To a paraphrase an old saying, “Hell hath no fury like a grandmother scorned.”

Dear Mr. Vice-President:

I am a 68-year old grandmother and small business owner who identifies strongly with the values of the tea party. I am in favor of smaller government, lower taxes and the federal government getting its debt under control and spending no more than it takes in.

I have spent my life working hard for the money you and the rest of the government spend. May I remind you – YOU work for me, and the money you spend was once mine, that I earned, sometimes standing on my feet many hours a day in some pain. To ask you and your fellow Democrats to respect me, your employer, and spend my money wisely is *not* “terrorism”.

I am not a terrorist. I am, however, a holy terror, and you have PISSED ME OFF. I am fed up with being disrespected and called sexually explicit names like “teabagger”, a term I was unfamiliar with as a decent lady until you and your supporters began to use it in regular public written and spoken discourse.

I am fed up with being called a “racist” for demanding fiscal responsibility on the part of you and your fellow Democrats who decide how much of my money you will confiscate for your own use. I am fed up with the people who supposedly work for me working against me and my best interests as a small business owner.

I am fed up with the government interfering in my business, my faith, my grandkids’ education, my pocketbook, my health, and my very life. I am fed up with regulations infringing upon my life, liberty and pursuit of happiness you and your fellow Democrats constantly impose.

I am insulted and incensed, but I am NOT a terrorist. I am a patriotic sixth generation Texas patriot and I am fed up with the REAL terror you and your fellow Democrats have imposed on my life. I am in terror [that] your profligate spending will ruin my life and that of my kids and grandkids, ruin my business, ruin my chance to someday retire before I die and ruin my country. I am in terror your weak foreign policy will put us in worse danger of attack by the real terrorists you refuse to name while accusing little grandmothers like me of being one.

I am in terror [of] the proven biased news media and your propaganda arms bought and paid for by George Soros, your socialist supporter, will con enough people into electing you and your ilk again to further ruin my country.

I know a real terrorist when I see one, Mr. Vice-President, and I am not it – I’m just a holy terror, independent American and I call you out for what you have proven yourself to be – a fool, and tool of the real terror hurting my country. I just hope enough of my fellow tea party “terrors” will be able to save my country when we get a chance in the next election to prove how we as Americans respond to demagogues, and resoundingly tell you and your fellow Democrats and any Republicans aiding and abetting this terror – “you’re fired!!”

Do you need a little ice for that, Joe?

F*ck Tea.

As original and funny as a standup routine featuring David Letterman and Jar-Jar Binks.

From Doug Powers:

First it was “We don’t like tea,” and Democrats’ poll numbers continued to drop, at which point “Get outta here, tea” was born. Dems were still sinking fast, so “Screw tea!” came to fruition.

But boy, that Coffee Party really took off, eh?

Well first, a little background….
As you might recall, a day or two ago, the NAACP (after being “pumped up” by Michelle Obama), decided to vote on a resolution that condemned the Tea Party movement as “racist”. Click here to read more about that.

Just hours prior to that, a Tea Party group out of Missouri pre-empted that vote, by doing a little condemning of their own. Click here to read that.

And today comes this….At Breitbart’s “Big Government” blog, several black Americans standing up to condemn the NAACP and the “new black panther party”. WAY TO GO!

I’ll post links, and you can make your way there to read the details for each one. Again, a big h/t to Breitbart’s “Big Government”!:

Link: I Condemn the NAACP: It Has Lost its Way – by Jimmie L. Hollis

Link: I Condemn The NAACP: They Are Obsessed With Identity Politics – by Robin Martin

Link: I Condemn the NAACP: The New Black Panther Party Are the Real Racists – by Deneen Borelli

Link: I Condemn the NAACP: It Has Been Taken Over by the Hard Left – by Kevin L. Martin

Link: I Condemn the NAACP: Get Back to Freedom – by R. Dozier Gray

Link: I Condemn the NAACP – by Marie Stroughter

Link: The NAACP Acting Stupidly (Again) – by Bob Parks

Link: NAACP Is Not At All Serious: They’ve Missed the Real Issues – by LTC Allen West (USA, Ret.)

Link: Black Activists Condemn NAACP Resolution Against Tea Party Movement – by Bob Parks

Link: Chicago Machine Democrats Deserve NAACP Condemnation, Not Tea Party – by Cedra Crenshaw

That last link is to a piece written by Cedra Crenshaw, a black conservative who’s running for the state senate in Illinois. She’s being “brow beaten” by the Chicago political machine there. To read a little bit about that, go here.

