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Tea Party moving from defense to offense – Washington Examiner

As liberal activists embrace Tea Party tactics to try to rescue the Affordable Care Act, Tea Party organizations are preparing to reclaim the protest mantle by planning a "day of action" to encourage Congress to repeal Obamacare.

"Tea Party tactics were excellent when there were not Republican majorities in Congress and when the president was opposed to all conservative policies," Freedom Works stated in acknowledging that a new approach is necessary now that the GOP controls the executive and legislative branches.

"Rallies by themselves are a defensive tactic used by those without significant leverage in the government," Freedom Works CEO Adam Brandon stated. "It's time to move from defense to offense."

From March 15 to April 15, "Freedom Works will begin to unleash new tactics," the conservative group stated, promising to bring 1,000 supporters to Capitol Hill for the March 15 kickoff.

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Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Mike Lee, R-Utah, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Reps. Dave Bratt, R-Va., Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, Mark Meadows, R-N.C., and Mark Walker, R-N.C., are all slated to speak at the rally.

The group is not waiting two weeks to follow through on its promise to hold lawmakers' feet to the fire.

"The House and Senate sent this repeal of Obamacare to Obama's desk. Why are they afraid to send it to President Trump's desk?" the group stated Tuesday, referring to the ACA repeal bill Republicans passed in 2015.

"After nearly seven years, it's time for Republicans to follow through on their promises and repeal Obamacare by using the 2015 reconciliation bill as the baseline," Brandon stated. "It would be a stunning level of political hypocrisy if Republicans failed to follow through. Thankfully, principled conservatives are fighting for full repeal, not a watered down bill or Obamacare-lite," he said in praising Cruz, Jordan, Lee, Meadows, Paul and Walker for insisting on making the 2015 legislation the floor for any bill passed this year.

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Liberal comedian and actress Rosie O'Donnell said Tuesday that President Trump and his administration are going down for "treason."

.@Rosie accuses @realDonaldTrump of "treason" pic.twitter.com/Q0dX4lIRyU Sean Langille (@SeanLangille) March 1, 2017

"The evidence against Trump and Russia is huge and mounting every day. We see it, he can't lie about it," O'Donnell said outside the White House after leading an anti-Trump rally before the president's first address to a joint session of Congress.

"He is going down and so will all of his administration. The charge is treason," she said.

O'Donnell said she has "faith that there are Republican congressmen who will stand up and do

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Steve Bannon and the ‘Global Tea Party’ – Wall Street Journal (subscription)

Steve Bannon and the 'Global Tea Party'
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Will today’s town hall crowds turn into a liberal tea party? – MyDaytonDailyNews

I get a kick out of the Republican members of Congress who claim the angry constituents at their town hall meetings are paid agitators.

Not surprisingly, President Donald Trump doesnt see it that way.

The so-called angry crowds in home districts of some Republicans, Trump tweeted, are actually, in numerous cases, planned out by liberal activists.

Gee, imagine that: Angry liberals are strategically encouraging people to come out and let their lawmakers know whats on their minds. Liberals are calling it grassroots politics while some conservatives are calling it AstroTurf politics.

But thats what a lot of liberals called it when the conservative tea party movement erupted in 2009. Now many of those tea party critics are trying to employ the same tactic.

Angry constituents have made headlines across the nation, upset over everything from the Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, evidence of Russian interference in the U.S. elections and the Trump White Houses travel ban, just for starters.

As for liberal activists? Republican have known since December that a growing number of liberal organizations and activists have been sharing strategies for ways to encourage voters to light up town halls with tough questions for members of Congress.

More than a thousand local groups have popped up across the country, organizing around an online how-to organizing manual called Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda.

Drafted by former Democratic congressional staffers who say they came up with the idea at an Austin, bar a couple of days after Thanksgiving, the manual has gone viral on the web, helped along by some prominent liberal groups like Barack Obamas Organizing for America in promoting the Indivisible Guide.

Following the tea party model makes more sense than the Occupy Wall Street movement, which captured public attention for a few weeks and then faded without much follow-up. By contrast, the tea party grew potent enough to help take away the Democrats House majority in 2010, its second year. President Obamas momentum was never the same.

Does Indivisible have a chance to do the same to President Trump? That depends mainly on how well local organizers can keep their enthusiasm and momentum going.

The first big test for this new Indivisible movement may not come until next years midterms, just as it did for Republicans in 2010.

Thats a good test because Democratic Party turnout tends to drop in midterm elections. The most recent and notable exception was 2006. Dissatisfaction over President George W. Bushs handling of Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq War and a series of scandals involving Republican politicians, among other woes for the Grand Old Party, resulted in a Democratic sweep.

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This time, Democrats have another unusual asset: President Trump. Defying traditions, as he loves to do, he has continued to focus on whipping up his conservative base without making the traditional pivot that others have made toward the political center.

