DeMint, in new book, outlines tea party’s rise
Activism, Breaking News Monday, July 4th, 2011
COLUMBIA, S.C. — As the Republican campaign to replace President Obama heats up in early-voting states like South Carolina, Sen. Jim DeMint is releasing a book discussing the roots of the tea party crusade and his hopes for the movement in 2012.
“I believe that the 2012 elections may be our last chance to stop this insanity of spending and borrowing and debt,” Mr. DeMint told the Associated Press recently. “I’m trying to recruit more Americans with this book.”
In “The Great American Awakening,” out Monday from B&H Publishing Group, Mr. DeMint describes the rise of America’s tea party movement — which he helped foster — and the contentious Republican conference meeting that he said made him realize he was ready to battle his own party in the wake of Democratic victories in the 2008 elections.
But Mr. DeMint said he placed as much blame on wasteful Republicans in the U.S. Senate, and he became determined to speak out against them. Mr. DeMint said he felt empowered by support from fed-up Americans as he spoke at tea party rallies in 2009.
“I decided my work could no longer be with other senators,” Mr. DeMint wrote. “I would have to work with the American people to elect a new class of senators, who would help me to stop the spending, debt, and the expansion of the federal government.”
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When those like DeMint and Michele Bachmann who have made themselves the defacto leaders of the Tea Party and rarely ever mention anymore that it is a movement and give no credit to its existence to Ron Paul, then I say those people are to be looked at as suspect.
I believe both Bachmann and definately DeMint say they have been there from the beginning. Well, they of all people know in whose honor it was started for. At least Sarah Palin has somewhat acknowledged where Ron Paul stands in that organization and endorsed Rand Paul even though it was partially a ploy to get herself more inside the power structure of the Tea Party movement and help bring it into Republican control. Still, she is to be suspect now unless she backs Ron Paul up about his being the father of the movement.
Happy 4th of July,
Rhonda
The Tea Party began when on February 19, 2009, Rick Santelli, on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile exchange spontaneously exploded with a call for a tea party to revolt against Obama’s mortgage bail out! Ron Paul was not there. He was not mentioned. Santelli continued with, we are going to have a tea party – I’m gonna start organizing it. The American public took it from there. Someone said publicly what they had been feeling for so long. Palin, Bachmann, Rand Paul, are not to be suspected, period. They are working hard to get a change in Washington, D.C. After decades of uncontrolled spending and more in D.C., change won’t come over night. BUT Obama is working day and night to make change that will destroy our nation. Stay on the correct side of the issue. Senator Rand Paul will put the liberals on record by forcing a discussion and vote on the issue. Even if Obama vetos any legislation, it puts HIM on record and the public can take note.