Tea Party Wins

[cupper]

Perhaps you need to start reading and posting something other than opinion pieces.

I haven't seen anything posted from you that has any objective analysis, or contains anything close to factual that has information that hasn't been debunked by sound sources.

You've simply become an echo chamber.

Just my  :2c:

 

[a_majoor]

Thank you for so exactly making the point of the above article.

 

[ModlrMike]

Forgive my ignorance, but is the Tea Party not composed of both Democrats and Republicans?

 

[a_majoor]

Forgive my ignorance, but is the Tea Party not composed of both Democrats and Republicans?

Yes it is.

A TEA Party movement member on this board has passed this observation on. Lots of people are dissafected with the current political establishment and working to change it by taking over party machinery at the local level, booting incumbents and putting in their own candidates and voter education.

 

[a_majoor]

TPM philosophy applied to the topic of energy:

http://pjmedia.com/blog/a-new-hope-for-beating-back-the-regressive-green-movement/?print=1

A New Hope for Beating Back the Regressive Green Movement

Posted By Walter Hudson On November 18, 2011 @ 1:24 am In PJ Culture,PJ Tea Party | No Comments
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The sign at her feet read “For a nuclear free, carbon free future.” The one in her hands an equally predictable “Excessive wealth and consumption are dying paradigms. Renew American with a Green Revolution.”

Before her stood Alex Epstein, energy expert and frequent PJTV guest commentator [2]. Noting the sign on the sidewalk, Epstein asked, “You’re opposed to nuclear power and [carbon dioxide] generating power?”

“Yes,” she answered.

“Do you know what percentage of power in the world those generate right now?”

“That’s not my concern. My concern is the people that are profiting off of power that is unsustainable….”

Calm among the hubbub of Zuccotti Park, Epstein endured a lengthy non-response, then answered the question for her.

“We’re talking about something that’s producing 95% of the power in the world,” he stated flatly. “This is the power that’s keeping people’s lights on. It’s keeping the food going. And you’re saying we ought to dismantle that somehow. And I’m saying, if that happens, the entire world as we know it will collapse.”

This is how Epstein and his cohort at the Center for Industrial Progress [3] confront the menace of radical environmentalism [4]. There is a difference between caring about the world we live in and elevating wilderness above human life. The former motivates industrious action, shaping the environment to promote a thriving human existence. The latter retards industry and reduces both the quality of life and the capacity to sustain it.

Tea Partiers concerned with limiting the influence of government in our lives have a tremendous resource in the Center for Industrial Progress. PJ Media sat down with Epstein to explore why.

    PJ Media: What is your impression of the Tea Party movement?

    Alex Epstein: I am inspired to see the rise of a prominent movement that succeeds by advocating limited government with moral confidence. I am trying to create a parallel movement of my own that embraces industrial progress as a moral ideal rather than something to feel “green guilt” over.

    PJ Media: How does the work of the Center for Industrial Progress advance the Tea Party’s principles of fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and free markets?

    Epstein: Industrial progress is the improvement of the human environment through increasing energy and industry. The number one prerequisite of industrial progress is political freedom of the type guaranteed by the Declaration and Constitution. All that is needed for rapid industrial progress is for the government to respect property rights universally; that would enable people to develop the best forms of energy and production without government interference, and to compete on a free market.

    As for fiscal responsibility, nothing could be more fiscally responsible than the government having an industrial policy with no subsidies, mandates, handouts, or bailouts — just the protection of individual rights.

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None of this would be possible under a green tyrany.

    PJ Media: How would you advise Tea Partiers and activists of like mind seeking to increase their literacy on energy policy and environmental issues?

    Epstein: I would say first and foremost increase your literacy on industrial and environmental philosophy. Most of the political decision-making about energy and industry today is not based on economics or science, but rather bad philosophical ideas about our proper relationship to our environment. In every policy debate, there is a dogmatic obsession with only the negative impacts or possible impacts human beings can have (for example, an oil spill) and a dogmatic ignorance of the radically positive impact that, for example, coal, oil, natural gas, etc. have had on the human environment over the past two centuries. What that points to is that there is a deep-seated belief in our culture that there is something inherently wrong with the human project of transforming nature.

