{"id":544,"date":"2010-03-15T08:34:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T12:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asgroupinc.com\/?p=544"},"modified":"2010-03-15T08:34:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T12:34:50","slug":"tea-party-brings-energy-change-and-tumult-to-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asgroupinc.com\/tea-party-brings-energy-change-and-tumult-to-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea Party Brings Energy, Change and Tumult to GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Micahel Barone, Townhall.com<\/p>\n<p>The political commentariat doesn&#8217;t know what to make of those thousands of  Americans who have spontaneously thronged to tea parties and town hall meetings  to oppose the big government programs of the Obama administration and Democratic  congressional leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Some on the left attack them as fascists or racists, though evidence of that  is sorely lacking. David Brooks in The New York Times compared them to the New  Left campus radicals of the 1970s, which comes closer to reality but doesn&#8217;t  quite ring true.<\/p>\n<p>Some tea partiers, citing the Declaration and the Constitution, compare  themselves to the patriots of 1776 and the founders of 1787, which has some  validity but seems overly self-congratulatory.<\/p>\n<p>To read more, visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/MichaelBarone\/2010\/03\/15\/tea_party_brings_energy,_change_and_tumult_to_gop\">http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/MichaelBarone\/2010\/03\/15\/tea_party_brings_energy,_change_and_tumult_to_gop<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Micahel Barone, Townhall.com The political commentariat doesn&#8217;t know what to make of those thousands of Americans who have spontaneously thronged to tea parties and town hall meetings to oppose the big government programs of the Obama administration and Democratic congressional leaders. 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