From Gallup comes the latest bit of news suggesting the tea party isn't as revolutionary as its members like to think: When asked what they considered "extremely serious threats" to the country's future wellbeing, tea partiers cited the exact same things as run-of-the-mill Republicans.
Shocker, right?
Source:
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/07/shocker-tea-party-gop-beliefs-identical
At an event about the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, former President Clinton suggested that Tea Partiers were connected to the 1990s militia movement, which greatly upset Fox talking heads. The Fox pundits ignored the saturation of Patriot movement ideas and agendas at Tea Party events, as well as appearances by militia leaders.
Source:
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/foxheads-are-shocked-shocked-we-tell
As chairman of FreedomWorks, the group credited with mobilizing the Tea Party movement, Dick Armey is the movement's de facto leader.
Yet Armey's years spent lobbying for a group recognized by the State Department as being a terrorist organization--should give Tea Partiers pause.
Source:
http://www.truthout.org/secrets-tea-party-the-troubling-history-tea-party-leader-dick-armey57970