    The best book to set yourself straight on this issue is — believe it or not — Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, even though it’s not thought of as having much to say about environmental issues. In fact, the whole book is a tribute to industrial progress.

    There are a lot of other great resources, and many of them are available at CIP’s website, www.industrialprogress.net [6].

    PJ Media: Of the current slate of Republican presidential candidates, are there any who you are hopeful would prioritize the Center’s policy prescriptions?

    Epstein: I haven’t noticed anyone in particular, but I think many of them are open to positive influence if there is popular support for the right ideas and policies. For example, take the Keystone XL controversy right now, which Obama is going to rule on [and has [7] since this interview]. Leaving aside the fact that the legality of a pipeline should be decided by clear laws based on individual rights, not the whims of the executive branch, what we need is a big movement that regards oil-production as good–because it is completely indispensable to human life. It’s a shame that right now the leading activists on Keystone are a bunch of ignorant celebrities who regard oil, the lifeblood of industrial civilization, as “dirty energy” that can be “replaced” with radically inferior “green” sources just as you switch out a lightbulb. They should be put in their place by a group of educated, passionate activists who are proud that we choose to use the best, cheapest portable fuel to fuel our lives.

    As you might be able to tell, this is an issue I’m passionate about, and if anyone wants to join me on the Keystone issue email me at alex@alexepstein.com [8]

It could be said that industrial progress is the goal for which the Tea Party ultimately fights. Fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and free markets are means to this end. The moral imperative is ensuring the capacity to act productively, guided by our own judgment, to shape our environment in pursuit of happiness.

If at any given time in our nation’s history the American people had embraced a philosophy as retarding as that espoused by the green movement, our progress would have halted. Indeed, that’s what’s happening now. The cheapest, most efficient means of production is no longer our national standard. Those hardest hit are the poorest of the poor who depend upon cheap, bountiful energy to both sustain their lives and facilitate their upward mobility.

For this reason, the green movement is not just wrong [9], but evil. It is anti-life, inherently regressive, and worth opposing with all our political might. Gird yourself with the intellectual ammo available from Epstein’s Center for Industrial Progress [3].

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Check out Walter’s previous PJ Tea Party articles:
[10] [11] [12] [13]
Tea Party Taboo: Tackling Social Issues [10] Our Idiot Brother: The Tea Party’s Relationship to Occupy Wall Street [11]
Pouring the Tea into the GOP [12]

On Tea Party, Morgan Freeman Should Follow His Past Advice [13]

Article printed from PJ Media: http://pjmedia.com

URL to article: http://pjmedia.com/blog/a-new-hope-for-beating-back-the-regressive-green-movement/

URLs in this post:

[1] Image: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRN9Pd8MI-4

[2] frequent PJTV guest commentator: http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=library&series-id=All&tag-id=22&from-date=All&to-date=All&include-future=false&sort=date&reverse=true&page=1&library-results-per-page=10&all-text=false&newValue=&video-id=&query-string-library=alex+epstein

[3] Center for Industrial Progress: http://industrialprogress.org/

[4] radical environmentalism: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?type=issue&catid=99

[5] Image: http://pjmedia.com/files/2011/11/Toronto-City1.jpg

[6] www.industrialprogress.net: http://www.industrialprogress.net

[7] has: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/washingtons-unwelcome-delay-in-the-keystone-xl-pipeline-project/2011/11/11/gIQAQDl5FN_story.html

[8] alex@alexepstein.com: mailto:alex@alexepstein.com

[9] not just wrong: http://www.noteviljustwrong.com/

[10] Image: http://pjmedia.com/blog/tea-party-taboo-tackling-social-issues/

[11] Image: http://pjmedia.com/blog/our-idiot-brother-the-tea-party%e2%80%99s-relationship-to-occupy-wall-street/

[12] Image: http://pjmedia.com/blog/pouring-the-tea-into-the-gop/

[13] Image: http://pjmedia.com/blog/on-tea-party-morgan-freeman-should-follow-his-past-advice/

 

[a_majoor]

Funny how that works:

http://reason.com/archives/2011/12/16/democratic-fairfax-embraces-its-inner-te/1

Democratic Fairfax Embraces Its Inner Tea Party
Even people who benefit from big government love it less when they have to live under it.

