TAX DAY BECOMES PROTEST DAY: HOW THE TEA PARTIES COULD CHANGE AMERICAN POLITICS

Update 4/17/09 - Jonah Goldberg answers the complaints of liberals.

Update:  Click the "continue reading" line below for photos from Asheville, NC

Glenn Reynolds wrote a great article about the Tea Parties being staged in communities across America today.

Today American taxpayers in more than 300 locations in all 50 states will hold rallies -- dubbed "tea parties" -- to protest higher taxes and out-of-control government spending. There is no political party behind these rallies, no grand right-wing conspiracy, not even a 501(c) group like MoveOn.org.

So who's behind the Tax Day tea parties? Ordinary folks who are using the power of the Internet to organize.  [more . . ]

See also Michelle Malkin for scores of photos.

Mark Krikorian writes:

A reader wrote me saying that at the Greenville, S.C., Tea Party, "They will be selling the 'Obama burger' — you pay for one and they cut it in half and give the rest to the guy behind you for free!!" Our team needs more political theater and fewer marketing consultants.

Update:   Photos from Asheville, NC: