America Rising: Tea Parties, Health Care And NO More….

January 4, 2010 / 11:07 am • By Dr. Melissa Clouthier

Want to capture American frustration in three minutes? This video has great production value and really makes the point: [via Dan Riehl]

A couple weeks ago when Tab Hale was visiting, I watched a review copy of the Tea Party, The Documentary Film [get video at the link]. In a word, the video was spectacular. The video followed some budding activists from home to the march on Washington. If you’re a politician and haven’t watched this video, I suggest you do. It will tell you everything you need to know about the sentiment amongst average Americans.

The following video clip was an accidental “get” for the documentary. A bunch of doctors from across America went to D.C. to protest. What you’ll see is the dialog between them and members of Congress and all sorts of ideas about single payer–the ultimate goal of Democrats and the vehicle for which public option was created:

The Tea Party movement is really still only getting started. The activists are turning their eyes locally and getting more involved. They’re also making their voices heard nationally. Also, in the Tea Party video, you’ll see the Freedom Works staff being evacuated from their building because a leftist called in a bomb threat. The American people don’t like shutting down the conversation, either. Please watch the whole movie. Have your children watch. It’s an education.

To counteract the will of the people, guys like Ben Nelson are running advertisements to convince the people how wrong they are about health care and everything else the Democrats are doing.

A warning to Republicans: If it looks like you’re colluding with the Democrats, you’ll be booted, too. There has been lots of talk about RINO hunting. Well, Americans see the Republicans as part of the big, indifferent, greedy, spending machine right along with Democrats. If a politician’s goal isn’t to make the government smaller and less intrusive, he’s going to be looking for a job.

Posted in Democrats • Liberals • Political Animals • Tea Party

  • montaignejns

    I’m liberal myself, so maybe I’m missing the point, but I don’t see how the Tea Parties hurt Democrats. Whenever I hear an interview of someone at a tea party they spout the conservative republican talking points. Which leads me to believe that these are either people who vote for republican anyway & are unlikely to have voted for Dems in the 1st place, or these are people who don’t pay much attention because the things they’re saying they want Dems to do, the Dems never said they’d do.

    I don’t doubt that the GOP will pick up seats in the mid-term, but I think they’ll lose whatever gains they make in 2012, because in the end republicans are screwed demographically. They’re certainly not going to pick up the hispanic vote with their position on immigration, and I think it’s fair to say that they wont be increasing their share of the black vote while Obama is President. That leaves you with conservative whites and perhaps even moderate whites, that’s just not going to win a national election anymore.

  • http://melissaclouthier.com Dr. Melissa Clouthier

    The independents and swing voters prefer the Tea Party movement to the Democrats.

    The Dems can’t win with only their parts and pieces coalition. They actually need moderates, too. The middle is more favorable to the Tea Party than either major party.

    That spells trouble for the D.C. establishment generally.

  • DaveR

    Are you not even paying attention Mont??? Were you not paying attention during ALL of 2008 and all the PROMISES that BoBo made that he would “do” for his supporters? There’s people out there that STILL think he will put gas in their car, pay for their morgage, buy then a new car (and pay for it), etc. etc. I see then STILL interviewed. They are currently mad because their messiah and savior HASN’T done those things yet (mainly because it’s against the Constitution and he just hasn’t found a slippery or semi-legal way to do it quickly). He blames Congress – whom those people won’t vote for because they haven’t gotten it done.

    The funny part of this you don’t get – is the Tea Parties are MORE about elected Republican’s for not following what they got elected for, than anything to do with Dems. The Dems are mentioned ONLY in the aspect of Republican’s ACTING like Dems got them fired in the first place.

  • http://conservativegazette.com The Conservative Gazette

    I believe that the Republicans will take the House with a pickup of 50-55 seats and I think they will pick up 8 Senate seats.

    There is a very deep disappointment in Obama from all persuasions, left, right and center.

    He owns the economy, he owns the war, he will soon own health care, and he owns unemployment. He is a failure. Your party and your president will be rebuked in a very big way in November.