The Tea Party movement is going international -- the fever is catching on in other countries. Britain, against whom the first Tea Party was held, is one. (One of the rally's speakers said that there is a tea party movement in Germany; but, I haven't been able to find anything on it yet.) Neil Cavuto of FoxNews interviewed the man "guilty" of starting Britain's newborn Tea Party, Daniel Hannan, a conservative member of the European Parliament, who hosted his first tea party on Saturday:
CAVUTO: A Tea Party there? Well, since we started tea parties protesting you guys, I guess it's good you return the favor. So, where does this stand?Hannan held the tea party in his hometown of Brighton, giving those interested only two days' notice. He was surprised by the 300 that showed up at the hotel, with employees having to turn away people. In response to a reader's question as to why Britain didn't have a tea party, Hannah answered via the UK's Telegraph, rattling his chains and those of the readership:
HANNAN: Yes.
Well, we have got a bigger problem than you. Our debt is higher. Our taxes are rising faster. This government has raised an additional trillion — additional trillion — over and above what we would have raised in taxation if taxes had stayed at a previous level since they got in — in 1997.
So, we have got a great deal to protest about, that — as you say, I mean, this is England, and not the U.S. So, we are going to be drinking tea at our Tea Party tomorrow, rather than dumping it in the English Channel.
Naturally, the Left continues to busily paint us tea partiers as far right radicals, especially the media. Remember the whacko Stack that flew his plane into the IRS building last week in Austin, TX? Many members of the Tea Party feared this would be used by the Left and the MSM to paint us in a negative light ... and we were right. Frank Rich of The New York Times, for example, in his op-ed piece "The Axis of the Obsessed and Deranged", wrote of how shocked he was that Right Wing pundits did not, in his view, come out and harshly condemn Stack's crazed actions:Where are the crowds of revenue slaves flocking to London to demand redress for the squandering of their money? Marginal tax is rising to 50%, VAT to 17.5% and state spending towards half the national product. The Treasury has lost control of public finance. So why no furious blue-rinses, bail-out haters, bonus-bleaters and embittered VAT victims storming Parliament?Yeah: why? Some of my US readers believe that anti-tax rebellions are an American speciality, but we’ve had plenty of them in this country, from the Poll Tax Riots of 1381 (the Peasants’ Revolt) to the Poll Tax Riots of 1990. The doctrines that inspired the Boston mutineers – above all, the idea that taxes should not be levied without parliamentary process – were borrowed from English political theory.
What made that kamikaze mission eventful was less the deranged act itself than the curious reaction of politicians on the right who gave it a pass — or, worse, flirted with condoning it. Stack was a lone madman, and it would be both glib and inaccurate to call him a card-carrying Tea Partier or a “Tea Party terrorist.” But he did leave behind a manifesto whose frothing anti-government, anti-tax rage overlaps with some of those marching under the Tea Party banner. That rant inspired like-minded Americans to create instant Facebook shrines to his martyrdom. Soon enough, some cowed politicians, including the newly minted Tea Party hero Scott Brown, were publicly empathizing with Stack’s credo — rather than risk crossing the most unforgiving brigade in their base.It is truly sad when people who are just as goofy as Stack praise his criminal and grievous actions; but, I did not hear anyone in leadership "empathize" with Stack. Luckily, Jim Hoft, the GatewayPundit, does a nice job slicing and dicing Rich's ramblings:
Frank Rich forgot to include these Marxist lines written by the kamikaze pilot before his fateful flight.
The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.For some reason Rich forgot to mention these Marxist lines in today’s column.
Astute Bloggers has more.
More… John Hinderaker dissects Rich’s Republican hit piece today.
In a broadcast interview, Pelosi calls tea party voters the "astroturf" movement. She says many of those voters have good intentions but that the Republican Party has hijacked the movement for its gain.It's been an amazing year for the Tea Party Movement. The Left is going bonkers, attacking with every old trick of the trade it's got in its weak arsenal: "they're racist"... "they're astroturf"... "they're rednecks"... But, still, I hear no intelligent rebuttal of the tea partiers' arguments and concerns. Only personal attacks -- a sure sign that the Left has nothing ... and is desperate.
The San Francisco Democrat says the tea party coalition shares some common ground with Democrats, such as their dislike of special interests in Washington. She cited public disdain for the recent Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance that allows companies and unions to spend freely on ads that promote or target particular candidates by name.
If you're one of those who has been "watching from the sidelines" and been curious about the Tea Party movement, please get involved. This is what America is all about -- government FOR the people and BY the people. Congress is supposed to be working for US. If you believe that Congress is out of control and our country is in desperate need of change ... of getting back to its roots as the Founding Fathers intended ... then, please, get involved. You would have a great time at these tea parties -- great speakers surrounded by people who love our country and don't want to see it go down the tubes in a socialist swirl and swoosh.
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