Smoke and Mirrors: The Role of the TEA Party in American Politics

This is an absolutely appalling assertion to make of the TEA Party movement.  It merely underscores the lack of understand of the message and the people who are delivering.  Instead of spreading insidious comments, you should understand that "a government large enough to give you anything is large enough to take everything."   I don't know how you sleep at night knowing that you are not only generalizing a group of patriotic and proud Americans, but also slandering and implicating them in some vast conpiracy to shift the nation towards anarchy.   Shame.

omitting one use of racism while defining another is racist. all racism is negative social expression and one can not be supported. racism needs to be seen as one thing equally ugly and cheap expression no matter what ethnicity use it. you people need to get together and support each other on issue one before you can even meet on the political.

When  reactionary and extremely conservatives of any political denomination are almost on the loser's side of the fence,haunted by fear of slipping ground from under their feet come together on a single platform to defeat progressive measures and policies of the government.That happens in every country where reactionary elements have suffered defeats after defeats.

Tea party movement,if at all it is movemnt,consists of lunatic elements of the Democrats and the Grand Old Jokers Party.In my opinion Tea Party is Fused Bulbs Party.

@ Karen,

I would also describe much of what Sharpton has done in his life as "Racist" in nature. His  baiting others and calling people racist if he does not agree with them is is the lowest form of communication. I know very little of the tea party folks except what I read in the news. One thing is clear it has grass roots active support by disaffected Americans pissed off at the changes Obama is making in his legislation in congress.

According to a new piece by Charles Krauthammer, "The net effect of 18 months of Obamaism will be to undo much of Reaganism. Both presidencies were highly ideological, grandly ambitious and often underappreciated by their own side." A fascinating read I strongly suggest the effort.

Krauthammer article

Republican Representative from Minnesota, Michele Bachmann:

Americans Talk Revolution, State Secession, Anything To Get Away From Obama Government.Americans’ anger builds daily against Obama and his Czar appointed Government intent on forcing down the throats of Americans a hybrid form of Marxist/Socialism. America already has reached pre-revolution level. Unless Obama’s relentless attacks on the Constitution and Freedom of Americans are abated, it is foreseeable something might happen to set off millions of Patriot Americans. Obama’s leftist supporters should read history to get a historical perspective how fast a population (Americans) might unite to come together against a perceived enemy. If Obama wasn’t concerned about Americans revolting, his administration would not be relentless to pass laws and regulations to cripple bloggers and other alternative media communicating real news that Citizens, grass-roots organizations and others depend on to make informed decisions. Obama and his Neomarxists intend to drown out, shut up the Voice of Patriot Americans. Obama’s support of the DISCLOSE Act confirmed what many Americans believed; that Obama intends to strangle the flow of information and replace it with his leftist propaganda. When communists have attempted or taken over a country, their first step was to control the media and all forms of public communications to control Civilian populations. The Obama administration is using its government power to censor, shut up its critics. Marxist governments have made communism work by murdering civilian populations considered not critical until populations are reduced to a level an unproductive communist government can support; and by cannibalizing assets communists stole from arrested and killed Citizens. Obama supporters state, they want to destroy capitalism, free enterprise: that would delete millions of U.S. jobs, creating millions of non-critical Americans a RED U.S. Government would not want to support. In other countries where members of a political party or ideological extremists attempted or succeeded in forced censorship, took over the means of production, Citizens have revolted, jailing despots for treason. Obama Top CZAR Cass Sunstein prepared in 2008 a paper that proposed spying on Americans, infiltrating groups and organizations to obstruct Free Speech, disrupt the exchange of ideas and disseminate false information to neutralize Americans that might question government. See:www.wnd.com/?pageId=121884Perhaps Obama intends to jail lawful Patriots. Obama gave a speech in May 2010 asking Congress to pass legislation to give the President power, to detain any person in the U.S. that government deemed a “combatant” or likely to engage in a violent act in the future. President Obama wants the power to incarcerate U.S. Citizens not on evidence, but for what they might do. Hear Obama’s own words at: www.brasschecktv.com/page/630.htmlLast week Obama proposed that the FBI have the power to obtain without warrants, Citizens’ “electronic communication transactional records” including email addresses they used to send communications. If the FBI’s request for warrant-less Internet surveillance is granted, Americans to avoid federal conspiracy charges and or being set up by provocateur emails, may have to report to police (every email) they receive that might allude to anything illegal. Private information the FBI derives from warrant-less searches of emails and Internet Activity—could potentially be used by a corrupt Obama Government to blackmail, target anyone though government harassment, prosecution or civil asset forfeiture because someone dared disagree with the government. Police too easily can take an innocent person’s hastily written email, fax, phone call or web activity out of context to allege a crime or violation was committed to cause an arrest or confiscation of someone’s property.Alarmingly the Obama Government recently employed a vendor to search Internet social networking sites to collect information about Americans that could potentially be used by this government to injure Americans, for example, if you apply for a federal job, your name might be crossed referenced by the Obama Government with comments you made at Websites against Obama; or if you make application at a bank for a loan the Government has control since the financial crisis, could your Internet comment(s) prevent you getting that loan? Obama’s monitoring of the Internet sites can too easily be used by Government to intimidate, coerce Americans from speaking out.If FBI warrant-less Internet Spying is approved, it is problematic the FBI will share its spying with law enforcement, government contractors and private individuals that have security clearances to facilitate the arrest and forfeiture of Americans’ property—-to keep part of the bounty. There are over 200 U.S. laws and violations mentioned in the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 and the Patriot Act that can subject property to civil asset forfeiture. Under federal civil asset forfeiture laws, a person or business need not be charged with a crime for government to forfeit their property.