I know of no Tea Party function sponsored by Fox News but I do know that Fox News covered the Tea Parties as they should. Do you know the difference between the Opinion personnel and hard news personnel?
I responded to this, you didn't like my answer.
And that is a problem, why? In your state the Tea Party candidate Rand Paul won without Republican support. That has happened in other states as well. The fact that GOP Candidates showed up to support tea party candidates goes to show how polarizing the Obama agenda is and what a disaster it has created.
Rand Paul won because he used his dad's leftover cash to take out McConnell's boy. Rand Paul won because there is neo-con, and then there is ultra-con he would be an ultra-con. Sharon Angle would be an ultra-con, Sarah Palin would be an ultra-con. Most of these people percribe less to the complicated nature of politics and more to the "these are my people taking my land back" kind of attitude that seems to permeate throughout the Tea Party movement.
There are a lot of Democrats and Independents in the Tea Party. The initial roots come from the opposition to the massive growth in the sie of govt, overwhelming debt, intrusion into the lives of all Americans with programs like National Healthcare, and redistribution of wealth. Ron Paul is an honest politician and practices what he preaches when it comes to spending. He takes no pork for his District and I live in the Houston area and know his record. Conservative politicians are more closely aligned with the goals of the Tea Party than liberal Democrats. Not sure why you have a problem with that.
I had no problem with it, because Ron Paul like I said is a man of his word and I respect him for it. What I have a problem with, is Republicans, conservatives, and conservative media twisting it for their own gain, something I believe wasn't the initial use for it.
Why would anyone who believes in personal responsibility, reduction in the size of the govt, individual wealth creation, tax cuts for all taxpayers align themselves with the Democrat Party.
If you make under $25,000 a year, Obama has already given a tax cut. The tax cuts phase out for people making over 250k and are set permanent for people making under that. I to agree the government is getting a bit hefty specifically with it's many bueracrcies, but this is nto a problem created by Obama exclusively, this has been going on at an exponetial rate with democrats and republicans since FDR.
Have you paid any attention to Obama and his speeches. He has been on one constant campaign and demonizes conservatives at every turn. He never accepts responsibility and continues to blame Bush for everything even though the Democrats were in charge of the Congress from 2007 on. Obama has had total control including a filibuster proof Senate during part of his first term and has made things worse. The results are there for all to see. Some however remain blind.
I totally agree, Obama has not been taking full responsiblity, he hasn't been tough enough, and this is why the healthcare debate dragged on for so long, something he could have accomplished within 6 months took him a whole year+ to accomplish.
I really don't believe you have a clue as to what the Tea Party stands for as there isn't just one Tea Party group, they are different in every part of the country but their common theme is united, smaller govt, stop the massive spending on programs that don't work, support the private sector, stop trying to redistribute wealth.
I know completely what they stand for, but the bigger national tea parties have outside influences involved in shaping the way they do business now, such as Dick Armey.
What exactly is Obama allowing the young people to control? According to him you aren't smart enough to handle your own health care, you aren't smart enough to spending your own money, you aren't smart enough to make the right choices in life.
Obama has created consumer protections that help people like me have better control over their finanices and credit. Because I have no insurance right now, my pregnant girlfriend doesn't have to worry about not having insurance when she has the baby because she can stay on her mom's until she is 26 if she so chooses.
Where is your outrage over the 3.8 trillion dollar budget today and the trillion dollar deficits each of Obama's first two years? Please name for me any other President in U.S. History that had a trillion dollar deficit in any year?
I stated with inflation FDR has spent much more than Obama, and since FDR every single president since then (due to inflation) has spent more and more Dem or Rep.
Why do you believe a word Obama says? He has yet to tell you the truth on any issue and BEA.gov, BLS.gov, and the U.S. Treasury Dept. websites are non partisan and have the actual facts. Obama and Democrats state that the Bush tax cuts cost the country trillions and created the debt. Why doesn't the checkbook of the United States, U.S. Treasury, show that. Why is it that the U.S. Treasury shows income tax revenue growing AFTER the Bush tax rate cuts? Explain that to me then explain how raising taxes on the top income earners in this country are going to make a dent in the 13.4 trillion dollar debt we now have when that amounts to about 40 billion dollars if it is collected at all. I don't know why people like you are concerned about what others make including the rich. No rich person got rich and made someone else poor as this isn't a zero sum economy.
I do not believe everything he says and I don't expect rolling back Bush tax cuts as solving our defict crisis, but it won't hurt anything either.