A. Barton Hinkle | December 16, 2011

You can’t get a whole lot more Democratic than Fairfax County, just outside of D.C.  Barack Obama carried Fairfax 60-38 against John McCain in 2008. That’s six percentage points higher than Obama’s statewide margin, which Fairfax helped inflate because it is the commonwealth’s largest locality: 13.5 percent of Virginians live there. Four years before, George W. Bush carried Virginia with 54 percent of the vote – but not Fairfax, where John Kerry got 53 percent.

The county board of supervisors reflects the split as well. Seven of the 10 members are Democrats. That makes its recent stance on state government rather amusing.

Each year localities around Virginia draw up their wish lists for the General Assembly session that convenes in January. Virginia is a Dillon Rule state, which means that localities are under the thumb of state government and must go hat in hand to the legislature to get permission to do many things. Fairfax recently completed its wish list for the 2012 session.

And what do the supervisors want from Richmond? “I think the simple message is, ‘Please try to leave us alone,’ ” says Supervisor Jeff McKay.

How very Tea Party of them. Perhaps Fairfax should replace its county seal with the Gadsden Flag – that yellow banner, popular at Tea Party rallies, with coiled snake and the legend, “Don’t Tread on Me.”

That’s not the only way in which heavily Democratic Fairfax sounds sympathetic to the Tea Party rabble. Like those grassroots conservatives in tricorner hats, the county also thinks it is Taxed Enough Already.

Fairfax is one of the richest counties in America. With a median household income in six figures, it comes in second only to the nation’s richest county, next-door Loudoun. And yet, as reported recently in The Washington Post, the county’s wish list “includes other perennial desires: that Northern Virginia taxpayers see more of the money they send to Richmond, for example.”

“Overall, the county would be pleased if the Virginia General Assembly would stop using Northern Virginia as its piggybank,” continues The Post. Translation: Fairfax does not want to “spread the wealth around,” as Barack Obama put it to Joe the Plumber. But wait – Obama says spreading the wealth around is “good for everybody.” Does the county disagree?

When asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton famously replied that that’s where the money is. Same goes for Northern Virginia: The heavily populated, high-income region generates a big chunk of the state’s wealth. Where else should legislators look for revenue – Pearisburg (population 2,700, median household income $40,000)?

What happened to making the rich pay their fair share? 

Dig deeper into the county’s wish list and you find other gems. It wants more state aid to localities, and opposes any funding cuts (“erosions of the social safety net”) that might leave localities on the hook for Medicaid costs. Translation: Let’s have lots of health care, paid for by someone else. There’s limousine liberalism in a nutshell. As George Mason University’s Bryan Caplan once explained, “The wealthy but uncharitable socialist ceases to be a mystery once you understand relative prices. Voluntary charity is costly to the giver, but voting for charity ... is virtually free.”

The supervisors also want to prohibit protests at funerals. They support efforts to fight global warming by mandating cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. They want the power to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. They also oppose the push to protect property owners from eminent-domain abuse.

In brief, then, Fairfax officials are eager to order other people about. They just don’t want to take any orders from Richmond. Unfortunately, the Dillon Rule says they have to.

Funny thing about that rule. It was named after John Forest Dillon, an Iowa Supreme Court justice back in the Tammany Hall era who thought little of local government. He believed that “those best fitted by their intelligence, business experience, capacity and moral character” did not generally enter local government. So local governments needed close  watching.

That’s not wildly different from how much of contemporary liberalism looks at ordinary citizens. In the eyes of contemporary liberalism everyday Americans need the firm guidance of their liberal betters lest they make poor choices or, through their choices, produce results liberals dislike, such as unbridled commerce or economic disparity.

Americans, say liberals, cannot be left to their own devices. So it is entertaining to watch a locality where such an ideology defines the political center – Fairfax is a bedroom community for federal bureaucrats – chafe under the very sort of paternalism it otherwise endorses.

