Tea Party poll results
Based on a fairly significant number of comments, the following objectives registered high on your list:
1. Increase state sovereignty
2. Throw out big government & big spending incumbents
3. Reform the tax code
4. Institute constitutional term limits for those in Congress
5. Decrease federal spending
6. Make Congress read the bills before voting
7. End all federal bailouts
In summary, We the People seek greater states’ rights, a more limited and fiscally restrained Federal Government, meaningful tax reform, and a more accountable Congress.
Dan Tank said:
Since the tax day tea party here in Duluth Mn I have gotten much more involved. I will do my part by participating in and helping set up future tea parties. Hopefully I will help change the direction our country is heading. I never thought I would be doing these things but then to I never thought we would be in this kind of a mess. Support your local tea parties. Support our troops.
June 26th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Dan Tank said:
Visit my site and you will see I am true to my word!
June 26th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
June Moore said:
We are asking all to go to your federal bldgs at 9:00 tomorrow. Hold vigils against the passing of a tax on the American people. Call the 8 conservatives that voted for it and the 3 that voted present and ask them how they can justify a vote against the American people. WE sat as they passed tarp, we sat as they passed the stimulus, we will sit no more. SILENT NO MORE.
@junmoore on twitter…..Let’s Roll!!!!
June 26th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Peter G. Voisin said:
Gentlemen:
Gentlewomen:
START YOUR ENGINES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are 2 versions of Bill Number H.R.2454 for the 111th Congress:
1 . American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (Introduced in House)[H.R.2454.IH]
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c111:1:./temp/~c111QSFZvh::
2 . American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (Reported in House)[H.R.2454.RH]
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c111:2:./temp/~c111QSFZvh:
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Roll Call Voting results:
http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/111/house/1/477
To Rep. Schuler
11th District
North Carolina
Your vote today in the affirmative for H.R. 2454 is the definitive moment of the ending of your career as the Representative of District 11 in the State of North Carolina. Circle this date on your calendar, so that you might remember the exact moment your fortunes changed.
From this day forward, your actions of today to cast your vote for legislation which you did not even bother to read will haunt you in ways you cannot even imagine. You have galvanized this constituent and thousands of others like me to actively seek your defeat in the November 2010 elections.
You have disrespected me, and every other person in your constituent base by your vote today.
Your thoughtless, inconsiderate and completely uninformed actions will cause irreparable economic damage to my family, this state and nation should this legislation survive to become law. It is absolutely unconscionable for you to vote the way you did, when you were contacted by many thousands of your constituents directing you – yes, DIRECTING you – to vote otherwise. To cast a ballot without even reading the legislation to ensure it was in keeping with your constituent’s wishes and values is a sterling example of just how little regard you hold for those who placed their trust in you by reelecting you to this position.
Perhaps you have forgotten that you are the SERVANT of the people you represent. You are OUR employee. As a businessman, I hold my employees accountable for their actions. When they deliberately mislead me, lie to me, and go against my stated wishes, I have no choice but to fire them.
You have taken money from my family’s budget with your vote. You have swelled the coffers of Goldman Sachs with yet another commodity/derivative scheme known as “Carbon Credits”. You have based your vote on faulty science which will be exposed by the next election.
I shall support any and all challengers to your seat in the 2010 elections, both with data and financial resources. I shall spread and opine on your shameful voting record as widely as possible from now until then. I will work tirelessly to track every vote you cast, and educate your constituents in the danger that you are, and the necessity to ensure your defeat in the coming elections.
And I shall remain incessant in my reminding you as to how I view your absolutely deplorable service to the residents of this District.
Shame, shame on you for this. Your family will look at your congressional career and ask you, WHY/ WHY/ WHY?
See you at the ballot box.
Cordially,
Peter Voisin
Independent Voter
(1,300,000 of us in NC)
June 27th, 2009 at 1:34 am
Michael said:
I’m part of a plan called “Bring Home the Politicians” that accomplishes all of these goals with one idea.
Relocate all US Reps and Sens to our State Capitols and all State Reps and Sens to our City Halls/Courthouses and have them telecommute with their counterparts.
This way we truly SURROUND THEM.
You can learn more, sign the petition, and get tea party materials at:
http://bringhomethepoliticians.com
June 29th, 2009 at 6:43 am
Nick said:
So you guys buying fertilizer and renting trucks too?
