Tea Party Movment

[Jeffersons Ghost]

The New York Times

Updated: April 15, 2010

The Tea Party Movement is a diffuse American grass-roots group that taps into antigovernment sentiments.

The movement burst onto the scene in 2009 in protest of the economic stimulus package, and its supporters have vowed to purge the Republican Party of officials they consider not sufficiently conservative and block the Democratic agenda on the economy, the environment and health care. Tea Party supporters tend to unite around fiscal conservatism and a belief that the federal government has overstepped its constitutional powers.

The 18 percent of Americans who identify themselves as Tea Party supporters tend to be Republican, white, male, married and older than 45, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll released in April 2010. They are wealthier and more well-educated than the general public.

Tea Partiers hold more conservative views on a range of issues than Republicans generally. They are also more likely to describe themselves as "very conservative" and President Obama as "very liberal." And while most Republicans say they are "dissatisfied" with Washington, Tea Party supporters are more likely to classify themselves as "angry."

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/t/tea_party_movement/index.html

[Jeffersons Ghost]

1. someone should "classify" them as...

A right-wing terrorist organization

[MiniMe]

2. Is that kind of like a bowel movement

:hide:

[Jeffersons Ghost]

3. LOL

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. No silly, it's a movment

Read the headline.

[ecstatic]

4. "more well educated." Not buying that... they should include a basic skills

test in those polls. Make them prove they have higher than a 9th grade education.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

5. I thought ALL right-wingers, were simply ignorant Democrats

[Lucky Luciano]

6. NYT offers blow jobs to the tea part movement..

what a puff piece though I did not read past what was posted. Calling it grassroots is ridiculous - astroturf is what it is. Calling the members more educated is hard to believe. All the intellectuals I know would never be associated with those kooks.

[Prophet 451]

8. Bullshit

The Teabaggers are a coalition of extreme-right wing groups throwing a collective hissy fit and attempting to make the country ungovernable because they're no longer in power. They are not a new phonomenon. In fact, it happened under Clinton too. The only new part are the Birthers and they're just racists without the guts to admit their prejudices. Birthers/racists, Birchers, anti-government kooks, Know-Nothings, conspiracy theorists, borderline fascists, outright fascists and the guy at the end of the bar convinced that the government is spying on him through his fillings. Glenn Beck is the perfect leader for this "movement": A paranoid schizophrenic possessed by the ghost of Joe McCarthy and trying to cope by mainlining LSD.

The only difference between now and the Clinton years is that the comparatively greater penetration of the internet (and Faux's willingness to disregard all journalistic standards) allow them to prganise into a "movement" rather than hanging out in the backwoods ranting about black helicopters and shooting squirrels.

[edhopper]

9. There is a lot of

anger in this country at Wall Street and those in Washington who enabled the damage they caused.
That anger should be largely on the side of progressives (it is).
The Tea Party is a manufactured sham by the very people who almost destroyed us to put a scenario in place that the angry citizens are on the right and are angry at Obama and the Dems.
The MSM then runs with this scenario and over-reports on this stupid, racist, invented group. And never talks about the anger on the part of progressives or the things that really should be done. This serves their corporate masters well.