Is the "Tea Party” movement an “unhealthy” reaction to the tough economic climate facing this country?

From my perspective, the Tea Party movement is very healthy. It shows that people are waking up to the fact that they have been victimized by criminals who are supposed to be protecting their rights.

If I were one of those criminals, I too would be trying to convince the public that the Tea Party movement was ill advised. If any of us are "mentally ill", it is those who continue to believe the economic advisers who have put our economy in shambles. The crazy people think that inflation is normal, and that our politicians are doing the right thing by giving billions of dollars to their friends in bail outs.

Can you spell p-r-o-p-a-g-a-n-d-a?

I notice it comes from CNN, which has so thoruoghly disgraced itself , I can't see how anyone could take them seriously anymore;

(http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/the_susan_roesgen...

'Justagrandma'- No, it is not a grassroots referendum on the Obama administration- it is a grassroots referendum on the entire government. When we began organizing, we realized how many decades back this all began. Here are pictures with what MOST signs were saying:

http://anti-contrarian.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-ma...

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/gop-fails-to-hijack-m...

http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=10188594

http://cbs2.com/tv/Tax.day.tea.2.985654.html

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0...

and look at the tea party youtube vids taken by participants for a more balanced look.

And here's a quote from one of those sites;

"HERE IS A DIFFERENT SITE THAT SHOWS UP TO 896,146 ATTENDEES:

I don't know where he got these numbers but most match what I have found: LINK

If anyone wishes to challenge these numbers, leave your proof in the comments. It's free and I don't make you join my blog in order to comment.

Here's another point of interest -- Americans stood against the ever growing debt started by the last President and exacerbated by the current President in greater numbers than the 400,000 who marched with Obama and Louis Farrakhan during the "Million Man March". Perhaps the Rookie should be paying more attention to the People."

I favored the concept but was discouraged when it was taken over and made into the anti-Obama focus that it became. The majority of the population were upset by the TARP bail outs to Wall Street but support Obama's stimulus plan so it was a missed opportunity for a united "We the people" protest.

That TARP bill passing Congress with no oversight made me realize they are two sides of the same coin. The Senate said they were going to add oversight to the TARP bill then added 137 earmarks instead. Closed their sessions knowing they had an automatic pay raise they had set up for themselves. Then they faked "Outrage" over the misuse of the TARP money on CEO's bonuses?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6KRXnYgu5I

The majority of Americans are not 100% supportive of all the ideologies or parties. They have just been convinced over years of propaganda that one party is more "evil" then the other and if they vote for a 3rd party candidate they "threw their vote away" on someone who doesn't stand a chance of winning and let the "evil other party" candidate win. So they choose what they perceive to be the lesser of the two evils. This allows the two parties to take turns in power and get away with betraying "We the people" and serving their generous corporate donors. Case in point:

McCain:

Top 5 Contributors, 2003-2008, Campaign Cmte

Contributor Total Indivs PACs

Merrill Lynch $379,695 $379,695 $0

Citigroup Inc $330,051 $325,051 $5,000

Morgan Stanley $272,152 $267,152 $5,000

Goldman Sachs $256,045 $251,045 $5,000

JPMorgan Chase & Co $232,957 $222,957 $10,000

I plan to register as unaffiliated in the future and vote for the person who has demonstrated through their actions a true reflection of what the will of the people truely is. And by their donors no wealthy special interests.

Consider what war protesters had been called for a perspective: "Domestic combatives" and "traitors" and "with the terrorist" compared to "unhealthy"

If that is his exact quote, then he needs to learn the proper use of English. If the tea party is unhealthy, that means the movement is fading away. It looked to me like it's just getting started, so its health is fine.

If, as I suspect, he means that the tea parties do not help his boss's cause, then the proper word would be unhealthful. Healthy is a state; healthful is a property. The food you eat isn't "healthy"; it's dead. The food you eat contains healthful nutrients to make you a healthy person.

That said, since he can't use proper English, how can I expect him to understand that the Constitution, in the First Amendment, never meant for peaceful assembly to be a show of health? It certainly does show something is unhealthy. In fact why do you think "sick" comes before "tired" in the phrase sick and tired? You are sick (in an unhealthy state) and it makes you tired (as most illness does).

Tea party attendees were very sick and tired.

They are doing everything they can to discredit the tea parties. I especially love the attempts at labeling them as racist, completely ignoring the fact that the vast majority of the tea parties had nothing to do with Obama specifically. It's just people who are fed up with the destructive policies in Washington and are afraid for the future of this country if it doesn't stop soon.

The greatest threat against this country is not terrorism. It's not Iran or North Korea. It's the two party political system dominating the government system.

No I do not. I am an American tax payer who is fed up paying others way. Bailouts, welfare etc. I worked for my money and if forced to pay taxes should have a say so and the right to protest the absurdness going on.

Davig Axelrod is a butt head for suggesting that peaceful demonstration is anythingbut terrific for America.

Just another stupid lib pissed off because it is not them protesting.

So he's saying that the only protesting worth anything is lib protesting. C'mon. What a jerk off.

I went to the tea party am not a redneck am not a racist and a not a crazed terrorist, am a AMERICAN CITIZEN that has the RIGHT to PROTEST.

I would ask him: Do you think the anti-Iraq War protests were unhealthy? It is amazing how the liberals love dissent and protests, as long as they are not against them.

It means we've got a damned Socialist running the country.