[a fool in paradise]

Tea Partiers got stirring in the Bush years when Bush nominated weak Supreme Court justices like Harriet Miers and tried to usher in GOP’s “immigration reform” in 2006.

It isn’t the race or party of the fool in the White House, it is the right of center public speaking out against the policies.

There was an outcry over the Dubai Ports Deal (although there SHOULD have been an outcry when Bill Clinton first outsourced it to a foreign nation to begin with).

There was an unsuccessful outcry over the bailouts (enough to make Congress and the President wait 2 more weeks before ramming it through in late 2008).

It is Socialist Revisionist History to say otherwise.

[griswold3]

Tea Partiers standing firm to keep the government in check.
What you say is totally true. Wnenever a ‘progressive’ asks where were you during the Bush years, I simply tell them you wouldn’t shut up long enough to hear us!

[Kaslin]

Harriet Miers is a Lawyer and was President Bush's White House council. She was nominated by President Buss as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, but opposition from both sides of the political spectrum led President Bush to withdraw the nomination at Miers's request.

She was never a judge

[jeltz25]

well, that may be true. But I don’t think you would seriously claim that if Bush had served a 3rd term or if McCain had won that we’d be seeing anything like the current Tea Party movement, even if their policies had remained roughly similar.

[ohioWfan]

Sorry. But Harriet Miers had nothing to do with the Tea Party movement.

You're 'revising' history there, fip.