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We may not be in Boston but that didn’t stop more than 7,000 people from crowding the Statehouse steps April 15, 2009 for a “Columbus Tea Party.”  Tea Party protests popped up all over the country on tax day and the one here in Columbus was not that different.  What was different here though was the reasoning behind the protest.  Traditionally Tea Party protests on tax day are used to protest just that, taxes.  Here in Columbus people were less concerned about taxes and more concerned about government spending.  The crowd was angry, scared, and most of all passionate.  Most expressed their anger over the various stimulus bills passed by both President Bush and President Obama.  Others were angry about other issues including the bailout and an Obama Presidency.

No matter which side you are on, the left, the right, or in the middle, seeing a crowd that size is democracy at its best.  See the Columbus Tea Party for yourself by clicking on the link above.

We stopped by the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston yesterday and I picked up a $5 memento, an old library print of “All the World’s Fighting Ships, by Fred T. Jane (1898) (partial print of England’s ships). Apparently it’s the first one in the series that continues today.

What I want to know is, how did they get that past Homeland Security?

Meanwhile, I see that Bush is giving up on negotiating a long term arrangement with Iraq, leaving it to the next president. That marks the substantive close of the Bush presidency, I think.

The next phase will be negotiating a status of forces agreement between the American people and the Obama administration. Good luck to all concerned.