Tea Party Movement: A New GOP Grassroots in the Making

I think this may be a slow but sure way for Nixon's So Called "Great Silent Majority" to strike back against something everyone hates; more new taxes. Maybe this movement will give the GOP its Reagan-era tax cutting spine back.


The protests began with bloggers in Seattle, Wash., who organized a demonstration on Feb. 16. As word of this spread, rallies in Denver and Mesa, Ariz., were quickly organized for the next day. Then came CNBC talker Rick Santelli's Feb. 19 "rant heard round the world" in which he called for a "Chicago tea party" on July Fourth. The tea-party moniker stuck, but angry taxpayers weren't willing to wait until July. Soon, tea-party protests were appearing in one city after another, drawing at first hundreds, and then thousands, to marches in cities from Orlando to Kansas City to Cincinnati.


I really like the colonial costumes on this group of protesters in Santa Barbara as well.