See the original NY Times hit piece on the Tea Party here :
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/17/opinion/crashing-the-tea-party.html?_r=3
TITLE: Crashing the Tea PartyBy DAVID E. CAMPBELL and ROBERT D. PUTNAM
Published: August 16, 2011
See the original NY Times hit piece on the Tea Party here :
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/17/opinion/crashing-the-tea-party.html?_r=3
TITLE: Crashing the Tea Party
By DAVID E. CAMPBELL and ROBERT D. PUTNAM
Published: August 16, 2011
LOL - They won’t understand until it’s too late for them.
I’m the furthest thing from Christian Right, but...I’m definitely Tea Party.
We the People. THAT’s who started the “Tea Party Movement.”
They just cannot believe U.S. citizens care enough about the country to not turn over like whipped dogs.
bump.
All the Tea Party events and Tea Party Board meetings I’ve been to have concentrated on taxes, debt, Constitution, and national security. Nine will get you ten this guy’s never been to a meeting or event.
I know several people in the Tea Party who are not socially conservative, but who are fiscally conservative and know the other two sides, the Dims and Repubes will not lead the country out of the collapse they see comming.
They are willing to put some of their idealogical differences concerning social issues on the back burner and support the TEA party because they know that if the country economically collapses that we all will be pining for the good olde days when we used to have the time to complain about social issues in the first place.
Every who is unique and different in some way that prevents a bunch o'who's from coelescing.
The what is the key to our unity and cohesion.
Our definition of patriot f'rinstance, hearkens back to colonial America and not contemporary entitlement politics.
THEY don't accept our what, thus ... they are they and our what makes us we.
Me and millions like me, no leaders required, we think for ourselves.
Probably, a heck of a lot of people that believe in family, country, morality, rules and a generally agreed upon concept of society.
They won't dig past the “Christian right” label because they know they will expose to their ruin that the beliefs of the Tea party movement encompass the “Christian Right, The non-Christian Center-left to right and most of the dang thinking country that is evenly remotely paying attention.
TEA Party
TEA = Taxed. Enough. Already
This is a classic case of the reporter: “did not do the research.”
Wow!
Three big NY Times character assassination hit pieces in a row! (Outside of the usual Dowd/Friedman/Krugman drunken drivel)
Rick Perry, Darrell Issa, and now the whole “Tea Party.”
This magazine should rename themselves "Crony Capitalist Insider" since their articles have the same transparently bigoted slant as the rest of the Junk media.
Apparently their whole reason this magazine exists is to keep the taxpayer funded gravy flowing out of the taxpayers pockets into theirs.
They just don't get it.
Who Is Really Behind The Tea Party Movement?
that’s like asking who is behind the grains of sand on the beach
i am. we all are. Americans that actually work and pay for everything.
we’ve had enough
the TEA party is us saying ‘screw you, you’re all corrupt bastards lining your own pockets and i won’t be your betch any longer’
(or something to that effect)
I don’t expect my vote to make me a better Christian but I do want it to beget a smaller and more constitutional government.
It’s the old communist contempt for religion all over again.
Guess they didn't read about John Adams or any of the other founders and subsequent presidents and leaders who made it possible by their beliefs and actions for folks like them to have been born in a land of liberty in this 300th year of American independence.
"Ideas have consequences"(Weaver).
The ideas of 1776 came out of a set of ideas consistent with liberty.
We tend to forget, or have never considered, that other world views existed then, as now.
Unless today's citizens rediscover the ideas of liberty existing in what Jefferson called "the American mind" of 1776, we risk going back to the "Old World" ideas which preceded the "Miracle of America."
There are those who call themselves "progressives," when, in fact, their ideas are regressive and enslaving, and as old as the history of civilization.
Would suggest to any who wish an authentic history of the ideas underlying American's founding a visit to this web site, at which Richard Frothingham's outstanding 1872 "History of the Rise of the Republic of the United States" can be read on line.
This 600+-page history traces the ideas which gave birth to the American founding. Throughout, Richard Frothingham, the historian, develops the idea that it is "the Christian idea of man" which allowed the philosophy underlying the Declaration of Independence and Constitution to become a reality--an idea which recognizes the individual and the Source of his/her "Creator"-endowed life, liberty and law.
Is there any wonder that the enemies of freedom, the so-called "progressives," do not promote such authentic histories of America? Their philosophy puts something called "the state," or "global interests" as being superior to individuals and requires a political elitist group to decide what role individuals are to play.
In other words, they must turn the Founders' ideas upside-down in order to achieve a common mediocrity for individuals and power for themselves.
Perhaps writers such as these also might object to the following words from Judge Learned Hand on what he called, "The Spirit of Liberty":
"The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias; the spirit of liberty remembers that not even a sparrow falls to earth unheeded; the spirit of liberty is the spirit of Him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned, but has never quite forgotten; that there may be a kingdom where the least shall be heard and considered side by side with the greatest. And now in that spirit, that spirit of an America which has never been, and which may never be; nay, which never will be except as the conscience and courage of Americans create it; yet in the spirit of that America which lies hidden in some form in the aspirations of us all; in the spirit of that America for which our young men are at this moment fighting and dying; in that spirit of liberty and of America I ask you to rise and with me pledge our faith in the glorious destiny of our beloved country." - P. 190-191, The Spirit of Liberty (1944).