Code TEA: Tea Parties, Go Home! All Politics Is Local
by Capitol ConfidentialTEA Parties nation-wide have found that calling, writing, and showing up in person in D.C. has the same impact as a hiccup in a hurricane. After turning out thousands of citizens at rallies, overwhelming the Senate phone lines and crashing Congress’ e-mail system, our elected representatives are poised to enact the greatest expansion of government in history. The TEA Parties followed the direction of national organizations and associations. They answered the call, but were sent over the trench-line without an actual plan or support. (See, for example, Somme, Battle of) It is time for the TEA Party movement to turn inward. In the words of the age-old adage, “ All politics is local “.
Stories like the ACORN tapes have massive national legs, yet they do not destroy the local farm team of tax-and-spend big government. Fighting for Liberty and the ability to live the American dream requires getting your hands dirty far closer to home.
For the TEA party and 9-12 groups to become effective, they must evolve again, and this time the Gadsden Flag will be a marker laid down to far more personal targets. People find the mundane of daily life and local news forgettable, yet this is how the TEA party can enact meaningful change.
To end the progression of large intrusive government and the progressive agenda, the TEA party must neuter the left’s farm team. City Council, County Board, Park Districts, and School Boards may not have the flash of State Representatives, State Senators or their federal partners, but, they are, indeed, perhaps more the important .
The progressives and Big Government-types have entrenched themselves into local power bases. They have expanded the role of government from the garbage man to the kindergarten teacher. They are taking us over from within, yet we can push back.
Until the last year, our side has been busy with our personal and professional lives. We have looked past machine politics and the local aspects of our lives. We have ignored the corruption in our hometowns. We have chosen to overlook the police state that has grown. We have chosen to allow the nanny state to encroach on smoking in taverns or trans-fat in our doughnuts, to name just two recent examples. We have allowed an extra $.05 sales tax for “insert public good here” after another, without protest or outrage.
In our slumber, we have allowed our liberties to be encroached. We have allowed the will of the State to be imposed on us. In places like Missouri, we have allowed no more than 30 hardened progressives to dictate the tempo of the debate. (Fortunately, we do know who you are and will be outing you here.) We have allowed this to happen because we have not paid attention to the minor league ball game.
We choose instead to protest in Washington, D.C. We chose to show outrage to the political class that is not listening. They won’t listen; they do not have to . They have showered their districts in pork and bribed us with our own money. They can freely come back home from the Beltway bubble to their local farm team and act like they conquered Gaul.
A local mayor and a rogue’s gallery of other officials will hold a press conference with the Representative or Senator and the lamestream media will re-broadcast their talking points. These local co-conspirators will treat the federal officials as Caesar, yet the arch they march through is a fake. These people have only accomplished one thing; they have retained power. They hold power by controlling the means of political production. They control us by controlling our cities, counties, parks, and schools. They have turned us into a class of serfs begging for scraps from the table that we fill. (That’s actually unfair to serfs. In Medieval times, serfs only had to hand over 1/3 of their income to the feudal lords. Add up federal, state and local tax levies, we may much more than serfs ever paid. So, what does that make us?)
Now is the time for the TEA party to show it’s real colors and longevity. Now it is time for us to stop the rallies and start the process of running for election and holding our current officials directly accountable. Now is the time for the plumber, the electrician, and the Joe Six-pack American to end this madness.
No more will we go quietly into that long night. Now, we must fight. We must take back the system and make our elected officials fear “we the people”. This is the battle our forefathers saw many years ago.
This is the time for the Tea Party to seize the day and make a difference. Which party you decide to run on doesn’t matter. Republican or Democrat matters little, as the national leaders of both have lost touch. What matters is we destroy the go-along-to-get-along farm team. It also matters that we pick a party…the Republicans and Democrats have together gamed the system against third parties. Creating a TEA Party isn’t a serious solution. Leverage your power locally to change your party.
Make a pledge to not vote to tax and spend the people’s money. Make a pledge to quit after “x” amounts of terms in office. The people are waiting for a leader; they are waiting for a Captain. Be that Captain. March to the sound of the guns, and seize the day.
With TEA party people in every position of government, the political class in Washington will listen. They will no longer have the political cover of pork-hungry Mayors doing tricks for the political elite. There will no longer be days of staffers blowing people off to vote for their party line.
