April 2010
5 posts
We the Tea Party Patriots: a Manifesto
Mission Statement: We the Tea Party Patriots are here to bring the common people of the United States together supporting limited government and free markets. Our mission is to branch out, bring forth, and gather all citizens who want to secure our Constitutional rights.
Core Values:
1. Grassroots political party: Return to the roots of our founding fathers who wrote the constitution for...
Las Cruces Tea Party on Twitter!
Tea Party Twitter
Survey: Four in 10 Tea Party members are Dems or... →
thedailydan:
Four in 10 Tea Party members are either Democrats or Independents, according to a new national survey.
The findings provide one of the most detailed portraits to date of the grassroots movement that started last year.
The national breakdown of the Tea Party composition is 57 percent Republican, 28 percent Independent and 13 percent Democratic, according to three national polls...
Don't Confuse Dissent With Disloyalty
What a difference a few years makes. Back during the Bush era there was harsh criticism of the anti-Iraq war protestors as being disloyal to the USA.
Protestors retorted "don't confuse dissent with disloyalty". They claimed to be patriotic Americans who loved their country but were against the war. As an aside, most were white as I recall.
Fast forward to the current day, and there is a growing angry group of dissenters known as the TEA Party, a loosely affiliated group who believes the US government is over taxing and over spending.
They have become the focus of much vitriol in the left wing and the media. They have been made fun of, branded as racists and accused of being disloyal.
Even though there are a few nuts in the group, just as there are in any group, the TEA Party is made up mostly of ordinary Americans who have become fearful of their government. They are exercising their rights to protest, and they have done so peacefully, if noisily.
Is there an echo in here? Funny how so many of the anti- Iraq war crowd forgot the righteousness of demonstrating for a cause, unless of course it is theirs.
So next time you make a derisive comment of call a TEA Party member a term that is a sexual innuendo, or worse unpatriotic or disloyal, try to remember that it was you just a few short years ago in the same spot.
Don't confuse dissent with disloyalty.
March 2010
6 posts
Tea Party in The New York Times →
The Tea Party’s Stance on Government Spending
Tea Party protesters Rally Outside Obama Speech
GLENSIDE, Pa. — About 200 protesters turned out to voice their opposition at President Barack Obama’s health care reform speech at a suburban Philadelphia college.
Obama is speaking at Arcadia University in Glenside, just outside of Philadelphia.
Protesters associating themselves with the tea party movement rallied outside the school, many holding signs denouncing Obama’s proposals.
The...
New Meeting! New Location! →
The Las Cruces TEA Party will meet on Thursday, March 4, 2010 in the Rotary Community Room at the Mesilla Valley Hospice, 299 Montana Avenue, Las Cruces, NM 88005. The meeting room can be accessed from the parking lot on Foster Rd just past the First Light Federal Credit Union. The meeting room is located through the center double doors on the face of the building. The meeting will start at...
Coffee Party USA →
Our new opposition…
“MISSION: The Coffee Party Movement gives voice to Americans who want to see cooperation in government. We recognize that the federal government is not the enemy of the people, but the expression of our collective will,…
February 2010
10 posts
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Important Links:
Tea Party Patriots
Tea Party Tax Day
Las Cruces Tea Party Facebook
Las Cruces Tea Party Website
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NMSU's The Roundup Coverage: →
Tea Party Protests Federal Wilderness Act
Tea Party influence is spreading.
rwstheiii:
56% of the United States I suppose would be considered Tea baggers by some, but apparently there are some in Great Britain as well.
The Tea Party Movement seems to have jumped the pond over to our friends the British.
Brighton Tea Party
“I tried to boil down in essence what makes me so angry about it…”
– “I tried to boil down in essence what makes me so angry about it. And it was this idea that he and other people decide what the needs are in society. They get to decide. But in order to fund those things, they have to take from some people in order to give to the other people.”
-Tea...
StayDown&ShutUp: Bullying Sarah Palin →
Despite its ultra-liberal tendencies I would consider myself a Family Guy fan. Hell, I even like to watch Jon Stewart on occasion. No matter what side of the political spectrum you are on there is no denying a funny joke. It is tough trying to clear space in the schedule of a graduate student, but…
Who are we? →
We are the tea party and we have something to say!