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= = = = = **"Tea Party: Take a sip of freedom, 2011"** =

Role: The American government is leading the country in the __**wrong**__ direction. Taxes are at an all time high, the country is in over it’s head in //debt//, and we don’t even know what we are fighting the war for anymore. The country is lost and it needs to be found. The Tea Party believes that government needs to bring more __reform__ to the government and lower taxes. In fact, we think the role government is taking in the lives of citizens today should be reduced so that states have more power. The economy should also be **//free//** from government so that private businesses prosper more. By following the ideals of the Tea Party, we will be taking steps towards a better America.

= Tea Party Timeline =

1773 – Although the Tea Party Movement wasn’t created until much later, they got their name from the original tea party held in Boston Harbor in 1773. The original tea party was a protest on tax.

February 19, 2009 – Rick Santelli, a CNBC analyst goes on a rant about paying taxes. He didn’t want to help “losers” pay their rent. Santelli calls for a "Chicago Tea Party" in July — and gives a unifying theme to a burgeoning protest movement against "big government" fiscal policies.

April 15, 2009 – The first national tea party event unfolds. Tax-day protests in more than 200 cities draw an estimated 250,000 to 500,000 people.

July 17, 2009 – The "Tea Party Patriots" hold a series of nationwide protests — this time, specifically targeting the Democrats' health care legislation.

August 2009 – Tea Party and other protesters go to lawmaker’s August town hall recess meetings to voice their displeasure with health-care reform. Their efforts are dismissed as crazy right-wingers.

August 19, 2009 – After a Tea Partier refers to Obama's "Nazi policy" to expand health care at a public hearing, Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) questions her capacity for rational debate, saying he'd just as soon “argue with a dining room table.”

// Sept. 12, 2009 // -- More than 70,000 Tea Party protesters descend on Washington for a Glenn Beck–inspired "9/12" anti-tax rally. "Liberals who want to ignore the populist anger do so at their political peril," <span class="wiki_link_ext">says John Avlon in // <span class="wiki_link_ext">The Daily Beast  //, while noting "a dash of paranoia," and "Obama Derangement Syndrome" in the protesters and advising Republicans to be careful about stirring "the crazy pot."

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; margin: 0.1pt 0in;">// Nov. 3, 2009 // -- The Tea Party mobilizes to push moderate GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava out of an upstate New York congressional race, but <span class="wiki_link_ext">suffers a surprise political setback when its favored candidate, conservative Doug Hoffman, loses to Democrat Bill Owens in a district that had voted Republican since the Civil War.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0.1pt 0in;">Jan. 4, 2010 -- // <span class="wiki_link_ext">New York Times // <span class="wiki_link_ext"> columnist David Brooks argues  that we're entering the "Tea Party teens," saying widespread anger and disgust among the broader electorate may give the movement the "potential to shape the coming decade."

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; margin: 0.1pt 0in;">// Jan. 19, 2010 – In // an upset victory widely attributed to Tea Party money and activism, Republican Scott Brown wins the Senate seat vacated by Ted Kennedy's death. It prompts // <span class="wiki_link_ext">The Economist // <span class="wiki_link_ext"> to label  the movement "America’s most vibrant political force..."

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; margin: 0.1pt 0in;">// Feb. 4-7, 2010 // -- Despite internal squabbling, the <span class="wiki_link_ext">first Tea Party Convention is held in Nashville, sponsored by Tea Party Nation. Sarah Palin cements her reputation as the <span class="wiki_link_ext">de facto leader of the movement by giving the keynote speech.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; margin: 0.1pt 0in;">// Feb. 16, 2010 // -- Palin tells an audience of Tea Party activists that they should <span class="wiki_link_ext">align themselves with the Republican Party. While her remarks may irritate "Tea Party indies," <span class="wiki_link_ext">notes Allahpundit at Hot Air, "third-party nonsense" will only distract the movement from the goal it shares with the GOP: "Knocking the Democrats out of power."

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; margin: 0.1pt 0in;">// March 20-21, 2010 // -- Reporters outside the Capitol in D.C. hear Tea Partiers <span class="wiki_link_ext">yell racial and homophobic epitaphs at black and gay Democratic lawmakers en route to the final debate on the health care reform bill. Republicans distance themselves from the movement and denounce the "isolated" slurs. Tea Partiers blame the "liberal media" for overplaying the story. <span class="wiki_link_ext">Joan Walsh at // <span class="wiki_link_ext">Salon  // <span class="wiki_link_ext"> says  this proves "the Tea Party movement is disturbingly racist and reactionary."

