{"id":1854,"date":"2009-11-05T14:55:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T19:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1854"},"modified":"2009-11-06T12:30:13","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T17:30:13","slug":"taxpayers-march-on-washington-%e2%80%a6-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1854\/taxpayers-march-on-washington-%e2%80%a6-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxpayers March on Washington \u2026 Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, thousands of protesters and activists marched on Capitol Hill yelling &#8220;Kill the Bill,&#8221; urging Representatives to vote against\u00a0Speaker Pelosi&#8217;s\u00a0massive $1 trillion government takeover of health care.\u00a0 There are some reports that entrances to the Capitol are clogged with taxpayers waiting to get their chance to lobby Congress directly.<\/p>\n<p>The rally was prompted by Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN), who labeled this week the \u201cSuper Bowl of Freedom\u201d and called on the American people to join her in making a &#8220;House Call&#8221; to Members of Congress in opposition to ObamaCare.\u00a0 With House Democrats set to vote on Pelosi&#8217;s 1,990 bill on Saturday, the turnout today for Bachmann&#8217;s &#8220;House Call&#8221; was phenomenal.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomworks.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">FreedomWorks<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0the staff of which\u00a0took some great pictures of the event seen\u00a0below.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1855 aligncenter\" title=\"image001\" src=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/image001-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"image001\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/image001-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/image001.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1856\" title=\"image002\" src=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/image002-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"image002\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/image002-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/image002.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, thousands of protesters and activists marched on Capitol Hill yelling &#8220;Kill the Bill,&#8221; urging Representatives to vote against\u00a0Speaker Pelosi&#8217;s\u00a0massive $1 trillion government takeover of health care.\u00a0 There are some reports that entrances to the Capitol are clogged with taxpayers waiting to get their chance to lobby Congress directly. The rally was prompted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109,441,84,12,35],"class_list":["post-1854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-912-rally","tag-capitol-hill","tag-congress","tag-health-care","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1854"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1858,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions\/1858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}