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To: Don Hurst who wrote (789213)	6/11/2014 3:39:07 PM
From: Bilow	1 Recommendation Recommended By Bill Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577319

Hi Don Hurst; Re: "OHMIGOSH... your definition of the tea party...you are really kidding yourself. And based on your posts, you are really not that dumb."; The tea party is very attractive to voters who are against big business. They basically go after the same voters who voted for Ronald Reagan. Of course this scares the crap out of the left so their response is to try and scare swing voters away from the tea party by promoting a belief that the tea party is to the right even of the Republicans. You're basically a left-wing moron so I can understand why you would find the truth difficult to grasp. ----------------------------------------------------------- Regarding the relationship between the tea party and big business: Big business takes on tea party, gently Politico, March 19, 2014 Big Business swore this would be the year it would wrestle back the soul of the Republican Party from the grip of the tea party. No more Todd Akins. No more government shutdowns. And no more third-party groups running roughshod over the Washington agenda. politico.com ----------------------------------------------------------- Regarding tea party and the limit to federal power by the constitution: Both the old and the new Tea Party stand for resistance to unconstitutional power. In 1773 the Tea Partiers opposed the Tea Act, which violated their rights as Englishmen and as men. Their counterparts today fight against Obamacare, a much worse law. And they have enough orneriness left over to confront many other usurpations by the Obama Administration as well as several inherited from Bush II. realclearpolitics.com Book review: The Constitution Made Easy Michael Holler, Politico Written by a fixture on the Tea Party rally circuit, and unofficially adopted by the Party as its U.S. Constitution guide, this book goes to the ultimate source for answers to the hot-button questions about how our nation is meant to be governed. Each spread pairs a page from the Constitution with a modernized version, clearing up the archaic legalese and making the meaning of the original accessible to anyone. An insightful introduction and detailed endnotes further illuminate the original principles outlined by the architects of the Constitution. ... politico.com ----------------------------------------------------------- Regarding tea party opinion on minimum wage: The larger context here is that the House GOP may not even allow a vote on a minimum wage hike, should it clear the Senate when it is voted on next month (which is itself uncertain, because Senate Republicans are expected to filibuster it). And at bottom, this is an issue that really underscores that the agenda of the Congressional GOP is far more reflective of the economic worldview of tea party Republicans such as DeMint than it is of the worldview of non-tea party Republicans. Recent polls have shown that only tea party Republicans oppose the minimum wage hike, while non-tea party Republicans actually are in line with majorities of the American people, and support it. But the latter’s priorities just aren’t reflected to anywhere near the same degree by the Congressional GOP. washingtonpost.com -- Carl