Matthew Beach is the type of tea party voter political strategists of all stripes have a hard time understanding. Beach got off Wednesday afternoon from his job working on helicopters at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., and along with his wife, Jessie, got in his 1999 GMC pickup to drive overnight to Washington, where he arrived in time for Thursday's lunch-hour Tax Day at Freedom Plaza.
Before he left home, Beach hand-lettered a sign for the event. It read: DISAPPOINT THE GOVERNMENT: BE RESPONSIBLE, SELF-RELIANT AND KIND.
I'll have a more comprehensive write-up of some of the things I saw at the protest today, but here are some highlights.
During his election campaign, President Obama made a very clear and unambiguous promise: If your family makes less than $250,000 per year, then none of your taxes will be increased -- period.
But in order to gloss over the tax increases contained in Obamacare -- on the sick, the uninsured, and durable medical equipment -- President Obama is trying to alter that pledge in the middle of his term
House Democrats sent a missive to reporters proclaiming they have led Congress to cut taxes by more than $800 billion.
"In the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, Congress and the President acted swiftly to bring relief to our nation's families and businesses, and create good-paying jobs," Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said in a statement. "A critical element of that relief and recovery effort was tax cuts for the middle class and small business owners."
Democrats are banking on the 2010 election cycle resurrecting a dormant version of President Obama -- the prodigious fundraiser whose methods and appeal broke records.
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