There’s a lesson in that. Even people who benefit from big government love it less when they have to live under it.

A. Barton Hinkle is a columnist at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, where this article originally appeared.

 

[cupper]

It's reality vs perception.

Living in next door Prince William County and working in Fairfax County, I can definitively say that this article is a prime example of taking facts and skewing them for your own purposes.

 

[DBA]

It's reality vs perception.

Living in next door Prince William County and working in Fairfax County, I can definitively say that this article is a prime example of taking facts and skewing them for your own purposes.

A single post ago you were decrying opinion pieces devoid of facts. While this is your opinion which is good it is devoid of any facts or anything else to back it up or even let the rest of us know what you think is skewed. Any article links or examples of how the article in question gives a narrow view of things?

 

[cupper]

First off, the author makes it sound as if this is a new phenom. However, this has been an on going complaint by the NOVA municipal governments long before I moved down here 10 years ago. And this is not limited just to Fairfax County, but all of the Northern Virginia municipalities which make up the VA portion of Greater Washington. Liberal Fairfax County, Conservative Loudon County, the Cities of Arlington & Alexandria and Tea Party strong hold Prince Willam County.

I'm not disputing the facts in the article, what I dispute is the reasoning the author claims is behind it, and the spin that this is just a recent thing since the Obama Administration came on line or the Tea Party made it's presence known.

 

[a_majoor]

The author's points are twofold:

1. These complaints are exactly the same ones which motivate the middle class TEA Party movement nationally, and;

2. The astounding hypocrisy of the very people who both benefit from massive government spending (in this case via their taxpayer supplied wages) and otherwise advocate for expanded State presence (via expanding government programs, departments and regulations that they work for and manage). When they reap what they sow, they should not be complaining about the results....

 

[DBA]

First off, the author makes it sound as if this is a new phenom. However, this has been an on going complaint by the NOVA municipal governments long before I moved down here 10 years ago. And this is not limited just to Fairfax County, but all of the Northern Virginia municipalities which make up the VA portion of Greater Washington. Liberal Fairfax County, Conservative Loudon County, the Cities of Arlington & Alexandria and Tea Party strong hold Prince Willam County.

I'm not disputing the facts in the article, what I dispute is the reasoning the author claims is behind it, and the spin that this is just a recent thing since the Obama Administration came on line or the Tea Party made it's presence known.

Thanks for the reply. Easier to understand where your viewpoint is coming from.

A case could be made that the Tea Party added support for bringing the issues to both more visibility and some action. They don't own the issues but are responsible for some recent action on them.

 

[cupper]

Thanks for the reply. Easier to understand where your viewpoint is coming from.

A case could be made that the Tea Party added support for bringing the issues to both more visibility and some action. They don't own the issues but are responsible for some recent action on them.

That would be true ifit wasn't for the fact that the state and local pols that are backed by the TP are the ones who are bringing in the policies that are being railed against.

One point to note about the VA Tea Party, they tend to be the more right wing socially conservative faction, although they are also very vocal about the fiscal conservative policies as well. However, the pols they elected this last round are also the type of GOP candidate that seems to have the miraculous conversion on the road to Damascus.

Hence my comment about reality over perception.

 

[a_majoor]

The other aspect of the TEA Party movement is adherence to the Constitution. Targeting members of Congress who vote for laws and regulation which are in violation of the Constitution may become a popular new tactic to express displeasure and apply pressure:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/25/1048711/-Montanans-Launch-Recall-of-Senators-Who-Approved-NDAA-Military-Detention-Merry-Christmas,-US-Senate

Montanans Launch Recall of Senators Who Approved NDAA Military Detention. Merry Christmas, US Senate
by Ralph LopezFollow

    UPDATE 12/26/2011:

    This is from a statement from Stewart Rhodes of Oathkeepers regarding Republican Denny Rehberg as a target of recall, who also voted for NDAA. 

    Here in Montana, while we will go after all three violators of the Bill of Rights, I will place special emphasis and "focus of effort" on Denny Rehberg, since he is so fond of wrapping himself in the flag and claiming to be defending the Constitution while his votes do the exact opposite.  In that sense, Rehberg is much like John McCain and Lindsey Graham, two Republicans who, right along with Carl Levin and Joseph Lieberman, are leading a sustained and relentless assault on our Bill of Rights.

