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PHIL KERPEN: Live From a Tea Party — The Atmosphere Is Electric!

By Phil Kerpen
Policy Director, Americans for Prosperity

Live on the scene from the D.C. Tea Party where I just spoke to a rowdy, raucous crowd of about 3,700 people in a pouring rain. They took the day off work, some brought the whole families, to send a strong message against bailouts, massive government growth, and the efforts of elites on Wall Street and in Washington to run our lives.

This is the beginning of a new populist revolt, and it’s happening all over the country. The top-down, big Tmoney, big government forces of Soros, MoveOn.org, and Organizing for America are about to meet a true bottom-up populist steamroller. Elites will ignore this at their own peril.

The atmosphere is absolutely electric. Nobody who is here could call this “AstroTurf.” The crowd is booming forth chants of “no more bailouts,” and “we’re the boss.” They’re railing against energy taxes, government health care takeovers, and the never-ending bailouts.

Tim Geithner yanked our permit to protest in front of the Treasury Department (scared, perhaps?) at the last second, but the decentralized Tea Party movement was ready to go anyway, combining forces with another Tea Party already scheduled across the street in Lafayette Park.

This is the beginning of a new populist revolt, and it’s happening all over the country. The top-down, big money, big government forces of Soros, MoveOn.org, and Organizing for America are about to meet a true bottom-up populist steamroller. Elites will ignore this at their own peril.

The USO: In Service to America, Until They All Come Home

By John Hanson
Senior Vice President, Worldwide Marketing & Communications at the USO

The USO is proud to be an active participant in the FOX Nation. Please watch for more exciting and informative content from our new community site.

The United Service Organization was founded in 1941 at the request of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who served as the USO’s first honorary chairman.

The USO is a private, nonprofit organization whose ongoing mission is to support the troops by providing morale, welfare and recreation-type services to our men and women in uniform. The original intent of Congress — and enduring style of USO delivery — is to represent the American people by extending a touch of home to the military. The USO currently operates more than 135 centers worldwide, including ten mobile canteens located in the continental United States and overseas. Overseas centers are located in Germany, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, Japan, Qatar, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, Guam and Kuwait. Service members and their families visit USO centers more than 6.9 million times each year. The USO is the way the American public supports the troops.

So please visit us at USOCommunity.com for fun, for information, and for news news about how you are helping us to do more for U.S. troops and their families around the world.