June 30th, 2009 at 10:47 am
chris said:
Hear ye, hear ye….who would have ever thought that this country would be in this mess. Granted, we have a lot of help getting here, but I really don’t think the current administration is going to be the \savior\ for this nation. It is sad to think, those that thought they were voting for \change\ - didn’t pay any attention to what kind of change we all would be getting. I still hear from people that didn’t vote, because there was no one to vote for…. sad to think this is what we end up with….hello - Jesse Ventura, Al Franken and BHO…. I sure hope we can make it to the next election and VOTE OUR MIND AND NOT OUR HEART……Thanks for listening.. I’m all for the Tea Parties —
June 30th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Delbert G Campbell said:
When it comes time to vote and clean the house(pun intendeed)Dont just vote out the incumbents, vote out the big government, big spending, wasteful incumbents. If you were just to oust the ones of a particular party, you will end up with what we have now. Lets face it most of the general population didn’t like president Bush, so they wouldn’t vote for anyone associated with him or his party. So now we have president Obama Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid running our country into the ground. Think before you vote.
July 2nd, 2009 at 6:38 pm
planck said:
Great to read the Tea Party Poll Results
There are a few things missing to get our ‘representative democracy’ back:
1. Reform campaign finance so corporate and industry lobbyists can’t use campaign contributions to incumbents or opponents to sway votes for bills
2. Repeal Buckley vs Valeo so that industry lobbyist groups can’t use unlimited $$$ to produce one-sided and misleading PR and advertising campaigns to sway or distract voters with fear, dis-info and manipulation
3. Reinforce “fairness doctrines” on all FCC licensed broadcast licensees, so that every American voter has access to balanced information and arguments for and against every issue and bill proposal
4. Reform media access to detailed and transparent news about legislation and legislators. Freedom of Information Act, and C-Span are not an adequate, and only just a bone!
It is silly to me to think that this lot of politicians is going to be any different from any other, when the system they were trained to work remains the same system. They are little mice on wheels!
Nothing is going to change from all these Tea Parties as long as Congresspeople know that padding bills for Corporate and Special interests is how they are going to get re-elected. The Congressmen get rich on their $180K + perks job year in and year out, plus the pension they qualify for.
Nothing is going to change until all Americans have access to the same information, and do not live in media markets that are dominated by one side of interests that sway voters into supporting candidates who don’t tell the truth about what they’re really doing in the fine print of these bills. Especially with media companies who make all their revenue from corporate advertising. They will never reveal the extent of corporate ’socialism’ out there. This bail-out was not the first one. Corporates get all kinds of breaks, loans, deals, tax-exemptions that nobody discloses. It was just the most public one!
That is how NAFTA got passed, and lots of other stuff that was definitely not in the interests of average American families. But, with Buckley, they were able to distract us with lots of other issues during the last 30 years, that had nothing to do with our economic well-being, but distracted us into voting on social issues.
Despite the Internet, 40% of Americans do not have good access to Internet information, and still have to rely upon broadcast media, particularly in rural and lower-income
communities. They are subject to dis-info and voter manipulation.
Because none of this showed up in the Poll, it is clear how little we really know how things work around here, and what things we need to change to fix it! That is also part of the dis-info. We know more about Michael Jackson, NASCAR, Homer Simpson than we do about our 1st Amendment rights. That is from a McCormack Tribune Freedom Museum Poll!
July 4th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Dave Dorman said:
I really don’t understand all the Bush bashing. I think down through the years history will show that Bush was a very good President. Taxes were low, interest rates stayed low, we were attacked and he kept us safe. Unnecessary war? What was he supposed to do? Nothing? Everyone was behind the war when it started and Bush never said it would be over quickly. Sure he made some mistakes, but who doesn’t. At least Bush didn’t overtly try to ruin the country and socialize it. People forget that things were going pretty well until the Dems took over in Congress in 2006. They started pushing through poor legislation, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. These were Dems programs and really were the reasons this whole banking/housing crisis got rolling.
Obama wanted change, but never said what he meant by that during his campaign. Now we know and holy shit are we in trouble! The latest is this energy bill. This will be a total disaster and God help us if it passes the Senate and becomes law. Obama and his cronies say they won the election so they can do whatever they want. Obviously they forgot, they work for us. Obama is nothing but a socialist. He says one thing and does another. You here him say how his programs have produced or saved millions of jobs and then the next sound byte on the news is how we lost 470,000 jobs in June alone!!! Does he think we are stupid? The good citizens of this country need to do everything in our power to make sure this is a one term Presidency! Let’s just hope he hasn’t done too much damage before we can get him out of office.
July 4th, 2009 at 4:33 pm