Mr. Zweifel contends that Tea Party patriots, their supporters, and allied enthusiasts are extremists.
The Capital Times editor emeritus identified that the movement has received a number of letters to the editor recognizing their values and encouraging their vocal opposition to Washington D.C. business as usual tax and spend statist. Because of these letters of support, the editor then submits that these Tea Party advocates are blind in their extremism.
Zweifel’s “Plain Talk” is plainly biased, and painfully misguided. That the Capital Times Opinion writer maligns the Tea Party movement while identifying them portrays an unsettling, skewed opinion of the movement’s origins and intentions.
First of all, Chuck Todd of MSNBC respected that the movement has many elements : from all political parties and ethnic backgrounds.
Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw spoke highly of the Tea Party Movement on a recent guest interview on “The Late Show with David Letterman.” While critics have derided the Tea Party as maniacal, Brokaw recognized a cogent, coherent movement which has stayed on message.
Nevertheless, Zweifel argues that the political organization is extreme and extremely ignorant of their purportedly marginal views. The fact that there have been several letters to the editor vouching for their efforts would suggest that the Tea Party movement is either not marginal to begin with, or that the individuals and grassroots interest groups allied with the Tea Party movement are aware of their views yet recognize that their stance on issues is currently not popular with the country.
When people.started to gather together in small groups to discuss their.displeasure with Obama and his administration. Then these groups started to call themselves the Tea Party. I think the reason they came up with this name was it is an all inclusive group of individuals who come from all of the different political parties. We all did not like the direction that the government was heading. We alleged that the Constitution should be followed to the letter, which it was not. The president was utilizing executive powered too freely. Our forefathers wrote the Constitution to have three branches in order for them to monitor one another. It is called checks and.balances and no one was checking the executive branch and allowed Obama to over use his executive powers. The people who are aligned with the Tea Party want our country to start following the Constitution as it was written and get back to basic common sense values and stop the corruption that has been running rampant without people questioning all the unscrupulous things that are happening in Washington D.C. as I write this comment. We want to see less government controlling our lives. For example the absolute failure known as Obamacare.
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