Reckless, often ignorant bombast, but bombast nonetheless. Despite all its alleged grassroots beginnings, the Tea Party movement has always been more about the mobilization of unfocused discontent by the more conservative members of the GOP and the lobbyists and political consulting firms they work for/with.
By attempting to paint Barack Obama and his Administration as severe Leftists, the brain trust behind the organizing of this "movement" were really just attempting to deflect blame from the failures of the last 15 years of both a GOP White House and Congress.
Now it becomes clear that while loud, the Tea Party has yet to prove itself politically viable. This is probably due to the shrill, fringe followers it has attracted and who Fox News has given air-time to (birthers, Glenn Beck 9/12 stuff) and the fact that the Tea Party and the GOP have not offered any solutions to the problems that face the United States.
Surely, a majority of Tea Party followers woke up the morning after Obama's inauguration to realize that the politicians and policies they voted for are the very same people and policies that helped usher in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, that mired the country in a two-front war with no discernible positive outcome and created an economic system that favored corporate success over the basic welfare of working people? Didn't they?
If the Tea Party members are angry with anyone, they should really just look in a mirror before they start pointing their fingers and mouthing off.
參考來源： Tea party candidates falling short - Alex Isenstadt - POLITICO.com (在「Google 網頁註解」中檢視)
By attempting to paint Barack Obama and his Administration as severe Leftists, the brain trust behind the organizing of this "movement" were really just attempting to deflect blame from the failures of the last 15 years of both a GOP White House and Congress.
Now it becomes clear that while loud, the Tea Party has yet to prove itself politically viable. This is probably due to the shrill, fringe followers it has attracted and who Fox News has given air-time to (birthers, Glenn Beck 9/12 stuff) and the fact that the Tea Party and the GOP have not offered any solutions to the problems that face the United States.
Surely, a majority of Tea Party followers woke up the morning after Obama's inauguration to realize that the politicians and policies they voted for are the very same people and policies that helped usher in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, that mired the country in a two-front war with no discernible positive outcome and created an economic system that favored corporate success over the basic welfare of working people? Didn't they?
If the Tea Party members are angry with anyone, they should really just look in a mirror before they start pointing their fingers and mouthing off.
參考來源： Tea party candidates falling short - Alex Isenstadt - POLITICO.com (在「Google 網頁註解」中檢視)
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