Sen. Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer force blogger to join Tea Party

Boston Tea Party engraving on post card from US Library of Congress’ digital collection. Had it not been for the Tea Party and other efforts on behalf of liberty, there would have been no USA.

If you listen to Sen. Harry Reid (Nev.) and Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), you’d think they don’t sound like friends of any Tea Party group. In fact, they are.

USA Today quoted Reid: "[N]ow the Tea Party among others, they are the biggest push, is trying to push its extreme social agenda, issues that have nothing to do with funding the bill."

Schumer has called Tea Partiers “the extreme element of his [House Speaker John Boehner's] party.”

Schumer was also caught with his political pants down when he explained Democrats should paint Tea Partiers as “extremists” and a phone mic was left open. I think Schumer could care less—he’s had traditional media in his hand for a long time. Otherwise he’d have been figuratively tarred and feathered when he cost all those IndyMac employees their jobs after he leaked a letter about the bank’s financials. Schumer is a veteran leaker.

Aside from those two socialist-progressive titans, many others have attacked Tea Party supporters. I routinely delete comments containing juvenile profanity about these grassroots groups seriously underestimated by Democrats.

A recent Rasmussen survey produced interesting results: “48% of Likely U.S. Voters say when it comes to the major issues facing the country, their views are closer to the average Tea Party member as opposed to the average member of Congress.  Just 22% say their views are closest to those of the average congressman. Even more (30%) aren’t sure.”

A few months ago I was out and about and an executive who is a very smart, accomplished man asked me, “Are you a member of a Tea Party group?”

I told him I wasn’t but I sympathized with a lot of their grassroots views on how our country is run. “Are you a member of one?” I asked.

He surprised me with his answer. “Yes, I am.”

It may have been fate, but about a week later I met a retired nurse. We talked briefly, touching on politics and she shared with me she had just come from a Tea Party meeting.

Segue to numerous Democrats fear-mongering for the benefit of TV cameras over the potential government shutdown most of us won’t even notice as long as our troops are paid. I’d add any president who doesn’t take care of our troops in a time of war, especially when that president just got us into a truly unnecessary, costly war in Libya, doesn’t deserve the title commander-in-chief. Remember that when you choose our next president in 2012; remember how Democrats held an axe over the heads of our military families for nothing more than political posturing.

Maybe it was the executive or the nurse. Maybe it was the common sense government reform that all the tea party groups have in common.

But in truth, it was more likely the venom coming from the mouths of two senators long past their prime who are eroding the strength of a great nation by indebting us for generations to come with a shuttle-taxpayer-money-to-cronies approach.

I did it. This blogger joined the First Coast Tea Party yesterday. I made a small donation.

I was forced (mentally pressured) to do this by two Democrats who have made a lifelong living off of manipulating American politics to benefit their purses and those of their cronies. Reid and Schumer symbolize everything that is repugnant about the US Congress.

And because of Reid and Schumer, I was forced—largely on the basis of my conscience and love for my country—to join a Tea Party.

I’d suggest you do the same and donate as much as you can to the group you join.

Schumer and Reid may not realize it, but they are, in fact, ‘friends’ of the Tea Party.

The First Coast Tea Party will hold a Tax Day rally in Jacksonville, with guests like media titan Andrew Breitbart headlining the program. Read more about the rally at Covering Florida Online.

Meanwhile, if you want to follow the real “extremists,” check out the Fox News story [link below] about two events many traditional media will attend—both events are receiving significant funding from George Soros, king of the New World Order. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and some of her fellow socialist-progressives will be there.

Related

Read about Chuck Schumer and the IndyMac back story at National Review.

Two George Soros events aim to remake financial order and media
Fox News

Schumer’s Tea Party irrationality
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(Commentary by Kay B. Day/April 8, 2010)

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Update on Friday, April 8, 2011 at 3:30PM by Kay B. Day, Editor

Democrats are already seeing whiplash for using our troops' pay as a bargaining chip. The Facebook Group Ensuring Pay for our Military Act 2011 has more than 840,000 supporters.