From Red State:

In light of GeicoGate and the recent accusations from the media regarding the violent rhetoric of the conservative movement, I’ve taken the liberty of editing together the voicemails and emails we’ve received as a result of DC Douglas’ call to contact FreedomWorks. Here’s the result.

WARNING: This is intense. Violent language is an understatement. I haven’t censored – only edited to remove names and phone numbers.

Hat Tip to RedState via ASPF:

The biggest kick I get out of all of this is the GEICO stands for Government Employees Insurance Company. It seems that some miss the irony.

Hat Tip Roger at Free Conservatives:

I wonder if those pasty-white Golen Shower Media types ala Olbermann, Matthews and Cafferty are getting a tingle up their legs or just a numb feeling where their nuts should be.

From Michelle Malkin:

Tired of the old, sexual vulgarity “Tea Bagger” popularized by the likes of CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Matt Taibbi, the Left has concocted a new epithet for the Tea Party movement:

The “Tea Klanners” or “Tea Klan.”

The meme has been spreading on Twitter and left-wing blogs. Now, it has surfaced among Alinsky’s avenging angels at the Denver Tea Party (via Peoples Press Collective)

Frankly, I prefer my epithet of “Soros Moonies”, for it simply uses the Left’s own bastardization of the English language and tactics against them in a simple, but effective way. As can be seen by one commenter’s reaction to my using that term against ACORN and SEIU types last year.

And, once again, we need to give these human warts a little history lesson. It was the Democratic party that were the party of slavery. The party of the Confederacy, the KKK, Jim Crow, segregation, fire hoses, all-white juries, standing in the doorways of 1950′s schools shouting “Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever” and filibustering both the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. Not to mention the party of Genocidist and Nazi sympathizer Margaret Sanger and the Negro Projects and whose President, Bill Clinton, was mentored by notorious segregationist William Fullbright and who picked Al Gore as his veep, whose father was another renowned segregationist, Albert Gore, Sr. And of course, who can forget that a former Democrat senate majority leader was a former KKK Grand Wizard.

It is always a laugh and a half to hear Democrats lecture or smear anyone when it comes to race in any context.

And the beat goes on…

Three Tea Party Buses attacked Rocky Harry Picture Show thugs:

From Gateway Pundit:

The biased writers at the Associated Press said the tea party in Nevada would “draw angry crowds” today.

Supporters of Democratic Senator Harry Reid attacked the Tea Party Express bus today in Nevada.

This statement was just released: (via Paramount Communications)

Supporters of Senator Harry Reid have just thrown eggs at the Tea Party Express bus caravan – striking at least one of the three buses (the red Tea Party Express bus) with multiple eggs.

About 35 Reid supporters had lined Highway 95 in front of the Nugget Casino in Searchlight where they were attempting a counter-demonstration the tens of thousands of tea party supporters who are gathering for the “Showdown in Searchlight.”

More details to follow…

Also, Andrew Breitbart was threatened with violence from Reid’s Ton Ton Mocoutes:

From Founding Bloggers:

Supporters of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid staged a counter-protest today in Searchlight, Nevada, the Senator’s hometown. Reid supporters gathered just down the road from the launching point of the Tea Party Express tour, and when Breitbart happened upon them, he was met with threats of violence. At least one protester threw an egg at Brietbart, missing him. Eggs were also thrown at the Tea Party Express bus.

To add insult to insult, Reid supporters called the police to report that Breitbart had provoked an incident.

Since Palin is to be the keynote speaker, God only knows what will happen next with these baboons on the loose.

You can watch a livestream of the event at PJTV.

Link: TAKE THE TOWNHALLS TO D.C. – March 20th @ noon

Link: Code Red: Surround the Capitol at Noon on Saturday

Link: Call to Arms: Join Jon Voight in DC Saturday to Stop ObamaCare

We already know what the consequences will be, if this bill passes. Massive tax grabs, citizens being forced to buy health insurance or pay a fine (and if you can’t pay the fine, you face jail-time), and tax hikes beyond comprehension…And all of that is just for starters.

We know there would be legal challenges to the bill, and we know that several states are threatening (or considering) lawsuits, in order to protect their citizens. (That, by the way, is called Federalism. The 10th amendment to the constitution allows for it, and the states have every right to do so, if they choose.)

But, what you may not know is the size and scope of the political “pandora’s box” if “deem and pass” is used as it’s never been used before, to pass an entire piece of legislation without a vote, as opposed to simply inserting amendments into an already agreed-upon bill. The WH has already signaled they won’t promise that “deem and pass” wouldn’t be used on other legislation in the future. What does that equal?

Dictatorship….pure and simple.

