President Obama this week compared the Tea Party to the Occupy Wall Street protests, telling ABC News’ Jake Tapper, “in some ways they’re not that different.” We beg to differ. The Tea Party and the protestors are almost exact opposites.
We understand that the President is in a dilemma. He sympathizes with the protesters because many if not most of their goals are also Mr. Obama’s. He thus wants to associate the Occupiers with the Tea Party, a movement that has resonated with the American people.
But there’s the rub. Barack Obama identifies with the Occupiers because, as pollster Doug Schoen put it this week, they reflect “values that are dangerously out of touch with the broad mass of the American people … and are bound by a deep commitment to radical left-wing policies.”
That’s not the Tea Party. That’s the opposite."....
Tea Party people take baths, have jobs, and know what they want done. We want smaller government, a free market Capitalist system that is left alone by the government, to do what it does best. We want less government intervention, less government regulations, and lower taxes. Oh yeah, stop the wasteful spending.
