Moving Past The Tea Parties

Erick Erickson sums up many of the tea party organizations across the country.

Then last week, in what everyone would have thought was a joke had it happened on April Fools Day, a bunch of tea parties, or at least one saying it was doing it for more, put out a press release announcing the birth of the National Tea Party Federation, which is not an organization, not a structure, not a new set of leaders, but an evolution of alliances of 19 tea party organizations and a handful of other groups, except for the Tea Party Patriots, which has worked overtime to be simply a volunteer group of concerned activists who neither get paid nor make money. Yeah, I have a soft spot for Tea Party Patriots living up to their ideal.

Most of us can sit back and ask one simple question: What the heck happened?

Of course, this doesn't change my support of our local tea party. If the TEA Parties were stocks, they would be the best buy right now, even though the focus of them must be tweaked a bit. No politicians, no profit seeking trolls, just good, honest, American people who are demanding a change in our government.