Spread the word.
Stay informed and stay involved!

H/T: Townhall, BigHollywood, Ace and HotAir.

And now, it’s come to this…After over a year of this obamacare BS, we’re supposedly now in the “final stretch” of passing the latest bill-to-end-all-bills for the ultimate government takeover of our lives. Remember, when government “provides” you with a “service” or “aid”, they also BY DEFAULT get to tell you how to live a portion of your life because you’ve accepted that “service” or “aid”. Imagine what they’ll get to do, when they’ve taken over your medical care.

From the last few day’s headlines, I’ve picked the following (and make sure you click each link to access embedded source links and video or audio clips within each piece):

Link (h/t RedState): Trying to Pass the Bill without Voting on it will Rank up with the Nebraska Kickback
…It seems obama, pelosi and reid would just like to “deem” the senate version “passed” in the house, without actually taking a vote on it. But, parliamentary rules say otherwise. Still, dems will do anything, including violate the constitution AND the will of the American people, in order to pass this bill, and take over a good portion of our lives.

Link (h/t RedState): Gallup: SHUT UP ABOUT HEALTHCARE, DEMOCRATS
…All that ‘hope and change’, down the drain, huh? Folks know this health care bill is full of shit, and have been trying to tell their representatives that very thing. But as always, they are being ignored. One should ask themselves WHY government is ignoring the will of the American people, when it should be clear by now, after the protest rallies and numerous polls taken over the past year, that Americans ARE NOT in favor of government-run health-care! It’s no wonder dems and indy voters are identifying with the angst and determination found within the “Tea Party” movement!

Link (h/t Michelle Malkin): Constitution Butchers: Stop Pelosi’s Slaughter House; Update: Dems don’t have the votes
…Michelle Malkin has a great update on the latest news, including many embedded links and resource info for contacting reps and senators in Washington.

Link (h/t HotAir): Dem caucus chairman: The public doesn’t much care what procedure we use to pass this thing
…So, this guy (along with many of his colleges) STILL believes that (in essence) Americans are stupid, they don’t pay attention, and don’t really care about the goings-on of government. They never learn, do they? Prove them wrong!

Link: Washington Post: House may try to pass Senate health-care bill without voting on it
…If they do that with THIS bill, what other bills will they attempt to pass using this UNCONSTITUTIONAL maneuver? Think about it for a minute.

Here are two links that I’d like for you to considering using, and then pass around….

The other, is here (h/t RedState).
If you oppose this bill…If you oppose what it will do to you and your children, and your grand children, and all future generations….Get on the phone, send an email, or fax. But don’t remain silent. We’ve been silent for too long, and never in the history of our country SINCE the Revolution, have we faced a government this arrogant and this willing to violate the constitution! One that REFUSES to listen to the MAJORITY of American citizens, and continues to push forward with the take over of our very lives! So, stand up now, or be ready to stay on your knees later, because by then, you may not have a choice.

Also, if you’re in the area, a “Tea Party” rally is scheduled for March 16th in D.C., hosted by the folks at Freedom Works.
Link: http://teaparty.freedomworks.org/events/march-16th-the-peoples-surge

Info: Time: March 16, 2010 from 9am to 6pm
Location: Cannon House Office Building
Street: Independence Avenue SE and New Jersey SE
City/Town: Washington, DC
Phone: 202-942-7616
Organized By: Kahryn Rombach and Brendan Steinhauser of FreedomWorks.org

You might also check around your local area to see if your local “Tea Party” org is hosting a rally near you.

SPREAD THE WORD! STAY INFORMED AND STAY INVOLVED!

Conservatives Victorious in 2010/2012 from Erick Brockway on Vimeo.

In any case, good to see that the disaffection with the usual budget busting, irresponsible Leftist policy is starting to bubble up from under the surface even in Old Blighty.

From Daniel Hannan’s Telegraph Blog – Hat Tip: ASPF)

The inaugural British Tea Party will take place on Saturday in my home town of Brighton, and I’ll be speaking. Do try to come: here are the details.

Labour has raised more than a trillion pounds in additional taxation since 1997. Yet, unbelievably, Gordon Brown has still managed to run up a deficit of 12.6 per cent of GDP (Greece’s is 12.7 per cent). A far lower level of taxation brought Americans out in spontaneous protest last year.

If you happen to be coming to the Conservative Spring Conference, do please pop in: the Tea Party is five minutes’ walk from the conference venue. It is, however, outside the security zone, and anyone is welcome to come. Oh, and this being England, we’ll be serving actual, you know, tea. I hope to see some of this blog’s readers there.

