CNBC’s Rick Santelli unleashed a firestorm of focused fury on the Obama administration’s plan to assist working class homeowners unable to keep up with their mortgage payments during the current economic downturn The administration’s proposed homeowner relief plan targets those in trouble without attempting to separate those who made a conscious bad decision to get in over their head from those who were tempted by a “too good to be true” deal. Santelli’s mocking of these troubled homeowners launched a national Tea Party movement that has morphed into the most vibrant and organized grassroots effort to thwart the Obama economic plan to date.
The New American Tea Party is a coalition of organizations supporting the broad principle of organized opposition to the Obama agenda. Coalition members include: The American Spectator, The Heartland Institute, FreedomWorks, Coalition for a Conservative Majority, Americans for Tax Reform, the National Taxpayers Union, Americans for Prosperity, Smart Girl Politics, the Institute for Liberty and the Young Conservatives Coalition.
The organization asserts on its website that it is not a partisan movement.
This isn’t a conservative or liberal thing.
This is about government forking over billions of dollars, OUR MONEY, to businesses that should have failed. This is about taking money from responsible people and handing it over to CEOs who squandered their own.
We are not opposing any specific legislation or politician. We are instead addressing the broader philosophical implications of a government that has grown too large and too distant from the very citizens it taxes. This is scary stuff.
WorldNetDaily.com has a site dedicated to Tea Party actions listing at present over 150 events scheduled nationwide.
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