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Okay where do we start slicing and dicing?
I don't know, you tell me. or do you support all the spending we do today?
" ...Over the past year Sarah Palin has established herself as the queen of the Tea Party movement. Her endorsements have helped Tea Party candidates oust established Republicans in races across the country.
But even among the hardcore of tea partygoers it cannot be assumed she reigns supreme. A canvass of delegates to the Tea Party Patriots convention in Richmond over the weekend put her in shock second position for their choice for president in 2012..."
Looks like the Queen has been deposed. Could the party be seeking a bus under which to throw her? Are they recognising the liability she represents? Does anyone care?
Sarah Palin no longer the darling of her own tea party | World news | guardian.co.uk
You brought it up.
And cutting taxes is going to do what for future generations?
As a card carrying member of MoveOn, I understand grass roots movements, including the Tea Party.
That's retarded. Moveon was a soros front group. Who fronted the tea party?
It's been answered several times. I'll try a different tact.
They're plan is to do the opposite of what Pelosi, Reid, and the rest of the liberals have been doing the last 2 yrs.
#1 they have promised to listen to the people.
So you apologize and then you speculate about just what you apologized for?
Please, fool me once. :roll:
And cutting taxes is going to do what for future generations?
Okay where do we start slicing and dicing?
5. Restore Fiscal Responsibility & Constitutionally Limited Government in Washington
Create a Blue Ribbon taskforce that engages in a complete audit of federal agencies and programs, assessing their Constitutionality, and identifying duplication, waste, ineffectiveness, and agencies and programs better left for the states or local authorities, or ripe for wholesale reform or elimination due to our efforts to restore limited government consistent with the US Constitution’s meaning. (63.37%)
3. Demand a Balanced Budget
Begin the Constitutional amendment process to require a balanced budget with a two-thirds majority needed for any tax hike. (69.69%)
6. End Runaway Government Spending
Impose a statutory cap limiting the annual growth in total federal spending to the sum of the inflation rate plus the percentage of population growth. (56.57%)
nope, i apologized for saying "most"....i don't apologize for saying i think the tea party attracts racists.
nope, i apologized for saying "most"....i don't apologize for saying i think the tea party attracts racists.
That's retarded. Moveon was a soros front group. Who fronted the tea party?
Tea Party movement: Billionaire Koch brothers who helped it grow
Industrialists who own private company with annual revenues of £62bn have channelled millions of dollars to rightwing causes
It likes to present itself as a grassroots insurgency made up of hundreds of local groups intent on toppling the Washington elite.
But the Tea Party movement, which is threatening to cause an upset in next month's midterm elections, would not be where it is today without the backing of that most traditional of US political supporters – Big Oil.
The billionaire brothers who own Koch Industries, a private company with 70,000 employees and annual revenues of $100bn (£62bn), used to joke that they controlled the biggest company nobody had ever heard of.
Not any more. After decades during which their fortune grew exponentially and they channelled millions of dollars to rightwing causes, Charles and David Koch are finally getting noticed for their part in the extraordinary growth of the Tea Party movement.
The two, 74-year-old Charles and David, 70, have invested widely in the outcome of the 2 November elections.
But organisations tracking money in politics say the Kochs' biggest impact in the midterm elections will be from funding and providing logistical support to such groups as Americans for Prosperity (AFP), one of the biggest Tea Party groups.
AFP, in turn, has spun off other organisations such as November is Coming, Hands Off My Healthcare, and the Institute of Liberty, which are buying up television ads and holding rallies across the country in an attempt to defeat Democrats.
Who and when did thes koch people fund and when.
Perhaps you might read the entire article...
It's funny, whenever I link a guardian article, some left winger tells me its a tabloid.
So there's no organization and no real leadership...First, the Tea Party is a movement not an actual "political party" in regards to the federal level. While there have been individuals at a state level that have ran essentailly as independents backed by the Tea Party movement or local actual "political parties" established, to my understanding there is no official NATIONAL "Tea Party" party.
So...you cant really tell whose a teabagger and who isnt?Second, if you want a "platform" of theirs its not that hard to find what would most likely be considered it. The Tea Party functions as an organization of individual groups, each with its own more localized and unique focus or cares, but generally each holding to an overall principle. The only bit of information that I've seen held in esteem as a "message" of the movement by the vast majority of these various individual groups would be the Contract From America. If you want a "platform" for the Tea Party movement this is the closest you'll likely get.
That's...extremely vague1. Protect the Constitution
Slightly more specific, getting better.2. Reject Cap & Trade
Ok, how do you want to achieve that?3. Demand a Balanced budget
Again with the vague.4. Enact Fundamental Tax Reform
Yet AGAIN with the vague.5. Restore Fiscal Responsibility & Constitutionally Limited Government in Washington
I'm sensing a trend here.6. End Runaway Government Spending
Replace it with what?7. Defund, Repeal, & Replace Government-run Health care
This doesnt even make sense.8. Pass an "All of the Above" Energy Policy
Vague again.9. Stop the Pork
Which ones?10. Stop the Tax Hikes
No, it's a frickin' grocery list. This isnt a platform, it's a list of vague ideas that are neither formed nor apparently very well thought out.Each of the above is simply the bullet point header, as each have some more specific information. For example, #1 is Protect the Constitution, but proposes to do such by requiring "each bill to identify the specific provision of the Constitution that gives Congress the power to do what the bill does.
Theory is nice but it isnt a plan.Note that unlike an actual POLITICAL PARTY platform, these are much more theoritical based as they were submitted and voted on by individual citizens and are more focused on common language and simple concepts than in depth policy statements.
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