Comments seem rather divided. However, here is one that could have been written by one of Pelosi’s 14 year old interns:

LOL! I expect about 5 people will turn up – all the usual swivel-eyed, frothing Europhobes, public sector-hating Thatcherites.

The deficit is under control. Why do you persist in talking down our economy, thereby undermining confidence?

Here is a sample of the text from a call to action from Hannan.

Simon Jenkins raises a question that has been nagging at me for some time. Why is there no British Tea Party?

Where are the crowds of revenue slaves flocking to London to demand redress for the squandering of their money? Marginal tax is rising to 50%, VAT to 17.5% and state spending towards half the national product. The Treasury has lost control of public finance. So why no furious blue-rinses, bail-out ­haters, bonus-bleaters and embittered VAT victims storming Parliament?

Yeah: why? Some of my US readers believe that anti-tax rebellions are an American speciality, but we’ve had plenty of them in this country, from the Poll Tax Riots of 1381 (the Peasants’ Revolt) to the Poll Tax Riots of 1990. The doctrines that inspired the Boston mutineers – above all, the idea that taxes should not be levied without parliamentary process – were borrowed from English political theory.

Indeed, as Hugh Brogan drily observed in his History of the United States, the taxpayers’ revolt which sparked the American Revolution began on this side of the Atlantic: the Seven Years War had pushed taxes up to 25 shillings a year for the average Englishman as against sixpence for the average colonist, and MPs were determined to export part of that cost to North America.

More power to you, Mr. Hannan. The Dems are absolutely doomed here in 2010. Hopefully we can say the same about Labour soon enough.

But, for the last 150 years or so, government has learned that the more they ignore the voice of the “common man”, the more power they can claim for themselves and then feign stupidity when an angry citizenry finally makes enough noise to be heard throughout the halls of congress, the cloakrooms of the senate, and the dark, dusty corners of the White House itself.

Last year, as the Tea Party movement gained steam, it was clear that those in power who haven’t been listening, along with their elitist friends in the media and “entertainment industries”, started running scared. Never had the collective anger of constituents scorned ever been so loud, forceful and relentless.

And to this very minute, that anger continues, growing even more forceful, and determined NEVER to relent.

But, as with all political “movements”, the Tea Party is seeing its share of “growing pains”. These “growing pains” are puzzling to some, and a concern for others. Yet, one must remember that without such “growing pains”, one cannot “grow” in the first place. And THAT is what the Tea Party movement is doing…Growing, by leaps and bounds. It is altogether right and good that this happens.

During this season of “growing pains”, we must remember the Tea Party movement is at it’s best when it is allowed to remain free-flowing, decentralized, and mobile. It is a force for political good…An “injection” of common sense into a political system that has lost ALL sense.

In an upcoming “Weekly Standard”, well-known conservative author and blogger, Mary Katharine Ham writes:

(snips)

Will the tea partiers drag the GOP toward the unelectable fringe? Will the conservative movement tap into the antiestablishment energy of the tea partiers? Will the Republican party adopt the ideas of either? Can they all come together without sullying the grassroots authenticity of the tea party movement? Will they or won’t they form a third party? Is this the beginning of a beautiful relationship, or is someone going to get used?

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The tea partiers are often portrayed unfairly as either far-right rubes or stealth agents of big business. Talking to those at CPAC, it was obvious that being new to the political process doesn’t mean they’re bad at it.

It is understandable that some folks are now wondering if the Tea Party movement, as a whole, will go to far right,…So far that those who call themselves “moderate dem” or “independent” will shy away from the movement.

The answer should be, and I predict will be: “NO!”

What the Tea Party movement is doing, and will continue to focus on, is to hone itself into the most powerful political force known in modern times. A force that will serve as a CONSTANT “reminder” for both major political parties that Americans are tired of the political BS! They are here to remind government:

Stop spending so much!
Stop taxing so much!
Stop telling individuals that you will help them, only to reach into their pockets and take more in taxes out of their hard-earned paychecks!
Stop taking over private industry and businesses, masking it as a “rescue”! This is the United States of America, not Soviet Russia!
Stop insisting that money in someone’s pocket automatically means they didn’t work their butts off to earn it!
Stop threatening people into buying a product or service they neither want, nor need!

….I could go on, but I think the point is made.

Above all, the Tea Party movement, at its core, is about government accountability.
For far too long, Americans have not held up their end of the “bargain” by holding their elected officials accountable. Our government was designed for a citizenry that REMAINS aware, alert and active in the daily goings-on of government, AT ALL LEVELS, from local to federal. It’s taken a long long time for this “awakening” to take shape, but it is finally happening, in the form of the Tea Party movement.

