Tea Party Day Is Good News for the Future of Conservatives, Republicans
By Mary Kate Cary, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
It's Tea Party Day in all 50 states, and 300 to 500 protests against out-of-control government spending are planned worldwide. Today's Wall Street Journal explains that these protests are not the result of organizers at the Republican National Committee, or any political action committee, or even some think tank: it's all been done by regular folks using Internet, E-mail, text messages, Facebook, and chat rooms. The Tea Party movement has completely organized itself without any outside help.
Most fascinating of all is the idea that today's protests could have a ripple effect through American politics for the next few years, according to the Journal:
What's most striking about the tea-party movement is that most of the organizers haven't ever organized, or even participated, in a protest rally before. General disgust has drawn a lot of people off the sidelines and into the political arena, and they are already planning for political action after today.
Cincinnati organizer Mike Wilson, a novice organizer who drew 5,000 people to a rally on March 15, is now planning to create a political action committee and a permanent political organization to press for lower taxes and reduced spending. Tucson tea party organizer Robert Mayer told me that his organization will focus on city council elections in the fall as its next priority. And there's lots of Internet chatter about ways of taking things further after today's protests.
This influx of new energy and new talent is likely to inject new life into small-government politics around the nation. The mainstream Republican Party still seems limp and disorganized. This grassroots effort may revitalize it. Or the tea-party movement may lead to a new third party that may replace the GOP, just as the GOP replaced the fractured and hapless Whigs.
Great news for us deficit hawks and limited-government types. Help is on the way!
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Tea Parties
Thank God for them! America, the real "silent majority" are finally reaching the end of their paitence with a government that either "can't work" or "refuses to work"! Those parties are examples of that spirit of protest, willingness to declare their grievances, that has always been just below the surface of every "ordinary American". Give'em hell, folks, and do not allow yourselves to be swayed by the ultra-socialist media types who have never been too much in touch with America since Ben Franklin got out of the publishing business!!
Jobs, Taxes, DEBT, TEAPARTIES
I love when people speak (write) when they haven't a clue.
The USA has the 2nd highest Corporate TAX rate in the world. Corporations have a simple morality, make a profit for the shareholdres (me and you). The reason we're losing JOBS, cheaper to do business elsewhere.
TAXES, you continue to spend money you do not have. Raise taxes on the people that have no jobs OR raise taxes on the people that provide JOBS?
DEBT, continue to spend money you do not have. This practice has become "business as usual" in Washington but the Obama/Pelosi/Reid Trilogy has taken this practice to HISTORIC levels.
TEAPARTIES, exercising OUR RIGHT to express dissatisfaction with our current Administration and the direction they're taking our country.
NOT Republican, NOT Democratic, Not Libertarian.
TPARTY.The time has come.
Tea Parties are for little girls and English Ladies
You know people claim that they are patriotic and they want to be kept safe while keeping their freedom. Unfortunately that freedom comes at a price. This tea party BS is nothing more then a mockery of an important historical event. Furthermore the only people protecting freedom are the soldiers of this country. The men and women who come back and find that they can’t find a job. This country has forgotten about customer service. Companies and entrepreneurs have decided to produce lesser products and services while charging ridiculous prices in order to get rich quick. That is the real reason we are all in this mess. This is not patriotism or the American dream that some people claim it is. This is nothing more then greed. You want to be free? then this country has to pay for it on a whole and if lower class and the poor can not pay( which any moron would know that if they can get jobs then they can’t pay, and don’t give me that “they are just lazy crap”) then the rest of the country either has to step up and do it. It is either that or just let the U.S.A. be come another third world country. Funny though I see many people protesting this now when they should have been protesting years ago to prevent this.
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