Tea partiers descend on Capitol Hill Jonathan Allen and Meredith Shiner POLITICO com Video

The Tea Party holds no seat in Congress, but at least 10,000 of the partys members descended on Capitol Hill Thursday to rally against a Democratic-written health care overhaul. !


A plan first hatched and heralded on FOX by iconic conservative Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) grew over the weekend as she e-mailed with a handful of colleagues. By the time activists started arriving at the foot of the Capitol around 8:30 a.m., it was clear no Republican leader could stay away.


Minority Leader John Boehner, Republican Whip Eric Cantor and Conference Chairman Mike Pence all spoke.


Inside, Democrats were working to finalize a trillion-dollar health care bill that they say will deliver insurance to tens of millions of Americans who currently lack it, improve the quality of care and rein in costs both for individuals and the government.


Outside, on the grassy lawn just steps from where Barack Obama took the oath of office, an endless lineup of rank-and-file lawmakers and conservative All Stars Bachmann, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, actor Jon Voigt and Mark Levin, author of Liberty and Tyranny demanded that the health care bill be torn asunder.


Madam Speaker, throw out this bill, bellowed Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.).


Oh come on, tell them how you really feel, Bachmann yelled to the crowd from a temporary podium at the foot of the Capitol.


Kill the bill! Kill the bill! Kill the bill! the crowd replied.


Thats exactly what youre going to tell them, said Bachmann, who was the clear favorite of the assembled masses.


She has more cojones than a lot of guys, said Barbara McGrath, who traveled from Troy, Ohio, to participate.


When she took the microphone, Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) pointed to the three House office buildings across Independence Avenue from the rally.


I invite you, when the rally's over, to travel in those halls, look at the walls, find your (member) and walk in," she said. "Let them know how you feel about this bill."


Within an hour, activists were lined up down Independence Avenue to go through the magnetometers in the lobby of the Rayburn Office Building so they could confront members and staff. Bachman told them to each take a page or a piece of a page from one of two copies of the bill at the podium and ask a member to explain the text to them.


Bachmanns office and House Speaker Nancy Pelosis district office were surrounded by the Tea Partiers shortly after the rally ended, and the floor outside Pelosis office was covered in pages of the bill.

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horsehorsehorse400: Control of every aspect of your life. "You will work in factory number 8" etc. You will listen to state radio like in North Korea. Obama hates the republic and the constitution. Too bad you have no clue about the real world. You will find out soon. Have you ever really worked? The country has no money. You will find out soon how much the government cares about you.

horsehorsehorse400: Poor ignorant sap. How educated are you? Ever worked? Know history? Just smoked DOPE huh. Best to you tool

MamboInferno: @takeahnase2009 Your ghoulish disregard for humanity evidences quite clearly that you would have been well suited as a Nazi concentration guard or else one of Pol Pot's minions responsible for the deaths of millions of human beings. This is the reality of many so-called "progressives". The reason why their ideology leads to genocide is that it refuses to accept the humanity of those with whom they disagree. Their's is the road to degradation & death. It is in fact a death cult.

horsehorsehorse400: Dont miss the reply from horsehorsehorse. CREEP.

lordgiraia: As you can probably tell, most of the people who gave a speech are part of the privileged who can afford health care insurance...

Ulbim01: Yes. The Fed is currently printing money out of thin air, that's true. The problem with that is when it causes inflation or hyperinflation. Then our money will become worth less. The only way to decrease it is by raising interest rates. There's no easy way out of this. We still need to take our lumps. Right now, the economy is artificially inflated because of teh government spending. We borrow some of that. Paying back the deficit means higher taxes later.

Ulbim01: Bush was not a conservative. He betrayed most conservatives and their values. Socialism is for the envious.

Ulbim01: Obama stated publicly, on a radio interview, that he was disappointed in how limited the Constitution was. he claimed it didn't do enough to equal things out between people. Sound like liberty or socialism to you?

Ulbim01: Most people want healthcare reform. How you do it is the question. You can't create competition when the government is subsidizing healthcare with tax monies.

remanuelli: WE NEED JOB CREATION NOT MORE BIG GOV.

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takeahnase2009: Pussy

takeahnase2009: Yeah you are just another fuckin rube.

takeahnase2009: Keep doing the work for corporate globalists Rube.

takeahnase2009: I want the rubes here to teach me about economics. Let me hear your "knowledge."

horsehorsehorse400: Insufferable Reprobate. You have been warped by your Marxists friends. You are psychopathic..........sorry I guess the new term is anti social personality disorder. We must soften everything for you babies. Do you think you will have power in a Marxist government? How about a Facist one? You must be a child.....still protected my Mummy and Dadums.

horsehorsehorse400: Not going to waste my time with the disabled. Hope you starve.

takeahnase2009: Hope you keep tea bagging.

takeahnase2009: We stand ready to take charge just step aside we will make sure someone will feed you and wipe your ass in your last days. We won't cut your throats as your conservative master would. My generation has pity on you. We really do pity you.

CosmosPrivateer: @remanuelli What will you do when we don't have to work? You must understand that someday we will not be working. We have been working towards not working and don't even know it. Technology will replace the need to work. What will we do then?

PerfectLegends: Man I hate how politics are they are only in it for the money they ruin the country and then it creats scares and hatered, just watch, I bet someone is going to respond to this comment saying how wrong I am jus because they either disagree with me or they are a dumbass.

PerfectLegends: People don't understand what the government is after or what it can do the "leaders" of our government are not good ones they are only in it for the money and they are nothing more than greedy bastards that wants money and power. The problem with the world is there's too many people that don't care about their edcuation and rather smoke crack or get high people need to relize that the world you'll wanna live in will be the one you ywon't wanna live in because government wants communism.

mintvagoo: What's Tan 'boners' approval numbers-- over 20% yet.

TheAerialbomb: Same thing Bachmann yelled to Boehner as he mounted her.

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