Tea Party Patriots co-founders Mark Meckler and Jenny Beth Martin believe that at least 1/2 of the nation’s new congressmen either received direct support from a tea party organization or acknowledged the tea party’s primary platform of smaller government. This means about 50 congressmen, give or take, who have been elected on the tea party promise. And Meckler and Martin want to ensure that they understand that their election and tea party support was a quid pro quo. We help you win; you vote our platform. So they have opted to visit each of these congressmen in order to “remind” them of their responsibilities.
I was listening to the radio today (don’t know the station, can’t remember the speaker — except that he was a professor at James Madison University) and I had to laugh (and agree) with the professor’s comment: “If we are betting on whether Washington will change them, or they will change Washington, my money’s on Washington.” Mine, too.
