The Tea Parties are protesting against fiscal irresponsibility and any dialogue we can have will hopefully bring a better public understanding of our country’s finances
I guess I misunderstood what they were about...If it is only about the money then shame on me for falling for it.
The National Leadership Team
The National Leadership Team is an advisory group, that provides public commentary on the direction of the Tea Party Movement. This group currently consists of 26 members. Over time, will expand to 36 or more.
Ben Cunningham, Nashville, TN
Gary Aminoff, Los Angeles, CA
Lisa Ray, Cheyenne, WY
Mickey White, Richmond, VA
Jon Wallace, Rutland, VT
Joan Stanley, Bozeman, MT
Judson Phillips, Franklin, TN
Kellen Guida, New York, NY
JoAnn Abbot, Washington, DC
James Dickey, Dallas, TX
Steve Dalton, Valparaiso, IN
Wendy Herman, Corpus Christi, TX
Michael Patrick Leahy *, Thompsons Station, TN
Mike Perez, Covina, CA
Christie Carden, Huntsville, AL
Brian T. Campbell, Denver, CO
Gene Sweeney, Bradenton, FL
Glenda Caldwell, Cookeville, TN
Brad Marston, Boston, MA
Ryan Dixon, Bakersfield, CA
Sherry Orange, Mt. Juliet, TN
Ralph Reagan, Fayetteville, NC
Chris Shirey, Laurel, Delaware
Andrew Ian Dodge, Harpswell, Maine
Michael Johns, Philadelphia Metro Area, Pennsylvania
Bill Hennessy, St. Louis, Missouri
* Michael Patrick Leahy represents himself alone and not TCOT as an organization. TCOT strongly supports the Tea Party movement, but does not endorse or have any connection as an organization with any particular Tea Party group
I belong to four groups, all of which sponsored/promoted the TEA Party idea.
These individuals are Leaders of their group. Period! HOWEVER, if they wish to call 0bama’s bluff, more power to them.
Geez! FReepers! We have to work TOGETHER to have an impact. Yes, the idea of one overall organization is a bad idea, but 50,000,000 individuals with NO coherent message is even worse!
Odinga will convert them to ISLAM, then poison them with Polonium.
Then he’ll hold a press conference and say, “They looked tired, then they died. Oh look, here’s the family dog running up the stairs!”
Chamberlain felt good after meeting with Hitler.
Maybe we’ll feel good after meeting with Hussein the moslem usurper communist.
A couple of you posters have HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD.
This meeting is just a CASTING CALL to choose WHICH LEADER to DEMONIZE in the media.
They’re gonna take a bunch of photos. Rahm Emmanuel will scope out the easiest target, then the COMMIE MOSLEM attack machine will launch into action.
They’ll choose a “leader” then coordinate media attacks on that “leader.” Just like they’ve been doing to Republicans for 50 years.
By the time they’re done, 300 million americans will know how many times that leader picked his nose on the playground at age 3, and where he wiped it.
Treat HUSSEIN like Iran - don’t meet with him.
HEY BAMA!! DON’T CALL US, WE’LL CALL YOU.
The Tea Parties are about FREEDOM, and that is not something you are qualified to speak to natural born Americans or anyone else about.
The “Tea Party Leadership” is now an identifiable target... the guys agreeing to meet with obama and the entire national media being prepared to spin the meeting...
the TP “leaders” are being played by a master marxist with one of the world's greatest propaganda machines.
Think Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin had a few skeletons ( or bogus skeletons) dredged up? Just wait until zerO’s agencies and agents get through picking through the private lives of the tea party “leaders”
When you disagree with the messiah, to paraphrase “the Godfather”
It's not business, it's personal!
Good Luck. Get your taxes in order. You'll be audited for the next 4 years or more. Among other things.
Please do not meet with this Marxist leader. He will use this as some type of Photo-op to increase his poll numbers.
We are all very aware this man does not give a flying fig about working Americans. Because, first of all, he has never worked a day in his life, and second of all, how can someone who was not born in America or raised in America love America?
Think about it!
The act will ultimately be useless for the simple reason the election was lost. He won.
To the victor go the spoils. Attempting to negotiate is a worthless endeavor. The only thing to counter act is raw force or political power.
