Thread: The Tea Party Is.....

Originally Posted by Barbbtx

Wow. Lucky you. Wish I could've been there.

I probably would have been at the Constitution center or the Washington Convention center. Yeah, that probably discounts me from the Tea Party lot immediately-not going to their rallies.

Originally Posted by Bruce

A great deal of fun:

I'd rather go to a Mad Hatter Tea Party than go on a Zombie walk looking for brains to eat and carrying a sign that says eat Walker.

Originally Posted by Barbbtx

I'd rather go to a Mad Hatter Tea Party than go on a Zombie walk looking for brains to eat and carrying a sign that says eat Walker.

Actually, a zombie walk would be more interesting to me.

Originally Posted by CriticalThought

I don't know what grasp of history you have, but the Tea Party didn't form until after Obama was elected and primarily as a response to his health care reform. I don't know why you guys keep trying to rewrite history and pretend that it began before Obama was elected.

tea parties started on tax day 2009, well before Obamacare - the group was in opposition to the bailouts and "stimulus" programs that were exploding the deficit under Bush and Obama; you could probably have read some early the-natives-are-restless rumblings in the earlier opposition to immigration reform; but Obamacare was just fuel on the fire.

Originally Posted by cpwill

tea parties started on tax day 2009, well before Obamacare - the group was in opposition to the bailouts and "stimulus" programs that were exploding the deficit under Bush and Obama; you could probably have read some early the-natives-are-restless rumblings in the earlier opposition to immigration reform; but Obamacare was just fuel on the fire.

Evidence please.

Originally Posted by sazerac

What have I done? People don't understand sarcasm.

The Tea Party made effort to attract minorities but it didn't work!

Are you serious? Here's just two tea party favorites. One is running for president and the other was elected to the senate.

Herman Cain Rises As Tea Party Favorite | Neon Tommy
Cain railed against liberals, who, he said, slander conservatives as “racist, redneck tea-baggers.” He paused for effect, then brought the house down: “I had to go look in the mirror to see if I missed something!” Allen West: Tea Party Statist – Tenth Amendment Center
As a black conservative and Republican, Allen West is not your typical Tea Party member. West rode the Tea Party wave all the way to the U.S. House last November from Florida’s 22nd congressional district. He is the first black Republican to represent Florida since Reconstruction.
http://blog.eyeblast.tv/2011/03/alle...cs-harry-reid/http://blog.eyeblast.tv/2011/03/alle...cs-harry-reid/

Originally Posted by CriticalThought

Evidence please.

Here you go

Seattle on Monday. Denver on Tuesday. Mesa AZ on Wednesday. Overland Park, Kansas today. What a week, huh? We got the anti-stimulus, anti-entitlement protest ball rolling — and now the movement, spurred further by CNBC host Rick Santelli’s call for a “Chicago Tea Party,” is really taking off.David Hogberg at Investor’s Business Daily has a nice piece out today spotlighting the growing taxpayer revolt the rest of the MSM won’t cover. He interviewed our registered commenters Liberty Belle Keli Carender, who spearheaded the Seattle anti-pork protest, and HuskerGirl Amanda Grosserode, who organized today’s anti-stimulus demonstration against Democrat Rep. Dennis Moore in Overland Park, KS.
I’m happy to report on several new protest events now on the docket.
My friend Michael Patrick Leahy of Top Conservatives on Twitter and his crew are spearheading “simultaneous local tea parties around the country, beginning in Chicago, and including Washington DC, Fayetteville NC, San Diego CA, Omaha Nebraska, and dozens of other locations” for next Friday.
Time: February 27, 2009 from 12pm to 1pmMichelle Malkin » Tea Party U.S.A.: The movement grows

Originally Posted by cpwill

tea parties started on tax day 2009, well before Obamacare - the group was in opposition to the bailouts and "stimulus" programs that were exploding the deficit under Bush and Obama; you could probably have read some early the-natives-are-restless rumblings in the earlier opposition to immigration reform; but Obamacare was just fuel on the fire.

Your right except that they started a few months earlier than that. Tax day 2009 was just bigger and they got noticed.

Originally Posted by Fiddytree

Actually, a zombie walk would be more interesting to me.

Yea, you're right, but since it wasn't Halloween, they just looked like idiots.

Who was that guy that first said we should have something like a "boston tea party" to protest?