”. I’ve never seen so may people waitng in crowded lines so polite and happy. Up the stairs and out into the Pennsylvania Ave. Just people packed all the way to the Capital Stairs. The big message….Can you hear us now!….

First, the crowd was truly huge. Second, the crowd was from all over the place (both geographically and ideologically). And third, the crowd, well-behaved and stunningly normal in the main, was genuinely pissed off at out of control spending and government policies. “Stop spending,” was the basic answer to any questions about what Congress and the president should do come tomorrow. Throw the bums of either party out come next fall was the second most-common answer.