Tea started brewing under Bush

rimrocker · Nov 1, 2010

basso said:

across the pond, "some" get it.
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Source?

Johndoe804 · Nov 1, 2010

weslinder said:

I see these articles every so often, and while they're right, they are missing the point. I think the tipping point was the TARP vote, but when I went out and protested it in front of the Houston Federal Reserve Branch, maybe 50 people were there with me, and we got 15-30 seconds on the local news (I was interviewed by Channel 7). Fox News analysts were all over the place in their views on TARP, none of them were adamantly against it, and Glenn Beck was railing against it, but just to his few radio listeners and 6 viewers on CNN Headline News.

The calls were much more adamant. A friend of mine was able to talk to Senator Cornyn about it because he was a Republican Convention delegate, and Cornyn admitted that he had never got so many calls, and they were 200-to-1 against.

Fast forward a year, and the one Tea Party rally that I've been to gets 3,000 people in Beaumont with no major legislation being debated. Fox News and Glenn Beck promote enormous rallies with hundreds of thousands attending. The Tea Party group gets 100 people at their weekly planning meeting.

I think there are two factors in play. First, after that many people had their voice ignored on TARP, they were more motivated to get out and protest however that looked. Second, and more importantly, Obama and a Democratic Congress gave people a target for anger. When "their guy" bailed out the banks against their will and the economy had started down, people felt frustrated. When a Democratic Congress passed a healthcare bill that they didn't want and the economy really sucked, they felt anger and they had a target for that anger.

So my point is that, while there were Tea Party-style protests with Bush and the seeds for the anger that created the Tea Party was sown under Bush, it wouldn't be the same if not for Obama and a Democratic Congress.
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Was that when Ron Paul spoke at the Houston Federal Reserve Branch?

KingCheetah · Nov 1, 2010

Tea started brewing under a burning bush.

mc mark · Nov 1, 2010

KingCheetah said:

Tea started brewing under a burning bush.
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