Rick Manning | February 20, 2016
Where is the tea party? Since CNBC’s Rick Santelli’s fateful on air speech onFebruary 19, 2009, the words “tea party” have invoked hate and vitriol from the left, fear from the GOP establishment and near reverence from the right, yet they are virtually unspoken in this election season.
Like every grassroots uprising on the right, the tea party was never a top-down organized entity, but instead a bubbling up of individuals who were concerned enough about the fate of their country that they gave up their time to show up at rallies, form small local groups and set up blogs to urge change.
Like every grassroots uprising on the right, the tea party was never a top-down organized entity, but instead a bubbling up of individuals who were concerned enough about the fate of their country that they gave up their time to show up at rallies, form small local groups and set up blogs to urge change.
And it was change they got. In 2010, the GOP threw Nancy Pelosi out of the Speaker’s chair and replaced her with John Boehner who was known for fiery limited government speeches on the House floor. After the 2012 re-election of Obama over a candidate who signed the state health care law that much of Obamacare was modeled after, Mitt Romney, those who identified with the tea party label gave Republicans their long sought after control of the Senate in 2014.....
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