GOP Morphing?

For John, BLUF:  Part of life is educating others about political subjects of which they are ignorant.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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From The Atlantic we have, yesterday, an article by Journalism Professor Peter Beinartnov, looking to the longer term implications of the 2014 results.  "Why the GOP Blowout Is So Scary for Democrats."  The sub-headline does a better job of explicating the idea—"It's not just that the GOP won key races across the board.  It's that the party showed a new hunger to cross over to moderates and win."

Some join parties in order to win control of the levers of government and some join in order to push their own views of how governing should be done.  The best combine a desire to win elections with a sense of what government should be doing, which they can and have articulated to the voters.

Out there for Republicans there is the Republican Party, in its local, state and national versions.  There are the various Tea Parties, such as the Greater Lowell Tea Party.  Then there is the Republican Assembly, lead at the national level by Ms Sharron Angle, there is the Massachusetts Republican Assembly (MARA) and there is the local 3rd [Congressional] District of MARA, headed by local Conservative Ms Georjann McGaha.  Once upon a time there was a Massachusetts Conservative Party, and it may be rebounding.

This article says that within the Republican Party a number of people have coalesced around the idea that the Republican Party must drop certain issues and pull together.  The last paragraph of the article sums up the history presented and an idea of where things are possibly going.

The GOP brand remains terrible, and the party still faces huge challenges in winning the younger, Hispanic and female voters it needs to reclaim the White House.  But if Republicans remain in a political hole, tonight’s midterms suggest that they have at least stopped digging.  That’s 2014’s most important lesson for the presidential race that’s about to begin.

Maybe.

Hat tip to the Instapundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

Sequestration Again

For John, BLUF:  Are we seeing posturing by the Democrats in Congress or are those Democratic Party Congress Critters willing to "destroy the village to save it"?  Nothing to see here; just move along.

If Politico is to be believed, the Tea Party isn't the only speed bump in Congress.  We now have the "Cliff Jumpers".

A growing bloc of emboldened liberals say they’re not afraid to watch defense spending get gouged and taxes go up on every American if a budget deal doesn’t satisfy their priorities.

Here’s what these progressives fear:  an agreement that keeps lower tax rates for the wealthy, hits the social safety net with unpalatable cuts and leaves Pentagon spending unscathed.  In other words, they’d rather walk the country off the cliff than watch President Barack Obama cave on long-held liberal priorities.

Hat tip to the Althouse blog.

Regards  —  Cliff

The Republican Party, Its Parts

I recently read a discussion of Dead Carl's "Trinity" Concept.♠  It made me think of the Republican Party.  For those of you who see no difference between the major parties, I do.  I also can taste the difference between Coke and Pepsi.  Sometimes, when I travel, I can tell the difference in Coke based on where it is bottle.  But, on to the discussion of the "Trinity" (On War, page 89 of the Howard/Paret translation), which comes out of Dead Carl's studies of the Napoleonic Wars.

War is thus more than a mere chameleon, because it changes its nature to some extent in each concrete case. It is also, however, when it is regarded as a whole and in relation to the tendencies that dominate within it, a fascinating trinity—composed of:

• primordial violence, hatred, and enmity, which are to be regarded as a blind natural force;
• the play of chance and probability, within which the creative spirit is free to roam; and
• its element of subordination, as an instrument of policy, which makes it subject to pure reason.

The first of these three aspects concerns more the people; the second, more the commander and his army; the third, more the government. The passions that are to blaze up in war must already be inherent in the people; the scope that the play of courage and talent will enjoy in the realm of probability and chance depends on the particular character of the commander and the army; but the political aims are the business of government alone.

These three tendencies are like three different codes of law, deep-rooted in their subject and yet variable in their relationship to one another. A theory that ignores any one of them or seeks to fix an arbitrary relationship among them would conflict with reality to such an extent that for this reason alone it would be totally useless.

The task, therefore, is to keep our theory [of war] floating among these three tendencies, as among three points of attraction.

