Who correctly predicted the Tea Party's rise?

Thomas Jefferson

Key quote: "Buzzing beneath the furious rants of the tea-party protests, it is not hard to hear the same old right-wing rhetoric about taxes and deficits and the same old schemes to cut the taxes for the wealthiest citizens, deregulate the economy and despoil the environment. The difference...[is that now] we have suffered the results of those policies in practice and reject them...."
The TP did'nt have the sense to reject them!

The TP is tired of over-government, endless spending of their tax dollars; tired of bailing out the auto industry; tired of bailing out the banking industry; tired of govenment intrusion into private industry; tired of unelected czars running OUR government [of the people, by the people and for the people]; tired of a congress that has not accomplished any meaningful legislation, e.g., immingration, tax reform to stimulate investment in the private sector that creates jobs [for be it known unto you that govenments create no jobs]; tired of an executive and legistaive branch of OUR govenment that have not addressed the issue of energy in a meaningful and positive manner; tired of having meaningless programs jammed down their throats, e.g., healthcare; tired of liberals trying to be politically correct and changing our root values. I don't think the TP is anti-government; the TP is for a smaller, leaner, more effective and responsive govenment representation. WE pay top money to our elected officials. WE EXPECT top performance. In private industry, you don't perform, you are fired. In sports, you don't win games, you get rid of the coach, you replace players.

I thank God for FNC every day.

Where were the tea party people when president Bush WASTED I say SQUANDERED OVER ONE TRILLION dollars on illegal war.We have Americans that go hungry and homeless ,do you know what one trillion could have done for our people and schools.Some say they want to take their country back, i often wonder from whome.I did not vote for Obama but will do so in 2012,the tea baggers just cannot stand that our president is not white, they hate Mexicans and muslims too,they are the most racial group of people.The president of United States is a Harvard Law school graduate ,tell me tea baggers what qualifactions does Palin and Odonnell have, and LEVEL OF EDUCATION to make decision for my country .When you have some one that is educated and not a bigot then i may consider how to vote.I am sad to see folks that would not stand up for what is right,our forefathers must be rolling in their graves.President Lincoln must be quite disappointed .

Will they caucus with the Republicans or do their own thing? The Tea Party is a sign of Republican disintegration, and so it will last for a while. That does not mean that it is permanent however.

The Tea Party will not be effective until its followers coalesce around a strong leader or leaders who can articulate its views effectively enough to sway public opinion away from the failed two-party system that has always screwed the American public. And even then it may fail, because of big money(mainly Jewish) control of the media, and dirty tricks by our clandestine organizations that have without a doubt infiltrated it, just as they have infiltrated organizations based on violent means of change.

1984

anti-government movement huh?
i hated george bush, but after he seetled into the presidency i lightened up. and i certainly didn't run around my neighborhood shouting anti-government fervor like the teaparty folk. the teapartiers are a motley crew of big money folk...sheep...and outright racists. but even given this, their treasonous attitudes are both sickening, and un-american.

not the outright leftist man of discerning skin tone. Who?