AMERICAN CONSERVATISM IN 2008 AND BEYOND

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Tea_Party_protests#History
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History
A blogger known as "Liberty Belle" called for and organized[20] the first tea party protest of 2009 which took place on February 16 in Seattle, Washington.[21][22] A protest was held in Denver on February 17[23] and a protest in Mesa, Arizona on February 18 brought 500 protesters.[24][25]

By February 19, 2009, in a broadcast from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade, CNBC market commentator Rick Santelli, criticized the government plan to refinance mortgages as "promoting bad behavior", and raised the possibility of a "Chicago Tea Party".[26][27] In response to Santelli's comments, websites sprung up to organize "Tea Party" protests.[28][29] ChicagoTeaParty.com, registered in August 2008 by Chicago radio producer Zack Christenson, was live within twelve hours.[4] About 10 hours after Santelli's remarks, reTeaParty.com was bought to coordinate Tea Parties scheduled for July 4, and as of March 4, was reported to be receiving 11,000 visitors a day.[4] Bob Basso's portrayal of Thomas Paine on Youtube calling for a Second American Revolution also played a role in spreading the protests.[30]
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Its a matter of how their tax money is being spent, DTOM. It would be nice if you guys would be accurate in what you say.
Go ahead and demagogue the taxpayers that pay for all the crap going on, but it isn't going to work, as taxpayers are not blind to the bureaucrats and the games being played.

lets demand payment from all foreign countries that owe us money, and if they dont pay we seize their assets in the US.
And when other countries do that to us, we let them.

That way, we wont owe them money, and they wont owe us.

The TEA PARTY I attended yesterday from 6pm to 7:30pm, in Georgetown, Texas had people present from each and every race, gender, ethnic group, and age group.

For evidence you should attend future TEA PARTIES in your area. The pictures you looked at were probably carefully selected by your biased news--propaganda--sources to show only white folks were present.

By the way, it's long past time for you to present persuasive evidence for your allegations. You act like you think that all you have to do is post what you think is true, and then demand that those who disagree provide evidence to support their disagreement. Such behavior on your, and like behaving people's parts, undermines your credibility.

okie wrote:

Its a matter of how their tax money is being spent, DTOM. It would be nice if you guys would be accurate in what you say.
Go ahead and demagogue the taxpayers that pay for all the crap going on, but it isn't going to work, as taxpayers are not blind to the bureaucrats and the games being played.

it's not demogoguing to point out that a bunch of rich white guys that don't want to pay their taxes have whipped up this tax and social paranoia to benefit themselves.

seriously, i get tired of having to point out that there are relatively few that will see an increase in taxes. +/- 2%. so it's nothing more than self serving when that 2% fires up the 95% that just got a tax break to further there own gain.

people have the right to assemble and to voice their opinion, of course.

but i wish that you would be as eagle eyed about the accuracy of what the tea happy crowd were really goin' off about. and who is really benefiting from their angst.

"I didn't say he didn't support it or participate in it. But he had nothing to do with organizing it, nothing to do with putting it together. It was truly an internet generated grassroots movement and I am guessing that party affiliation was not especially a factor in who attended.

I am agreeing however that the Albuquerque crowd was probably somewhere between 1000 and 2000 now. The organizers almost certainly exaggerate attendance and the media, including our local Fox affiliate, will almost certainly underestimate the attendance. Our ABC affiliate gave the tea party coverage one quick shot and less than 10 seconds of commentary.

Evenso, adding it all up across the country you do have at least two to three hundred thousand folks documented as being at these things and most likely many fold more like me who didn't attend but who were in complete sympathy with the effort. (I did drive through the protest area along Montgomery Blvd yesterday afternoon though, and the folks stretched a good long distance.....sure looked like more than a 1000 people but I didn't count them.)"

The tea parties are far more of a grass roots movement than the lefties ever do. Most of the time if there are a half dozen whackos on a street corner, the MSM will find them and report that as if it was a major event, when it didn't amount to a hill of beans. This movement is real and it could grow into something very significant, by normal hard working people that hardly ever demonstrated about anything ever before.

How do those here feel about the Fair Tax as opposed to Ican's mentioned Flat tax. I feel the Fair Tax is a consumption tax and might still hurt business but the flat tax seems just fair.

JM

To those who would like us to believe that the tea parties are some evil conservative media driven conspiracy I would ask: "Why are all these people coming to these things? Perhaps they just want to appear on TV. Is Fox TV paying them? Isn't Wednesday a work day?

I would guess that roughly a third to a half of those attending in Albuquerque, just judging from those lining Montgomery Blvd, were Hispanic. A smattering of folks who were black or probably Indian though ethnicity isn't always possible to tell just by looking. The short clip on the MSM evening news, however very briefly showed a small group of "Anglo" faces and nothing else.

The fact that they are complaining about paying too much in taxes, while ignoring the fact that they are perfectly well represented in Washington, and yet compare it to Tea Parties held in the past; it shows a complete lack of perspective and is really quite insulting to our forefathers.

Cycloptichorn