There is no way on God’s green earth that this movement should be wasted or distracted into forming 3rd parties. And it shouldn’t be gullable enough to become nothing more than a PAC.

No….This is a blinding force of individual freedom and constitutional vigilance.

And this force will either be reckoned with, or it will “clear the road” and make room for those who realize that freedom and liberty are not to be trifled with, and the constitution should be honored, respected and followed.

Between the explosion of Tea Parties that have popped up like desert flowers after a Spring shower (Michelle Malkin has all of the updated links here) and now some very surprising, though very welcome words coming the Texas Legislature, I would hope (and think) that a LOT of politicians on both sides of the aisle are starting to really quake in their boots. To quote Adm. Yamoto after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, “We have awakened a sleeping giant.”

From TractionControl.com from the Texas Governor’s Conference Call:

This is not a transcript, but I do believe it communicates the tone of our Texas Conservative Leadership.

We. Are. Pissed.

“Our first response was to tell the Federal Government to keep their money and leave Texas the hell alone … but the reality is that the money is not theirs, it’s OURS. Texas is a donor state – paying more into the Federal Funding systems than we receive. If Texas were to refuse the $16 Billion of the stimulus the money would still be spent – just in other states.” [- attributed to several - Ed.].

The question, as Rep. Linda Harper Brown phrased it is, “How to determine the true cost to Texas?” – Down the road, when the strings attached are pulled. We have to do a cost benefit to see what can be accepted and what (like the unemployment relief and associated obligations) should be refused.

Later in the article, there is some yummy, red meat.

Rep. Wayne Christian actually went where I never thought a Government Rep. would go. He said there were three options.
One is Revolution;
Two is Insurrection; and
Three is Self-Rule – with Self-Rule being working within the system, participating in the Politics, opposing wrongs and standing for the right principles.

Hopefully, the speed and magnitude of this stimulus – coupled with the lack of real choice from the payors (taxpayers) and the payees (States) has not rendered option three moot.

I’ve always liked the independent streak that Texas has always had. (Just a shame most of them are Cowboys fans) It is something that is long overdue to be tapped into once again, if this country is to escape the 100 Year Marxist Plan that has been festering in the U.S. since the Wilson Administration. Maybe if Obama does one thing, it will be to help bring down the crumbling wall of Socialism due to his radical overreaching, ala the Berlin Wall and relegate the Democrat party and it’s appendages to the ash heap of history.

And speaking of the flu, one of the best things to help in treating those coughing lungs, stuffy noses and overall feverish and achy feelings, is tea. God’s natural, liquid medicine…

And thanks to the great people at Portsmouth Tea Company, they are going to help Tax Day Tea Partiers celebrate in style by donating 70lbs of their tea to Tax Day Tea Party protests. (Hat Tip – Michelle Malkin – as always it seems

More at U.S. News & World Report. (Lord, are they still around? I have not read them in 25 years)

A great comment left there…

Ms. Marquandt’s characterization of people who are against legalized plunder by the government as “anti-stimulus” is simply anti-factual. If she’s referring to people being against a massive, pork-laden indebting of our grandchildren, she can hardly be referring to a “stimulus”, can she? Given the stock market’s response?

The scope of the industrial nationalizations, the kneecapping of the productive class, the sanctification of the responsibility-free, and the spectacular lack of ethics of the administration’s nominees—well, what more can one say? The Obamas are simply cocktail-partying and conga-lining while America burns. And throwing in a good dis’ of our old pals the Brits while they’re at it. I’m in awe.

Now, I think I will go take two more aspirin, lie down and try to get some zzzz’s. And at least I lost 8lbs in 4 days. That part I can live with.

Thanks to Michelle and her constant reporting of this movement. Below are links and listings from her site and others that give a full roster of Tea Party events around the nation. Starting with Washington, DC and Seattle.

From Michelle Malkin: (With Hat-tip to Little Miss Atilla)

Tons of groups and individuals are stepping up to the plate in the wake of last week’s anti-stimulus/anti-entitlement protests and the call for a nationwide Tea Party.

PJTV’s clearinghouse for protests is here.

The New American Tea Party page from “a coalition of citizens and organizations concerned about the recent trend of fiscal recklessness in government…dedicated to the Washington, D.C. effort specifically sponsored by the American Spectator, the Heartland Institute, Americans for Tax Reform, the National Taxpayers Union, Americans for Prosperity, and the Young Conservatives Coalition” is here.

The #TCOT folks have a site here and #dontgo has a list of links to official Facebook Event (and some non-Facebook) pages for each confirmed Chicago Tea Party.