Tea Party Ordinary Concerned Citizens, Threat To Socialist Promoters

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There is no question that the principles of anyone who believes in the freedom of American citizens from arbitrary government dictates like ObamaCare — unauthorized by anything in the Constitution and forbidden by the 10th Amendment — must oppose this quantum leap forward in the expansion of the power of government.
There is nothing ambiguous about the principle. The only question is about the tactics,

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Jewish World Review
Nov. 12, 2013/ 9 Kislev, 5774
Tea Party at the Crossroads
By Thomas Sowell

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Like ObamaCare, Prohibition sounded good to a lot of people before it went into effect. Only after they saw what a disaster it was in practice did people change their minds.
We are already seeing people changing their minds about ObamaCare, after they experienced the multiple disasters that are just starting to emerge. That includes Congressional Democrats who had voted for it.
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Friend and foe alike see the Tea Party as not just a bunch of politicians trying to stay in office, but people with a purpose beyond going along to get along. The left's desperate — and dishonest — efforts to discredit the Tea Party show that they understand its threat to their expanding government agenda.
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There are millions of Americans today who are losing their insurance and their doctor — and who may also lose everything financially to identity thieves, if ObamaCare is as careless with their private information as early reports indicate. These Americans are infinitely more important than internal battles among Republicans.

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Jewish World Review
Nov. 13, 2013/ 10 Kislev, 5774
Tea Party at the Crossroads: Part II
By Thomas Sowell