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More About This Title A New American Tea Party: The Counterrevolution Against Bailouts, Handouts, Reckless Spending, and More Taxes
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On April 15, 2009, a grassroots contingency of Americans that would soon become known around the world as the Tea Party made front-page news. Angered by years of excessive government spending-taxpayer financed bailouts of businesses deemed too big to fail and taxpayer handouts to special interest groups-Americans of all ages and all walks of life took to the streets to take back their country. A New American Tea Party: The Counterrevolution Against Bailouts, Handouts, Reckless Spending, and More Taxes is their story, and it's your guide for contributing to the movement to rein in government spending. The book
The debt resulting from today's reckless government spending will eventually result in massive tax hikes. A New American Tea Party shows how to focus your outrage into a productive movement that will make a positive difference.
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Bailout Nation: A Spending Timeline xi
Foreword xxi
Preface xxv
Chapter 1 The Tea Parties 1
Unorganized Organizers 2
From Stewing to Brewing 4
The Planning 6
Game Day 11
We’re All Community Organizers Now 12
The Tax Day Tea Parties 13
Institutional Organization 13
Striking a Balance 15
Internal Complications 16
No, Really, We’re Nonpartisan 16
Bureaucrats and Permits 17
April 15, 2009: The Million-Taxpayer March 18
Chapter 2 How We Got Here: Abandoning Principles and the People 21
Touting versus Learning from Reagan 22
1994: The Revolution That Wasn’t 28
The Quasi-Conservative Presidency of George W. Bush 33
How to Pretend You Are Something You Aren’t 35
Meltdown 35
2008 Election 36
Hope and Change We Can Believe In 38
A Center-Right Nation 38
Chapter 3 The Whistling Teapot: The Financial Crisis and the Bailout Nation 41
The Original Sin: The CRA 42
The Tax Code 43
Easy Money 43
Take a Loan off Fannie 44
Crisis 46
Bailouts, Handouts, and Corporate Welfare 47
Baby You Can Buy My Car 48
Newspapers Bailouts 48
Balance Sheet 49
Account Overdrawn 49
Chapter 4 The Political Class Reacts 51
Memo from the White House: You Just Don’t Get It 52
From the Department of Homeland Security: A Preemptive Strike 54
Congress Claims We’re All Astroturf 62
Straight from the Economist-in-Chief Himself 64
The Response from the Right 68
Others Show a Healthy Respect 70
Out of the Loop 71
Chapter 5 The Media Strikes Back 73
Media Blackout 74
Mr. Obama, Are You Watching? 75
Propaganda and Disinformation 79
Sexual Slurs 82
Bad Comedy, Worse Commentary 85
The Racism Straw Man 88
By the Numbers 94
The Media Market Reacts 94
So You Think You Can Politic? 97
Chapter 6 Radical Ideas 99
Part I: You Earn It, We Spend It 101
Part II: The Intrusion 117
Sliding Down the Slippery Slope 138
Chapter 7 Radical Tactics 141
The Playbook 143
The Organizers 144
The Enforcers 151
Sharp Distinctions 173
Chapter 8 The Teapot Boils Over: Health Care Takes Center Stage 175
The Health Care Policy Debate 176
The Government “Solutions” 177
Real Reform 181
Now or Never 182
Something’s Fishy 184
Dems Feel the Heat 185
Overwhelming Public Response 186
Town Halls 187
What Happened to “Democracy in Action”? 188
Pay No Attention to the Doctors! 190
Don’t Anger the Trial Lawyers! 191
White House Spin and Spam 192
Axelrod’s Turf 194
Mobilizing Union Muscle 195
Lying to Grandma 196
Free-Range or Free-Market? 197
Fannie Med? 199
A Civics Lesson for Congressmen 200
Chapter 9 The Tea Party Manifesto 203
Not Our Turf 204
Who They Are and What They Believe 206
A New Avenue 208
Popular, Not Populist 210
Dispelling False Dichotomies 212
On the Role of Government 213
Not Anti-Tax 215
Rejection of Bailouts, Handouts, and Wealth Redistribution 217
Personal Responsibility 219
“The Ideology of Change” 223
A Rejection of Class Warfare: The Unholy Trinity 224
The Rejection of False Prophets 226
Rejection of the Entitlement Ethic 229
Common Sense over Regulation 231
Rejection of the Mediocrity Ethic 231
The Counterrevolution: From Theory to Practice 233
Chapter 10 Rules for Counterradicals 235
The 9/12 Taxpayer March 237
Arguing from an Imperfect Status Quo 238
Honing the Message 240
Mastering the Art of Rallies 242
Utilizing Coalitions 245
Coordination not Competition 246
Promoting Principles over Personalities 247
Keeping Your Cool in a Fiery Debate 248
Using Social Networking 249
Looking beyond the Rallies 250
Taking Consistent, Principled Action 250
Maintaining Accountability and Transparency 251
Taking It to the States 252
The Right Ideals and the Right People 256
In Conclusion 258
Notes 261
About the Author 301
Index 303
