Saturday, June 25, 2011

I DON'T RECALL THIS PARTICULAR BAGGER RALLY

It was on Nov. 5, 2009 in DC.  What is interesting is how Rep. Steve King (R) described the planning to Matthew Continetti of the agit-prop Weekly Standard:
Rep. Steve King had been out pheasant hunting the week before with decorated war hero Colonel Bud Day. They’d talked about health care. Day urged King to call a rally outside the Capitol building. Jam the Capitol, Day said. Surround it. If you do that, he went on, the Democrats won’t be able to pass the bill.

King related this conversation to Bachmann as they walked out of the Capitol after the meeting. Bachmann looked at King and asked, Can we do that? King said he couldn’t see why not. Let’s do it, Bachmann said. “We spent the weekend putting that together,” King explained, “sending out emails and making phone calls and getting the talk radio people to light it up.” The rally was held the following Thursday, November 5. Thousands of Tea Partiers showed up.

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