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There is a rejection of politics as usual, the feeling that both parties are captive of their respective special interests -- big business and big government.
For the Tea Party momentum to continue in a constructive way, it will need to take at least two further steps: First, repudiate the unhinged Obama-haters and then focus its anger at fiscal irresponsibility into policy proposals instead of bumper-sticker platitudes.
With a growing number of conspiracy entrepreneurs trying to profit off populist anger in a recession, it's also worth keeping the conservative virtue of healthy skepticism in mind.
Remember what the author Eric Hoffer warned in his book "The True Believer:" "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business and eventually degenerates into a racket."
Failin' Palin and the tea party insurgents needs to find their own party. The tea party has people who support ALL 10 amendments to the bill of rights, including the 4th.
There is no focus to the tea party. They come across as just a mob of angry people. I think that if you poll tea party people that beyond the broad brush stroke of we hate government, you would get many different definitions.
If they were to define what the tea party stands for they would lose a lot of their "members".
The tea party will morph into the {R} party sinced they hi jacked the movement away from the libertarian conservatives and liberty minded people.Myself,I would never be a member,why would I want to dirty myself and hang out with a bunch of hypocrite {R}s.
First, they want to eliminate the bloating and corruption in government and vaporize the extravagant spending. Second, they want to return common sense to the free enterprise model that created the greatest economic times in the history of man. Third, they want to put into a place real checks and balances that return the government to the people.
Seriously - you're not going to find those "specifics" at Kos, HuffPo or DU - they don't want you to know what they are. You have to actually listen to the people involved in the movement.
The ideas in the quote above aren't new, and they've been listed right here on this forum countless times. If you really wanted to know the "specifics" of what the movement was about, the information has been presented, right here, many times.
I suspect that you're not really interested, though, and you yourself are the one
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Originally Posted by theolsarge
Who [has] no clue what [you're] angry at except for that someone told [you] to be angry.
First, they want to eliminate the bloating and corruption in government and vaporize the extravagant spending. Second, they want to return common sense to the free enterprise model that created the greatest economic times in the history of man. Third, they want to put into a place real checks and balances that return the government to the people.
This *does* beg the question, "Specifically, what do you mean?"
It's vague, jingoistic nonsense.... might as well be from one of Sarah Palin's 2008 deer-in-the-headlights interviews.
I think the Tea Party did themselves in by inviting Palin and have her go on a anti Obama rant which basically lends to the stereotype that the Tea Party really is just a bunch of old white angry people. They cheered at every jab Palin took at Obama.
Where were these people and their anger for the past 8 years preceding Obama?
This *does* beg the question, "Specifically, what do you mean?"
It's vague, jingoistic nonsense.... might as well be from one of Sarah Palin's 2008 deer-in-the-headlights interviews.
Exactly! What is interesting is that some believe the meaningless rhetoric without questioning just exactly how they plan on doing what they preach. I will be waiting to hear the many explainations I am sure we will get in reply to your comment. Oh and you just had to mention the Godess of the fringe, you are in for it now.
Casper
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