So, what we have is a description of three groups, which in today's Republican Party are "The Grass Roots", "The Candidates" and the GOP Establishment, "The Party Apparatchiks".♥

There is no doubt the Grass Roots, the Tea Party for instance, brings "primordial violence, hatred, and enmity" to the game.  Just ask the current Vice President, who fears the Tea Parties more than Hell itself.  The fact that every Tea Party member I know is a pretty conservative and down to earth person, interested in the good of the Nation and keeping the rally site clean, would not change his mind.  And he is not the only person nervous about the Tea Parties.  Just look at the rule changes being pushed by the Party Apparatchiks at the most recent Republican Convention. 

Then there are the Candidates (and their advisors), who exploit "the play of chance and probability, within which the[ir] creative spirit is free to roam" and to achieve victory.  The Candidates aren't necessarily looking to do anything with the Grass Roots other than to get them to the polls, and get them to man phone banks and take lawn signs.  As for the Party Apparatchiks, they are usually not found with the humble candidates, about whom they have not the time nor money to support, but with the great men and women who will win prominent office.

Finally, there are the Party Apparatchiks, who keep the machine going between elections.  They want a nice, quiet time of it.  They shudder when the think of the Tea Parties and how those people will cause others to scream "racist" at the Republican Party.  If they could have Ike back they would be happy; at least they think they would be happy.

Here is the whole thing presented as a diagram.

Now, the Democrats, they are pretty much the same, except that the Clinton Machine (Candidate) thought it had taken over "The Party", but that is not a victory that has been consolidated.

The third call to the house this AM was from the Parish (the first two being "get out the vote" calls), and the woman on the other end said this election cycle was a terrible thing.  I agree, but even Kad Barma hasn't come up with a good alternative.  Yes, I know he says vote for independents and third party candidates, but they will just go to seed like everyone else.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  That would be the late General Carl von Clausewitz, author of On War.  I have linked to one of a number of translations.  This happens to be the one I read while a student at Army War College and the one I used as a text while a Professor at the National War College.  As for Dead Carl, he has been dead since 1831, when Andy Jackson was President.
♥  From my computer dictionary:  "derogatory or humorous word—an official in a large organization, typically a political one, e.g., Tory apparatchiks."  It is "chiefly historical, a member of a communist party apparat."

OWS vs TP

Some have suggested that the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Tea Party movement are really the same thing.  Over at the Althouse blog we have this Venn Diagram, showing the overlap and the differences.

The source for this diagram is Alexis Madrigal at The Atlantic.  But then that source links to this source, Mr James Sinclair, at How Conservatives Drove Me Away.  Note that Mr Sinclair is a lawyer.

Regards  —  Cliff

Is THIS The End of the Euro?

From Matt Drudge we have a link to The Zero Hedge Blog, with this headline"Bring Out Your Dead - UBS Quantifies Costs Of Euro Break Up, Warns Of Collapse Of Banking System And Civil War", by Mr Tyler Durden.

Do you think this is all due to those Tea Parties SOBs, or is it more the 68ers coming to power?

• For American Democratic Party Members and Trade Unionists, pick the SOBs.
• For European "realists", pick the 68ers.
• All others continue to believe that Lord Keynes and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke will save the day.

Regards  —  Cliff

PS:  I think we have a Monty Python reference in there somewhere.

"Terrorists" to Meet at Harvard in Sept

To discuss Amending the US Constitution. (24-25 Sept)

Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig said, “From the Tea Party Right to the Progressive Left, there is agreement that something fundamental has gone wrong,”

“The solution to that disagreement is democracy,” Lessig said. “We should begin the long discussion about how best to reform our democracy, to restore its commitment to liberty and a Republic, by beginning a process to amend the Constitution through the one path the Framers gave us that has not yet been taken — a Convention.”

Hat tip to thecInstaPundit, who will be one of the speakers.

Regards  —  Cliff

Jay Severin is Back

Talk-Meister Jay Severin is back in the area, now on 1200 AM, WXKS.

But, while his audience may be the best and the brightest, sometimes he is not.

