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I don’t lump all conservative rallies/protests into this “back history” (as in “helped create”) and as evidence I offer up the 2000 recount (it was important protest/counter protest but it took the debate to the streets as the Democrats tried to manufacture enough votes to take the White House as Al Franken would later take a Senate seat).

These uprising can be found going back to the way the Clintons tried to ram through Hillarycare in the 1993 in closed-door sessions. (largely the same legislation we know as Obamacare)

Peter Jennings said in 1994 that “America threw a temper tantrum” in giving the GOP a majority in both the House and Senate.

Eventually the public grew to dislike the Republican Congress as well.

These backlashes against the government are not so much “support for a piece of legislation” as they are an opposition to proposed changes and spending.

Obamacare was passed through purchased votes, no bipartisan support, no public support through debate. Pork. Nothing but set asides to get enough Democrats in Congress to support it.

Americans opposed immigration reform in 2006 and continue to oppose all of this talk of “amnesty” for 20 million people in 2010.

In California Democrats and Republican voters voted in support of Prop 8 to prevent the redefining of marriage.

These are BIPARTISAN (or non-partisan) voters standing up to “change”.

Republicans and Democrats opposes Bush policy on a number of matters, but finding where they are in AGREEMENT for why they oppose a stance (like the Dubai ports deal) are a trait shared with the “tea party”.

People HAVE taken to the streets.

The movement does not exist without the “silent majority” conservatives calling Washington DC and holding rallies (but they are not the only ones speaking up). It is for this that I point them out and past occasions they also rose up. Obama is claiming “they are newly created” (as a respone to The One). He isn’t that big. Kerry or Edwards or Kennedy would have faced similar opposition.

As a conservative Republican who "grew to dislike the Republican Congress" and has been part of the Tea Party movement from its beginning, I am familiar with the information you have given here. My husband and I were in DC on 9-12, and then with the massive protest against the healthcare legislation right before it passed.

(Not sure how Miers fits into this history, though, which was the point I was objecting to in your first post).

Thanks for the post, though. Others may not understand what the Tea Party movement is about, and sans the stuff in your first post, what you have written is accurate.