Disclaimer: I am now a volunteer press contact for this campaign.

From the press release:

Moving quickly on Christmas Day after the US Senate voted 86 - 14 to pass the National Defense Authorization Act of 2011 (NDAA) which allows for the indefinite military detention of American citizens without charge or trial, Montanans have announced the launch of recall campaigns against Senators Max Baucus and Jonathan Tester, who voted for the bill.

Montana is one of nine states with provisions that say that the right of recall extends to recalling members of its federal congressional delegation, pursuant to Montana Code 2-16-603, on the grounds of physical or mental lack of fitness, incompetence, violation of oath of office, official misconduct, or conviction of certain felony offenses.

Section 2 of Montana Code 2-16-603 reads:

"(2) A public officer holding an elective office may be recalled by the qualified electors entitled to vote for the elective officer's successor."

The website Ballotpedia.org cites eight other states which allow for the recall of elected federal officials: Arizona, Colorado, Louisiana, Michigan, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, and Wisconsin. New Jersey's federal recall law was struck down when a NJ state judge ruled that "the federal Constitution does not allow states the power to recall U.S. senators," despite the fact the Constitution explicitly allows, by not disallowing ("prohibited" in the Tenth Amendment,) the states the power to recall US senators and congressmen:

    "The powers not...prohibited...are reserved to the States...or to the people." - Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

The issue of federal official recall has never reached the federal courts.

Montana law requires grounds for recall to be stated which show conformity to the allowed grounds for recall. The draft language of the Montana petitions, "reason for recall" reads:

    "The Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees all U.S citizens:

    "a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed..."

    The National Defense Authorization Act of 2011 (NDAA 2011) permanently abolishes the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial, "for the duration of hostilities" in the War on Terror, which was defined by President George W. Bush as "task which does not end" to a joint session of Congress on September 20, 2001.

    Those who voted Aye on December 15th, 2011, Bill of Rights Day, for NDAA 2011 have attempted to grant powers which cannot be granted, which violate both the spirit and the letter of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

    The Montana Recall Act stipulates that officials including US senators can only be recalled for physical or mental lack of fitness, incompetence, violation of the oath of office, official misconduct, or conviction of a felony offense. We the undersigned call for a recall election to be held for Senator Max S. Baucus [and Senator Jonathan Tester] and charge that he has violated his oath of office, to protect and defend the United States Constitution."

Montana residents William Crain and Stewart Rhodes are spearheading the drive. Mr. Crain is an artist. Mr. Rhodes is an attorney, Yale Law School graduate, and the national president of the organization Oath Keepers, who are military and law enforcement officers, both former and active duty, who vow to uphold their Oath to the US Constitution and to disobey illegal orders which constitute attacks on their fellow citizens.  Rhodes said:

    "These politicians from both parties betrayed our trust, and violated the oath they took to defend the Constitution. It's not about the left or right, it's about our Bill of Rights. Without the Bill of Rights, there is no America. It is the Crown Jewel of our Constitution, and the high-water mark of Western Civilization."

Rhodes noted that:

    "Two time Medal of Honor winner Marine General Smedley Butler once said "There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights." Time to fight. "

Butler famously ended his career as a Marine General by touring the country with his speech and book denouncing war, "War is a Racket."Butler confessed that he had spent most of his life as a "high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers...a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism..."

Eighteen states at present have recall laws, most of which do not apply to federal officials. For these and other states to recall federal officials, state legislatures would have to first pass or amend such laws.

Rising on the House floor to oppose the bill based on the military detention provisions for Americans, Rep. Tom McClintock said before the House vote:

    " today, we who have sworn fealty to that Constitution sit to consider a bill that affirms a power contained in no law and that has the full potential to crack the very foundation of American liberty."

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said in opposing the final NDAA:

    ”This bill also contains misguided provisions that in the name of fighting terrorism essentially authorize the indefinite imprisonment of American citizens without charges.”

