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Tea Party founder fed up with movement
Published: 22 October, 2010, 01:40
Edited: 25 October, 2010, 07:43
America’s Tea Party movement has evolved into a nightmare for the movement’s founder. The movement used to be about corruption and government spending, but now it is about "guns, gays and God".
“It began with the Bear Sterns bailout. We had a handful of people, about a dozen, that marched on Wall Street,” said Karl Denninger, Founder of Tea Party and The Market Ticker.
The intention was to speak out against excessive corporatism and corruption and hold the government accountable to its promises of change.
“It took about a month for the establishment Republicans to come in and essentially take the party over,” he said. “It became all guns, gods, and gays. That’s a great thing to talk about, but that’s not what we intended.”
He added; “I don’t believe this is the set of issues we should be focused on in this country.”
There is not little discussion in the movement about the economy, corruption, the foreclosure crisis and other relevant issues.
“None of the so-called Tea Party candidates are talking about this,” Denninger said. “The slogan that we adopted very early on was ‘stop the looting and start the prosecuting’ and I can’t find one of these supposed Tea Party candidates that is actually willing to come out and say that in public.”
Denninger argued the original agenda may have to be fought through a new or different organization, since the Tea Party has simply become a member of the right wing of the Republican Party under figures like Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich and Bobb Bar.
If the people in the Tea Party movement want to put these people back in power to continue the past policies of the Bush administration that is up to the American people, explained Denninger.
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I do not consider myself to be a "liberal" or a "conservative." I consider my an independent voter and a liberty-loving one at that. I haven't joined the TEA Party yet and I don't know if I will. Right now I'm not a member of any political party and I think I'll remain that way for a while. As far as I'm concerned I don't need to be affiliated with any political party to make my views known. That way I can think outside the box politically instead of having to go along with the "party line." As far as I'm concerned the economy is still the no. 1 issue with me and the two major parties are still to afraid to address what's really wrong. Neither party wants to take on Wall Street and the Federal Reserve. Here are a couple of websites that I'm a member at: the Campaign for Liberty and DownsizeDC.org.
Well, I didn't know we had a founder??? We don't and who ever says we do or says they founded it are lying. That just proves you don't even know what it is, it's just the "people", Americans that are tired of the games and lies and are finally standing up and being heard. The silent majority isn't silent anymore, we voted in more ethnic and more women then ever before so the Klu Klux Klan crap is so wrong and disgusting. What I do know is more and more articles like this and the attacks will get worse but we will succeed in the fight for freedom and the truth.