The result has been approval ratings in almost all of the major polls that are historically low for a new president. A new Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday, for example, found only 38 percent of voters think he is doing a good job while 55 percent said he was doing a bad job.

Worse for the GOP, a Pew Research Center poll released the day before showed rank-and file Republicans and Republican-leaning independents are still so psyched up for Trump that 52 percent of them say they are likely to side with Trump in a dispute with party leaders.

If Trump fails to keep his promises, even his core support could erode.

But, of course, Trump only gives Democrats someone to vote against. Lets see whom they offer us to vote for.

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Fake News Still Lyin’ About the Tea Party – American Thinker

Harriet Baldwin posted on Facebook: Pisses me off when the alt-left media likens these paid Obama/Soros/Alinsky violent protesters to the Tea Party.

To Harriet, I say, Amen sister!

Folks, I am a black singer/songwriter who has been in the Tea Party from the beginning. In 2008, Our Country Deserves Better PAC invited me on their Stop Obama national bus tour. In 2009, I wrote the American Tea Party Anthem which I performed at Tea Party rallies on 14 national bus tours with Tea Party Express and others.

It has infuriated me the way the despicable fake news media intentionally branded the salt-of-the-earth good Americans at the rallies a bunch of redneck racists vehemently opposed to America electing its first black president. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Many of those folks at the rallies excitedly voted for Obama assuming it would heal America's racial divides. They became aware that Obama was the Left's bait and switch president; running as a moderate governing like an out-of-control lawless far-left radical.

Folks, Tea Party people are not racist. They love their country. They desire equal justice for all Americans. They do not want government dictating how to raise their kids and micromanaging their lives to achieve the Left's absurd goal of equal outcomes.

Trump calling out fake news outlets is exhilarating.

Along with media from around the world, CNN was embedded on one of the Tea Party Express tours. The CNN reporter attended 35 rallies for a CNN documentary. I was a headliner, opening every rally, rocking the house with my American Tea Party Anthem. I closed every rally with a powerful rendition of God Bless the USA in which I invited every veteran in the audience to join me on stage. Audiences spontaneously jumped to their feet, cheering and applauding as vets made their way to the stage. The crowds expressed extra enthusiastic love when a WWII vet made his way or was helped to the stage.

The people loved me and I loved them back because we were united in our love for America and our desire not to see her transformed into a socialist/progressive Godless nation. Rally attendees treated me like a rock star; purchasing my CDs, asking for autographs, asking me to take pictures with their kids.

When the CNN documentary was aired, not one time was my black face shown, nor wereblack Christian publishersWilliam and Selena Owens, Kevin Jackson, Herman Cain, or other black speakers at the rallies.

Consequently, my 80-year-old black dad believed the Tea Party was a bunch of hate-filled scary racist white people because he heard it on CNN. I said, But dad, I'm on the tour bus and they allow me to ride up front!

As I said, the complete opposite of the fake news narrative regarding the Tea Party is true.

In Texas at a Tea Party rally, a white cowboy approached me pushing a stroller with two black babies. The proud father of adopted babies from Africa said he and his white wife asked God to give them kids who needed their love. He was excited about his babies soon becoming American citizens.

In Michigan at a rally, a white woman in a wheelchair, spotted me. Oh my gosh, it's Lloyd Marcus! Can I please have a picture with you? The woman's adult daughter told someone on our staff. My mom is dying. She said all she wanted to do was meet Lloyd Marcus.

Tea Party attendees endlessly apologized to me for opposing the first black president. Folks, I could go on and on with fond memories of heartwarming incidents, acts of kindness, love, respect, and tearful moments of patriotism.

So, when fake news media goes messin' with my tea party family, they're on the fightin' side of me. The decent, hardworking, orderly, and responsible patriots in the Tea Party have been purposely slandered by the fake news media. It is beyond disgusting.

Meanwhile, the scum-of-the-earth Black Lives Matter, which encourages blacks to kill white people and cops, is celebrated in the fake news media. Though unreported, black attacks on whites and ambushes and assassinations of police have skyrocketed.

Since election night when We the People stunned the fake news media by defeating Hillary, Leftists have literally lost their minds with vitriolic hate for us. Obama and Soros launched violent hate groups and protesters to wreak havoc in our streets to create the illusion that a majority of Americans hate Trump.

And now, fake news media has the nerve to place the Left's paid deranged, violent, and chaos-producing thugs on a higher moral level than the Tea Party. Heaven forbid.

Lloyd Marcus, The Unhyphenated American

Author: Confessions of a Black Conservative: How the Left has shattered the dreams of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Black America.

Singer/Songwriter and Conservative Activist

mr_lloydmarcus@hotmail.com

http://www.lloydmarcus.com/

Harriet Baldwin posted on Facebook: Pisses me off when the alt-left media likens these paid Obama/Soros/Alinsky violent protesters to the Tea Party.

