What is the Tea Party?

[LuciferSam]

Could have been? They aren't going away, trust me.

And they're never going to achieve greatness.

 

[30ashopper]

And they're never going to achieve greatness.

The folks in this group helped take the House back from democrats in the last election.. they have already done great things!

 

[30ashopper]

The Tea party came about during the election of our first black Presdent. The policies that snuffed out the economy came on GW's watch. This is an inconvenient truth to southern white knuckledraggers.

No, it's a convenient excuse for the likes of you.

 

[Bob Wells]

Governor Scotts own pollster indicates a change in the Tea Party, I think the word he used was tarnished.
http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/content/should-republicans-beware-tea-party

 

[Andy A]

And they're never going to achieve greatness.

They aren't looking for greatness, they're looking to put this country back on the right track. In case you haven't heard, by 2021 our debt, at the current rate of spending will be 101% of our GDP. Ponder that awhile.

 

[idlewind]

What most Tea Party members advocate are drastic cuts in spending to bring our fiscal house in order. True cuts have not been attempted in decades. What Washington calls a "cut" is simply a reduction in the rate of spending growth.

 

[poppy]

They aren't looking for greatness, they're looking to put this country back on the right track. In case you haven't heard, by 2021 our debt, at the current rate of spending will be 101% of our GDP. Ponder that awhile.

Ponder this, what was the projected health of our economy ten years out when Bush took office? You Tea Party Patriots were the the ones who encouraged GW in his policies and put him in office a second time even though the signs were there he had no idea what he was doing. I'm not defending Obama here, I sticking with the subject of the thread and asking why the Tea Party movement didn't form during the Bush years?

 

[30ashopper]

Ponder this, what was the projected health of our economy ten years out when Bush took office? You Tea Party Patriots were the the ones who encouraged GW in his policies and put him in office a second time even though the signs were there he had no idea what he was doing. I'm not defending Obama here, I sticking with the subject of the thread and asking why the Tea Party movement didn't form during the Bush years?

Because a whole lot of republicans placed blind faith in a "republican" president working with a "republican" lead congress. That was a mistake. The Tea Party was born out of the economic crisis which kicked off in the final months of 2007. Clearly they are now looking back and learning a lesson or two. (IMHO, democrats are currently making the same mistake with Obama.)

 

[Lake View Too]

Because a whole lot of republicans placed blind faith in a "republican" president working with a "republican" lead congress. That was a mistake. The Tea Party was born out of the economic crisis which kicked off in the final months of 2007. Clearly they are now looking back and learning a lesson or two. (IMHO, democrats are currently making the same mistake with Obama.)

This is probably the best post you have ever written. It's refreshing to hear just a little bit of reality: that the Republican led combination of un-funded wars and tax cuts was the beginning of the spiral.

 

[idlewind]

This is probably the best post you have ever written. It's refreshing to hear just a little bit of reality: that the Republican led combination of un-funded wars and tax cuts was the beginning of the spiral.

Wars yes; Tax cuts? Only because of huge increases in spending that overtook the increases in revenue. Add in the hyper-stupidity of loaning anyone money for houses they could not afford through freddie and fannie and the regulations jungle that killed businesses or drove them overseas and you have the critical mass. That mass was created by both democrats and republicans. Bush deserves the blame for getting us into Iraq for no good reason and staying in Afghanistan to "nation build" instead of destroying Al Queda and getting out. He also deserves blame for the TARP and the bank bailouts. Obama deserves blame for the stimulus, trillion dollar deficits and Obamacare. Just because Bush was a disaster for Republicans does not mean the Democrats had to get even with a disaster in Obama.