A carpet-layer has more experience to lead than any political hack. An insurance man has more ability to look at regulations than a risk-adverse lawyer. A veteran has more understanding of what it takes to support our men and women in harms way.
It is time to break the mold of what looks good to get elected. Now is the time to become involved. Now is the time to hear the sounds of battle and join. The Government teat must be turned off. The system needs to be rebooted.
Help start the process and run for office. The great sleeper that is America has woken up. 2010 is not the end game, neither is 2012. The end game is when we level the playing field and make America once again the land of opportunity.
Fly that Gadsden flag high and fly it proud. But, that isn’t enough. It is time to leave your fields and join the battle. March to the sound of the guns.
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Look for the words of repeal and term limits in any new politician's platform.
There are many laws that will need to be repealed!
No cushy "retirement" packages for the vanquished either. Crime must not pay.
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I don't think "we" have become complacent about these things. It's just that the electorate has been expanded by past immigration debacles and the current invasion from the south to include rent-seekers who, if they cannot vote will still pressure politicians to comply with their wishes, and those who can vote will do so for any Democrat who promises to keep handing out goodies from the larder, which is stocked by responsible, working citizens.
Republics and democracies fail once a significant portion of the electorate learns that it can vote itself benefits from tax revenues. We're on that slippery slope right now and we had better strap on our clampons and start climbing back off of it or we're toast.
Amen! You are absolutely right. Local politics is where their power is first granted, and it's where the fewest have historically taken interest (other than the progressives seeking to entrench themselves in the system). That has to end. Lucky for us, many of the tea party and 9-12 groups have already learned this and have been steadily preparing locally for mid-term elections, and are also running candidates for offices of all sorts, from school boards to city councils. While the big government types in Congress may think no one is coming for them at the polls in 2010, they'd better think again. (And No, Mr. Axelrod, the elections are NOT that far off, and the people will NOT forget. You underestimate the intelligence and the will of the people). No ACORN or SEIU can save you now; pump as much money as you want into all your silly little Democracy Alliance groups, but there are more of us. There are MORE of US. Armies of voters will be there ready and waiting on every election day, armed with their greatest weapon – their vote.
We just ousted our County Commissioners, corrupt as hell. We will now have an Executive Board with no party affiliation. Our state auditor, for the moment, is deciding which bills will be paid. Funny, he's finding a lot of overpayments (padding) have been made to companies working for the county. All the local Dem leaders wanted to keep the commissioners, the voters went against the party line. WE WON!!!
I love it buddy, and indeed is what is needed. We must clean the political parasites out of the system, and make them understand who the boss is. I’ve been to three “Tea Party’s” and the power and energy is palpable, and as this article expresses it’s time to drop the hammer on the political class. Save some of your anger for academia, they are an enemy of the USA as well. March to the sounds of the guns. God Bless America!
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It's now very clear that politicians have no regard for the people they represent. They must all be turned out of office, every one. And each new official needs to know that they are being watched very closely, and will be turned out of they do not implement the will of the people.
The days of trusting a politician are over.
Now that we are going to relocate the Gitmo crew to Illinois I propose that we increase the prison population by an additional 535 "residents".
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Capital Confidential is correct. The reason ACORN has been so successful (well, until lately) is that they do work on a local basis. This is where one can TRULY make a difference. There are already groups doing this, however. One which has been very effective is not one you hear about in the National Media (because it is keeping things local) is United in Liberty. http://www.unitedinliberty.org is all about organizing SMALL pods of concerned citizens for the purpose of education on the true principles of government (called the 12 Principles of Liberty) and activism at the most local of levels. They are going to city council meetings, planning and zoning meetings, school board meetings, etc. It is at the local levels that we have lost our liberties. It must be from the bottom up that we renew them.
Well that sounds all well and good, but I think this is beyond local politics. This is a movement that is going to morph into a 3rd party and overwhelm the national political scene. Those parties don't represent us and therefore we cannot work with them nationally or locally. Sorry but this is much bigger than that and it's just getting started.
and no puny fines and rewards for illegal alien criminals either!!!! toss them and the scumbags in the congress across the border with orders shoot to kill anyone not entering through 2 or 3 legal entry points with valid documents otherwise bye bye….
you can be relatively safe assuming that the gitmo guys won't be there long…they'll be let off by some panty waste judge (thanks Charlie for that line)….
