On April 15, 2009, at rallies across the US, over 300,000 Americans attended rallies, most being called “tea parties”, in honor of the “Boston Tea Party” that took place in Boston Harbor on December 16, 1773. The people that attended these rallies were from both political parties or neither, most had never before taken part in any kind of political rally. Most of these rallies were organized at the local level, many by people who also had never taken part in political protests.
Coverage of these rallies by the “mainstream” (read: liberal) media was abysmal. The so-called journalists scoffed and made fun of the attendees, and did their best to downplay or completely write-off these protests. Democrat talking heads on all networks gave negative commentary, even President Obama’s friend and senior advisor David Axlerod called these rallies and those attending them “unhealthy”.
All of the Democrat talking heads and politicians appear not to “get it”, that all of these people who “just got a tax-cut” are now protesting paying taxes. Of course, these people were not protesting paying taxes per se, they were protesting the incredible increase in spending and the horrific government expansion that has taken place over the past few months. President Bush’s bail-out of Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac, President Bush’s bail-out of the banking industry, the AIG bail-out, President Obama’s ridiculous “stimulus package”, and his current budget, the latter two which spend as much money as all presidents from George Washington to George W. Bush combined. They were protesting the potential loss of liberties planned by President Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Many were protesting the “change” they voted for…yes they voted for “change”…but not this kind of change.
Yet much less than a year ago, the Democrat party and especially then-candidate Barack Obama spoke of how great it was when people who have never had anything to do with politics suddenly enter the political process. That it shows how great the American political process is, and how that process is still working.
Which obviously means new people entering the political process are great….as long as they agree with the Dems.
But don’t be fooled by the Democrat politicians, their talking head robots, and their liberal media puppets. They do get it. And they are scared to death. In less than two years are the mid-term elections. If this grass-roots protest continues to gain momentum, this could ruin their chances in 2010. Which, IMO, is why they are trying to do so much so fast….they have two years to make this country as socialist as they can.
But there is a down-side to the tea parties. Movements like this often lead to the formation and promotion of third party candidates. Though I would love to see an alternative party, I’d rather see the Republican party come back to its conservative roots and values. What the tea party attendees want is what the Republicans once stood for. Though the tea parties had little to do with the Republican Party, this is an excellent opportunity for Michael Steele and the GOP to come back down to earth, and bring back the party of Ronald Regan.
Will they? We’ll be watching.
