Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right

[BR_Parkway]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/us/politics/16teaparty.html

SANDPOINT, Idaho — Pam Stout has not always lived in fear of her government. She remembers her years working in federal housing programs, watching government lift struggling families with job training and education. She beams at the memory of helping a Vietnamese woman get into junior college.

But all that was before the Great Recession and the bank bailouts, before Barack Obama took the White House by promising sweeping change on multiple fronts, before her son lost his job and his house. Mrs. Stout said she awoke to see Washington as a threat, a place where crisis is manipulated — even manufactured — by both parties to grab power.

She was happily retired, and had never been active politically. But last April, she went to her first Tea Party rally, then to a meeting of the Sandpoint Tea Party Patriots. She did not know a soul, yet when they began electing board members, she stood up, swallowed hard, and nominated herself for president. “I was like, ‘Did I really just do that?’ ” she recalled.

Then she went even further.

Worried about hyperinflation, social unrest or even martial law, she and her Tea Party members joined a coalition, Friends for Liberty, that includes representatives from Glenn Beck’s 9/12 Project, the John Birch Society, and Oath Keepers, a new player in a resurgent militia movement.


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[Skittles]

1. nut jobs

their very real concerns were first ignored by Washington and are now being exploited by the rightwing dirtbags behind the teabagger movement

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. How typical. Retired and never active politically.

I compare that to the activists I met at Camp Casey. Many had been dedicated activists for most of their lives and quite a few did not have jobs so they could work full time for peace. That's dedication. Getting pissed off because a black man is in the WH and deciding to get involved for the first time is not at all admirable.

[StClone]

3. Pam Stout Fears Gov. Hangs with Beck

Once Beck is involved all bets are off as to valid grassroots concerns. She's a tool.

[upi402]

4. Glenn Beck's useful idiots n/t

[brewens]

5. Hopefully Mark Fuhrman is part of that. Last I knew he lived in

Sandpoint. I'd hate to see them leave any local nutjobs out.

[daleo]

6. She's afraid of government

Yet she worked for the government, now gets a pension from the government and no doubt gets health care from the government. Strange.

[KingFlorez]

7. Sandpoint is where a lot Aryan Nation and Christian Identity freaks set up shop

We know what her problem is.

[Speck Tater]

8. Like political fads of the past, ten years from now nobody will remember it.

And nobody will admit to having ere been a part of it.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

9. That bunch sure looks threatening. Is the rebellion going to include a tailgate party?