Tea Parties, They’re What’s For Lunch Tomorrow
Posted on April 14, 2009 at 9:10 pmVia the Hill:
Several Republican lawmakers are expected at 750 Boston Tea Party-styled protests to mark the day federal taxes are due.
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) is attending a party in Bakersfield, Calif., while House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) will join protestors in Madison, Wis.
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich is said to be attending an event in New York, and other lawmakers could attend parties from coast to coast, though organizers said they couldn’t say how many lawmakers would show up.
Tea Partiers Need To Come To Terms With Bush
Posted on at 9:05 amDan Lehr lets the “tea party” movement know what he thinks of them:
If you are Republican or conservative, there are many reasons for you to oppose Barack Obama. But it will be hard to make an effective argument against him unless and until you figure out what President Bush did to bring you to your current state.
And I’m not talking about anything having to do with Bush’s stances on various issues. It has far more to do with execution. Even though I disagreed with most of his platform, my main gripe against him was that he did not manage the office of the presidency well. He and his followers clung to ideology and largely supported him regardless of whether what he was doing was furthering the conservative cause or not.
Republicans and conservatives need to work on excising a tendency towards blind loyalty, and grow your tolerance for intra-party debate.
You will only emerge stronger if you do so.
When The Insurgents Have No Clothes
Posted on at 7:42 amAdam Graham hopes that the National Tea Party protest on Wednesday stay on message:
Large events like this are remarkable. In some ways, they’re comparable to baseball games, where you’ll find some people with an agenda aside from the game. If the media applied the same coverage to baseball games that it applies to tea parties, it would assume that, if someone gets through security and streaks across the field nude, most of the crowd are closet nudists.
Of course, most just want to see the game and have no interest in the streaker. Similarly, the streaker has no interest in the baseball game. He simply wants to streak nude in front of a large audience.
Like our baseball streaker, some at the tea parties will have their own agendas that have little or nothing to do with the cause for which most people are going to attend. Most would rather not be defined by the proverbial streaker, and I’m no exception. I’m not going to the tea party to make the case that President Obama is a Muslim born in Indonesia, to advocate secession from the union, or to explain how America’s problems are the direct results of actions by members of the Council on Foreign Relations. I’m not going as a Republican; I’m going as an American.
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An Unhypocritical Tea Partier
Posted on April 13, 2009 at 3:56 pmRob Shearer thinks those who got us into the economic mess we are in should be held accountable — Democrat and Republican alike:
The Republican congressmen who voted for the budgets of 2000-2006 should be primary-challenged and replaced with fiscal conservatives. The Republican members of congress who voted for the Wall Street bailouts should be primary-challenged and replaced with fiscal conservatives.
Is The Tea Party Movement Republican?
Posted on April 12, 2009 at 9:25 pmBlue Collar Muse makes clear the divide.
The Nashville Tea Party
Posted on February 27, 2009 at 2:21 pmDru reports on the remarks of Ben Cunningham:
If they are not willing to fight for us we will turn them out. Jim Cooper, I had great hopes for him, his rhetoric was good, he said he was against deficit spending, but he caved. We’ve got to make sure that Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker fight for us. We don’t need a tepid response. We don’t need a maybe. We need them in there fighting so that we don’t lose our country. This budget is a fairy tale. This budget was the last straw. This budget shows trillion dollar deficits as far as you can see. There will come a point in time when taxpayers simply cannot bear the burden of debt. Barack Obama didn’t borrow this money. Nancy Pelosi didn’t borrow this money. They used our credit worthiness to borrow this money. At some point, the people who buy the debt will say, look, the American taxpayer has too much debt. They can’t pay all this debt. They are not going to buy our debt. We are going to be bankrupt. We have got to stop before we reach that point. We have got to have elected representatives who will fight for us.”
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