Tea Party Nation [pro-life, pro-military, anti-homo agenda] Letter to the GOP!

received via email | November 22, 2010 | Signed by over 180 Tea Party Groups, Leaders and Activists

[Jim Robinson]

Today, Tea Party Nation, along with over 180 other Tea Party Groups, Leaders and Activists released a letter to the Republican leadership on Capitol Hill.

Last week, GOProud, a non-Tea Party group, sent a letter to Senator McConnell and Speaker to be Boehner, claiming to speak for the Tea Party movement. It was signed by 16 people. We decided to send a letter that speaks for the mainstream of the Tea Party movement. This letter is going Senator McConnell and Congressman Boehner today. It has been signed by over 180 Tea Party Groups, Leaders and Activists.

Here is the letter:

Dear Senator McConnell and Congressman Boehner,

Last Monday, a small group of non-Tea Party, non-conservatives, released a letter, trying to claim leadership of the Tea Party movement and purporting to tell you what the Tea Party movement wants.

We, the undersigned, are leaders of mainstream Tea Party groups. We are the people that helped get conservatives elected on November 2. While we do not speak for this movement as a whole, we are a large cross section of this movement and we want to tell you what this movement wants.

First, we want Obamacare defunded. There is no compromise on this issue and it is not negotiable. We do not want Obamacare lite. We do not want it “tinkered” with. We want it repealed. We realize the chance of Obamacare being repealed before 2013 are slim, but it can be defunded. That is the next best thing.

Second, we want serious reductions in spending. A spending cut is not simply a reduction in the amount of the increase. It is a reduction in spending. America cannot afford Washington’s spending sprees any more.

The question is where to start. Here is the answer. Let’s start by eliminating waste, fraud and abuse from the budget. Billions of dollars are wasted through programs that are unneeded, unnecessary and exist only to benefit special interests. Let’s go through the budget line by line and eliminate these programs.

We in the Tea Party are ready to help on this one. We know you have staffs. We have thousands of volunteers who are prepared to rip the budget apart and help you. All you have to do is ask us.

The left will whine about every spending cut, coming up with some story about how horrible it will be. Americans are very charitable but cannot stand the thought of their tax dollars being wasted. This is the proverbial low hanging fruit.

Third, we must dismantle the liberal-political complex. Liberal groups such as Acorn and Planned Parenthood receive millions of dollars in federal monies every year. This must stop. Most of the members of this movement would probably describe themselves as pro-life. Regardless, abortion is a multibillion-dollar business. Why is the government paying Planned Parenthood anything, much less almost $1 billion from 2002-2009?

Fourth, if the debt ceiling is to be raised, this is the last time. Uncle Sam’s credit card must be cut up. America cannot afford Obama/Pelosi/Reid’s spending spree. We urge you to raise the debt ceiling only if a spending reduction plan is in place prior to that time. We do not want to see the ceiling raised in exchange for a promise to cut spending later. We Americans now regard those promises as credible as those emails we get telling us we have won the lottery.

Fifth, taxes must be reduced. The Bush tax cuts must be extended for everyone, made permanent and the burden the government places on small businesses must be drastically reduced so that small businesses can grow and start hiring unemployed Americans.

Sixth, there can be no amnesty. America has always welcomed immigrants. Legal immigrants. We want you to oppose the DREAM act and any other effort for amnesty. In 1986, President Reagan agreed to amnesty, in exchange for the promise the border would be secured. We got amnesty then and twenty-five years later, the border is still not secured. This time, we have to insist the border be secured and illegal aliens leave and then reapply like everyone else. We need to change our immigration laws and require that before specialized workers are brought in, there must be conclusive proof that no American is available to do that job. We also need to change our immigration policy so that the top criteria for someone immigrating to America is what they can do for America. The diversity immigration lottery must be eliminated.

Seventh, we want you to fight the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. The policy has worked well for the last fifteen years. There is no reason to change. While there are many ways to debate an issue, sometimes you can judge the validity of a proposal by who supports it. Various radical leftist groups such as Code Pink support the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. These groups have one goal. They want to weaken the United States Military. If these groups think this is a good idea, that is a pretty good indication, it is not.

We, the members of the mainstream Tea Party movement have a lot of expectations for you in this Congress. We realize the limitations you face. But we also realize the tools you have at your disposal. America is a conservative country. We expect conservative leadership from our country. The Republican Party had its head handed to it in 2006 and 2008 because it departed from its conservative base. Now is your chance to return to your roots and govern, as we the people want you to.

We are here with you, we are here supporting you and we have our eyes on you. Do not disappoint us.

Sincerely,

November, 2010

[LomanBill]

[We are still trying to create an honest yet tough following.]

It's not about creating a "following".

It's about empowering AMERICAN Individuals, for whom Almighty God hath created the mind FREE - with the ability to perceive self-evident Truths FOR THEMSELVES.

It's a process of reformation that requires articulate recognition of the American First Principles; the foundational American Ideals that are written in stone on the walls here:

That is the purpose of the American Tea Party - both in 1776 and present; NOT creating a "Following" for a bunch of jackwagons who've confused leadership with marketing and control.

[trisham]

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[DBeers]

I am not in favor of the GOP Proud position. I don’t claim that they represent the tea party in any way shape or form. Same for the pro-abortionists. I think those people are particularly evil. I am not advocating any one “letting them in.”

I completely understand you are not in favor of leftist, progressive anti American agendas. On that subject we are in agreement.

The tea party coalition of people is influential right now because we are deep and wide and 100% united in our conviction that the government is too big, it is too intrusive, and taxes are too high. We desperately need a large coalition to hold the politicians accountable on spending and scope of government.

What I would suggest is that the tea party is a grass roots bottom up ground swell where we see Americans becoming engaged in public discourse and wanting to return ship America to a proper course.

In this free market of ideas and search for solutions ALL ideas should be heard and ALL ideas should be judged as legitimate and or valuable based upon the merits alone.

What we see here with this call for "limits" e.g. leave morality at home is an attempt to prevent some ideas from even being presented. This call for putting a leash on the tea party is primarily coming form the left -what are they afraid of?

My point is that if the tea party as a force is as "intelligent" and successful as it would seem it has been then why does it need a leash put on it now?

I say have faith in the tea party and the American people DO NOT become a useful idiot supporting those who wish to put a leash on the tea party and turn it into just another establishment lap dog...

NOTHING should be off the table!

FREEDOM!!!

[Copernicus]

The elites would see that as a mandate to let them get into more debt.

Exactly so.

It is now, has always been and always will be an expenditure, not a revenue problem.

True story.

Before his death Michael Jackson had an annual income of $25 Million from royalties on his record copyrights. (He owned the Beatles Archive among other things)

Somehow, he still managed to pile up an outstanding debt of some $50 Million to the point his creditors had begun to sue for their outstanding balance.

Last I heard his his estate had just about paid down his debt because he was NO LONGER ALIVE TO CONTINUE HIS PROFLIGATE LIFESTYLE.

Expenditure, not income is the important point.

Best regards,

[victim soul]

Thanks for all you do to keep us free!!