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April 3rd, 2009 8:35 PM Eastern


‘Tea Parties’ — A New Political Movement Is Brewing











By Peter Roff
Senior Fellow, Institute for Liberty/Former Senior Political Writer, United Press International
Washington’s continued mishandling of the economic crisis has
disquieted the electorate. The bad economic numbers, the precipitous
decline in the stock market, the dramatic increase in government
spending and the tax increases lying just over the horizon paint a
picture of an out-of-control federal government grasping at straws in
the search for solutions.

These are
not, some of the organizers of individual events point out, complicated
events to stage . . . The key is that there are many events occurring
all day on the same day — this is what brings them their sense of
community and their political strength.

President Obama and his economic team’s proposals can be summarized
simply as more borrowing to pay for more spending offset by more
taxes. Even the president seems to acknowledge this — “Listen, I will
take responsibility,” he said in California. “For everyone in D.C.
scrambling how to blame someone else,” he said in a reported deviation
from his prepared remarks at a Town Hall meeting, “just go ahead and
talk to me.” But he continues, as he did when he blamed the Bush tax
cuts for the current economic troubles during last Thursday’s White
House Online Town Hall forum, to pass the buck to the previous
administration.
The president and his advisers seem slow to comprehend that
occupants of the Oval Office get to claim credit for good news they had
nothing to do with and must accept the blame for bad news not their
fault, as was the case when American saddled President Bush and the
Republicans with the responsibility for last year’s near-doubling in
the price of gasoline.
In the case of the current crisis the blame appears to have been
assigned almost totally to Obama, at least by the thousands of U.S.
taxpayers attending near-spontaneous “tea parties” in protest of the
Democrats agenda of more taxes, increased spending, higher deficits and
a surge of borrowing to pay for it all. These mass protests, which
have been occurring in different spots almost weekly — 2,000 people in
St. Louis, 3,000 people in Cincinnati, 6,000 people in Orlando —
promise to culminate on Tax Day, April 15, with at least 300 protests
at sites large and small according to the “official” Tax Day Tea Party Web site.
As was the case with the Obama campaign,
the new “Tea Party Movement” is bringing people out to engage in
politics, many for the first time in their lives. And, again, as was
the case with the Obama presidential campaign, these activists are
making liberal use of new media technologies like Twitter and Facebook
to find supporters and allies, to meet each other and to establish a
sense of community, a community of people who are being economically
oppressed by the new burdens being placed on them by the Democrats who
now are in complete control in Washington,. D.C.
These are not, some of the organizers of individual events point
out, complicated events to stage. They don’t need expensive backdrops
reminiscent of Greek temples behind them or the presence of all the
major broadcast and cable news networks (with attendant commentators
explaining deeper meanings) or thousands of people to achieve success.
The Tea Party movement, say national supporters, would be just as happy
to have 10 people outside a U.S. Post Office on April 15, spreading
their message, as they would be with 10,000 people on the Las Vegas
Strip. The key, they say, is that there are many events occurring all
day on the same day — this is what brings them their sense of community
and their political strength.
Part of the genius of the idea rests in its historical significance
–everyone can relate to the story of how Sam Adams, Paul Revere and
others in the Sons of Liberty dressed as American Indians in a
nighttime shipboard raid to dump British tea into Boston Harbor. But
there is also genius in the simplicity of the idea itself, of using the
tea party as a metaphor to bring people together to speak out as one
against the ongoing effort to borrow, spend and tax the nation deeper
into the economic doldrums.
The “Tea Parties” augur the beginnings of a new political movement,
it is now clear, that may eventually exceed the power of MoveOn.org and
others of the new liberal pressure groups in their ability to influence
the votes of politicians in Washington as well as state capitals in
every region of the country.

I am ready to join the tea party!

Come and join The American Tea Party in Big Stone City at the Memorial park on Hwy 12 next to the bridge.

It will be at 5:00 pm TODAY! April 15, 2009.

Call your friends and family and bring your high spirits.
Stand up with other fellow Americans across the country today.

i went over about six, but did not know where the park was .

We were all at the memorial Park around 5:00 o'clock and we all held signs to the cars passing by. It was alot of fun. People inside of the cars were looking out there windows to read the signs. Alot of people honked there cars in support

I am sorry you didn't see it. We were there for about an hour.