And in a New York Times op-ed piece by two retired four-star U.S. Marine generals, Charles Krulak and Joseph Hoar, Krulak and Hoar said that "Due process would be a thing of the past."

Montana would be the first recall drive to be launched as a result of the vote for the NDAA military detentions provisions. A number of Facebook pages appeared after the passage of the bill from locations across the country.

References:

Facebook: "Recall Every Congressman Who Voted for the NDAA"
http://www.facebook.com/...

"Recalling Senators and Congressmen"
http://www.uscitizensassociation.com/...

"How to Recall US Senators and Congressmen"
http://recallthetraitors.blogspot.com/...

 

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[a_majoor]

A public challenge. It would be interesting to see a real debate, but I won't be holding my breath:

http://electiondayteaparty.squarespace.com/news/2012/1/12/tea-party-leaders-to-dnc-stop-lying-about-us.html

CONTACT:
Michael Patrick Leahy
michaelpatrickleahy@gmail.com
615-243-6869

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tea Party Leaders to DNC Chair: Stop Lying About Us
Challenge Ms. Wasserman Schultz to a Debate on the Constitution

January 12, 2012 - Local tea party leaders from around the country who organized the ElectionDayTeaParty.com website today told DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz that it was time to stop lying about the Tea Party movement.

"It's time for Ms. Wasserman Schultz to stop spreading her vitriolic and divisive rhetoric about the millions of Americans who support the Tea Party movement and its three core values of constitutionally limited government, free markets, and fiscal responsibility," said Mark West, President of the Chattanooga Tea Party.

"Today, we are challenging Ms. Wasserman Schultz to a debate on the Constitution," said Michael Patrick Leahy, co-coordinator of Election Day Tea Party. "We think the country is ready for direct and civil discourse on what the Constitution says about the proper role of the federal government in our lives. That's the real issue. Ms. Wasserman Schultz and the entire leadership of the Democratic Party believe that the federal government should keep taxing and spending more and more. We in the Tea Party movement think otherwise."

The first national event of Election Day Tea Party 2012 will be a celebration of the Tea Party movement's 3rd anniversary on February 25th, 26th, and 27th. On February 27, 2009, the Tea Party movement was launched with simultaneous tea parties in fifty cities which were attended by more than 30,000 tea partiers. This was immediately followed by Tax Day Tea Party on April 15, 2009, when over 1 million tea partiers participated in rallies held in more than 900 cities.

Michelle Moore, organizer of the St. Louis Tea Party Coalition in February 2009, said "The St, Louis Tea Party will be happy to host this debate on February 25, 2012, the 3rd Anniversary of the movement. We think CNN, MSNBC, and FoxNews will be very interested in covering such an event."

Lorie Medina, founder of the Frisco, Texas Tea Party and creator of the Victory in a Box Get-out-the Vote program added, "We'll put forward the Tea Party's view of the proper constitutional role of the federal government. Ms. Wasserman Schultz can put forward the Democratic Party's view of the proper role of the federal government. We'll let the voters decide which view they agree with, and which view is extremist."



About Election Day Tea Party 2012: Election Day Tea Party 2012 is a project of the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition, an informal federation of thirty local tea parties from around the country who work collaboratively on national projects.

 

[Infanteer]

Those guys are still around?

 

[muskrat89]

Those guys are still around?

I can say with absolute certainty that they are fairly active at local and state levels. National TP stuff I don't follow very closely; local TP groups interests are too diverse (yet with some commonalities) to coalesce into any kind of cohesive force in my opinion. A Tea Party group in Town A may have a nucleus/agenda focused on constituional issues and education. 20 miles away in Town B, the Tea Party group may be focused on fiscal matters. Town C's group may provide a forum for people to learn about candidates running for local office by giving them opportunities to present to the group.

Much to redeye's delight I'm sure - I would offer that most Tea Partiers are "amateurs" when it comes to politics. Their primary bent may be conservatism, religion, the constitution, or fiscal responsibility. They are average people who have simply become "fed up" and are galvanized to try and do something to change politics as usual.

