Tea Party Thoughts

On April 15, 2009 the local branch of the Tea Party sponsored, and I attended, a town square rally. The turnout was quite nice and each of the speakers voiced an opposition towards the level of federal taxation and while doing so also showed little love for our newly inaugurated President Obama. Today the political pundits in this nation have the Tea Party as an often addressed subject and give this rather unorganized group of concerned Americans some degree of credit for election victories of conservatives in Massachusetts, New Jersey and Virginia.

A year ago not one person predicted that this band of Tea Party Americans would be politically effective and could well reshape the future of the Republican Party. This is exactly what is happening. A recent on-line article opined that the Tea Party, although labeled fascists and racists by ultra-liberal Americans, is in fact a persuasive figure in the realm of conservative politics and is forcing the Republican Party to return to a much more right-leaning approach to national and international problems.

On the other side of the political fence, President Obama continues to promote programs and legislation, which some have labeled socialist, making the American voter consider if Obama has become a "bold liberal" rather than remain the "cautious liberal" who was elected.

There is no question that the Obama Administration is faced with very difficult situations: 1) millions of Americans being unemployed in this on-going recession troubled economy; 2) foreign wars that are draining US dollars and costing US lives; and 3) Communist China maintaining a formidable potential influence on our nation via the almost $900 billion our government owes Peking. The truth is that Obama has done nothing positive to resolve any of these issues and has accordingly punished the American citizen as well as substantially diminish his own chances of a 2012 reelection.

This is truly bad news setting the stage for good news. Unfortunately this piece of "good news" will not be a reality for another 2 and 1/2 years. Until then concerned Americans, aiding the actions of the Tea Party, will have to take every reasonable step to put conservatives in office and help road block the programs of the Obama Administration.