Is the Tea Party the GOP? Is the GOP the Tea Party?
It depends who you ask. If you ask the GOP leadership, “we’re all the Tea Party…” Read about it here. To excerpt: House Republican leader John Boehner says: “There really is no difference between what Republicans believe in and what the Tea Party activists believe in.” Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele says: “If I [...]
Top Ten Reasons Why Congress Hates the Tea Party & Patriot groups (and why you should register for the Oct. 8-9 Virginia Tea Party Patriots Convention
Top Ten Reasons Why Congress Hates the Tea Party & Patriot groups (and why you should register for the Oct. 8-9 Virginia Tea Party Patriots Convention at www.vateapartyconvention.com): 10. Most Tea Party & Patriot group supporters actually work for a living, and it’s human nature not to like people who are so very different from [...]
How “Public Servants” Balance Budgets, Distribute Loot
History doesn’t repeat, but it sure as heck rhymes. That’s why some of us are troubled by the parallels between our current fiscal situation and the response by various levels of government to the West’s most memorable brush with severe financial turbulence since the 1930′s. We have too much debt; by that, I mean personal [...]
Who spends at warp speed: Bush or Obama?
This is a great visual to show the rate at which former presidents, Congress and current President Obama are spending our country into oblivion. I received a call from a reporter last week wanting to know the tea party response to the fact that Obama gave 98% of Americans a tax cut this year. Why [...]
Obama’s $100 million budget cut proposal–the REAL significance
What does $100 million in budget cuts really look like? It isn’t even worth an entire penny!
Stop the Spending Now!
It’s time to face facts: the national government is broke. The following chart is from the website of the Federal Reserve. It shows federal expenditures (blue) compared to federal tax receipts (red). The difference between the two is, of course, the federal deficit, which has ballooned to truly historic proportions. Clearly, the path we’re on [...]
Tea Parties Should be THANKING the President?
President Obama actually said this: Speaking at a Democratic fundraiser tonight, President Obama touted his administration’s tax cuts and said that the recent tea party rallies across the nation have “amused” him. “You would think they should be saying thank you,” the president said to applause. Really? I suppose if 95% of us actually did [...]
Yes, They Are Stealing From Us
Watch what VA’s own Congressman Tom Perriello just said about Washington’s approach to managing your money: “If you don’t tie our hands, we will keep stealing.” Wow. He’s openly admitting what we all know, that Congress doesn’t care what they’re doing is wrong, they will simply spend, spend, SPEND as much as they want… Until [...]
Our spending is BAD for our national security
Yesterday in the Washington Times there was an article about how the Chinese see the U.S. debt as a weapon. It was quite the formidable threat. Gen. Luo warned that China could attack the U.S. “by oblique means and stealthy feints,” and he called for retaliation for the arms sale. “For example, we could sanction [...]
Governor-elect McDonnell, federalism, and past GOP mistakes
We can only be cautiously optimistic that Governor-elect McDonnell will live up to his ambitions to pursue 10th amendment issues, completely restructure state government, significantly cut spending, drill offshore, and not raise taxes. It is up to the tea party movement to keep McDonnell accountable to his campaign promises, so together we can ensure the success [...]
