This was an excellent find by our Kingwood Area Democrat member Patty Robinson Pinkley that I simply had to blog. This seems to be following the pattern I see here locally in Kingwood.
The supposedly robust Tea Party movement is a movement that only gets traction when the plutocrats need a few peons to do their bidding. My hope is that in the next 15 months they will wake up and come over to the progressive side. Little do many of them realize that the progressives are the only ones looking out for their real interest.
Interesting enough the King Street Patriots, a Tea Party organization had the opening of a new head quarter in Houston, TX. Those of us protesting the event seemed to have more people present protesting than they had in attendance.
I do not want to be too hard on the Tea Partiers because I have been in contact with many over the last several months and for the most part, most in the Houston area have been nothing but warm to me. I give those that are ignorant to the realities of what their corporate induced platform really stand for a pass. Those that continue their ideological drive irrespective of facts showing the damage their ideology has caused, is causing, and will cause must be exposed often, ubiquitously, and loudly.
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Tea Party Rally Promises to Bring in Thousands — And Only 30 People Show Up
A Tea Party rally on Thursday in Columbia, South Carolina was expected to draw 2,000 to 3,000 people, or so its organizers claimed. A key speaker, Donald Trump, canceled his appearance, but the state’s governor, Nikki Haley, who’s been talked about as a Republican vice presidential candidate, did speak. And yet attendance wasn’t in the four figures or even the three figures — it was 30.
But does it matter? These rallies of people with plastic folding chairs and tricorn hats aren’t the real Tea Party.
is the real Tea Party:
This weekend, for the eighth straight year, the billionaire Koch brothers will convene a meeting of roughly 200 wealthy businessmen, Republican politicians and conservative activists for a semi-annual conference to raise millions of dollars for the institutions that form the intellectual foundation — and, increasingly, the leading political edge — of the conservative movement.
The real Tea Party is the conference the Koch brothers held last January, and will hold again next year — and that will continue to be well attended. The real Tea Party is every editorial meeting at the headquarters of Fox News. The real Tea Party is any non-social gathering involving Karl Rove and one or more people in expensive suits. And those will continue to be well attended.
Right now, we’re not in an election cycle, so the rich backers of the Tea Party have no need to put bodies in the streets — and, in fact, they may want the crowds to stay small, in the hope that tea-friendly presidential candidates such as Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann will not appear to be getting traction, and more electable, slightly less extreme extremists such as Mitch Daniels will rise up in their place
Tea Party Rally Promises to Bring in Thousands — And Only 30 People Show Up | AlterNet