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; margin: 0.1pt 0in;">// March 23, 2010 // -- In more bad PR for the Tea Party, the FBI and local police investigate a <span class="wiki_link_ext">severed gas line at the house of a Democratic lawmaker's brother, whose address had been posted by local Virginia Tea Party activists.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; margin: 0.1pt 0in;">// April 14, 2010 -- // A new poll paints a new, more mainstream picture of Tea Party supporters. The <span class="wiki_link_ext">//New York Times// <span class="wiki_link_ext">/CBS poll reveals that the 18 percent of respondents who identify themselves as Tea Party supporters tend to be wealthier and better-educated than the general population; a majority think their tax burden is "fair" and that Palin isn't qualified to be president. Only 4 percent of respondents said they'd attended a Tea Party event or given money to the movement. A <span class="wiki_link_ext">Gallup poll from early April found that Tea Party supporters are "fairly mainstream" and "generally representative of the public at large."

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; margin: 0.1pt 0in;">// April 15, 2010 // -- In preparing for the second annual tax-day Tea Party rally, <span class="wiki_link_ext">Dave Schwartz urges his fellow Tea Partiers to "distance ourselves from 'birthers,' 'truthers,' and those who wish to use our enthusiasm for unrelated causes." A Tea Party protest in California <span class="wiki_link_ext">disinvites "birther queen" Orly Taitz, because "she's too controversial," according to a protest organizer. "This is not what the Tea Party is about at this point."

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<span style="color: #2adf9c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">“$11 Trillion and climbing – Now that’s a lot of change!”

This slogan discusses the fact that President Obama promised change during his election and although there is a change, it’s definitely negative. The amount of debt in the United States has rose to 11 Trillion dollars. The Tea party is not in support of this because a lot of the debt is coming from spending. The Tea party wants to stop spending and have more cuts. The slogan is basically showing their feelings toward the Obama administration and their spending. They’re commenting on the fact that he promised change, but perhaps the change was not for the better, since we’re falling more and more into debt.

<span style="color: #e12da7; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Famous Tea Party supporters //- Minnesota republican, national GOP leader// //- she won her third congressional term in Nov 2010// //- she wants to run for president// //- <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">In the 2010 election cycle, she raised $13.5 million, more in a two-year period than any other U.S. Representative in history, tapping a network of 160,000 donors. //

<span style="color: #ed3b3b; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">__"I can't tell you that there was a moment. I think increasingly, watching the Obama policies has been what galvanized my thinking." (referring to her run for presidency)__

//- She was the youngest and the first woman elected governor of Alaska. December 2006 - July 2009// //- <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">She has 9 years of executive experience, more than 3 times as much as the current President. As Governor, she held the 2nd most powerful gubernatorial office in the country. // //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">- In her years as Governor, she reduced the state budget 9.5% over her predecessor and put $5 billion in state savings. // //- <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">She believes in an all-of-the-above approach to energy development, including opening up ANWR, on shore drilling, off shore drilling, natural gas, coal, nuclear, and renewables. // //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Most importantly // //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">- She believes that shrinking government expands individual freedom. //

__ "Hey, politicians who are in office today you, some of you, need to man up and spend some political capital to support the Tea Party candidates instead of doing this, waiting to see how everything is going to go," Palin said from Reno, Nevada. "You know that Tea Party candidates are constitutionalists that got the common sense. So, some of these politicians, the big-wigs within the machine, they're driving me crazy because they're too chicken to come and support the Tea Party candidates." __

<span style="color: #7bcd37; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 200%;">A small view of the Tea Parties Beliefs 92 % of the tea party believes President Obama is leading the nation into socialism. Now just over half of the nation also supports this view but might not be as willing to let it happen as the Tea party is. A large percentage of tea part that believe Obama is leading into government owning like system and are fully supportive of it. Some of them believe that giving up all rights with limited freedom will lead to a better redistribution of wealth. A large present, just around 78% of Tea Party members as the biggest concert to the people, and needs the most attention. Just bellow half of the party believes the nation is slowly getting worse and worse. Some members believed the stimulus package had a good out come on the nation, where as 3 times as many members believe it hurt us even more. Half the party believes the stimulus package had no effect what so ever. They believe programs similar to Social Security are worth the raising of taxes in order to support the nation, while government jobs should be cut [rather then hiring more people to help create more jobs].