I have written about this very subject in my new article "The Tea Party Revolution – A Manifesto" published at the New Patriot Journal:
http://www.newpatriotjournal.com/Post/1316/The%20...
controlling the local and state is far easier than trying to control the scum in D.C. Vote in the right people and then declare nullification and State sovereignty….simply tell the feds we will not comply!!!
If they pass it we will not obey and if they tax it we will not pay. It's that simple.
A comment left elsewhere, the focus being that the Fourth Estate has been the prime mover behind all of this:
Bested by hippies. Damn, but that hurts. It was no accident, their sit-ins at college, their takeover of campus newspapers, their worship of Woodward and Bernstein, their activism in education, their power-mongering class warfare– all of it of a single focus. It is impressive, that sort of far-reaching, connective tissue of a tangible vision for destruction.
Bested by hippies. And today, the shortest day of the year. The longest night is to come.
Do we in the Tea Parties make any difference? As of right now I think not. This Congress sided with The One against millions of Americans. So far all of our cries of foul have fallen on deaf ears. Can we in next year's elections really make a change or will the same old Americans continue to blindly vote their party line?
FTA: We choose instead to protest in Washington, D.C. We chose to show outrage to the political class that is not listening. They won’t listen; they do not have to .
Why don't they have to listen? Because, as we've learned, hundreds of thousands of protestors make no sound if there is no media covering them. The big mistake is protesting the government when the real problem is THE MEDIA. Put 100,000 people in each of the parking lots at ABCCBENBCPBSCNNNYTIMES all on the same day and maybe they'll notice we're there.
Where Lynn? Do tell, shine the harsh light of day on the miscreants!
Email, telephone, snailmail, fax, protest your local news outlet that you think Ben Nelson betrayed the country. He can hit the delete button on those emails so fast nobody will ever know he got them. Sure they'll stay on a permanent server somewhere, but if the media doesn't look for them it's as though they don't exist.
My In-laws are NY elite (why my husband escaped to our little farm in VA) and I was shocked when I had a chance to talk to a cousin who recently finished Harvard with a degree in History. I had my proud little UVA degree and a conservative core, but she every sentence she spouted was pure hatred of America and her pat answers offered no curiosity, nothing beyond one liners from any progressive textbook. She'd never heard of deTocqueville and Washington was nothing more than another slaveowner interested in keeping his status quo. I always thought she was a very bright girl, but now she is intellectually dead. Although it is just one example, it supports my belief that deferring to an Ivy League degree or in some instances any degree is simply as un-American as the culture deference to the Old World that Emerson once decried. WE who exercise freedom of thought are SMARTER than any who are simply taught not to think in an IVY league school.
Take back the schools!
The real reason ACORN has been so successful is that they think it is okay to cheat to attain their goals. They even think that cheating is necessary and good. It is a war to them and all's fair…
That's the best I dea I have heard yet!! They can't deny us then!!
I think that we are already past the point of no return, at least in our lifetime. The corruption is far worse than I thought it was even six months ago.
Austin American-Statesman article this morning!:
DEMOCRATS AIMING TO DIG IN
"—-Organizing for America has a staff in Texas as large as any of its other state operations, including California and Ohio.—Organizing for America is looking to help Democrats regain their footing in Texas for the 2010 election. We are going to make sure that we have volunteers ready to go at a moment's notice and
the organization works at an "ORGANIC LEVEL, NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR."
We are in the crosshairs Texas. Be vigilant!
I've seen the newspaper in my town go out of its way to cover 15 people who are protesting something progressive and completely ignore tens of thousands of people at a tea party. Take it to them. They will deny us. We'll have to do it again and again. Make it matter to them.
I AGREE WITH ALL ABOVE….However, the TEA PARTY needs a leader. We neec someone to rally us…to organize us and to recruit us. Who will it be?
The old expression, lead, follow or get out of the way applies here. . .The TEA Party can lead but must do so smartly and coalesce with like-minded, Non-Marxist groups — the way the first American Revolution came together through many militias joining. . .that did not necessarily like each other, agree on strategies, even though they were all fighting for freedom from the same tyranny. . .
Let's lead but coalesce with other groups to achieve long-term objectives — remove the MARXISTS/COMMUNISTS from governmental positions and from infusions into societal roles such as education.
