I would like to know why the tea party people always stress that they have no political affiliation. They say people of all political stripes attended the tea parties, but after weeks of searching, I have been unable to find a single Democratic politician that spoke at a tea party, but I can provide you a list of Republican politicians who have spoken at these protests.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all in favor of peoples right to protest. My problem is why do these people feel the need to misrepresent (read “lie about”) the composition of people in attendance? Here is an example from a local newspaper letter to the editor:

“The events were peaceful, patriotic and non-partisan, involving Democrats, Republicans, and many who no longer associate with any political party. While the final numbers are still coming in, they are huge by any standards. At this time, the total number of participants will have exceeded 1,000,000.”

“Democrats and Republicans”???

“exceeded 1,000,000″???

If this movement is so noble, why the need to lie about the attendance.

It also seems extremely “odd” to me that people would choose to protest taxes, immediately after 95% of Americans got a tax cut, from the very guy that the protesters seem to actually be protesting (that would be the President).

If the protests are about the stimulus bill, why did the protesters wait until AFTER it was passed to protest? Don’t people usually protest things BEFORE they are passed?

In the end, it seems to me like the protesters are almost universally protesting one thing- losing an election. And that is fine too, just be open about it.

As for you being surprised about partisanship and tying that into being anti grassroots, I’m not really following you. All of this is partisan. Grassroots are from people like me who am not formally part, but believe high taxes and out of control spending needs to END.

That’s the part your side is missing. Real people, not affiliated with organizations are speaking out—The reckless spending must stop. The over the top taxing must stop! they are both unsustainable.

You will probably admit that the George Soros crowd has no problem when it’s advancing your ideals. I’m sure you’re a Soros supporter, you don’t condemn what your side does only the other side. That’s the TRANSPARENT I keep talking about—it’s so obvious it’s see through…

If this whole teabagging thing is so transparent, non-partisan, and grassroots, please tell me who paid for the 1 MILLION teabags that the protesters in D.C. intended to dump into the Potomac, but wound up being dumped in the 12th floor conference room of a far right “think tank”?

I’ve been trying to find out, but no info seems to be available from your “transparent” movement.

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