HappyJoy
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Seriously? The Conservative reaction to Bush towards the end -- CAUSED the creation of the Tea Party. Don't think you know the diff between being a Conservative and a Republican. Or the diff between being a Liberal and a Democrat for that matter..
BTW -- Welcome to USMB.. LOL...
Yea, you keep telling yourself that. The Tea Party was more energized by opposition Obama than opposition to Bush -- which is why it was easy for the Koch Brothers to co-opt it and make it the mockery that it continues to be today.
Notice, they didn't have all of the rallies until AFTER bush left office, not while he was in office. Like I said, memory is kryptonite to most conservatives.
I was being kind by making this about Bush -- I could made this about "Sarah Palin" -- and we ALL KNOW how conservatives loved her -- until.......
BZZZZZZT.. Tea party movement STARTED circa 2007. It was reaction to Bush's "market interventions" during the 2007/8 economic woes and his inability to get much Conservative issues addressed. ESPECIALLY the budget deficits that Bush was running.
Koch Bros are largely Libertarian. They are not Conservative ideaologues. Don't LOVE the RNC. You've got a lot to learn. You need links on the GENESIS of the Tea Party movement?
Even Limbaugh was dissing Bush policies about 2006..
You tell lies.
Tea Party movement, conservative populist social and political movement that emerged in 2009 in the United States, generally opposing excessive taxation and government intervention in the private sector while supporting stronger immigration controls.
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in his response to Pres. Barack Obama’s mortgage relief plan. Speaking from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Santelli heatedly stated that the bailout would “subsidize the losers’ mortgages” and proposed a Chicago Tea Party to protest government intervention in the housing market. The five-minute clip became an Internet sensation, and the “Tea Party” rallying cry struck a chord with those who had already seen billions of dollars flow toward sagging financial firms. Unlike previous populist movements, which were characterized by a distrust of business in general and bankers in particular, the Tea Party movement focused its ire at the federal government and extolled the virtues of free market principles.
Tea Party movement | American political movement