Thanks for the link to the You Tube site where the Tea Party Response will also be streamed!
Glad I clicked on it, there was no description so did not know what would show up...
thanks all!
I looked into the backgrounds of the Tea Party Express board a few years ago, and they were mostly Old Reaganauts, recall organizers trying to reverse Californication, a professional fundraiser who worked Republican campaigns, and some other Tom McClintock supporters. The group had another name then ("California Deserves Better"), but they were essentially the same then as now. They were disappointed by the GOP-e countermove, and of course by the outcomes of "Gov. Shriver's" administration. Cautionary note: They do not totally overlap the Tea Party movement on the issues. I think they favor legalizing the illegals, based on some things I've read.
The reply speech was decent and very Reaganesque in its themes, if delivered by a much younger congressman not nearly as adept in public speaking. But he did a very good job as it was, and highlighted a number of key policy areas where the Tea Party clearly has better answers to e. g. unemployment than the disingenuous crap and phonied-up numbers coming out of the Regime. He kept it simple, Didn't get bogged down in vituperating against Obama's cluster**** of a Regime or Obama's legitimacy issues; he sounded like he'd internalized Karl Rove's political "Price Is Right" triangulation technique, frankly.