On this, his second day back on the air, he was making a comparison of the "Right", whose membership is patriotic and the "Left", which is not.  Tacky.  Sure, he is a talk show host and has to stir up his audience, but we should not be denigrating our fellow Citizens regarding their patriotism, no matter how misguided they may be.  It reminds me of one of the cartoons in this week's New Yorker.  It is a living room scene with an angry Mother in one corner and the Father in another, explaining to the son why he and the Mother are splitting up.  "Your mother and I are separating because I want what's best for the country and your mother doesn't." (p 67)

There is a lot of compromising that is going to be necessary to put this nation back on the right track.  While the President of the Senate may think that the members of the Tea Parties are "terrorists", the fact is that they are people who over the last several decades have come to believe that current Federal Programs are not sustainable over the long run and that the duty of this generation (these generations) is to build a solid system for those coming in the future.  These are people who have been shunted aside for quite some time.  They are especially unhappy with President George W Bush, who, with both Majority Democrat and Majority Republican Houses on Capitol Hill pushed forward his "Compassionate Conservative" Agenda and helped give us more debt.  Thus, the election in 2010.  Some 20% of the Nation said "Enough".

The thing is, compromise is going to be necessary if we are to move forward and not have a total collapse of the Federal Government.  I am not saying we wouldn't survive such a thing, but it would be ugly and the outcome could go either way (total rejection of Republicans or total rejection of Democrats, or total rejection of both, at the next election).  For both sides a compromise is in order.

There is a book out there, Getting to Yes, that encapsulate the view of many on negotiations.  I was on the phone with my youngest Brother this AM and he said we need an article on "Getting to No".  His view was that if everyone is happy at the end of the negotiation, someone missed something.  Since it is a negotiation, no one should be happy, but everyone should be willing to go forward together.

At lunch today with three friends, one of whom is a Contracts person for a local defense contractor (not the firm I sometimes work for), I broached this view of negotiations and he was about to demure, but quickly shook it off and said that such is usually the case.  If everyone is happy someone missed something.♠ 

That is what we are going to have on Capitol Hill.  The Tea Parties are not going to be happy with the outcome.  Those on the Left are not going to be happy with the outcome.  No one is going to be happy with the outcome except the Congressional Staffers, who will be able to again relax into just a hectic schedule rather than a marathon schedule.

I think what the Tea Parties should be looking for is a reasonable immediate payoff, but most important, a long term path that looks like it will not be easily discarded.  In the past the ability to wiggle out of an agreement has been the problem.  An agreement that has less wiggle room, even if Tea Parties are not totally happy, will be a successful negotiation.

I hope the 12 "Apostles" will come up with something along those lines.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  Sort of a spin-off of Blogger Greg Page's tagline quote on his EMails—"If everyone is thinking alike then someone isn't thinking."  He lifted it from General George C Patton, who probably lifted it from someone else.

What Do We Mean by "Tea Party"?

I like my terms tidy and in order and I like taxonomies that allow me to see subgroups inside larger groups.  Sometimes that is easy and sometimes not.

The term "Tea Party" has been bandied about recently, including connected to the term terrorist, which drew the response that the connection wasn't there or President Obama would have them as his friends (alluding to that couple in Chicago).

I am often confused by who is meant when the term "Tea Party" is flung around.

Is it the 87 Freshmen Congresspersons, elected last year?  They represent some 20% of the US Congress and thus some 20% of the Congressional voting districts across the fruited plain?  If we were, as someone this weekend suggested we should be, a Parliamentary Democracy, that would be a block big enough to be considered in a coalition government that was right of center.  If it is those 87 Freshmen members of the House of Representatives, it is not a "fringe group".

On the other hand, is it the 60 members of the "Tea Party" Caucus in the US House of Representatives.  A much smaller group.  Only about 13% of the US Congress and thus 13% of the US population.  But, still if we were a Parliamentary Democracy like Italy or Greece, that would be a block to be reckoned with.  On the other hand, that small group could be easily dismissed by any coalition of more Centrist Republicans and Democrats.  How could this small group amount to much?

Then, it might mean those unconnected, but like minded small groups of voters across the nation who gather in libraries and other meeting places to get together and talk about the US Economy and where the nation is headed.  Some, like commenter Jack, gives us a hint that he thinks of the Tea Party as the modern day "Brown Shirts".  "He should work to quickly kill it off before it comes after him."  As I recall, the "Brown Shirts" were young men, just back from the war, and many believing the fable about the Dolchstoßlegende.

The Tea Party folks I run across tend to be older, often in their 60s, and not lean and fit.  They are not complaining so much about past problems as future problems.

