… regardless of what the issue is, it seems to be time to stop behaving like spoiled children and blaming it on somebody else.

Those in favour of change need to agitate for it in every concievable way, or move somewhere else .

From: "Brian Britton" <greeley912@timberwoolfe.com>
Date: September 11, 2009 1:12:44 PM MDT
To: waylon@elephantjournal.com <waylon@elephantjournal.com>
Subject: Local TEA Party activists boarding buses for rally in Denver
Reply-To: "Brian Britton" <greeley912@timberwoolfe.com>

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 11, 2009
CONTACT Brian Britton 970-506-1609

Local TEA Party activists boarding busses for rally in Denver

Greeley, Col. — As experts and pundits and political alchemists try to read the withering tea leaves left in the aftermath of President Obama's Wednesday night health care address, busses across the country are being loaded with a different kind of TEA, headed for a national rally Saturday on the Capitol mall in Washington, D.C. Local activists are headed to a statewide rally in Denver.

Brian Britton of Greeley said that , "Some of our folks are headed to Washington, but most are rallying here in Denver, we are doing this to save our country, and to make clear to Congresswoman Markey that we want her to vote against Obama's trillion-dollar socialized and rationed medicine scheme."

"We support what is happening in Washington, D.C. but wanted to rally at our State Capitol and let Colorado and Washington, D.C. officials know that we are watching them," said Britton.

The Taxed Enough Already or TEA Party movement sprouted seemingly from nowhere on Tax Day, April 15th, in just about every American city, big and small. Critics at first labeled the demonstrations as Republican sour grapes in the wake of President Obama's election, and they were famously denounced as racist by comedienne Janeane Garofalo on MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann." But the TEA Partiers didn't disappear.

They emerged again on July 4th, a few notables garbed as 1776-era minutemen. They waved flags, copies of the Constitution, and held handmade signs that condemned the trillion-dollar pricetag of government spending and snowballing debt. Again the demonstrations were paid little heed by the media. In August, they could no longer be ignored.

At July's end, Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted that she wasn't "scared of August," but as soon as Congress broke for recess, town hall meetings were flooded by a new breed of political activist. Congressmen and senators ran for the hills away from the TEA Partiers, and a few of them were chased. Scheduled town halls were cancelled and Congressional schedules laid empty for weeks. While Speaker Pelosi denounced the mysterious political activists as swastika-bearing Nazis, her Blue Dog Democrats transformed into rigid fiscal conservatives and the "public option" seemed to die on the vine.

On Wednesday, President Obama did his best to resuscitate his unpopular health care bill, but the TEA Partiers this Saturday will bring their case against it to the White House's backyard.

I think the media poison spread by some becomes addictive to more than a few listeners–they can't go through their day without it. It stirs up emotions–in other words, it adrenalizes them. This becomes a kind of "rush" (pun intended). People feel something–they need a target to rail against, especially if their own circumstances aren't great. you've got to blame someone, right? Cynical politicians on the right know this instinctively, and milk it for all it's worth…

this is just speculation on my part, of course…