Americans approve of TEA Parties by 54 percent

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While the media, except for Fox News, put down the TEA Parties, and Nancy Pelosi called it "astro turf" instead of a grassroots program, the American public approved of it by 54 percent.  According to the Rasmussen poll, only 18% disapproved.  This may be a wakeup call for the Democrats that there may be a congressional shakeup in the wind for 2010.

Obama's approval rating is in the ball park for presidents during the first hundred days, nothing as spectacular the his avid supporters were hoping for just a short time ago.

No one knows at this point where the TEA Party movement will go.  There has been some discussion that it will start at the lower levels of government---city council members, county supervisors, state representatives and governors who have spent money with no regard to the future.

What is most important is what the Chicago Tribune wrote on April 19, 2009

So why did people rally across the country when they should have been planning how to spend their tax refunds? Because their true dismay is about the mushrooming of federal outlays, which the demonstrators regard as a future tax increase in the making. Which, of course, it is.

Like Bernard Madoff 's investors, we now face the bleak truth that the comfortable future we expected is gone. Everything the federal government is doing will be forcibly extracted from our future earnings. The tea-party protesters see that and are angry. Can the rest of the country be far behind?

Apparently, from the results of the Rasmussen poll, the answer is obvious.  The TEA party organizers and the participants sent a message, clear and loud, to the Obama and administration and the Democrats in Congress. 

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