There is talk that the "Team Parties" across the fruited plain are all being run by the Republicans (or as someone suggested to me this afternoon, by Karl Rove himself).  Frankly, I haven't see such coordination.  As Kad Barma likes to point out, correlation does not equal causation.  Then there is the assertion that the "Team Parties" are being financed by the Koch Brothers.  If so, why is the local "Great Lowell Tea Party" only locally funded?  Maybe Massachusetts has been "written off" by the Koch Brothers.

So what do we really mean by this term "Tea Party"?

Regards  —  Cliff

Name Calling and Name Changes

At 9:02 AM this morning the following comment was posted to an Ann Althouse thread on Senator John McCain calling Tea Party members "Hobbits":

I notice that there has been a decline in the use of "tea bagger" as the left has shifted to the use of Tea Party so that the uninformed won't be confused as to the identity of the enemy.

My general theory is that if someone insults you, own the insult and be proud.

Regards  —  Cliff

Tea Party Folks

The Anchoress deals with the Debt Limit imbroglio by quoting G K Chesterton.  Her first quote is:

It cannot be too often repeated that all real democracy is an attempt (like that of a jolly hostess) to bring the shy people out. For every practical purpose of a political state, for every practical purpose of a tea-party, he that baseth himself must be exalted. At a tea-party it is equally obvious that he that exalteth himself must be abased, if possible without bodily violence. Now people talk of democracy as being coarse and turbulent; it is a self-evident error in mere history. Aristocracy is the thing that is always coarse and turbulent; for it means appealing to the self-confident people. Democracy means appealing to the diffident people. Democracy means getting those people to vote who would never have the cheek to govern; and (according to Christian ethics) the precise people who ought to govern are the people who have not the cheek to do it.

I thought this was very good, especially in opposition to Representative Mike Doyle (D-PA) (Pittsburgh area), who is quoted as having said inside a Democratic Party Caucus on Capitol Hill:

“We have negotiated with terrorists.  This small group of terrorists have made it impossible to spend any money.

Do we think Representative Doyle has anger management issues?  You can read more at Politico.

And, the Vice President, Joseph Biden, responded with:

They have acted like terrorists.

That, and his comment earlier in the day that Republican leaders "had guns to their heads" as they tried to negotiation.

I thought we were supposed to tone down this heated rhetoric after the tragedy in Tucson, where a Federal Judge was killed by a demented shooter and a US Representative was gravely wounded.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

Tea Party in Space

Here is a comment on the Tea Party in Space.  Yes, a Tea Party themed approach to space exploration, which is fitting, as the Shuttle comes to an end and we have no alternative for getting to the International Space Station, except the Russians.

Here is the full platform, plank by plank.

Please remember that there is not a single "Tea Party" but rather a loose collection of Local Tea Parties.  And, if anyone reading this blog knows anyone who has received money from the Koch Brothers, please contact me.  I know no one.

Hat tip to the Instapundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

Tea Party Goes to College

The Tea Party shows up in semi-higher education, at least per Inside Higher Education.

The thing I found interesting was local communities voting for their local community college (junior college) school boards.

Hat tip to the Instapundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

Tea Party and the Constitution

Way out at Northwestern University there are a series of items on the Tea Party and the US Constitution.  I thought it was kind of interesting.

Regards  —  Cliff

Greater Lowell Tea Party at Shedd Park

Yes, I went.  It was cold and windy and I wasn't dressed for it.  But, I enjoyed myself anyway and saw lots of folks I knew.  That said, I thought Lowell Sun reporter Lyle Moran's estimate of 100 was high♠  But, for a State with so many neo-liberals, it wasn't a bad turnout and it was an enthusiastic crowd.

Someone asked me about how many tea bags were hanging from hats at the event.  The fact is, the tea bag has gone out of vogue and been replaced by the tea pot.  The tea pot can be seen in the banner for the Greater Lowell Tea Party (we have quite an artist in the group).

And, some who seek to denigrate the Tea Party movement tend to us the "tea bag" term in ways suggesting disreputable things.  And, since the fracus in Madison, Wisconsin, the new term is "flee bags", for those Democratic Party members of the State Legislature who fled to Rockford, Illinois, rather than be present and argue their points and then vote.

Here is a patriotic "Tea Pot" pin.  The woman wearing it said her husband saw it and bought it for her.  A very nice piece of jewelry for providing an opportunity to talk about the Tea Party movement.  And, it would be appropriate to note that there is not monolithic "Tea Party", but rather a collection of individual, local Tea Parties.

