Did Rick Santelli Start The Tea Party Movement?

[red states rule]

Looks to me it was Rick Santelli was the lone voice in the media who openly expressed his anger over the bailouts and excessive spending

It spread like a wildfire

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[crin63]

Soon as I saw Santelli's outrage and his calling for a Chicago Tea Party I knew it was going to catch fire.

[red states rule]

Soon as I saw Santelli's outrage and his calling for a Chicago Tea Party I knew it was going to catch fire.

You know the Tea Party movement is successful when the liberal media goes out of its way to discredit and attack its members




Joseph Stack was angry at the Internal Revenue Service, and he took his rage out on it by slamming his single-engine plane into the Echelon Building in Austin, Texas. We now know this thanks to the rather clear (as rants go) suicide note Stack left behind. There's no information yet on whether he was involved in any anti-government groups or whether he was a lone wolf. But after reading his 34-paragraph screed, I am struck by how his alienation is similar to that we're hearing from the extreme elements of the Tea Party movement.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/02/_joseph_stack_was_angry.html





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[PostmodernProphet]

you get enough flammable material in one place and it doesn't matter where the spark comes from......

[crin63]

you get enough flammable material in one place and it doesn't matter where the spark comes from......

True but you still gotta have that spark and he was the right spark, in the right place, at the right time.

[red states rule]

True but you still gotta have that spark and he was the right spark, in the right place, at the right time.

Rick said what so many people were thinking. Why should anyone pay for their neighbors house? Why should people pay more in taxes when the government is pissing thru billions in pork?

Dems see the Tea Party as a serious threat? They see them gaining momentum as liberal tax and spend policies fail as they always do. Dems are reacting as they also do - with hate, rage, and fear tactics

When I see anyone play the race card as the Dems are doing, I know damn well they are losing and are playing defense

[Monkeybone]

I remember watching that and like Crin said, when I heard what he was saying and the points, you knew that is what the average American living on their own means was thinking.

[red states rule]

I remember watching that and like Crin said, when I heard what he was saying and the points, you knew that is what the average American living on their own means was thinking.

and as far as the Tea Party being a bunch of racists and all white folks....

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[crin63]

Whether everyone agrees with the Minuteman movement or not ( I happen too agree with them), their candidate in AZ. has dropped out and is backing JD Hayworth. They are also aligning with the, "Tea Party" mentality.

[Monkeybone]

Whether everyone agrees with the Minuteman movement or not ( I happen too agree with them), their candidate in AZ. has dropped out and is backing JD Hayworth. They are also aligning with the, "Tea Party" mentality.

you wonder that... but I am more apt to trust the newcomer with this mentality than ones like McCain and the others that have been in there since the time my grandparents were my age.

I also wonder if some in the Tea Party are realizing that instead of starting a third party, it needs to be aligned with someone that has the closest to their views instead of dividing the GOP and Thei canidate down the middle and giving someone that completely oppses their views the majority.

[crin63]

you wonder that... but I am more apt to trust the newcomer with this mentality than ones like McCain and the others that have been in there since the time my grandparents were my age.

I also wonder if some in the Tea Party are realizing that instead of starting a third party, it needs to be aligned with someone that has the closest to their views instead of dividing the GOP and Thei canidate down the middle and giving someone that completely oppses their views the majority.

I think the Tea Party movement is smart enough to see that they need to take over the Republican Party from the progressives and liberals. OTH I think they will put a 3rd party candidate out there if the RP doesn't figure this out or fields a moderate.

[KarlMarx]

The Democratic Party has proven that it is the true Party of No

1. NO HOPE

2. NO JOBS

3. NO FUTURE

[cat slave]

Rick said what so many people were thinking. Why should anyone pay for their neighbors house? Why should people pay more in taxes when the government is pissing thru billions in pork?

Dems see the Tea Party as a serious threat? They see them gaining momentum as liberal tax and spend policies fail as they always do. Dems are reacting as they also do - with hate, rage, and fear tactics

When I see anyone play the race card as the Dems are doing, I know damn well they are losing and are playing defense

They always pull that one when they have nothing else to try.

Pathetic!

[red states rule]

They always pull that one when they have nothing else to try.

Pathetic!

The blame Bush excuse is not working any longer. Obama, Reid, and Pelosi have had an enitre year and things have only gotten worse. The excuse that spending saved America from a depression is as ridiculous as the stimulus saved 2 million jobs

Liberals rant how Bush's excessive spending got us in this mess, and turn around and lecture us how Obama's escessive spending will get us out. Liberals were telling us how Bush was mortgaging our grandchilderns future, now it is Democrats who are mortgaging our great grandchildrens future

The Obama economic plan to stimulate America is no different then credit card companies increasing every cardholders credit line to $1,000,000 and telling them to go buy whatever they want. Things are great until the first statement arrives in the mail

Obama's socialism is great until you realize you have run out of other peoples moeny to spend. Now there is talk of middle class tax increases. So much for all that hope and change we were promised