September 11th, 2011
04:23 PM ET
10 years ago
Angry electorate helps sustain tea party
Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN) - On Sept. 12, 2009, frustrated tea party citizens from across the country marched upon the Capitol in Washington, energized by a shared sense of disenfranchisement in the political system and anger at a federal government they believed was taxing too much and racking up a dangerous amount of debt.
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With the picture of the senior holding the sign demanding to cut government massively, I can't help but want to tell him "Fine, we'll stop your Social Security and Meicare payments.". I doubt he would be amused, or willing to have them end.
"Cut spending or shut it down, but don't touch my social security or medicare" is an oxymoron. Emphasis on moron!
The Tea Party Is a bunch of Crap. If they really was all about stop the Spending ,than why didn't they come out when President BUSH was spending all that money and got America In the mess It In now. The Tea Party Is just the RICH and RACIST part of the Republican Party. If the Tea party was for real they would go after the best person to do the JOBS , Not just Republican. And some of the People the Tea Party has try top get a elected are about has dumb has they come. The Tea Party don't want to elected a person with a mind of His or her own, they want someone that the KOCH'S BROTHER and KARL ROVE can control. Me I want someone that going to work for the American people Like they are pay to do. And right now In the Republican and the Tea party ,you don't have that. It all about Protecting the Rich and Big Business this Is the Republican and the Tea party.
Half of these idiots are on the government dole and they don't even realize it. Talk about acting against your own self-interest...these fools don't even realize it.
Wow drawing a correlation between essential government services likeprotecting our country and wasteful government spending tea pArty is talking about. Quite a leap!!
Angry – and that's the whole problem. They are all riled up emotionally, but have no intelligent response.
Why should they be angry, Obama said this stimulus will work. Just because nothing else did for the trillions he spent, shovel baby. Obama is going to get Tea Bagged in 2012. Watch the Fat Cats squirm
Have a look at that picture and tell us what you see. Do those citizens in the picture represent a cross section of this country? Nope a series of older white people.