Here is Patches the Clown entertaining the children during the rally.  This is not to be confused with Patches Kennedy.  Part of the entertainment was balloons, a couple of which popped as they were being inflated.

"Being inflated" reminds me of the reason for the rally.  There are folks out there who are concerned about our economy and the possibility that current spending will lead to galloping inflation.  The Tea Party is a small government movement.  The various Tea Parties, if members knew the term, would subscribe to subsidiarity.♥

And speaking of "Tea Parties", the idea of a monolith known as "the Tea Party" is to miss the decentralized nature of the movement.  There may be some Tea Parties being financed by "powerful forces", but the Great Lowell Tea Party was holding a bake sale to help pay for what was going on.

Further, there is diversity of opinion within the movement.  At the Rally there were two petitions being circulated for signing.  One was for a requirement to show ID to vote.♦  Frankly, this seems like a no-brainer.  I show my ID at various times and places, especially when using a credit card to pay for things while shopping.  It is mandatory if I am going to board an airplane.  It should not be such a hard thing for those voting.  Here is a Facebook Page on the issue of showing and ID to vote.

The other petition was to send a message to Senator Scott Brown, expressing disappointment in some of his votes.  A participant sidled up to the table and looked at the petition and said that he wasn't going to sign because, in his opinion, Senator Brown was doing a remarkable job for a Senator from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and he didn't want to give him a hard time for not being someone he couldn't be anyway.  I fully agree with that position and the person behind the table was gracious in accepting that explanation.  "Gracious".  That defined the interactions of the people at the Rally.

Sure, the speakers tried to give us stemwinders, but that is the job of a Rally speaker.  Ms Sandi Martinez, from Chelmsford (GREATER Lowell Tea Party) kicked things off and then set a timer and introduced Tom Wirtanen.♣ 

Don Feder, former Columnist for The Boston Herald, was the keynote speaker.

Holly Robichaud, from The HBoston erald, where she blogs as "The Lone Republican", talked.

Dick Patton, who had a forefather in the original Boston Tea Party, spoke about Estate (Death) Taxes.

Loren Spivack, the Free Market Warrior, talked about economics.  Mr Spivack is a graduate of UMass Amherst, out in the hinterlands of Massachusetts.

Others who spoke included Capt. Jim Dixon, an Airline Captain (and former Naval Aviator (S-3s)), who is running for the 10th Middlesex Rep seat in a 10 May Special Election.  That is Jim on the right.

There was even some Blue Grass music, from Fiddlin' Ed.

Considering it was the deadline for filing Income Tax Returns, it was a pretty fine day.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  That was for any Immaculate Children's Choir members following this blog.
♥  From the Wikipedia link:  "Subsidiarity is an organizing principle that matters ought to be handled by the smallest, lowest or least centralized competent authority. The Oxford English Dictionary defines subsidiarity as the idea that a central authority should have a subsidiary function, performing only those tasks which cannot be performed effectively at a more immediate or local level. The concept is applicable in the fields of government, political science, cybernetics, management, military (Mission Command) and, metaphorically, in the distribution of software module responsibilities in object-oriented programming. Subsidiarity is, ideally or in principle, one of the features of federalism, where it asserts the rights of the parts over the whole."
♦  This is about dead people voting, and folks voting for their neighbors.  But, it could be about a father/son mixup, as happened about ten years ago.  I was registered to vote and my son moved up here from Virginia and did the register by mail.  When I showed up to vote there was only one Clifford R Krieger on the voter roll.  Since I was the early bird I voted.  My son Clifford R (R) Krieger, was livid that he was not going to vote (and no one offered him a provisional ballot).  If he had gotten there before me he would most certainly have voted.  I am not sure showing an ID to vote would have saved me, but it would be part of a process that would raise the awareness of all of us about voting and keeping the rolls correct.  My supposition is that in the Elections Section they looked at the registration card, and the name, and decided that it was a duplicate, and put it in the circular file.  Why, yes, my son went down to City Hall that very morning and complained.
♣  This may be an inside joke, in that Tom has a propensity to go on and on.  The timer was Sandi's polite way of telling Tom there was a limit to his time—others needed their chance to talk.

