The “Tea Party” folks are just people who can’t deal with the fact that McCain lost the election. If it was a serious protest for the agenda they are pushing then how come the movement didn’t launch sooner and start with earlier presidents who pushed insane budgets through? Seriously grow up, a black man is president and beat a white dude to get there. Stop being babies.

The only thing worse then the “Tea Party” ignoramuses are people who assume all or most soldiers are Republicans. I’m a disabled veteran since 2005 and fought in a war I participated in because it was my duty and not because I believed in it. Also I’m not a member of either party but I do lean towards the Democrats in most cases. We are supposed to be the most advanced nation in the world yet we don’t guaranty health care as a right for it’s citizens? WTF? Canda, Great Britain and many other nations are showing us up and you guys spew out crap some insurance company has handed to you as an agenda?

It is a sort of paradox that the rural poor and uneducated vote for the party that would just as soon step on them once they are voted in. They feed off rhetoric and bitterness.

Furthermore, many in this racist band of ignorant folks claim to be Christians. That is just a bad joke. I don’t think this is what Jesus was referring to when he mentioned the narrow path. This road is wide enough for truckloads of sheep.

Oh, by the way, what are your thoughts on your candidate in the 99th district?

Liberties which are guaranteed under the bill of rights, in which the citizens at these “tea-parties” are exercising. And just like the Boston Tea Party, they are protesting against taxes. Back then, it was the excise tax on tea, today, its the fact that our tax money is being used to fund superbanks who made bad loan decisions and for those who can’t afford their mortgage, not because they are now without a job, but because they have lived beyond their means.

I do believe you are making an elitist statement in regards to citizens participation of these tea parties. I would say that you are probably a card carrying follower of Janeane Garofalo, who stated that all supporters of these tea parties are racist rednecks who’s brains are misfiring!! (and didn’t that stupid, no talent ass clown state she was going to move to Canada if Bush won the election…..why didn’t she go????)

Rant all you want Timmy, but the citizens are speaking out…in a very peaceful manner, at their disapproval for our governments monetary policies. Pray that it doesn’t become more violent down the road, and hope that the actions of April 15th tea parties become a strong message to our elected officials that enough is enough.

By the way…I think I am going start calling you Stanley from now on….as in, you’re a tool!!

You yourself talk about the coward politicians that are showing up at these “tea parties”. Newt Gingrich taking over a movement that is supposed to be for limited government is laughable when Gingrich seems to think that the federal government growing at 2% is a smashing success for supporters of limited government. If these organizers of the tea parties were really for limited government, then they wouldn’t invite these people to speak during the events, for crying out loud!

And then there are the complete wackos that are showing up too:
http://belowthebeltway.com/2009/04/11/the-looney-right-the-tea-parties/

And there is also the problem that a nonviolent protest accomplishes nothing unless there is the persistent threat of force against the participants. Why were the civil rights marches in the ’60s so successful? Because there was video of the participants being brutalized that were shown to almost every American. The same can be said about some of the anti-war protests as well, especially the photographs of the aftermath of the Kent State shootings.

And if someone actually bothers to dump some tea into a river, I wonder what the response from the “tea party” organizers will be when the EPA and the Department of Environmental Quality show up.

Time has now past and information concerning the true burden of the Stimulus has been both deciphered and filtered down. This albeit delayed action, is not just appropriate, but a good starting place to reclaim America’s free market approach to economics.

Your post reads like some elitist criticism, which sneers at the participants because they are somehow debasing the actions of the Sons of Liberty. Instead of responding to this line of argument, I would ask you to tell me HOW?

I am not a Tea Party organizer and I actually won’t even be able to attend one, but I see them as a good grassroots starting point. They aren’t perfect (see Del. Harvey Morgan being invited to speak at the Gloucester Tea Party). But they are a decentralized movement that is motivated by national, state, and LOCAL consequences of departing from free market economics. Mary Buxton’s Tea Party in Middlesex County is a great example (they also plan to dump tea in the river by the way!).

Go cry me a river and while you’re at it take your lousy example of a structured argument with you.