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THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT An American fiscally conservative political movement within the Republican Party that began in 2009 
Original article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_history_of_the_Tea_Party_movement target = _blank > Original article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_history_of_the_Tea_Party_movement Peter Burgess COMMENTARY The following is an extract from Wikipedia that reminds me of the period when many of the currently (October 2022) powerful Republicans got elected to office. I remember Ted Cruz making a name for himesle by speaking on the floor of the Senate for many hours (...a filibuster) in order to delay the progress of the body. I have the impression that Ted Cruz is one of the more effective members of the Senate in disrupting meaningful progress for the country as a whole. More on Ted Cruz More on Ted Cruz (Wikipedia): Several other Republicans who now have quite high profiles were elected to Congress during the 'Tea Party' wave including Governor Ron DeSantis and Senator Marco Rubio both Florida. More on Ron DeSantis (Wikipedia): and More on Marco Rubio (Wikipedia): Another high profile member of the Tea Party Movement is Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky More on Rand Paul (Wikipedia): The Tea Party movement has faded ... but the people who were involved with it several years ago still seem to embrace its core beliefs ... most of which in my view are more suited to the 19th centery than the 21st. Peter Burgess | ||
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The Tea Party movement was an American fiscally conservative political movement within the Republican Party that began in 2009. Members of the movement called for lower taxes and for a reduction of the national debt and federal budget deficit through decreased government spending.[1][2] The movement supported small-government principles[3][4] and opposed government-sponsored universal healthcare.[5] The Tea Party movement has been described as a popular constitutional movement[6] composed of a mixture of libertarian,[7] right-wing populist,[8] and conservative activism.[9] It has sponsored multiple protests and supported various political candidates since 2009.[10][11][12] According to the American Enterprise Institute, various polls in 2013 estimated that slightly over 10% of Americans identified as part of the movement.[13]
The Tea Party movement was popularly launched following a February 19, 2009, call by CNBC reporter Rick Santelli on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for a 'tea party'.[14][15] Several conservative activists agreed by conference call to coalesce against President Barack Obama's agenda and scheduled a series of protests.[16][17] Supporters of the movement subsequently had a major impact on the internal politics of the Republican Party. Although the Tea Party is not a political party in the classic sense of the word, some research suggests that members of the Tea Party Caucus vote like a significantly farther right third party in Congress.[18] A major force behind it was Americans for Prosperity (AFP), a conservative political advocacy group founded by businessman and political activist David Koch. It is unclear exactly how much money is donated to AFP by David Koch and his brother Charles Koch.[19] By 2019, CNBC reported that the conservative wing of the Republican Party 'has basically shed the tea party moniker.'[20] The movement is not a political party. Instead its name refers to the Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773, a watershed event in the launch of the American Revolution. The 1773 event demonstrated against taxation by the British government without political representation for the American colonists, and references to the Boston Tea Party and even costumes from the 1770s era are commonly heard and seen in the Tea Party movement.[21]
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