Daley Plaza Start for Tea Party

If you rent a car in the suburbs Mayor Daley wants to tax you if you drive into the city--an 8% transaction tax! Bringing the Chicago Tea Party home with a vengeance you might say. Let's share some home truths with the mayor and the powers that be--Chicago Tea Party starts at 11 am on Friday at Daley Plaza, then march through the loop to the Michigan Ave. bridge for rally and a speech or two, including Tony Peraica.

And wear black.

The last time I went to a rally at that spot it was for the ticker-tape parade after the Sox World Series Win. This time is not a happy occasion.

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UPDATE: Tribune editorial on Rick Santelli and the Chicago Tea Party. It may be happening this summer, but it's starting Friday with a rally just across the river from the Tribune tower. Dennis Byrne:

My question is: When does Obama have the time to go over the budget "line by line" like he promised?

Obviously, he doesn't, but we won't count that as a broken campaign promise because, well, we'd get trashed by the White House for questioning the wisdom of this frenzy. Much as Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs racked Rick Santelli, the CNBC reporter in Chicago's futures pits, over the coals for audaciously saying what many Americans are: How fair is it when the irresponsible get rewarded by the government and the 90 percent of us who pay our mortgages on time don't? What kind of example does it set for a nation that has gone from an instant-gratification culture to one that demands instant and foolproof protection from all risk? You'll have to excuse the Chicago commodities and futures traders for raising the question, since they make their living by facing down pure risk. You would have thought the current White House would understand where the traders are coming from since the financial/investment sector was among Obama's biggest campaign contributors, according to OpenSecrets.org.

There is something about this manic rush to set straight everything in America that bespeaks an incredible conceit, the same kind of hubris that argues that government policy can stabilize the global climate.

And Bill McGurn, WSJ on the people missing from Obama's narrative--the actual hope and change producers in America.