{"id":536,"date":"2009-09-12T12:36:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T16:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=536"},"modified":"2009-09-12T13:48:01","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T17:48:01","slug":"turnout-for-the-9-12-march-on-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/536\/turnout-for-the-9-12-march-on-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Turnout for 9-12 March on D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The official count, according to early news reports, is 60,000 people who have turned out for the 9-12 march on Washington.\u00a0 But tune in to <em>Fox News<\/em>\u00a0and I am pretty sure you&#8217;ll agree that it looks like a lot more.<\/p>\n<p>Of course,\u00a0House Democrats\u00a0tried their hardest to diminish the significance of this event before it even started.\u00a0 According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2009\/09\/11\/tea-party-rally-sparks-dispute-potential-turnout\/?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r1:c0.137629:b27678104:z0\" target=\"_blank\"><em>FoxNews.com<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0a House leadership aide penned a memo to fellow Dems warning that 2 million people could show.\u00a0 The strategy?\u00a0 Float a ridiculous number and anything less is failure.<\/p>\n<p>These so-called leaders in Washington just don&#8217;t get it.\u00a0 It is not a Democrat vs. Republican thing.\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s not about\u00a0which\u00a0major political party\u00a0can score the most political points.\u00a0 This is about a bunch of\u00a0ordinay people\u00a0standing up for the principles on which\u00a0this great country was founded.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the 60,000 plus who have turned out in D.C., tens of thousands more are gathering in large cities and small towns across the country.\u00a0 The more Washington politicians continue to play games and ignore the voice of the people, the larger this grassroots movement gets&#8230; and rightly so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official count, according to early news reports, is 60,000 people who have turned out for the 9-12 march on Washington.\u00a0 But tune in to Fox News\u00a0and I am pretty sure you&#8217;ll agree that it looks like a lot more. Of course,\u00a0House Democrats\u00a0tried their hardest to diminish the significance of this event before it even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[112,109],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-9-12-march-on-dc","tag-912-rally"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}