There is a Tea Party in town tonight. 7pm at Heritage Port.

Billed as a "grassroots" protest by average Americans upset with the wild-spending ways of President Obama, the TP's are, in fact, a well-organzied and well-funded effort by partisan players.

Despite these attempts to make the “movement” appear organic, the principle organizers of the local events are actually the lobbyist-run think tanks Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Works. The two groups are heavily staffed and well funded, and are providing all the logistical and public relations work necessary for planning coast-to-coast protests.(ThinkProgress)

I am sure that there are a lot of folks who will take part that are truly "average citizens who are fed up". But they are pawns in a partisan game.

I asked a local organizer on my show today why the PAST 8 years of wild, runaway spending hadn't sent them to the streets. She said they just weren't "fed up enough" then.

I guess they only became fed up when the federal government decided to start to spend money to fix the mess the GOP Congress and administration left us in.

Comments

[mandy]

I went to a Tea Party on a day of weather that would have kept the weary in. When I arrived; I was amazed at how many others felt the same pull of something so important. As the rain spit from the sky, the crowd grew and grew. The reason for the gathering really was “ORGANIC” as I saw my fellow neighbors…Democrats and Republicans, all joining together to be recognized and because of our FREEDOM to gather! In the end; the agreement of ALL was the disgust over current government spending and the solution was; to exact our rightful votes in the next elections. There was no “Right-Winged”, well organized, well funded effort by partisan players in this gathering! It was grassroots – average citizens who are fed up! If I am a pawn in a partisan game…I’ll choose this side! If that is how the government works from the inside out? I still chose this side! They should STOP this recklessness now, because the next organic movement might be to stop all their personal government retirement payments to them after their gone from office! Wouldn't that be a "Hoot for the working class joe?".