The Republicans' Paranoid Style
What were the protests supposedly about? Taxes and government spending. But in fact, the President's economic program has already cut taxes for 95 percent of Americans—and state and local tax increases would be far steeper without the protestors' other target, the Obama stimulus package, which provides recession-fighting funds to state and local governments. Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
Despite the far right's attempts to hijack the tea party concept, the fact is that the majority of attendees were protesting federal mismanagement and overspending in general, not specifically that of the Obama Admin. The rhetoric in southern states was also decidedly further right than that of the northeast and west. By focusing on the far right aspects of the protests, the author attempts to negate the efforts of the Independent-voting, grassroots surge that created and forwarded the concept.