This is a post I wrote that ran today on Broadside Books. Please share it with all the young people you know, especially those who don't understand the massive challenges they are about to inherit. ---- You have the most incentive of anyone to not only join the Tea Party movement, but become its most [...]
Give Me Liberty, or Give Me ObamaCare! Supremes to Consider ObamaCare This Week by Joe Guarino, chairman, Richmond TEA Party An obvious play on Patrick Henry’s famous quote—“Give me liberty, give me death!”—this is the essential crux of the battle over the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a., ObamaCare. Do we Americans desire the liberty on which [...]
On Monday, the Virginia General Assembly passed a landmark resolution affecting private property rights. It paves the way for Virginians to vote on whether they would like their private property rights amended to the Virginia Constitution. Later this year, on the same day we Virginians will vote for a US president and a new US [...]
“We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain, unalienable rights.” When those words were written, there were certain things that everyone knew were rights because they were obvious. But today everything is being called a “right” and, as time goes on, more and more [...]
So what’s wrong with a big government? That’s the question our critics ask. According to their logic, the purpose of any government is to provide for the general welfare of its citizens, which is exactly what the preamble of our Constitution says. Then, if that’s the case, our critics contend it’s only logical that the more [...]
When the Tea Parties say they want limited or smaller government, many of our critics try to make it sound like we are against any form of government control. If that was true then the Tea party would be advocating anarchy. However, nothing could be farther from the truth. What we want is Constitutional government. [...]
I attended the Town Hall Wednesday evening at James River High School in Chesterfield County. Sponsored by The Virginia Tea Party Patriots Cooperative Legislative Action Committee and moderated by RTP’s Legislative Committee Chairman Joe Guarino, the event attracted (my estimate) 150-200 citizens and seven state legislators: Delegate M. Kirkland Cox Delegate Riley E. Ingram Delegate [...]
Yesterday's victory was tremendous, and one we should savor. The hard work is still ahead of us, of course. But I think all of the supporters of the Richmond Tea Party and supporters of Tea Party / Patriot / 9/12 groups across Virginia truly earned the following comments taken from this morning's Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial: [...]
1. Implement Constitutional Adherence. The list of possibilities here in endless, isn't it? 2. Implement Limited Government. For starters, someone can show me where in the Constitution it says that taxpayers are supposed to bail out banks. If no one can, then maybe we can consider NOT BAILING THEM OUT. 3. Implement Fiscal Restraint. Refuse [...]
1. Constitutional Adherence 2. Limited Government 3. Fiscal responsibility 4. Virtue and Accountability 5. Free markets I’ve listed the five Tea Party Principles above as a reminder to us all that we started this rebellion over far more than recent frustrations and indignation. We recognized that Tarp, Stimulus, Health Care, soaring unemployment and an economy [...]
It depends who you ask. If you ask the GOP leadership, "we're all the Tea Party..." Read about it here. To excerpt: House Republican leader John Boehner says: "There really is no difference between what Republicans believe in and what the Tea Party activists believe in." Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele says: "If I [...]
An excellent new resource was just made available for helping proponents of constitutionally limited government organize their get-out-the-vote efforts more effectively than we have in the past to have a real impact on elections. It’s called the Concord Project and is found at www.concordproject.org. For a detailed post about this initiative, click here.
