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‘Ground Zero’ in Fairfax County

Posted on | July 14, 2012 | 56 Comments

Frederick Peterson III protests outside Obama event in Centreville, Va.

CENTREVILLE, Virginia
When President Obama came to this prosperous suburban community, he was greeted by a contingent of Tea Party activists and local Republicans. The number of protesters were estimated variously between 100 and 300, but their enthusiasm — standing for hours in the July heat, waving signs and shouting slogans — could not possibly be underestimated.

Molly Ball of the Atlantic Monthly thinks Obama may be able to skate to victory in the Old Dominion, but if she’s willing to stake $100 on that proposition, I’ll be happy to cover her bet. Money talks, and Obama’s bullsh*t isn’t likely to walk very far here in Fairfax County.

“This is Republican territory,” Virginia state Del. Tim Hugo told me, standing among the protesters across Union Mill Road from Centreville High. “More importantly, these are the people who will take it on the chin with Obama’s tax increases. These are the job-producers, the dual-income families . . . This is Ground Zero for the Obama tax increases.”

Indeed, Fairfax County is one of the wealthiest counties in America, a place where the median houshold income is more than $100,000 and the average home price is more than a half-million dollars. The western side of Fairfax County is also staunchly Republican. GOP Rep. Frank Wolf carried this district with more than 60% of the vote in 2010. Hugo has represented the Centreville area in the Virginia House of Delegates since 2002 and he was standing with another GOP delegate from Fairfax County, Barbara Comstock, who is statewide co-chairman for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign.

“We’ve got people out door-knocking,” Comstock said, explaining the strong GOP turnout at an Obama event on a summer Saturday afternoon. E-mail bulletins sent out by Americans for Prosperity and state Tea Party leaders also helped generate an impressive crowd.

“It’s amazing how many people are here,” said Hugo.

“Our people are energized,” said Pat Herrity, a Fairfax County supervisor. “People around here are angry.”

The recent Supreme Court decision upholding ObamaCare has helped inspire Tea Party activists to renewed efforts. “Our attendance has doubled since the Supreme Court decision,” said Ron Wilcox, a Fairfax County resident who is an organizer for the Northern Virginia Tea Party.

UPDATE: Now, for a selection of photos from today’s event:

This is Tami Hurley of Burke, Va., and her button (click to enlarge the photo) says: “”Officially Screwed: Small Business Owner.” Mrs. Hurley explained that her business has 14 employees and is being wrecked by regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency and will be further hurt if ObamaCare goes into effect.

Sarah Falk, her friend Margaret Baker and Margaret’s daughter Emily Baker.

UPDATE II: Still more photos:

Tami Hurley’s sons Brian, 12, and Kevin, 14, with a guy named Henry who didn’t want to give his last name.

Hey, some of us weren’t fooled the first time . . .

Smitty still can’t understand why the Thad McCotter presidential juggernaut fell short. But he’s happy with his second choice.

Barbara Comstock, Pat Herrity and and Tim Hugo talk to a reporter.

UPDATE III: Marooned in Marin has many more photos as well as videos. He estimated the protest attendance as “a couple of hundred.”

UPDATE IV: Linked by Jackie Wellfonder — thanks!

UPDATE V: Jazz Shaw says Obama decided yesterday to get in touch with his inner Elizabeth Warren. He’s 1/64th Cherokee, y’know.

UPDATE VI: Michael D. Shear of the New York Times reports on the president’s Virginia campaign trip:

CLIFTON, Va. — President Obama barnstormed through this swing state on Saturday as his campaign relentlessly hammered at Mitt Romney’s business record, releasing a mocking new ad that shows Mr. Romney singing “America the Beautiful” as it accuses his former firm of shipping American jobs overseas.
Mr. Obama, speaking first to a drenched crowd during a downpour in the Richmond suburb of Glen Allen, and then at Centreville High School in Fairfax County, accused Mr. Romney of investing in “companies that have been called pioneers in outsourcing.” . . .
“My opponent and his allies in Congress, they believe in top-down economics,” Mr. Obama said. “If you cut through all the stuff, what they are really saying is tax cuts for the wealthy, roll back regulations. That is essentially their plan.”

Whereas Obama and the Democrats want to raise taxes on everybody and regulate everybody out of a job. That is essentially their plan.

Welcome, Instapundit readers! The Professor quotes Centreville readers who point out that (a) many of the supporters attending the Obama rally were from out of the area, including some from Maryland; and (b) Obama skipped the larger facility at nearby George Mason University to speak in a high school gymnasium but didn’t fill up even the smaller venue.

Still no word on whether Molly Ball is willing to bet $100 on Obama winning Virginia. Is she bluffing? C’mon, Molly, bet me.

 


Category: Barack Obama, Election 2012, Virginia

‘Bainers’

Posted on | July 14, 2012 | 7 Comments

by Smitty

I can’t force the video to begin at 1:30, but Tommy Chong* serves up the basis for a ‘Bainers’ theme song:

Red State:

It is well established that Mitt Romney left Bain to go salvage the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. It is also well established that his name remained on some SEC documents. This stems from winding down his partnership interest in Bain Capital. It is a quirk in the law. It has been well vetted. Even FactCheck.org and the Washington Post are unpersuaded by Team Obama’s hyperbole.
Really? A felon? Hey! Let’s accuse Barack Obama of being a foreign born Muslim! There’s about the same validity to both. Meet the Bainers — they are the members of Team Obama demanding proof from Mitt Romney that he is a liar or a felon. Next they’ll ask when he stopped beating his wife.

