The new group called "One Nation" consists of 170 of the country's leading liberal leaders who say the coalition is to "counter the Tea Party narrative." Organizers have launched their movement under the moniker "all the change" they voted for, seeking to energize the base that elected Barack Obama in 2008.
The Washington Post reports that among the groups involved with One Nation are the National Council of La Raza, the NAACP, the AFL-CIO, and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) -- groups which together represent "the core of the first-time voters" who backed Obama, notes the Post.
Kristi Hamrick, president of Gary Bauer's Campaign for Working Families, points out that most attempts to mimic grassroots conservative movements often fail.
"That was amusing when extremists on the liberal left tried to duplicate things like The Rush Limbaugh Show...Focus on the Family, or even the Tea Party movement, because they fundamentally don't understand that the American people don't want what they have to sell," she contends.
There is no grassroots conservative movements. AFP was founded by billionaire Richard Mellon-Scaife, and FreedomWorks was founded by former Congressman, Dick Armey. This has been a corporate PR campaign to convince middle class Republican base voters to keep voting against their own interests and to continue voting for the interests of big business.
ReplyDeleteThey are wasting time and money. The progressive movement is on a downward spiral along with Obamanomics. Let's hope we can get this country back on conservative, solid financial footing before it's too late. My fear is that it's too late already. Even their own ilk are saying that if we keep spending the way Obama is spending now this "cancer" will eat us from the inside out.
ReplyDeleteThe TEA party is a true grass roots movement you just can't fake that .
ReplyDeleteWe have been expecting this for some time , however , they don't have a chance in hell. We are going to send them there. When are the public going to understand that this is friggin war.
ReplyDelete4:32....You sound like a Keith Olberman/Rachel Maddow troll. It doesn't matter if Dick Armey is participating, fact is, it's the sentiment of a large percentage of the American population. Now, personally I don't attend stuff like that. The Libs can try it, but it'll turn out just like Air America did. This country is a centrist nation, pretty much on a Grandfather clock-esque pendulum. Obviously the voters have been bamboozled by the Libs, and it'll show in the next 2 elections. Barack's a one-termer.
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ReplyDeleteYou are just another liberal troll trying to discredit the teaparty movement.
I've had a teaparty rally in my neighborhood that was attended by my neighbors. People I know. We all have the same goals.
1. Smaller government
2. Respect for the constitution
3. No socialism
Your progressive movements are all orchestrated by union and communist bosses, and the people that show up are bussed in from somewhere else. When somebody challenges those progressive liberal fools, they get violent!
You aren't fooling anyone!
for all the fuss the teabaggers look like a well fed lot
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen so much gas and oil since the Exxon Mobil merger
5:44 Why must you use a homosexual term to describe a movement of concerned citizens most of which are old enough to be your grand parents ? You must be afraid !
ReplyDelete5:52, because that's what they are. teabaggers. They used that term to describe themselves last year. And when it was brought to their attention what it really meant, they ran away from it. They're teabaggers.
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