Are the American 'Tea Parties' reactionary, an attempt by the far right to undermine the Democratic Victory?

[I Have To P on U]

First off... I am not a freaking right winger. How you can sit there and smugly say ANYTHING when your man is spending more money than ALL presidents in our history is BEYOND me.

Have YOU ever served your country? As a Navy veteran, I find it EXTREMELY offensive that you think that these people are trying to undermine democracy. I went because I love this country.

Why don't you get the hell off Y!A and go read the Constitution. Hell... when you are done, send a copy to the elected officials that are doing this to our country. Obviously, you have NEVER read the thing.

Go read up on Thomas Jefferson. Please tell me that you at least have HEARD the name before.

SCREW YOU .

[Just another day.]

The tea party is not right or left wing. It is American's saying enough is enough. I pay taxes and they should be going to running the Government NOT

researching swine smell
Abortions
248 Million in new furniture
tit mouse research
tatoo removal
catfish research
etc.

[Repuke I]

i wont attend JIM JONES PARTIES

ha hah ahaha

[hi]

It's a right wing attempt to change the election results.

However, all Americans should be demonstrating about the latest money grab by the wealthiest, but sadly too many are too partisan to hold their politicians and their backers accountable..

[nothingconstant]

They are a couple of things.

Unoriginal. The problem with today's government is that it feels it is ok to funnel money into private banks, yet right wingers are outraged with more taxes. They should focus more on the corporate corruption that is rooted in all our politicians, yet they choose to make it political.

Unfocused. They are reacting to Congress's attempt to regain TARP money from AIG but refuse to ask the question of who is the real enemy here. Should we be angry at the government or should we be angry with the massive corporations that have spread their fingers into our economy so deeply that they can destroy it in an instant.

More importantly, the people performing such acts are the same ones that feel the government has a need or desire to listen to them anymore. It's going to take more than a tea party to make them change their ways.

[Olan Black]

The so called grass roots American Tea party is nothing but a big farce.

the so called mastermind Rick Santelli had purchased the webspace months before he did his rant (a normal indicator of planning), and then claimed the next day that it was a grass roots organization that started after his rant (see link #1)

this whole tea party mess will only benefit whatever big corporation that is funding this all, with a few minor league people getting a slice also. Conservatives want nothing but business as usual. and if they get in, they will take the next 10 years fleecing the US, and blaming it on the Democrats

ChicagoTeaParty.com was just one part of a larger network of Republican sleeper-cell-blogs set up over the course of the past few months, all of them tied to a shady rightwing advocacy group coincidentally named the "Sam Adams Alliance," whose backers have until now been kept hidden from public. Cached google records that we discovered show that the Sam Adams Alliance took pains to scrub its deep links to the Koch family money as well as the fake-grassroots "tea party" protests going on today. All of these roads ultimately lead back to a more notorious rightwing advocacy group, FreedomWorks, a powerful PR organization headed by former Republican House Majority leader Dick Armey and funded by Koch money.

On the same day as Santelli's rant, February 19, another site called Officialchicagoteaparty.com went live. This site was registered to Eric Odom, who turned out to be a veteran Republican new media operative specializing in imitation-grassroots PR campaigns. Last summer, Odom organized a twitter-led campaign centered around DontGo.com to pressure Congress and Nancy Pelosi to pass the offshore oil drilling bill, something that would greatly benefit Koch Industries, a major player in oil and gas. Now, six months later, Odom's DontGo movement was resurrected to play a central role in promoting the "tea party" movement.

[sagacious_ness]

I would say 'Yes' to reactionary in the sense that it's a grass roots reaction to policies that provide a safety net for bad business practices with taxpayer's money.

I don't see it as a right wing movement to undermine Democracy, but an effort to try to take Democracy back. Will it work? Is it too late? I don't know, sadly my crystal ball is fogged up.

[Outlawcajun]

Not really. It seems to be an ever growing segment of society that don't like the direction that a large number of something for nothing
oxygen thieves are trying to take the country. If it were to totally destroy the democratic party in the process, I just can't, for the life of me, see a down side to that.
Isn't there a physics theory that says something to the effect that a butterfly fluttering it's wings in Brazil can cause a hurricane to form off the coast of Africa?
Well, now the butterfly is fluttering, and the democrats seem a wee bit more than concerned. Did y'all think the other half of the country would sit still and let the clueless lead us down the path to tyranny? If so, that would be a miscalculation of monumental proportions.

[emp]

Undermine "Democracy itself" by utilizing free speech? Sure whatever lets you sleep at night to justify your final solution of censorship.

[clear clutter]

Look at the crowd at Obama's innauguration & the crowd at Bush's. They are making fools out of themselves. What will they accomplish? They are upset. So are the people who didn't want Bush to make cuts when he inheritied a surplus but he did & when the levees were not worked on we lost 7000 people in Katrinia. Did they lift there pinkies when the question was asked about why we were at war? No, these people don't care about anything except making life harder for others so they can have one up on others. They are a small minority. They think they are powerful because of the past 8 years. Dems were not prepared for such coruption but we are now. So bring it on is all I have to say to them. Dems are powerful but they don't misuse their power & while it was not so important til we saw people really harmed.