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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Oct 16, 2013 8:17:08 GMT -5
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Oct 16, 2013 14:13:22 GMT -5
The latest shutdown-default farce has had another consequence even more dramatic than the unpopularity of the Republicans; it has made the public even more cynical about the whole process of government. (For the first time, polls have found voters saying they’d like to throw out all the rascals, including the president and their own elected representative).
And if the public moves into the next two election cycles with an intense conviction that government is a cross between incompetent, brain-dead, and malevolent, which political party benefits from that thinking? When government fails, it may not matter in the long term whether the helm was held by Democrats or Republicans . A general sense that government could screw up a two-car funeral is exactly the belief that is at the heart of the Tea Party movement.
This article is about the political movement.
The Tea Party movement is an American decentralized political movement that is primarily known for advocating a reduction in the U.S. national debt and federal budget deficit by reducing U.S. government spending and taxes. The movement has been called partly conservative, partly libertarian, and partly populist. It has sponsored protests and supported political candidates since 2009.
The name is derived from the Boston Tea Party of 1773, an iconic event in American history. Anti-tax protesters in the United States have often referred to the original Boston Tea Party for inspiration. References to the Boston Tea Party were part of Tax Day protests held throughout the 1990s and earlier.
The Tea Party does not have a single uniform agenda. The decentralized character of the Tea Party, with its lack of formal structure or hierarchy, allows each autonomous group to set its own priorities and goals. Goals may conflict, and priorities will often differ between groups. Many Tea Party organizers see this as a strength rather than a weakness, as decentralization has helped to immunize the Tea Party against co-opting by outside entities and corruption from within.
The Tea Party has generally sought to avoid placing too much emphasis on traditional conservative social issues. National Tea Party organizations, such as the Tea Party Patriots and FreedomWorks, have expressed concern that engaging in social issues would be divisive. Instead, they have sought to have activists focus their efforts away from social issues and focus on economic and limited government issues. Still, many groups like Glenn Beck's 9/12 Tea Parties, TeaParty.org, the Iowa Tea Party and Delaware Patriot Organizations do act on social issues such as abortion, gun control, prayer in schools, and illegal immigration.
The Tea Party generally focuses on government reform. Among its goals are limiting the size of the federal government, reducing government spending, lowering the national debt and opposing tax increases. To this end, Tea Party groups have protested the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), stimulus programs such as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA, commonly referred to as the Stimulus or The Recovery Act), cap and trade, health care reform such as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, also known simply as the Affordable Care Act or "Obamacare") and perceived attacks by the federal government on their 1st, 2nd, 4th and 10th Amendment rights. Tea Party groups have also voiced support for right to work legislation as well as tighter border security, and opposed amnesty for illegal immigrants. On the federal health care reform law, they began to work at the state level to nullify the law, after the republican party lost seats in congress and the Presidency in the 2012 elections. It has also mobilized locally against the United Nations Agenda 21. They have protested the IRS for controversial treatment of groups with "tea party" in their names. They have formed Super PACs to support candidates sympathetic to their goals and have opposed what they call the "Republican establishment" candidates.
If this country is to survive "The United States of America", I strongly suggest you consider joining the new [[ 3rd Party ]]. The people that are willing to lead "US" out of this ineffective, deficient, and socialist form of government. It's "OUR" last chance - get on or get forgotten, government will dominate OF>BY> & FOR people if you don't!
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Oct 19, 2013 6:34:04 GMT -5
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Oct 19, 2013 6:48:45 GMT -5
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Oct 19, 2013 14:25:39 GMT -5
Sarah said:
"The enemy of the enemy is my friend, is any common sense conservative's friend. So we do have to consider a politician's record, truly what it is they intend to do to stop this fundamental transformation and stripping away of our economic freedom, and those who can't stand strong to defend our republic, to defend our constitution, heck, yes, they've got to be premiered, otherwise we're going down.
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Oct 24, 2013 16:55:56 GMT -5
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Nov 14, 2013 13:14:07 GMT -5
It truly seems ironic That Ted Cruz 1st asked to defund Obamacare and then simply to postpone it and Obama wouldn't even talk about it. And Ted was accused of causing a government shutdown (  ) but who's fault does it look like now? Obama's signature healthcare has just been postponed for 1 year by (himself). Why not, he's taken the law into his own hands on so many other occasions. Don't you think changing laws by a president is giving him just a little too much authority-president or not? |
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Post by dent on Nov 15, 2013 9:04:40 GMT -5
The Tea Party was a good idea, but lacked focus and leadership. In the real world there is NO WAY they will suplant any of the major political parties. They need to focus on realistic goals and help the Republican party develope a plan of operations.
Simple truth is that if they keep going the way they are headed now and continue to be the "disruptor" then al they will accomplish is to insure the Democratic candidate wins every election. Splitting the vote has lead us to some horrible Presidents in the past and will always do so.
There is always a right and a wrong way to do anything. They need to get on the right way band wagon and work WITH the Republican Party to achieve a common goal. The divisiveness that they are causing now will destroy our nation.
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Post by LuLu on Nov 15, 2013 14:59:14 GMT -5
Yes but they sure put a scare into both partys!
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Nov 15, 2013 17:11:08 GMT -5
dent, what political parties they are only different for the same reasons. To make people think there's still conservatives and liberals. To give what people think is a choice. And continue in corruption and robbing the people of freedoms and standard of living.
What other good is either?
Given time, since the Tea Party represents the middle class people ( the ones that support this country ) there will be redemption for all of "US"!
IMHO they are the 'best' "WE" got!
PS: I agree with Lu Lu both parties need a scare put into them.
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Nov 27, 2013 8:21:50 GMT -5
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Dec 2, 2013 9:02:13 GMT -5
(Washington Examiner) - For Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, enough was enough.
The Senate’s top Republican had watched a Tea Party-drivengovernment shutdown sink the GOP’s already-weak brand and jeopardize McConnell’s own chances of ever becoming majority leader. The solution, he concluded, was that the party’s so-called Establishment had to start fighting back against its most conservative wing.
I got news for you, you Ol'foggy
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Dec 29, 2013 17:07:24 GMT -5
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Jan 29, 2014 8:35:46 GMT -5
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Feb 15, 2014 8:44:42 GMT -5
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) but who's fault does it look like now?
