Category Archives: TEA Party

It appears that a day doesn’t go by without an amazing amount of print dedicated to the TEA Party movement and its perceived influence in American politics this election. What will happen to all that energy, effort, and energy after the election is hard to tell. I sense that if there are even a few successful TEA party candidates in the November elections (which there are sure to be) then the work will begin almost at once for the 2012 elections. There a large number of vulnerable Democrats and squishy Republicans up for re-election in two years in the Senate and a lot of novice challengers will undoubtedly already beginning to make plans to harness the momentum and sour national mood we have already seen and try to knock off a few more Washington insiders and liberals. It also gives the Liberty movement a couple more years to continue to improve their strategies, learn from the mistakes and successes of this election cycle, and refine the technology and web of connections that has made the TEA party types as successful as they have been.

Already a year and a half old they have shown the ability to withstand every attempt to make them self-destruct or discredit them to ruin. In many ways you have the feeling they are just getting warmed up. This mid-term election, if I had to make a prediction, is in effect just “round one” of a very long fight reign in the socialist, progressive agenda that now pervades nearly every aspect of your personal and business life. I have come across a few interesting articles lately that I believe are worth sharing with a wider audience.

The Tea Parties and the Future of Liberty is a piece by Stephen F. Hayes, a Senior Writer for the Weekly Standard. This appeared in the latest Imprimis issue and was mailed to nearly two million people as well as appearing online in numberous places. I just received mine this week.

The Insurgency: The times, they really are a-changin’ and The Insurgecy II: The Road Ahead by Michael J. Lotus of RightNetwork was brought to the attention of a wide audience by Instapundit.com and is worth the read. We are finally starting to get some good analytical looks at this surprise movement. It took long enough.

Rasmussin Reports published the commentary Tea Party Has Elites on the Run by Tony Blankley which concurs with my assertion that the TEA party is in essence a revolt by the middle class.

Angelo M. Codevilla makes a similar assertion in America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution which appeared The American Spectator. The TEA party revolt is not just against Big Government but against Big Banks and Big Business as well. It is as much against hyper-active and exploitive capitalism as it is against the ruinous and bankrupt policies of socialism. The politicians who have sold out to any of these entities at the expense of the average American is increasingly being held accountable for their actions. Such a feeling is in in its infancy but growing among the activists on the Right.

Robert W. Merry, writing for Stratfor Global Intelligence, makes the case in The Tea Party and Insurgency Politics that we are not witnessing something new in American politics and that this particular insurgency will have a long-lasting effect on the political system.

And the Wall Street Journal currently surmises that the Tea Party Movement Gathers Strength, Rachel Alexander wonders Will Dead RINO’s  Mount One Last Charge and Daria DiGiovanni warns against ‘Misunderestimating’ The Revolution.

For my early take on the TEA party movement see The Rise of the Tea Party.