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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (79664)	2/20/2010 10:15:16 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224755

Keli Carender, 30, who teaches adult math and resume-writing classes in Seattle, organized a stimulus protest called "porkulus" in Seattle in February 2009 and has garnered broad attention thanks to her blog "Redistributing Knowledge." "I just want to educate people and motivate them to get involved," she says. That means identifying candidates who share the movement's values of limited government, free markets and fiscal responsibility, she says. The tea-party movement is less of an organized party and more of a loose coalition of local groups that has sprouted across the country under names such as the 9-12 Delaware Patriots and the Louisiana Tea Party Federation. The movement's name harkens to the Revolution-era Boston Tea Party and an on-air rant in February of last year by CNBC reporter Rick Santelli, who called for a "tea party" in Chicago to oppose the administration's housing rescue.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (79664)	2/20/2010 10:16:43 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224755

A recent Pew Research Center survey found that nearly a third of voters want their own congressional incumbents to lose their next elections. That dissatisfaction is similar to surveys in 1994 and 2006, when control of Congress changed hands amid intense anti-incumbent feelings. According to a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, such fervor could lead to a large turnout among conservatives, while their Democratic counterparts appear less motivated to go to the polls.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (79664)	2/20/2010 10:18:46 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224755

Another activist, Diana Reimer, says her family wanted to sell their home several years ago, but couldn't. Then came the bank bailout and the stimulus package. Lawmakers "were using taxpayers' money without thinking twice about it," she says. She decided to contact members of Congress to urge them to be more fiscally responsible. "When I'd make a call I'd get an aide and that was the end of it," she said. "It was frustrating. I wanted my voice heard." Ms. Reimer, 67, says she saw a news story on television about a tea-party event and volunteered to help organize one in Philadelphia. Now she is the Pennsylvania state coordinator for a tea-party group. Lynn Brannon, 51, was a clerical worker at a Sussex County, Del., hospital and talking regularly to doctors when the health-care bill debate began in the House. She decided to read the bill for herself. One thing she says she knew from talking to doctors is that lawsuits and malpractice insurance had an impact on costs. The bill did not try to curb such lawsuits. "I knew there were things we should be addressing first and this bill didn't do that. I said enough," she says.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (79664)	2/20/2010 10:21:29 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224755

the most serious set of challenges facing the country of any President since FDR requires more than a teleprompter. No justifications for a dumbObama

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (79664)	2/20/2010 10:30:28 AM
From: TideGlider	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224755

Obama and Democrats created the challenges and then did nothing but increase the severity. Obama is like the kid in school who won the election by promising Ice Cream to all students. You just cannot keep spreading wealth around and giving people things they haven't earned. Promising candy is all Obama does.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (79664)	2/20/2010 11:38:08 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224755

Obama had a cakewalk. GWBush had the most challenging first year since FDR. He was handed an economy that was in a tailspin and then had to deal with 9/11. If several key democrats hadn't engineered the RE/credit bubble that necessarily had to pop, we would be in a pretty solid economic place. Our current economic crisis can be blamed on Clinton and the democrat congress during Clinton's presidency and then subsequently in the later years of GWB's presidency. GWB doesn't get off scott free, he spent like a crackhead in a candy store too, but nothing compared to the democrats. And it isn't just "spending" that got us in this situation. It's the expansion of government during the fat times. That's what is killing california. We had so much money during the 90s and Gray Davis let our government swell to a point that could only be sustained if the tech bubble (and the taxes that go with it) continued forever. the only way out of this economic mess is to fire a whole bunch of government workers.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (79664)	2/20/2010 12:59:07 PM
From: Carolyn	4 Recommendations Respond to of 224755

What a bunch of BS. Krauthammer has it right: Obama cannot lead.