Typing my letter of protest to Senator Nelson immediately!
The old expression, lead, follow or get out of the way applies here. . .The TEA Party can lead but must do so smartly and coalesce with like-minded, Non-Marxist groups — the way the first American Revolution came together through many militias joining. . .that did not necessarily like each other, agree on strategies, even though they were all fighting for freedom from the same tyranny. . .
Let's lead but coalesce with other groups to achieve long-term objectives — remove the MARXISTS/COMMUNISTS from governmental positions and from infusions into societal roles such as education.
Amen.
Turn their tactics on them, but be aware of what the real problem is. The REAL problem is the corrupt press.
I am gonna do just that. I am running for town selectman here in Maine. Its times not just to talk grassroots, but actually get stuck in and do grassroots politics.
Shirl: I disagree the trouble with "leaders" is that they can be divisive. It will be hard someone that all the tea party types will rally to it seems.
the very nature of a grass roots movement is to command change at the local level. the tea party movement needs to go to battle at all levels of government – and is. sadly, the state level of gov. is becoming less relevant as the feds continue to mandate that states do this and that.
I have written my state reps several times, unfortunately I live in Illinois! Our state is broke and the corrupt politicians just continue to do the same old crap, a whole lot of lying. It's time we all stand up for what is right and just in America. Time to clean house and get some "common sense" people from our local levels all the way to the top. This crap pisses me off!!!
Albuquerque threw out Mayor Marty and elected a Republican instead, put two new more conservative City Council members on, tipping the power base away from the progressive agenda. Mayor Marty's gift on leaving was to collect a deferred $37,000 USD for "Workers Compensation", and do under the table deals with the firefighters to keep them on after a driving while intoxicated charge…then run off to Copenhagen to bask in his own dubious "Green" glow…
People are even figuring it out here in the "Land of Patron"…
Protest the press. Rent billboards. Hire skywriters. Hand out broadsides. Most of the nation knows nothing about what is really going on.
Until everybody in the country sees what you see, nothing will ever change. The truth is being hidden. Thank God and Al Gore for the internet.
How do we get people to hear?
He will put your letter in the shredder upon receipt. Carbon copy it to every news outlet you can think of. Put it on a billboard.
Well, there's the rub: how to fight the impunity of the press? How do you impress a sense of ought to the fearless and feckless?
I know how, but. . .
Local health care Legislation: Ben Nelson and Mary Landrieu were the two yeas that served their constituencies. All the other yeas voted against the best interests of their states by agreeing to not only take over the funding of medicare via the transfer to the states medicaid programs, but they also agreed to pay for medicaid in Nebraska and Louisiana. Can Your senator be recalled for working against the populations of Your states?
The federal government has given itself the right to tax specific wages and items. Can states and localities in Your state itemize taxes on say…government-paid workers making over the average private sector job wage? How about taxing fees paid for grant writing? If it is so clearly legal at the federal level, it must be so at the local levels.
Last I knew HCR contained the ability of the federal government to access the information and remove money from Your banking accounts. Is this still true? Is not the purview of HCR inclusive of doing the public good? Cannot the public good of eminent domain eventually be wed to the proposition of health care public good? Does the government database of our financial states eventuate eminent domain claims against bank accounts?
"The town council hereby seizes Your account for the greater good of the community. We need to pay for the new community center."
Local govts can be considered the 'Farm Leagues' of politics. Where do we usually get our national politicians from? Obama sprung up from the bowels of Chicago class/race politics. It shouldn't surprise anyone that his current agenda continues to represent first those who tend to suck at teets rather than produce, and those whose lively hoods and careers rely on ever-expanding govt rule. They really do exist in another world than the one most Americans dwell in, being a culture within a culture. Minimal governance is up against an industry of expanding govt. dominance, based on nothing more than it's claim to knowing better than we do. The country was founded on the people knowing better than govt. Obama may be the figurehead in Anti-Americanism but the roots are older than he is.
Even though I think the most effective path back to some rationality in govt. is through a revitalized recommitted Republican Party, I think Tea Partiers should continue doing what they do. They are currently the best representation of average working voters who are fed up with govt that dictates. Hope aside, it remains to be seen whether Republicans find their inner opposition or become the next '40 year minority'.