Tea Parties

I owe a blog post in the Greater Lowell Tea Party rally at Shedd Park on Monday last.  Tomorrow, I hope.

In the mean time, there is this from blogger Ann Althouse.

Regards  —  Cliff

Tea Party Rally Here

No, Sarah Palin is not going to be there, but the Great Lowell Tea Party is having a Tax Day Rally anyway, at Shedd Park, from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM.

Monday, 18 April 2011

Shedd Park Pavallion

Rain or Shine

And Blue Grass Music

And a clown (Patches—not that Patches) for the Kids

Regards  —  Cliff

Another Look at Tea Parties

From the UK we have this article by Reporter Janet Daley,♠ discussing the American Tea Parties.  Note how she sees it as a plural.  In the UK, "Parliament are" and apparently they realize, "Tea Parties are".  The dateline is Saturday, the 30th.

FOr those who find this article too friendly to the Tea Parties movement, there is always this view at The Boston Globe.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  Actually, Ms Daley was born here in the States and spent her undergraduate time at Berkeley, out in California.  Then, in 1965 she moved to Britain and, notwithstanding her twenty years in academia, slid from left to right.

The Tea Party

Early in the morning, today's Washington Post headlined an article on the Tea Party Movement.

Aside from twice trying to portray the Tea Party Movement as racist, the article did a pretty good job of describing the Tea Party phenomenon.

But a new Washington Post canvass of hundreds of local tea party groups reveals a different sort of organization, one that is not so much a movement as a disparate band of vaguely connected gatherings that do surprisingly little to engage in the political process.

The results come from a months-long effort by The Post to contact every tea party group in the nation, an unprecedented attempt to understand the network of individuals and organizations at the heart of the nascent movement.

In fact, one of the people they contacted is Lowell resident and Greater Lowell Tea Party leader Barbara Klain.  Barbara told me:

Yes, I did answer some questions by telephone.

When I was interviewed I mentioned that although fiscal responsibility on the part of the individual and the government is, I believe, a common thread, tea parties across the nation differ greatly because each one reflects the concerns and needs of the local population.  If we were to become organized under one national umbrella we would lose the immediacy that makes us click.

As the last statement says, we exist "to educate members and encourage them to become active on their own."  This year, I plan to pursue the education theme.  Between election pushes, I hope to educate our group about the Constitution and to show one or two films that I think are important.

So, while many think the Tea Party Movement is the tool of larger secretive movement, but The Washington Post article suggests it is just what Tea Party members have been saying—it is a series of grass-roots organizations springing from individual frustration with the direction of government.

As for the suggestions of racism put forward in the article, all I can talk to is our local situation.  The members of the Great Lowell Tea Party came to a consensus on backing Sam Meas in his race for the Republican nomination to run against Representative Niki Tsongas.  Money was given, registration efforts were made and signs and bumper stickers were displayed.

It does seem to me that part of the issue of what The Washington Post refers to as racism is really questions about who President Barack Obama really is and where he wants to take us, as a nation.  The two things should not be confused, least we cause confusion.

Racism is wrong!  Let us be clear on that.  And, as our nation's Attorney General has told us, we need to talk about race.

But, that is not what the Tea Party exists for.  The Tea Party is concern for Government financial stability on the part of folks approaching or at retirement.  Sure, there are young folks in the movement, but the it is the older folks who are driving the agenda, at least here in the Lowell area.  We are just lucky to have a young woman like Barbara Klain ramrodding our outfit.

If you liked this Wash Post article you might consider asking your local convenience store owner about making a fuss about the fact that the newspaper no longer makes it this far north on Sundays.

If you are interesting in the Great Lowell Tea Party, contact me or call Barbara Klain.

Regards  —  Cliff

Those "Tea Party" (Like) Crowds

From over at the Althouse Blog we have some observations about the crowd at President Obama's speech at UW (at Madison), earlier in the week.  Basicaly it is about the fact that the crown in attendance looks like what the mainstream media and Democrats say a Tea Party gathering looks like—very "white".

Regards  —  Cliff

Tea Party and "People of Color"

Up front I will say that the video to which this links is not a statistical answer to the accusation that the Tea Party is lilly white, but it is a humorous video.

Regards  —  Cliff