More 'Tea Parties' Planned

From Donald Lambro at the Washington Times:
Last month's nationwide "tea party" demonstrations to protest massive government spending increases and rising taxes received relatively little coverage from the national news media.
Liberal big-government groups dismissed them as the work of right-wing advocacy organizations in Washington, and the events were so dispersed - most of them in small cities and towns - that no one could be sure how many actually had turned out to attend them.
In fact, the events were organized locally by nonactivists who had never done anything like this before. More than 600,000 people in nearly 600 localities - from Bakersfield, Calif., to Atlanta - turned out to vent their anger over the Democrats' massive spending levels. A rally-by-rally account of the people who attended the events suggests that turnout could have been much higher.
The seemingly spontaneous April 15 protests have since grown into a more muscular movement of patriotic Americans concerned that the huge and escalating cost of government under President Obama and his party threatens to plunge the country into paralyzing levels of debt and taxes that will rob them of their economic freedoms.
Now the organizers are setting their sights on mass demonstrations in Washington and elsewhere this summer and fall, when Congress will be battling over Mr. Obama's biggest budget busters.
Organizers tell me that rallies are planned in Washington and around the nation on July Fourth to tie their movement's goals to America's founding principles. Rallies will be planned for Sept. 12, when Congress is expected to be in the midst of debate over the administration's plans to pass a government-run health care system, cap-and-trade energy taxes and other big spending programs. Finally, rallies are planned for Oct. 2, when supporters expect spending battles to be at full throttle.