I worked my arse off putting on a local event while the masses JUST HAD to go to DC on 9-12. I worked my arse off on the Tax Day Tea Party just to have someone take what we had done and start a for profit business.
Our calls, our trips or letters are not doing a damn thing.
At this point, I don't care anymore about helping to plan Events and attending Townhalls and Tea parties.
My focus for 2010 will be on those candidates that need help, keeping my food and powder stocked
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The Federal Government is clearly out of control.
They have and continue to show ther intent to ignore the Constitution and to enslave the people of this republic.
They serve themselves, not us. They act as masters not representatives.
It is beyond time that we consider what benefit we in the states and localities are receiving from this union. There is only debt and waste and wanton disregard for the rights and liberties of the people.
This is intolerable citizens, what is to be done?
AADD? Do you mean ADHD? You do know that's a neurological disorder don't you? You making fun of that?
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Don't have time to read all the comments this morning, but scanned a few.
What I didn't see in this post was a huge collective effort to withhold tax money in April. With all the tax cheats working for our federal government, this seems particularly appropriate – and, given the number of people who actually might participate, extremely effective.
good call to arms – influence and kill big government by getting our voices heard.
It's YOU, Shirl. If not you, someone like you…
If you believe for one minute these bastards did not get our memo you are wrong. They have been offered golden parachutes and they took the opt out. Soon these Dogged Democratic traitors will be replaced. The Rinos are nearly dead and will breath their last breaths in 2010 and 2012. Yes we need to work at the local level but we need to scream into the night aw well we need to amass where we can and when we can. If for no other reason then our children are watching, they are the ones that will be battling this evil long after we are dead. My adult children have seen a fire in my belly they have never seen before, it is alarming them, and it is waking them. They are not yet warriors but they are now awake. NEVER STOP BELIEVING. Make your faith an action word. Faithing in God, Faithing in America, Faithing in the common decency of man. It is only with these faiths that one can imagine a government conceived in liberty. When we give up on these truths liberty dies and tyranny returns.
They are hammering the last nail into their coffins with Health Care Nightmare Votes. The majority of Americans are Conservative and the Majority of Americans are against this so called ‘Reform,’ and yet they pass it anyway. The Democrats are on the train to no where and hopefully it will get rid of the pork and waste when it doesn’t come back in 2010.
SOURCE OF HEALTH CARE AND ELECTION INFORMATION: http://www.americanparchment.com
Cuyahoga County, OH
ALL County commissioners have been fired. Clerk of Courts showed up to work 76 days in 2009.
Our Commisioneers were/are being investigated by the FBI
People just keep voting the same crooks back into office. The City Council wanted a slight change in operations, but the voters wanted complete and lasting reform. Petitions got the initiative on the ballot. We won big time!
Those weapons will soon be used by the people to rid the stink. Enough guns sold this year to arm three armies. Tea party members will need to bring them next time they head to Washington.
MiPain, you are right on target. We must remember what these scoundrels have done to us, in the middle of the night, behind our backs, and last but not least, against our will. Being in-firmed, I cannot start, or even go to rallys, but, I can be a keyboard warrior and remind people of the betrayal that congress is attempting. Next november, we the people must send a clear message to congress, vote out every incumbent who is not conservative. It doesn't matter if they're democrat or republican or independent. If they're conservative, and believe the constitution is more than just a piece of paper, allow them to stay, if not, vote them out. We the people are the only ones who can take back America, and we the people are the only ones who can end the corruption that is congress.
The whole purpose of the Elitist-Corporatist-Socialist model is to create a model where all the power, money and influence is controlled out of Washington, with Big Unions, Big Government, Big Corporations all sitting down together to divvy up the spoils.
To suggest that the solution to attacking this Behemoth lies at trying to take over School Boards / County Offices etc. where the bulk of the dollars (power) are dished out from Washington down in return for rewards/paybacks at the local level is way off base.
Our founding fathers had the wisdom to allow us to modify the Constitutuion, they also correctly recognized that the bar must be set high to change the core law of our land. The time is at hand
1. Term Limits/Benefit Limits 2. Restrict "General Welfare" from the Document. 3. Restrict Congress leash to pass laws that belong at the state level.
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479,520 minutes. 7992 hours. 333 days.
That's how long it's been since Barack Obama was sworn in as President. At the end of this first year, some progressives are feeling holiday blahs because we haven't won everything we wanted.
Don't.
