[whitedog57]

Not if they are planning to cancel elections under a “national emergency” whether health-related or vast right-wing conspiracy.

Or goons standing at the polling booths, people disclosing secret ballots, etc.

These people believe in a one world Communist dictatorship. They will try to deprive us of a voice.

[JimSEA]

Elected officials "should be trying to figure out where that anger is coming from and address it, rather than trying to find ways to dismiss it," Shapiro says.

The "powers that be" have figured it out. They are ridiculing it, marginalizing the participants and, now, criminalizing the military and ex-military segment of the tea party sentiment.

[Man50D]

I hope they do underestimate the anger reflected at the tea parties. I’ve been to two of them. Both rallies were used as a conduit to network and organize. The rallies were not used simply to vent. There were several Democrats at the latest rally I attended who were disgusted with both parties as was everyone else at the event. Politicians continuing to ignore the masses will only further harden their resolve.

[KLT]

It’s amazing, they don’t want to hear what the ppl have to say...It is at their peril because we are going to vote their useless arses out of power...Keep it up political idiots and keep disrespecting the ppl that pay your salaries, cause you are outta here...

[mass55th]

"Dismissing tea parties is perilous"

Just ask the British!

[KLT]

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[basil]

"I regularly remind my students that you know you are living in a good, strong and healthy democracy when you are offended on a daily basis," says Lara Brown, a political scientist at Villanova University.

There, in a nutshell is what is wrong with the younger people in this country. This gal is teaching them that we live in a democracy. That is just wrong--horribly wrong!

[penelopesire]

“Purdue political science professor Bert Rockman, on the other hand, was satisfied with the media coverage and less than impressed by the movement.

“But people often like the ‘goods’ (government) produces; they just don’t want to pay for them,” Rockman says, calling that the prevailing attitude at the tea parties.”

The government produces ‘goods’? This prof is a Obama cult nut.

[Minn]

"The least the tea party-goers could have done was not pollute the common-resource rivers into which they threw their tea, and if they were really against waste they would have consumed the tea or given it to charity,"

Nitpick much? Of all the lame things I've heard about the tea parties... Here's a clue for you, buddy. The tea thing was mostly symbolic.

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

FTA: “And what about the federal debt, which doubled under George W. Bush?”

And what about World War IV, which started under Clinton, but we really didn’t start to campaign until Bush?

[Arrowhead1952]

The tea party movement may or may not go forward

Great article Salena. If I was a betting man, I'd say MAY. I know a number of die-hard BO worshipers who already having serious second thoughts about the direction BO is taking this country, and even they are unhappy. Can anyone say "Early Buyers' Remorse"?