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Big policies & principles are heading to Congress…not big personalities
With only days left before the mid-term elections will come to a close, the question in many people’s minds is will they produce change that matters or change what matters? This may sound like a semantics game but it really goes much deeper. You see, the BarackObama.com website boasts that they will bring us “change that matters”. Yet it seems to this writer that the Obama Administration, along with the democratically controlled Congress, actually “changed what matters.” It is with this logic that I believe the tea party movement was born. Many organizing these grass roots movements feared that Congress had been quickly changing what matters to the average American. Remember the democrats took control of Congress in January of 2007. Then when the Obama administration took office in January of 2009 and started pushing their agenda, this fear escalated and thus the tea party trend exploded.
The President was quoted recently at a $900K West Newton, MA fundraiser that “He faulted the economic downturn for Americans’ inability to “think clearly”. The President went on to say “we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared.”
This statement is code that the folks in tea party movement aren’t thinking clearly, that they are kooky or nuts. However, further code deciphering results in giving the POTUS partial credit for his summation in MA. The credit part of his statement is when he talks about American’s being scared. However, they are scared of this President and the democratically controlled Congress.
If the President really believed his statement, then why would he continue to scare the public by spending an estimated $60K per hour of America’s money according to the Huffington Post,
criss-crossing the country on Air Force One.
To contrast this, the Tea Party Express has also been criss-crossing the country from NV to NH over the last two weeks at a cost of $0 to these scared Americans. Their “Air Force One” is a duo of buses and their whistle stops don’t contain belittling statements about the American public. Instead these stops are upbeat, patriotic, with many themed around honoring those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for their country in war. All of these stops are sprinkled with motivational and inspirational speeches. Embedded Central Florida conservative radio show host and blogger Andrea Shea King is spending the entire two weeks on the Tea Party Express bus. She spoke to the Chairman of the Tea Party Express, Amy Kremer, about what message she wanted the Tea Party to express. Amy said this. “When Americans go to the polls they should go with a smile on their face because we are making history-we’ve worked tirelessly to change people’s minds in Washington, DC. We haven’t been able to do so… now we will change their faces. It’s a testament to the power of the people.” Amy closes her remarks with this conclusion: “The bottom line is this: Our only alternative is to change the faces in Washington, DC.”
Note to the President: Your Presidency and the Pelosi/Reid Congress became the leader of “change in what we believe in.” Come November 3rd you will see that the Tea Party Express and others like them are the “change we can believe in.”
(Source: gradegov.com)
