On biggovernment.com, our own Jamie Radtke said this: Republicans cannot afford to play politics at the margins, focus more on maintaining their power rather than changing Washington, or return us to the business-as-usual approach of “plodding along.” It isn’t often that one can claim to speak for the entire tea party movement without swift rebuke, [...]
In the Washington Post, pollster Frank Luntz reports on the results of five issues he studied over the past two years: a balanced budget, the elimination of earmarks, low taxes and a simplified code, auditing federal agencies to help cut waste and red tape, and requiring Congress to cite its constitutional authorization for any bill [...]
Dammit! In 2008, citizens yearned for government to change its corrupt ways. Obama exploited that sentiment and rode it to the presidency. In the midterm elections, voters rejected Obama’s policies and showed that they yearn for change more than ever. Like Obama two years ago, senate Republicans this year promised they would fight for change. [...]
Have you looked at the national debt clock lately? It has a handy “time machine” feature (top right corner) that is frightening in what it portends for our federal budget if we continue with our out-of-control federal spending. While 2010 looks pretty bad, with a national debt of $13.7 trillion, the clock projects $17.4 trillion in [...]
Tony Blankley, the esteemed Washington columnist, had an interesting piece on Nov. 4 pondering the implications of the election two days before. He made some comments that are of interest here, considering that the Tea Party is a new movement outside the traditional political structure: (T)he way many Americans are looking at their lives and [...]
Today, on Fox News at 12:30 pm, VTPP president Jamie Radtke joined two other TEA Party leaders to discuss the impact of the TEA Party movement on the recent elections. When the leaders were asked what message they had for the GOP, Jamie said, "They are on probation." In the very next segment, the RNC [...]
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: [...]
Last night was quite a night for the Tea Party. Though there were some disappointments in the Senate, on balance we helped deliver a HUGE victory for constitutionally limited government. In the coming weeks and months, we'll together dissect what it all means and how we should best move the ball even farther down the [...]
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 [...]
Heartland.org has made available for free a great resource for Tea Party activists. Here's their description of The Patriot's Toolbox: This book is offered as a guide to public policy for patriot-activists in the Tea Party movement as well as for candidates for public office, incumbent office holders, civic and business leaders, and journalists assigned [...]
The Richmond Tea Party has applied with the IRS to be a 501(c) (4) nonprofit group. This is something we began at the end of 2009 and are still currently working through. According to the IRS tax code, 501(c)(4) organizations may endorse and support candidates for office if we meet certain conditions. However, since we [...]
Yesterday was quite a day for the Richmond Tea Party and like-minded organizations. The Richmond Times-Dispatch ran seven articles about us and this weekend’s VA Tea Party convention: 1) Tea-party movement in full force ahead of convention 2) Tea Party has some support among blacks 3) Chester Patriots founder has seen group’s membership swell 4) [...]