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Originally Posted by honeychile
-"Tea Party" is a catch-all phrase for those who are sick to death of the inflated Beltway egos and their "what's good enough for me is too good for the average American" attitudes. Our Representatives rarely represent their district any longer (yes, even more so for those in DC), and Tea Party people are simply vocalizing what many people have been saying for years. I hope the movement to form a new party doesn't catch on, so much as brings more to the table of each of the parties. It's human nature to rebel, and when I hear Universal Health Care doesn't include the very people voting for it, I call shenanigans.
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I feel like a lot of that mission is really lost when tea partiers start screaming that Obama isn't a citizen, liken him to Hitler or the Joker, are riled up because his middle name is Hussein, etc. I call shenanigans on that kind of ignorance and fear-mongering. I don't understand how that nonsense fits into their "rebellion;" in fact, I think it really detracts from what they're attempting to express and makes it even less likely others will take them seriously. I just have to believe there are more intelligent and effective ways for them to get the point across that they don't like inflated egos or Universal Health Care (which I didn't realize we capitalized, now) or whatever.
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