Majority Of Tea Party Group's Spending Went To GOP Firm That Created It

In a free country, people are free to flush their money any place they wish.
You don't seem to mind flushing yours to the foreign bankers who control your president.

I've seen this happen in other venues.

...every local yokel who's organized anything with the word "tea" or "party" in it for a short time (15 minutes?) considers themselves the latest guru for their whole movement.

On their way to and from that heady delusion, they take on a comical air of mystic authority, their puffed-up self-importance magnifying their petty influence.

Sounds like we've hooked into one of them here.

That was quite generous...

Nobody is saying you have to pledge allegiance to an ideology to attend a rally; that's true of any public demonstration. I would agree that they're not necessarily "Republicans" (though I think the above commenter was using the term to mean "Conservative") but what they stand for is fundamentally Conservative/Libertarian and there's no denying that.

I've read the argument that these people "have awakened to find out just what 'progressive' really means and just how destructive its purpose" several times now and it's curious. I say this because we've just come off of 8 years of laissez-faire economic policy and deregulation (fundamentally Conservative/Libertarian policies) which allowed our financial industry to play recklessly with our collective finances and thereby cleared the path for our current situation. Granted, much of the blame surely rests with people who signed mortgages which they could not afford and were acting just as recklessly but if our "professional" money managers hadn't been able to fall into the huge moral hazard of leveraging their investments 20:1, 30:1 with other peoples' money we would be in far better shape and TARP would never have been a necessity.

So we've seen what Conservative/Libertarian economic policies can lead to because they've played out. What, exactly, is the comparable "destructive" policy that Liberals have enacted? TARP is being repaid slowly so one can't claim that we're really all the worse off for it if we're getting the money back. With the exception of partisan analysts for National Review, the vast majority of economists (you know, those guys who have studied the subject for decades) agree that the Stimulus cushioned our collapse or at least didn't hurt. Beyond that, none of the other major policies have gone into effect yet (cap and trade, health care reform) so the argument that they're destructive is premature at best.

So, returning to the point that Tea Party types have just now realized what Liberals stand for, what have they really seen outside of some hyperbolic and one-sided arguments? In one year, what has served as the catalyst for this so-called awakening? Because if it's merely the shrill prophesy of an opposition movement comprised of self-described anti-intellectuals that has changed their minds, I've got a bridge to sell them that costs whatever remains after the last bridge they bought.

By asking where to donate, you just keep proving me correct. There is no head, no money collection. The movement is people and they are doing things and that is what irks you Alinsky-ites the most... the thought that your social utopianism might be thwarted for a change is appalling to you.

Where was the non-ideology of hunger when Bush converted a tax surplus to a $1.3 trillion debt under all-Repub control of WH and congress, I wonder?

Oh. That's Right. His financial house of cards began tumbling through his last six months in office and he handed off the mess to his successor.

Just as he did with every other business he ever ran. At least, in that, he has a solid record. Heckuva job, Bushie!

Oh and final word: you can keep asking where to donate in the hopes of uncovering a 'plot' to finance a PAC (which I might add is totally legal and proper if there are those who wish to do it) but the fact is you won't find anyplace to donate to anything because the people of this movement do not ask for money, just action, and they are getting it.

At first it surprised you but now it alarms you.

Do you think regressives are the only ones allowed that should be allowed to take money (from foreign communists I might add)?

Recent poll shows tea party groups are more popular than Democrat party or Republican party and that makes sense because we are comprised of those who know that parties are a ruse created to keep partisan hacks like you on the left side of things fighting with those pretending to be on the right (constitutional) side of things.

Thank God the masses are awakening to this party nonsense and are finally thinking for themselves.

It was really bad of Bush to do that, granted, and just as wrong for Obama to continue it. Just like it was bad of Bush to give us no choice in transferring our wealth to private contractors like Blackwater or the unfunded, debt-raising Medicare Part-D transfer to those private insurance companies (never could figure why it was necessary to provide insurance for insurance; seemed kinda wasteful...or was it just so those rich insurers — what Bush called "my base" — could line their pockets to keep shuffling money back toward electing neos??). Totally agree (surprise, surprise): It must all be stopped. So that We the People can collectively help each other.

The level of ignorance on this site is truly amazing. You assume that because a person has not earned some uppity college degree in some uppity city, independence, creativity and the ability to produce does not exist.

I have an advanced degree from one of the best engineering schools, located in a very uppity city. Yet, as I travel through the rural parts of America, I am humbled.

These folks graciously share information that is not available to even the finest universities. Intelligence and knowledge is not measured by a degree, but by the person possessing it.

Those "stupid" people are, in fact, incredibly bright and remarkably resourceful. However, most left wing snobs wouldn't know anything bout that. I'm quite sure that Star Bucks drinking, Birkenstock wearing, uppity college professors with tiny round glasses never bother to mention anything about the impressive accomplishments of rural America in their over-priced, waste of time classes.