And with that, I’m packing up to head over nearby Manassas National Battlefield Park to document something akin to an expression of deep affection for Barack Obama, only the opposite.

via Instapundit

*My Heaven favor you on the prostate cancer, Tommy. Lot of that about, these days.

Category: Instapundit, Red State

Bucket List: Top Billing On A @TwitchyPolitics Post

Posted on | July 14, 2012 | 5 Comments

by Smitty

[applause]

Thank you. Thank YOU. Oh, and Thank you, too. I’d also like to thank the Academy, and Robert Stacy McCain’s bad self for roping me into blogging and social media.

[applause]

Finally got to that pinnacle of Twitter success, the Twitchy post. Sure, I’d participated in the hash tag games before, but last night I got in early enough, before IowaHawk or ExJon blew it away with some caustic riff, and did the following:


[cracks knuckles]

I am so nearly almost kind of a big deal now.

Category: Uncategorized

VA AG Ken Cuccinelli, Truth Teller

Posted on | July 14, 2012 | 2 Comments

by Smitty

Mitchell challenged his claim that the president’s proposal to allow the Bush-era tax cuts to expire for anyone making more than $250,000 would be detrimental to the middle-class.
“Of course, their argument is that only two or three percent of the people would be affected by the, uh, middle-class tax cut,” she said and then paused. “But, uh, being imposed, would, uh, be involved so that it would not actually affect those who are creating jobs.”
Cuccinelli, like Sununu, found it difficult to keep a straight face.
“Well, small business owners, for instance –” he started.
“The people at the $250,000 level, they say, you know,” Mitchell interjected, “it’s law firms, it’s not really small businesses that would be affected.”
“Oh, gimme’ a break!” Cuccinelli shot back, “C’mon! That’s a lie and the American people know it. That’s just absolutely not true and the American people reject this class warfare approach anyway.”.

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Watch the whole thing. They get off to a highly painful start, but settle in after talk moves to ObamaCare effects.
And how about the layers and layers of fact checkers?

Maybe MSNBC could hire some LOLcats to walk across their keyboards and up their game.

via The Blaze

Category: MSNBC, Virginia

Occupy Mob Riots in L.A.

Posted on | July 14, 2012 | 16 Comments

A crowd of Occupy protesters disrupted an “Art Walk” event Thursday night in downtown Los Angeles, throwing rocks and bottles at police.

According to Fire Andrea Mitchell, 17 people were arrested and four police officers were injured. The Occupiers are, predictably, whining about “police brutality,” but I’m sure a lot of people in Los Angeles think the cops weren’t nearly brutal enough.

Tasers, pepper spray, CS gas, billy clubs, rubber bulllets — c’mon, LAPD, why are you pussy-footing around with these protest punks?

Time to break out the riot guns, I say. Bring in SWAT units with M5s and armored cars, maybe call in the Air National Guard to drop some napalm on these subversive Commie scumbags. If they want to whine about “police brutality,” give ’em something to whine about!

Category: #Occupy, California

Obama In Northern Virginia 14Jul2012

Posted on | July 13, 2012 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

They say the Commonwealth of Virginia is purple. If so, that’s only because of the suction along the Potomac. NOVA Tea Party sends:

RSVP via Eventbrite:
http://rallyagainstobama.eventbrite.com/
Emergency Rally Against Obama
In Front of Centreville High School at an Obama Rally where Obama is appearing
6001 Union Mill Road
Saturday, July 14, 2012 1pm to 3pm

Bring signs against Obamacare and demanding transparency on Fast and Furious.

PARKING
Park at Union Mill Elementary School and walk over to Centreville High (Safe pathway) Tables and sign making supplies will be at the Union Mill parking lot.

Union Mill Elementary School, 13611 Springstone Drive, Clifton, VA 20124

Elsewhere, American Glob reports that people are back to fainting at Obama speeches again, a score of people having lost consciousness while Obama was losing his facts in Roanoke, VA today. The stress of trying to connect anything the man says with reality can do that to a person, I suppose.

If you’re in the ‘hood, look for me in the hat.

Category: Barack Obama, Election 2012

‘Bring Out The Inner Rock Star In Your Dog’

Posted on | July 13, 2012 | Comments Off on ‘Bring Out The Inner Rock Star In Your Dog’

by Smitty

Oh, flog me gently with a live cattle prod! Some HGTV show was on, and then this ad featuring Brett Michaels and. . .some tarted up Yorkie? To each their own, and I guess pet lovers dig this. Nevertheless, the production seemed like something off of SNL:

Category: humor

Obama / Putin Caption Contest

Posted on | July 13, 2012 | 20 Comments

by Smitty

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Putin: I can take Chuck Norris.
Obama: Not even I think I am bad enough to take Chuck Norris.

Nicked from The Tatler.

Category: Barack Obama, Russia
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