To Harriet, I say, Amen sister!

Folks, I am a black singer/songwriter who has been in the Tea Party from the beginning. In 2008, Our Country Deserves Better PAC invited me on their Stop Obama national bus tour. In 2009, I wrote the American Tea Party Anthem which I performed at Tea Party rallies on 14 national bus tours with Tea Party Express and others.

It has infuriated me the way the despicable fake news media intentionally branded the salt-of-the-earth good Americans at the rallies a bunch of redneck racists vehemently opposed to America electing its first black president. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Many of those folks at the rallies excitedly voted for Obama assuming it would heal America's racial divides. They became aware that Obama was the Left's bait and switch president; running as a moderate governing like an out-of-control lawless far-left radical.

Folks, Tea Party people are not racist. They love their country. They desire equal justice for all Americans. They do not want government dictating how to raise their kids and micromanaging their lives to achieve the Left's absurd goal of equal outcomes.

Trump calling out fake news outlets is exhilarating.

Along with media from around the world, CNN was embedded on one of the Tea Party Express tours. The CNN reporter attended 35 rallies for a CNN documentary. I was a headliner, opening every rally, rocking the house with my American Tea Party Anthem. I closed every rally with a powerful rendition of God Bless the USA in which I invited every veteran in the audience to join me on stage. Audiences spontaneously jumped to their feet, cheering and applauding as vets made their way to the stage. The crowds expressed extra enthusiastic love when a WWII vet made his way or was helped to the stage.

The people loved me and I loved them back because we were united in our love for America and our desire not to see her transformed into a socialist/progressive Godless nation. Rally attendees treated me like a rock star; purchasing my CDs, asking for autographs, asking me to take pictures with their kids.

When the CNN documentary was aired, not one time was my black face shown, nor wereblack Christian publishersWilliam and Selena Owens, Kevin Jackson, Herman Cain, or other black speakers at the rallies.

Consequently, my 80-year-old black dad believed the Tea Party was a bunch of hate-filled scary racist white people because he heard it on CNN. I said, But dad, I'm on the tour bus and they allow me to ride up front!

As I said, the complete opposite of the fake news narrative regarding the Tea Party is true.

In Texas at a Tea Party rally, a white cowboy approached me pushing a stroller with two black babies. The proud father of adopted babies from Africa said he and his white wife asked God to give them kids who needed their love. He was excited about his babies soon becoming American citizens.

In Michigan at a rally, a white woman in a wheelchair, spotted me. Oh my gosh, it's Lloyd Marcus! Can I please have a picture with you? The woman's adult daughter told someone on our staff. My mom is dying. She said all she wanted to do was meet Lloyd Marcus.

Tea Party attendees endlessly apologized to me for opposing the first black president. Folks, I could go on and on with fond memories of heartwarming incidents, acts of kindness, love, respect, and tearful moments of patriotism.

So, when fake news media goes messin' with my tea party family, they're on the fightin' side of me. The decent, hardworking, orderly, and responsible patriots in the Tea Party have been purposely slandered by the fake news media. It is beyond disgusting.

Meanwhile, the scum-of-the-earth Black Lives Matter, which encourages blacks to kill white people and cops, is celebrated in the fake news media. Though unreported, black attacks on whites and ambushes and assassinations of police have skyrocketed.

Since election night when We the People stunned the fake news media by defeating Hillary, Leftists have literally lost their minds with vitriolic hate for us. Obama and Soros launched violent hate groups and protesters to wreak havoc in our streets to create the illusion that a majority of Americans hate Trump.

And now, fake news media has the nerve to place the Left's paid deranged, violent, and chaos-producing thugs on a higher moral level than the Tea Party. Heaven forbid.

Lloyd Marcus, The Unhyphenated American

Author: Confessions of a Black Conservative: How the Left has shattered the dreams of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Black America.

Singer/Songwriter and Conservative Activist

mr_lloydmarcus@hotmail.com

http://www.lloydmarcus.com/

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A Royal Breakfast and Royal Tea Party Set for Saturday – KNIA / KRLS Radio

Posted: Tuesday, February 28th, 2017 at 5:54 am Author: KNIA/KRLS News - Nathan Sage

The Knoxville High School After Prom Committee is sponsoring two events this Saturday in conjunction with the high schools production of Cinderella.

On Saturday, March 4th the Knoxville Morning Kiwanis will be serving a Royal Breakfast inside the Knoxville High School commons followed by a Royal Tea Party. The breakfast will run from 9 a.m. until noon and then will be followed by the tea party from noon until 2 p.m. Cindy Hauschildt with the Knoxville High School After Prom Committee tells KNIA/KRLS News children who attend the events will be able to meet the cast of Cinderella as well as tour the set, make and decorate cookies and take pictures. The cost for the breakfast is $6 for ages five and up and children from toddlers to second grade are invited to the Tea Party at a cost of $8 per child.

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