Making nice is ridiculous
Actual news item twenty years ago 1989:
Elderly Citizen-Protesters Angry At Congress
Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Dan Rostenkowski (D. Illinois) was besieged by a crowd of 50 senior citizens in Chicago . . . the protesters -- shouting "coward," "recall" and "impeach" -- forced him to sprint through a gas station to his car. . .
The protesters were angry about a new Medicare law . . . The television images of Mr. Rostenkowski under assault struck fear in the hearts of Washington politicians.
"Politicians were traumatized by the Rostenkowski episode," said Henry J. Aaron, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. The law has been repealed.
[End 1989 news item]
Where's Janet Renolitano's DHS?
Same item today?
Elderly Terrorists Threaten Congress
The Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee was besieged by a crowd of 50 elderly suspected terrorists in Chicago . . . the terrorists -- shouting "coward," "recall" and "impeach" -- forced him to sprint through a gas station to his car. . .
The terrorists claimed to be angry about a new Medicare law . . . The television images of the assault was used to track down the terrorists. DHS officials say all 50 were arrested. "Most are Bible and gun huggers. Right wing crazies," said a DHS official.
"Politicians were outraged by the episode," said a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. The terrorists were taken to Gitmo Domestic Terrorist Correction Camp.
[End "news" item]
“have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs down over the long term”
Oh, this really burns me. He wants to frame the issue with his premise. Don’t fall into it. It is not the government’s responsibility to reduce health care costs at all. They need to get the heck out of health care. What he and the federal government ought to do is focus on increasing personal freedom and wealth, so that citizens have more capacity to pay for the world class health care that we do have. They are just stuck in the zero sum game mentatlity, and if that is your premise, then all you can hope for is redistributing wealth and rationing.
As far as i am concerned there is no national tea party movement. Sounds like a bunch of RINOs that are trying to steal the thunder of the people who came to those tea parties without any prompting.
Honest to God Tea Pary folks do not make deals with Obama.
This is a joke and it pisses me off.
No one has been anointed leader of the tea parties. This couldn’t be a worse decision. This does a serious disservice to the intent of the tea parties. I’m deeply disappointed.
Surest way to ensure the rest of us won’t go to any event organized by these self-appointed student council leaders is to, well appoint themselves to the student council.
What a crap load. They don’t speak for me, and don’t have my support.
The only reason Obama will meet with any tea party leader is to make them look like fools.
Frankly I am surprised at you, you more than any of us know how the Washington power game is played.
How many times have you been stroked and or ignored by the Washington elite?
They will be glad handed, get their pictures taken and told how things are going to be, then sent out to calm down their troops and nothing will come from this.
It will be the same politics as usual.
Well, I guess we kinda knew that all along.
Here is an email I just sent to one of our fellow Freepers:
As you know, I was an organizer of the LA tea parties in Los Angeles on Feb. 27th and April 15th, and am an organizer of the July 4th tea party in LA. I was contacted by Michael Leahy of TCOT who asked if I was interested in having my name on a letter challenging Obama to meet with us. I said sure. Why not?
The fact is that there will be no meeting, and there never was going to be a meeting.
We knew that Obama wouldn’t meet with us when we sent the letter. The purpose was to show that he is a liar and that when he said he wished the tea party people would meet with him and come up with ideas on how to solve the health care problems and social security problems, he was bluffing. We decided to call his bluff.
Now we have his recorded statement that he wished we would contact him. We accepted his invitation in writing. He will not respond and we can use that in the future.
No one on the list claims that we are speaking for any tea party organizers other than ourselves. We came up with a name for a coalition so that the press would feel that there was a legitimate organization requesting to meet with Obama, at his suggestion. No one in this group is trying to usurp the leadership of the tea party movement, which is truly a grass-roots movement. There is no national leadership group.
Tell everyone not to get their pants in an uproar, we knew nothing would come of it, and we didn’t mean to frighten or offend any of our fellow tea party organizers. This was solely a press play to call his bluff.
By the way, as you know, I am a member of Free Republic, and few people are more conservative than me. That is in response to the people who said that we were all RINOs.
Zero and the MSM mocked the tea parties. Why suddenly are they meaningful enough to invite leaders of the movement to the White House? It’s a set up, IMO. I was at the Sacramento Tea Party and Mark Meckler was introduced as helping to set up the Sacramento Tea Party among others. Was he invited to the WH?