IS THE "TEA PARTY" REALLY A POPULIST MOVEMENT?

I think Milton would have argued that the laws in question came only after the supply of labor became more nearly equal to demand, and in effect made legal requirements of conditions the labor market was also demanding.

georgeob1 wrote:

I wonder if those here whining about the Koch brothers and Robert Murdoch would be content applying the same "logic" to the motives of George Soros and the owners/managers of the liberal press.

It depends on what you are calling "the liberal press". A press that reports the news and appears to do so with little bias isn't the liberal press. It is the press working the way it is supposed to work.

I'm a member of the movement....

The Tea Party Experience: In the crowd at the Glenn Beck rally

Today, I'll be embedded with the Lynchburg Tea Party at "Restoring Honor," Glenn Beck's "non-political" rally for "integrity, truth and honor" on the National Mall. Stay with us all day for an inside look at the event, from the perspective of Virginia's most dedicated tea partiers.

At Safeway:

A couple, both wearing "Palin for President AND Vice President 2008" shirts, are buying a 12 pack of Budweiser.

The clerk tells them it's $9.50. The couple then starts complaining that they're gouging people in town for the rallies, demands to speak to the manager, and that it's un-American.

Cashier: "No sir, that is capitalism."

I'd have to dig it up but there was numerous reports on who funds the Tea Party. This information came out early last year when they were trying to sell themselves as "grassroots."

Lots of corporate money.

Disappointed in the blog. There was no there there.

... in an interview aired Sunday, Mr. Beck denied any political motivation — or political aspiration — and shrugged off conservatives’ suggestions that his ability to mobilize so large a crowd made him presidential material.

“There’s nothing we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace unless we solve it through God,” he told “Fox News Sunday.”..

...Mr. Beck imbued his remarks with references to God, and he urged a religious revival.

....While Tea Party groups have said they want to focus on fiscal conservatism, not religion or social issues, the rally was overtly religious.

He said he had come to see Mr. Obama not as a racist but as an advocate of “liberation theology,” which he said pitted victims against oppressors. Liberation theology has generally been used in reference to a movement, begun in the Roman Catholic Church in poor parts of Latin America in reaction to social injustice, that some critics say has been taken over by leftists.

Setting aside the large corporate investment in the Tea Party

By KENNETH P. VOGEL | 8/9/10 4:38 AM EDT

Some leading tea party activists are concerned that their efforts to reshape American politics, starting with the 2010 elections, are being undermined by a shortage of cash that’s partly the result of a deep ambivalence within the movement’s grass roots over the very idea of fundraising and partly attributable to an inability to win over the wealthy donors who fund the conservative establishment.

Many tea party organizations have shied away from the heavy-handed solicitations that flood the e-mail boxes of political activists. And the handful of tea party groups that have raised substantial amounts, either by embracing aggressive fundraising or through pre-existing connections to wealthy donors, are viewed suspiciously within the movement.

Local groups have been left to literally pass hats seeking donations at their meetings or rely on their organizers’ bank accounts, while some national groups have failed to live up to their bold fundraising predictions.



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