Remember our hard battle at the start of the year over whether to direct our tax money toward creating jobs and stimulating the economy? Won that one. Here in my hometown construction workers are doubling the size of our overburdened community health clinic thanks to that stimulus money, and similar worthy projects across the country kept thousands of Americans working. ( support our work to rebuild and renew America's economy. )
How about the F-22 fighter jet? TrueMajority members have worked for years to end that wasteful project, and this July we won THAT one, freeing up $65 billion in Pentagon pork spending for more urgent needs. ( support our work for sensible budget priorities. )
Then there's healthcare. Progressives are still arguing over whether the current deal is good enough, and if there is a better strategy for winning more. But even the weakest deal under consideration, which already passed the Senate this weekend, will insure 30 million more people and outlaw insurance companies refusing coverage for pre-existing conditions. By any measure that's a victory for our side. ( support our work for quality, affordable health care for all. )
And yes, there is still a daunting amount to do.
A few days ago Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida read your petition opposing the escalation in Afghanistan on the floor of the U.S. House. Meanwhile we delivered the almost 100,000 signatures — including thousands of TrueMajority members — alongside veterans and other anti-war activists. (If you haven't already, check out the video of Rep. Grayson and some of the veterans we worked with saying 'THANKS' to TrueMajority/USAction members for their support.)
But our signatures alone aren't going to be enough. Progressive champions in the House are ready to oppose the $1 trillion cost of the escalation, but there simply aren't enough of them yet. We need your support to convince more members of Congress to demand an end to the war and a plan to bring everyone home. Donate now to make that possible.
In 333 days we've done some remarkable work, but we've also learned this year that the fight for change is a marathon, not a sprint.
Thanks again for a great year
-Ben, Chris, Darcy, Drew, Matt,
and the whole team at TrueMajority / USAction
The problem I think requires attacks on multiple fronts, we need a cohesive strategy to cripple the left at every opportunity and to take advantage of every weakness.
Running candidates that are truly versed in and stand up straight with no apologies for constitutional principles regardless of the level of government should be the first step. I think the tea party needs to quickly determine what the means or risk the results of an unfocused .
What a candidate can do regardless of power (or lack thereof) to promote similar candidates?
Corruption…….Investigate, uncover, once sure publicize regardless of the fallout or the party.
Administrate……Under constitutional guidelines (federal then state) and make no apologies for it.
Power…………..Use every bit you have to undo what the left has done if possible, if you can't stop them, slow them down, if you can't do that expose them
Draw up contingency plans, if we win the house what can we realistically do, etc. There really needs to be a clearing house of ideas that represent top to bottom strategy and tactics.
I agree, however, even when the media covers out protests, they do so in the most negative way they can manufacture. How do we combat that? It's ming boggling that there is SO MUCH blatant corruption, yet the media does nothing.
Same here. Not only Illinois but the most corrupt county in Illinois. Cook County (or more approprietly Crook County) is lost. I have never felt more helpless. It seems that nothing we do makes any difference.
DNC and ROP support socialism idea. The progressive ideas are obsolete. Progressivism will not build the new future. Democrats & Republicans are obsolete. These parties are ruining this country. They are spineless, self-serving, arrogant and cold-heart bureaucracy. The people control the government not government control people.
What a great idea. If the cameras won't come then go where the cameras are.
A third party is a wasted effort that will have the opposite of the desired effect but local tea parties endorsing candidates in primaries and elections, assuring that primaries offer choices even against incumbents and working to hold those elected accountable from election to election will work to restore American values. If this effort fails I'm afraid that we may see a national confrontation that could destroy the country.
I have been "tea partying" with a handful of people for 8 years now, watching our local school board and administration use our tax dollars to enrich themselves, and "buy loyalty".
http://www.lovejoyschools.com
The school board and adminstration have convinced the locals that those who ask for accountability are out to destroy Lovejoy ISD for fighting for the right to vote, for requesting that the administration notify ALL voters of the election and for raising a stink when school board members gave each other no-bid contracts.
That is the tip of the iceberg. It gets much worse, but would take a novel to write it all.
Luckily we have worked hard to elect a majority of honest decent council people in the city of Lucas.
Please make sure you don't throw the baby out with the bath water!
There ARE good elected officials.
Risk-averse, not adverse.
