Tea Party

To the Editor:

The media and some political pundits describe Tea Party people as  “extremists” and “out of the mainstream”.  While each Tea Partier has his or her own views, most want smaller, fiscally responsible government, the rule of law not men, and greater economic freedom.  Does that sound extreme to you?  As a Tea Partier, I wonder which of my views, which I think are shared by most Tea Partiers, are so different from yours?

Both Republicans and Democrats have failed to keep their promises to the American people.  Both have over promised and overspent.  Both extended government services without ensuring adequate funding and too often into areas of questionable constitutionality.  Neither party has the courage to eliminate programs that don’t work, are counter-productive, or are not worth the cost, and both have put our country onto a collision path with bankruptcy and a dramatic loss in our standard of living.

The sad thing is that we, the people, allowed our politicians to do this to us, to our Country, and to subsequent generations when we accepted their promises of “free stuff“ (or more than we pay for).  Tea Partiers say…

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Guest post by Derek "Mac" Kittredge, Rochester Republican City Committee

The TEA parties grew out of the accurately perceived observation that our nation was under attack from the very agency created to protect it from enemies, foreign and domestic ~ our own government! And many state and municipal governments were going rogue as well. Political auto-immune disease, if you will, with gangrene and Stage 4 bureaucracy.
     
The Marxists couldn’t win elections on their own merits, so they did the next best thing, they took over the Democrat Party. By 1944, Norman Thomas, a former Socialist candidate for President announced that it was no longer necessary for him to run since the Democrats had adopted his platform. Actually, the Democrats were already primed for this as they had been the party of class oriented slave owners and the Ku Klux Klan (Sen. Bob Byrd, WV(D) was the Grande Kleagle of the Klan he organized). Whereas the Republicans were the Abolitionist wing of the Whigs (1853), supporters of Universal Suffrage and abolishers of Jim Crow. We are the Constitution and Liberty party. Today, the Democrat party is totally Marxist on its way to Stalinist fielding Manchurian candidates and those useful idiots posing first as liberals then progressives. Commissars follow Tzars all too soon.
     
The Republican Party’s biggest problem is that the MSM, Hollywood, TV and our public education system have re-written the GOP story and hidden its mission statement by the inspired use of clever propaganda. The result is, that many Republicans become disaffected, discouraged and stay home. And lose elections. Sure we’ve had our share of opportunists and fools, but remember where the revelations of our collective faults come from. The MSM lies, slants and cherry-picks the stories. Now they are doing this to the TEA party. And America! Think what 90 years of Koolaid has done to the Republican brand. The answer isn’t purges, it’s education! And action.
     
Realizing this, I joined the Rochester 912 group and told them several things:

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Fights aplenty this political year – and not just between the Republicans and Democrats.  Simply put, this is shaping up between the Political Class (those that are in high positions within Party or Governmental structures) and those that are governed.  Waking up this morning, this was not a pleasant reminder that there are those that put the Constitution first, and then there are those that put themselves and their position/power first: 

Any possible shred of doubt remaining in anybody’s mind about former Senate GOP leader Trent Lott’s true allegiance have now been definitively removed: Lott is a paid tool of the Washington Establishment who hates the Tea Party and all other insurgents who have had it with politics-as-usual.

"We don’t need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples. As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them," Lott told The Washington Post in an incredibly revealing story.

Well, he certainly is confident, isn’t he?  Honest, too – I’ll give him that  He knows that he’s basically unelectable in the future but is making his $$ as a lobbyist.  Like many, he’s taken the attitude of "hey, the TEA Party is just a fad…and we’ll be here afterwards".  Certainly,like many, I thought he got a bum’s rush by the hyper-Politically Castraters (even as they protected their own KKK leader, the newly departed Robert Byrd) when he tried to say nice things about Strom Thurmond on his birthday.  However, given the above, I’m over it.  Good and over it.  It rather shows that he and his type are betting that their perches are on solid ground – but is there an incipient earthquake already starting to tremble under their feet?

Sen. Jim DeMint, of course, is the South Carolina conservative Republican who last year formed the Senate Conservatives Fund to back precisely the kind of insurgent conservative Senate candidates most feared by the Lotts of the world.

Lott’s quote points to the all-too-familiar GOP-losers mentality that GOP officials can just go on as they did in the years before they lost their congressional majorities in the Senate and House, talking the talk of limited government but not doing anything concrete or permanent to make it a reality.

They live in denial – they believe that they can outrun what may be heading towards them, which is EXACTLY what polls are saying – they want limited government, limited spending, limited taxation, and limited intrusions into their business and personal lives. Yet, Lott and his ilk are laughing at it.

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