Posted on 10/30/2010 2:50:21 AM PDT by iowamark
Less than two years ago, Amy Kremer and Jenny Beth Martin were 30-something suburbanites in metro Atlanta, frustrated by recession, dismayed by the election of Barack Obama and waiting for the next chapter of their lives.
Ms. Kremer, a former Delta Air Lines flight attendant, had quit her career to raise her daughter. The child had grown up and just moved out, and now Ms. Kremer was filling her time with two blogs—one on gardening, one on politics.
"I had this empty space in my life," Ms. Kremer recalls.
Ms. Martin, a software manager by training and part-time blogger, was cleaning houses to help pay the bills after her husband's temporary-staffing business collapsed. They were in danger of losing their home.
As her family's fortunes crumbled, Congress—including Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), for whose campaign Ms. Martin had volunteered—voted for President George Bush's bill to bail out the big Wall Street banks.
Ms. Martin was enraged. "It wasn't because the government didn't bail my husband's business out," she says. "Sometimes it stinks when your business goes bad. But it's part of our system.… The government doesn't need to come in and hold a business up and keep it from failing."
In the span of a few weeks in February and March 2009, the two women met on a conference call and helped found the first major national organization in the tea-party movement. Within months, they became two of the central figures in the most dynamic force in American politics this year.
Ms. Kremer, 39, currently chairs the political action committee known as the Tea Party Express. It has raised millions of dollars for upstart candidates and engineered the campaign that threatens Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).
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As such, there's a good chance Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi will lose her position, and there's a chance that even Senator Harry Reid--Senate Majority Leader--may not even get re-elected! Watch for big fight on who the Democrats will select for their Congressional leaders for the 112th Congress. And don't be surprised that there will be an attempt to depose DNC chairman Time Kaine, too.
"The Republican Party directs a lot of what the Tea Party does, but not everybody in the Tea Party takes direction from the Republican Party. And so there was a lot of, shall we say, Astroturf, as opposed to grassroots," she said. (2/28/2010)
Monumental stupidity from the third in line - that is the Democrat brand.
Well now, we conservatives are just a bit busy right now but all those media types, their enablers and appropriate others stay tuned...we will have a little chat with you soon.
Just proves that one person CAN make a difference, and that regular folks, not just the political elite, can stir the pot, shake things up, and make a difference that produces results.
This is just one battle in the war. The next election cycle we need to continue to find great, conservative & constitutional candidates to primary against rino senators not up for re-election this cycle and to hold those elected in this round their feet to the fire, otherwise launch primary candidates against them in 2 years.
The progressives can only achieve their goals through stealth. Once exposed, they resort to facist attacks (Andy Stern’s “persuasion of power”).
Union members are apparently now waking up to the fact they their union dues are being wasted on political activity they do not agree with. Which is why there should also be a tea party movement within the various union organizations.
The deliciously funny part is that these folks who are reporting can only see a tiny little tip of this gargantuan iceberg.
About Unions in government - it is time for Republicans to give those employees a raise by allowing them to reject membership as done in any state that has “right to work” laws. Then in four years make government unions a thing of the past. Look at the small steps the left uses on gay rights, on medical care, they pushed prescription drugs till Bush had to make something happen. The left is willing to take small steps - that was once the power of Reagan too. Small steps making government rules smaller, making the # of employees smaller, making pensions smaller...it takes citizens like the Tea Party to show government what they MUST do...get out of our lives.
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