I think it is important to get involved locally and start to change things from the ground up, BUT I think Washington is moving us so rapidly towards a completely different form of government that we don't have ten years to get a new kind of people into local offices and build on it. That can and should be happening in the background, but we need serious national action here and now. Time is not on our side.
What we are lacking is a very strong and dedicated national leader, maybe the likes of which this country has not seen before. I'm thinking Andrew Breitbart…. Cohesiveness and leadership are desperately needed, and we sure won't get it from the GOP. Draft Breitbart:)
You need to write "financial contribution" on the outside of the envelope…. And enclose a copy of the check you wrote to his CONSERVATIVE opposition.
I'm a Missourian, and I have dedicated my life until 2012 to defeating that lying cretin Claire McCaskill. Fiscally conservative, my big ass.
Just like ACON, many members of the House and Senate are commiting acts of Tax Evasion, Voter Fraud, and Prostitution!
Glenn Beck is doing a great job! He said that he was going to be a speaker at the next one in Washington!!
Now, there's an idea I like!!
Recall Sen Nelson? He certainly stopped working for the interest of his constituents.
The only way we are going to get anywhere is to strike.
Shut down your spending. Use what you save to pay off debts. Try to get by with as little as possible for a while. Don't generate taxable income if you can avoid it. If you own a business, start laying off people (begin with Obama voters) and don't expand.
Take time off. Don't work overtime. Don't buy from GM or Chrysler especially, and don't patronize Citibank and these other money-suckers. And for God's sake don't EVER vote for any of these damned parasites again.
Take every tax deduction to which you are entitled. Start a small business and write off everything. Sell any assets in which you have a loss and deduct it. Don't sell winning positions.
Keep this strategy up for a year and we can force them to back down.
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I went out to many tea parties and voiced how I feel. Sent letters and emails to my representatives in both houses. This treatment of the average, hard working American is just disgusting. These elected officials don't care about us or the people they represent, all they care about is how this will be written in the history books in the future. The left calls us Tea Baggers, Rednecks, Astor-Turf, Terriorists, just to name a few. We are only stating how we feel and what is right for this country. What happens when we do this, beat downs, insults etc for what, just letting our politicians know we are now paying attention and wanting something done about the corruption and non transparency in the White House. I have worked since I was 17 years old I'm now 56 and am proud for what my husband and I have accomplished over the last 35 years and for what just to be called Astor Turf. This is just typical of the left wing and their agenda. They want to tear down what our founding fathers have done, rewrite the constitution to what they want. All I can say is we need someone what will stand up for us in 2012 for president and 2010 we need to vote out all of these socialists that want to "Spread the Wealth" and get back to business on the kind of country our fore-fathers envisioned.
Its all about State's rights, the federal government is long gone never to return. We must empower the states
YADTEAS ("Yet Another Delusional TEA Screed")
The vast majority of Americans support a mixed economy; most Republicans support things like SocSec. The TEA message only resonates with a small number of people, mostly former Ron Paul supporters, libertarians, and other fringe groups.
Further, the "partiers" have shown time and time again that they just aren't smart enough. It was the Party leaders who told you to go wave loopy signs or "storm" Congress. Their plans failed; why listen to their new plans when they've shown how incompetent they are?
In the same vane, lets also not forget the following: "It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes." (Josef Stalin).
That is the philosophy of one of the lefts biggest benefactors, George Soros. Take a look at his "Project Secretary of State" or ProjectSOS (Google it. Read the site. Its scary) . The left knows, as we have seen from the Minnesota rulings (Sec State of MN is one of Soros' successes) , that it is more important to control how the vote is counted. We can't let any more of the local Secretarys of State offices go to the left!
I totally agree with your thinking. We won't forget how hard working Americans have been treated. This is a major turning point in our country's history. Obama wanted to change this country, well I don't like the change he is trying to do to it. He wants it all to be on one level, no rich people, no poor people, no middle class, maybe he is trying to create another class of people. Well to my knowledge only the businesses and wealthy people create jobs not the poor. Big Government is not good at all. or Government run healthcare, my friend in Canada is still waiting for an operation and it's been 6 months, I don't want any government agency telling my doctor how to run his practice. It should start at the local level, this is where the average folks live and work..
PROTEST THE PRESS. Get in their faces. Disrupt their lives. Turn your camera on them. Don't ever stop and say "now they'll see the truth" because they're not going to.
