The Tea Party Movement started with a rant on 2-19-09. I was watching CNBC that morning & witnessed firsthand & agreed with much in Santelli's 'rant.'
From The Washington Post:
From its beginnings on the afternoon of Feb. 19, 2009, the tea party has been difficult for many Americans to understand. That day, CNBC commentator Rick Santelli, standing on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, unleashed a ferocious, hair-on-fire rant against President Obama's economic policies. He said he was going to hold a "Chicago Tea Party" to protest Obama's efforts to rescue defaulting homeowners.
As video of Santelli's sermon went viral on the Internet, Americans still in the thrall of the new administration dismissed him as an intolerant right-winger. But many others identified with his anger. They saw a government - and a president - who wanted to use their tax dollars to prop up the millionaire executives who sat atop bloated, badly run corporations and corrupt banks, and to bail out irresponsible citizens who had bought houses they couldn't afford.
Connected via Twitter, Facebook and plain-old e-mail, a vast network of conservative activists nationwide seized on the idea of a "tea party" and began planning them across the country.
posted by Sid Cottingham | 8:32 AM
1 Comments:
Santelli is full of shit, and his "rant" was in reality orchestrated theatre. I don't agree with a damn thing he says. The Tea Party "Movement" is in reality a corporate funded, corporate planned, corporate organized astroturf Orwellian movement. It's run by corporate lobbying groups with funding from the Koch billionaire brothers. It's interesting and revealing the way Santelli turns on the floor in the center of Wall Street and claims "This is America." Yeah, and what about the rest of the country. In the minds of people like him, we are not Americans. We are their servants. The people who clean his toilets and wash his clothes aren't Americans in his mind, but as far as I'm concerned, there is no greater Amercan. They couldn't live their lavish lifestyles for ten minutes without them and the sacrifices they make. What sacrifices are the Wall Streeters making? Um, they're taking tax cuts so that they don't have to pay their fair share to maintain the nation's infrastructure that they couldn't make a dime without. You could say that the balanced budgets of the late 90s was balanced on the backs of the Nickled and Dimed cross section of America.
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