 

[a_majoor]

I tend to think of these groups as the small furry mammals that will be able to adapt and survive the big changes coming in the social, political and economic ecosystem. Just because you don't see them does not mean they are not out there, quietly eating the dinosaur eggs...

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Those guys are still around?

I think that's what the Brits said in about 1774. Boston 1773

Wonder how they made out on that one?

 

[a_majoor]

Maybe not so quietly snacking on dinosaur eggs:

http://wolffiles.blogspot.com/2012/01/announcing-election-day-tea-party.html

Tea Party Leaders Launch ElectionDayTeaParty.com for 2012
Celebrations Planned Nationwide
Marking the Third Year of the Citizens' Movement in February

January 11, 2012 - Local tea party leaders from around the country today announced the launch of the ElectionDayTeaParty.com website, which will be the online information center for a series of national events that will get the tea party vote out in the November, 2012 election.

The first national event of Election Day Tea Party 2012 will be a celebration of the Tea Party movement’s 3rd anniversary on February 25th, 26th, and 27th. On February 27, 2009, the Tea Party movement was launched with simultaneous tea parties in fifty cities which were attended by more than 30,000 tea partiers. This was immediately followed by Tax Day Tea Party on April 15, 2009, when over 1 million tea partiers participated in rallies held in more than 900 cities.

“The purpose of this website,” said Mark West, President of the Chattanooga Tea Party, “is to let the country know that the Tea Party movement is focused like a laser beam on getting out the vote to support constitutional conservative candidates on the biggest Tea Party event of all - Election Day, November 6, 2012. In addition, we are re-affirming the movement’s three core values - Constitutionally Limited Government, Fiscal Responsibility, and Free Markets - so that the public will not be deceived by the false narratives about our movement that are constantly pushed out by the Left and the Democratic Party.”

Patti Weaver, who organized the Pittsburgh Tea Party in February, 2009, added that “we want tea party supporters and open minded voters around the country to visit the site and sign up so they can participate in their local get-out-the-vote efforts.”

Zan Green, organizer of the Birmingham, Alabama Rainy Day Patriots.org Tea Party in February 2009, said, “The first major event scheduled as part of the year long Election Day Tea Party project will be a national celebration of the 3rd Anniversary of the movement, which will be held in dozens of cities around the country over the February 25th, 26th, and 27th weekend. In Birmingham, we plan on coordinating our event with local radio host Dr. Gina Loudon.”

Bill Hennessy, organizer of the St. Louis Tea Party Coalition in February 2009, said “The website will be a place for volunteers who want to help get out the vote can sign up. We will put them in touch with their local tea party get out the vote efforts.”

Teri Adams of the Independence Hall Tea Party said “The celebrations won’t be rallies, but rather celebrations of the Tea Party’s three core values, American Constitutionalism, and direct citizen engagement. Each participating local tea party will have its unique method of celebration. In Philadelphia, we’ll be holding an event at Independence Hall on February 26th, where Michael Patrick Leahy, co-coordinator of Election Day Tea Party, will speak about his new book, Covenant of Liberty: The Ideological Origins of the Tea Party Movement.”

Lorie Medina, founder of the Frisco, Texas Tea Party and creator of the Victory in a Box Get-out-the Vote program added “After the wave of public rallies that dominated 2009 and 2010, hundreds of local tea party groups around the country have spent 2011 organizing under the radar to get out the vote in 2012. In addition to the takeover of the House of Representatives in 2010, the Tea Party was entirely responsible for the Republican Party’s takeover of the Virginia State Senate this past November. Tea Party 1.0 and 2.0 have come and gone. Now, we’re on to Tea Party 3.0. We’re organized and determined to win in November, 2012.”

Additional tea parties who’ve signed up to be part of Election Day Tea Party 2012 and the third anniversary celebration in February come from Tennessee, Alabama, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Mississippi, New Jersey, Texas, Delaware, Arkansas, Missouri, Florida, and Connecticut. Election Day Tea Party 2012 anticipates that tea parties from every state will participate.

About Election Day Tea Party 2012: Election Day Tea Party 2012 is a project of the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition, an informal federation of thirty local tea parties from around the country who work collaboratively on national projects.

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