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Tea Party Activists Unveil 'Contract From America'

Tea Party activists are once again descending on Washington, D.C., and this time they have a 10-point "Contract From America" that they want the next Congress to follow. "We want them to listen to us," Ryan Hecker, the conservative activist who spearheaded the contract, told ABC News. "We want to restructure our relationship with elected officials. This is a bottom-up, grassroots, transparent effort to call for real economic conservative reform."

Personally, I'm glad to hear this. Everything I've been reading so far suggests that the Tea Party is little more than pissed-off, well-to-do, bigoted conservatives who want to go full throttle against Barack Obama while the GOP gets it's act together, rather than a once-in-a-lifetime gathering of average Americans who are concerned with the direction their country is going. Reaffirming their authenticity goes a long way towards -wait...what the hell?


Poll Finds Tea Party Backers Wealthier And More Educated

Tea Party supporters are wealthier and more well-educated than the general public, and are no more or less afraid of falling into a lower socioeconomic class, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

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Tea Party supporters’ fierce animosity toward Washington, and the president in particular, is rooted in deep pessimism about the direction of the country and the conviction that the policies of the Obama administration are disproportionately directed at helping the poor rather than the middle class or the rich.

The overwhelming majority of supporters say Mr. Obama does not share the values most Americans live by and that he does not understand the problems of people like themselves. More than half say the policies of the administration favor the poor, and 25 percent think that the administration favors blacks over whites — compared with 11 percent of the general public.

OK...fine: pissed-off, well-to-do, bigoted conservatives it is then.

UPDATE: Well, this explains a lot.


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