The Dallas Tea Party is on it! We have several candidates running in various capacities throughout our membership, many of us are now deputy voter registrars. It starts here, NOW. November is too late people. We need to be in the PRIMARIES in March. No time to waste!
Ben Nelson Says:You're "Laughable" if You Oppose His Support for the Reid-Pelosi Health Care Bill
"This is all orchestrated," Nelson said Sunday. "It's so thinly disguised … it's almost laughable.”
Senator Nelson has sold out Nebraskans to the likes of Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, and Barbara Boxer – even hugging Boxer after negotiations. The medicaid issue was settled by noon on Friday, but the American people didn’t know about it till Saturday morning!
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Sorry I don't agree with that..I don't consider myself a fringe group, what I consider myself is a hard working American citizen that's tired of the government trying to decide what is best for me. I also feel what you call the partiers aren't smart enough well that is just down right insulting. Who I find incompetent is our elected leaders on both sides, we need strong leadership not someone that apologizes for this country. When you state it was the party leaders that told us to go and wave signs, well I disagree with that as well, No one tells me what to do when it comes to voicing my opinion, I want a strong country run by strong leadership and strong representation in both houses and both sides. Not the namby pamby reps we have now.
Let's see: how 'bout we just block their parking spaces at the studios? Block entrances to the Country Clubs where they hang out. Find out where Soros likes to party and block the entrance. Take away ALL of their candy. Sulzbacher can't stay home forever. Where's his favorite hangout? Let's just quietly have sit-ins everywhere THEY are.
They won't come to us, so we go to them. Let's have sit-ins at the local colleges that promote this bilge. Sit-ins at the government-run health clinics. Sit-ins at abortion clinics, ACORN offices, and the Census Bureau. Sit-ins at Congressional hang-outs. "Quiet riots." Lots of easy-to-read signs, smiling faces, and unflappable courage.
Let's bring daisies to place in the muzzles of the Cheka, er, Civilian Security Force rowdies who'll show up to rough us up.
Amen to that!!! That is my feeling exactly!!!
I must say I agree with this article and it will be up to us back home to make the difference from the local city council to the School Board up to the State legislature. Especially the latter. The States created this monster and they are the entity that will have to put a leash on it. It will take some Governors and Legislators with some real fortitude to begin saying enough. We just aren't enforcing that in our State and begin nullifying this Federal out of control monster.
Get yourselves involved locally.
MacWell…Amen to your comment as well. I am in total agreement with you and MiPain They are paying attention and running scared, why do you think they are doing this healthcare bill right before Christmas? They are doing it because everyone is caught up with getting ready for the holiday and they are hoping no one is paying attention to the things going on in Washington. Well we are paying attention and it seems to me when you have to be there until 1 am and possibly vote on Christmas Eve this tells me they want to get this done because come Nov 2010 they will be out of a job. I think we need term limits on these bozos we call our representatives, because they sure aren't representing me. We need to keep on them, no matter what, because if we back down now we may be speaking Cuban or Russian before Obama leaves office.
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You can only win a war if you are willing to sacrifice more than your enemy is willing to sacrifice.
Civil War?
Maybe this article does indeed have some legs?…Obamao might very well be sending out his minions to start trouble in all quarters….We all know what "Organizing for Amerika" is capable of…hold power no matter what it takes…
Here is a great article for all of you patriots:
Tea Parties need BITE!
If you are planning on running for local office, BE SURE to understand how your Central Committee works. Both parties have them. They are the reason we keep getting senior citizens for Republican office (I am over SS retirement age, so I am not against senior citizens, just against SENIORITY). You can run for Central Committe with JUST 5 VOTES. Get Central Committee member names at local Republican office, but DON'T let them know why you want the info – just tell them you want to volunteer.
Remember all small business people, take out the trash, fire your liberal parasites first!
I am sorry to hear about your experience. I have been to local Tea Parties and to 9/12. Don't get discouraged. I will you could feel the kindred spirit on the Mall on 9/12. It would re-vitalize you.
Check out local Central Committees. You can be elected with just 5 votes. They are the groups that begin the nomination process for BOTH parties. God Bless you.
More copy-pasta, it's okay CT, a lot of folks are just like you, they can't write, spell, or think for themselves, you are not alone copy-pasta warrior!
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