A United States Senator, Judd Gregg a Republican from New Hampshire, recently expressed that because of the extent of the current national debt and the certain growth of governmental monetary deficits, we are facing "the financial meltdown of our nation". This financial concern is one of the reasons why the Tea Party was originated and why it is actively working for a reduction in almost all forms of government spending. However, a number of political commentators have recently twisted the future path of the Tea Party.
Articles have appeared that suggest that Sarah Palin should seize control of the Tea Party and create from it a new "national political party" and via her Tea Party challenge all current office holders, be they Democrats or Republicans. One of the offices to be actively sought would be the White House with Palin herself being the candidate. This is not the purpose of the Tea Party but rather a formula for the rapid weakening of the impact of these concerned voters.
Both the US Senate and the US House of Representatives, with support sometimes active and sometimes by benign neglect from our last three (3) Presidents, have replaced the concept of our founding fathers of a limited federal government with the reality of a medium-sized welfare state. Obama and his legislative supporters now want to scale-up to an European-sized welfare state. This openly expressed socialist goal is exactly what the Tea Party opposes and its members actively support those candidates who express the sentiment of opposing further federal government control.
The reality is that the Tea Party is not a protest movement nor is it a political party. This group of concerned, politically aware citizens wishes for American political leaders to honor the Constitution and return the nation to a conservative status. They will gather, express opinions, support conservative candidates, get out the vote and with any luck celebrate this fall and again in 2012 the victories of right-of-center politicians.
All other suggestions pertaining to the Tea Party must be seen as self-serving, at best, and, at worst, intentionally disruptive.
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I can only hope you "Tea Party-ers" can work hard enough to "get out the vote" as Barack Obama has stated. Our founding fathers had no place for welfare to be part of out state and to engage in the embellishment of that concept would denigrate our national concept as a whole.
ReplyDeleteWhere have hard work, personal autonomy, and personal accountability gone? It seems that my generation has embraced an attitude that JFK would be ashamed in..."ask not what you can do for your country but what your country can do for you"... Nothing will change in my life, I will work as hard as I can and accept whatever possible situation that the liberals throw my way.