Time For Another TEA Party?

[TexasTowelie]

by BRUCE VANWYNGARDEN


Do you remember Rick Santelli? No? Let me refresh your memory. On February 9, 2009, Santelli, a CNBC commentator, went on an epic rant and called for the American people to rise up and hold "tea party" rallies to protest the then-recent $700 billion federal bailouts of banks and automakers, the $800 billion economic stimulus package of President Barack Obama, and the resultant government deficits and debt.

A couple of months later, on April 15th (tax day) of that year, rallies were held in cities all around the country. Thousands of protesters, many dressed in colonial wigs and revolutionary war garb, showed up with protest signs to listen to speeches lambasting the Obama administration's "tax-and-spend" policies.

The protestors chanted "Give me liberty, not debt," "Our kids can't afford you," and other righteous sentiments. "I have two little kids, and I know we are mortgaging their futures away," said a protester at a rally in Austin, Texas. "It makes me sick to my stomach."


Rick Santelli

A lot of people were sick to their stomachs, apparently. You may or may not recall that the "TEA" in TEA Party stood for "Taxed Enough Already." These Americans were so damned angry that the country's deficit was so big, they started a movement. And it caught on, bigly. Hundreds of TEA Partiers won political office locally, statewide, and nationally. They were mad as hell, and they weren't going to take it. Change was coming!

Read more: https://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/time-for-another-tea-party/Content?oid=20749681

[Ford_Prefect]

1. Dick Armey organized the TEA party movement as an extension of the Contract on America

It was funded by the same anti-government anti-tax vandals who had paid Grover Norquist's bills. The whole thing was a pretense to radically reduce Federal government oversight, regulation, and taxation. The intention was to provide a focal point for conservatives to build on after W failed them.

The fake rage over taxes was a rallying point for those who believed the lie that government doesn't work for the people and it ought to work for business, much the same as Trump's white-power anti-immigrant screeds have done for white working-class voters.

The MSM sadly bought into the idea that this was a grassroots level reaction when it was, in fact, a very well-funded and well organized right-wing political front group.

[MyOwnPeace]

2. And.......

the writer also points out the underlying "racism" implied by the organization - it's OK if IQ45 does it, but NOT President Barack Obama!