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| Welcome to the RE Tea Party Network Posted: 16 Apr 2009 04:28 PM PDT Welcome to the new ReTeaParty.com network of Tea Parties and related websites. Please be patient as we are adding new information, blogs, websites, and working out the bugs as quickly as possible. Please feel free to sign up as a member, start a group, and/or request to start your own Tea Party website at any time. After we receive your requests, we will contact you as quickly as possible regarding administration credentials. With your own site, you can completely administer and develop the site, host your own events, and communicate information directly with your site visitors and supporters. We have also added some new social networking features to help you connect with other members such as the ability to make friends, a profile page, a wire (similar to facebook’s wall) with your activity and much more. Keep in mind that the information on the site will take time to input and update. Its up to supporters like YOU to take on these tea parties and keep them updated. Click HERE to take charge now. In the spirit of decentralization, we have set up this network to give activists all over the country the tools to manage YOUR own event coordination. We don't want to tell you how to run your site, run your events, or run your Tea Parties. All we ask is that we remain respectful of each other as individuals and true to the spirit of non-partisanship. |
| Posted: 16 Apr 2009 11:11 AM PDT One particular complaint prevalent amongst Tea Party goers was that Congress rushed mammoth legislation into law without ever reading it. If you recall, Congress passed the 1100 page, $787 billion Stimulus bill while providing Congressmen/women less than 24 hours to even read it. It was said that if it didn’t pass immediately, economic armageddon would ensue. The $700 billion bank bailout known as TARP was also rushed through Congress in just a few days under threat of catastrophic economic collapse. These are glaring cases of congressional dereliction and presidential bullying. However, there is very little criticism, especially by those who chide Obama and the Democrats, of an older, more famous bill which was thrown together in a frenzied haste: The Patriot Act. Over 300 pages, the Patriot Act was passed without a single member of Congress ever reading the bill. Hundreds of pages of indecipherable legalese, the Patriot Act was presented to members of Congress only 15 minutes before the vote. It required some constitutional law scholars dozens and dozens of hours to read, analyze, and digest the Patriot Act afterwards, and some of these scholars questioned the constitutionality of several aspects of the act. Yet, it was passed in an hysterical environment under the all-encompassing justification of national security. Whether one agrees or disagrees with any or all of these bills, all of us agree that such monumental legislation should not pass unless there has been sufficient time to deliberate, debate, and analyze the potential consequences. Rushed legislation is a recipe for potential disaster and unintended consequences. Instead, these bills should be far more readable and much more concise. But, most importantly, they should cite chapter and verse in the Constitution, so that the Federal Government does not abuse its enumerated powers. |
| Glenn Beck got one thing right Posted: 16 Apr 2009 09:55 AM PDT Say what you want about Beck, he made some of the most accurate statements regarding the true purpose of the Tea Parties. Instead of turning his rally into a bashfest of Obama and the Democrats, he hammered both parties for their grotesque overspending and unprecedented expansion of the Federal Government. Under President Bush and six years of Republican rule in Congress, national debt doubled, a balanced budget was never passed, and the size, power, and scope of the Federal government exploded. Plus, the US Dollar lost about 26% of its value. Bush and lots of Republicans in Congress approved the $700 billion bank bailout and other major, billion dollar bailouts of private industry as well. So, although Obama and the Democratic majority in Congress are currently embarking upon a back breaking spending spree and a sinister government intervention in the free markets, Republicans have very little credibility in this arena. In fact, Republicans should be more ashamed since they claimed to be fiscal conservatives and free market capitalists, while Democrats have been open and honest about their plans to spend us into oblivion and dictate business terms to private institutions. That being said, there are fiscally responsible Republicans and Democrats, but based on actual voting records, these individuals represent a very small minority. And until we the people begin to vote more of these authentic fiscal conservatives into political office and get rid of the rest, we will be stuck with the same failed policies. Until we stop electing the same old bureaucrats, blindly voting along party lines, or refusing to even entertain fresh perspectives from Independents and Third Party candidates, we will continue toward the economic abyss. Don’t let these Tea Parties become weapons of partisan warfare. As Glenn Beck so aptly stated, these parties are not about Republican or Democrat. They are about restoring the Constitution, bringing back limited government, respecting States’ rights, protecting individual liberties, paying down debt, balancing budgets, holding officials accountable for their votes, and preserving free market capitalism. |
| Posted: 14 Apr 2009 05:48 PM PDT Gov. Rick Perry (R), who could face a tough challenge from Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) in 2010, endorses a state resolution affirming Texas sovereignty under the 10th Amendment. “I’m here today to offer my unwavering support to…millions of Texans just like yourself that are tired of Washington, D.C. trying to come down here and tell us how to run Texas.” |
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