The tea party movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party. It is aiming for a hostile takeover. The movement has blossomed into a powerful social phenomenon because it is leaderless—not directed by any one mind, political party or parochial agenda.
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Armey, head of an activist group called FreedomWorks, is -himself endorsing an alternative grassroots approach he’s calling the Contract From America. “Bless their hearts,” he says of McCarthy and Boehner. “They’re making a good effort. But I don’t think the political space is there for them to offer a contract.”
Outrage was what he was feeling about the Bush administration’s plan to bail out banks when he thought up the Contract from America in December 2008. In contrast to Newt Gingrich’s Contract with America, the new contract would bubble up from the grass roots, setting forth principles that politicians would be asked to embrace. Now, tens of thousands of activists have voted on what they consider the top 10 principles.
… many of the tea party activists at CPAC for the first time this year acknowledged they are new at the game, but are also confident that’s their strength. Polling suggests they are right, with voters sour on Washington and both parties. As for the politicians, they made sure to show proper respect to the new activists. Every major speaker gave kudos to the tea party movement from the CPAC dais on Thursday.
Larry Kudlow discusses free market populism, with Dick Armey, former House majority leader and Ryan Hecker, Tea Party Patriots.
By: Ronald Kessler
The Tea Party Patriots launched their Contract from America in a nationwide effort to make Washington more accountable to conservative principles.
At a Conservative Political Action Conference press briefing, FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey; Sen. Jim DeMint, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform; and members of the Tea Party Patriots, the National Taxpayers Union, [...]
While 2009 was known as the year of the first Taxpayer March on Washington, 2010 is shaping up to be the year of the Contract FROM America.
On Thursday, limited government activists will take the next step in their quest to take America back as the Contract’s top twenty agenda items are unveiled. The Contract was [...]
Speaking to reporters in the lobby of the Renaissance hotel — wearing a cowboy hat, leather boots and toting an iPhone — Armey said that the “small government, grass-roots conservative movement” is distrusting of Republicans, too, and that GOP candidates have work to do to win over the group’s members. Republicans need to “walk among” the conservative grassroots to win big this year, he told POLITICO, echoing his speech to House Republicans.
Sixteen years after House Republicans launched one of the most iconic marketing campaigns in recent political history from the steps of the U.S. Capitol, the idea of packaging some core principles and policy positions and presenting them as a kind of congressional platform is back. And so is the idea of calling them a “contract.”
