Tea Party Goal: Restore Limits Of Constitution

Investors.com ^ | April 2, 2010 | LAWRENCE KUDLOW

[Kaslin]

So much is being written in the mainstream media about who the Tea Partyers are, but very little is being recorded about what these folks are actually saying.

We know that this is a decentralized grass-roots movement, with many different voices hailing from many different towns across the country. But the Tea Party message comes together in the "Contract From America," the product of an online vote orchestrated by Ryan Hecker, a Houston tea-party activist and national coordinator for the Tea Party Patriots.

With nearly 500,000 votes recorded in less than two months, this Contract forms a blueprint of Tea Party policy goals and beliefs.

Of the top 10 planks in the Contract, the No. 1 issue is protect the Constitution. That's followed by reject cap-and-trade, demand a balanced budget and enact fundamental tax reform. And then comes number five: restore fiscal responsibility and constitutionally limited government in Washington.

Note that two of the top-five priorities of the Tea Partyers mention the Constitution.

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

For example, the 10th Amendment ???

[reefdiver]

I believe we are in a revolution right this moment. I do not have a clue as to what this place will look like when it's over or even how long it will last. More than a few politicians will be history, many of the ones replacing them won't last. Taxes will be changed, and a lot more will be paying them I think. Roll backs on give aways, entitlements. So much more, for the better of tomorrows generation.
This has to be the stop of the worst generation in history, mine. the self absorbed baby boomers.

[highlander_UW]

Of the top 10 planks in the Contract, the No. 1 issue is protect the Constitution.

And this is exactly why the democrats are doing their best to destroy the Tea Party movement...they can't easily subvert the government if the Constitutional limits are reinstated.

[stevie_d_64]

Restore Limits Of Constitution...”on the government”

See it needed to have a follow through added to the swing of that title...

This is absolutely the biggest goal needing to be re-implemented on the problem at hand...All the other stuff, taxes, spending, etc etc etc, that we’ve been hearing blaring at us, is gravy on the potatos when you need to neuter the dogs that put us into this predicament...

Anyone that believes we cannot live without government in its current configuration is to weak to survive on their own, its almost like being a drug addict I suppose...

If you get up in the morning and look up and see the sun come up...See, the government did not make that happen...Nor does it need to do 95% of what it thinks it needs to do in this country...

Until we take out the 300# tumor, we cannot effectively reverse the disease...

If it takes a total “national” economic collapse, then it is not anyones fault but our own for not doing what needs to be done...Because that is on its way...No one wants to think, or really deal with that issue...That fuse is lit already...It’ll be hard to keep it from getting to the explosive charge, if we do not take the first step in taking care of the root problem...

Just my opinion...