Poll Question

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Has the Tea Party movement gained wider support since its inception last year?

Disclaimer: This is an unscientific sampling of users.

believer wrote: " True freedom comes from being a child of God"

Submitted by George K on Mon, 03/01/2010 at 6:24 pm.

"While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State."
Now which quote better describes the sentiments of most Tea Party protesters?

BTW

Submitted by George K on Mon, 03/01/2010 at 9:53 pm.

The latter quote: Lenin, "State and Revolution", 1919. Ain't that ironic?

This is about the dumbest question....

Submitted by jg42053 on Mon, 03/01/2010 at 10:49 am.

Of course the movement has grown, you'd have to be living in a hole to not know this, so why ask the question?

A better question would be, "How long do you think the Tea-Party movement will last?"

Here's another, "When is the Virginian Pilot going to start serving as a source of enlightening information for the region?"

tea party support

Submitted by frankr27401 on Mon, 03/01/2010 at 10:45 am.

Yes, the Tea Party has gained substantial support, however, when the time comes it should consider becoming an influential part of the Republican Party and thereby give their issues real backing. The other side of that coin says the extreme left Democrats win again and America will move deeper into an era of socialism.

Tea Party Purity Test

Submitted by chunkymonkey on Mon, 03/01/2010 at 9:40 am.

Just where is the birth certificate of that *___________ President?

(* plz fill in the blank with as many as you like: socialist, Marxist, fascist, communist, NWOist, Nigerian, re-educationist, Koran reading Muslim, non-Constitutionalist, terrorist's buddy, anti-Christ, son of Malcom X, thesis plagerizing, gun hating, Oprah watching, general all-round-dummy-head, or feel free to create your own: there is no wrong answer as long as it's pejorative!)

Where were these people when Bush was running record deficits?

This was a good

Submitted by nerts on Mon, 03/01/2010 at 2:08 pm.

start with factual characterizations of the sitting president but please provide a few more. Everyone knows that Bush's so called record deficits don't even look like a lit match compared to the sitting president's flame thrower of deficits. When will the 'it's Bush's fault' crowd get a new catch phrase?

Ummm...

Submitted by trouble00 on Mon, 03/01/2010 at 8:01 pm.

When Bush took office he had a $240 billion surplus. When he left there was on face value a $400 billion deficit. BUT Bush employed several questionable tactics when reporting the budget: he did not show the costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars; he did not show the costs of medicare reimbursements; and he did not account for expenditures for natural disaster response. Add to that the fact that the Wall Street bailout that was approved by Bush did not start until after November 1, 2008 (the Fed fiscal year is Nov 1 to Oct. 31). That spending was not reported under Bush but became Obama's inheritance in Jan 09. Add these actual expenditures and Bush ran up a tally of about $1 trillion before leaving office. Obama is now reporting all these costs and is showing basically a $1.6 trillion deficit for this upcoming fiscal year. And you say that dwarfs Bush's? He went from $240 billion extra to $1 trillion in the hole. That is a shortage of nearly $1.3 trillion to Obama's addition of $600 billion.

Although you may not

Submitted by nerts on Tue, 03/02/2010 at 9:33 am.

like the source of the link below, the data in it is derived from the Washington Post. Bush did not cleverly hide any budgetary items as they just don't disappear. Clearly Bush and Obama SHARE 2009 just as Bush and Clinton SHARE 2001. Obama has already outspent all presidents before him and his is the owner of that spending plain and simple. Your numbers are severely skewed, not at all factual and wouldn't pass an IRS audit so I hope a CPA does your taxes. Cheers

http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/24/bush-deficit-vs-obama-deficit-in-pictures/

Blame Bush, then continue

Submitted by adame20886 on Mon, 03/01/2010 at 6:34 pm.

Blame Bush, then continue every mistake he made at a more rapid pace and cost.

Tea Party Movement

Submitted by Believer on Mon, 03/01/2010 at 9:20 am.

The Tea Party Movement will help giv e a lot of people a voice in getting us back to following the constitution which this country was founde on. a lot of people are ignorant to the fact that everyday we are loosing our freedoms in America. True freedom comes from being a child of God. Being a believer in Jesus Christ will set you free. Romans 6:18 And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. Romans 6:22 But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 3:23. For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Rormans 9:10 as it is written There is none righteous,no, not one. Everyone is destined to an eternal hell, unless they turn their life over to Jesus Christ. Acts 4:12 Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. John 14:6 Jesus said to him I am the way, the truth and thelife, no one comes to the Father except through me. If you don't know if you are heaven bound, you can know.