Dear Editor,
People like Joe Biden have absolutely no clue what drives a person who subscribes to the beliefs of the Tea Party movement. A small paper-back published in 2009 titled Tea Party Revival by Dr. B. Leland Baker, gives a clear and concise look at beliefs and principles that are the core of the Tea Party movement.
A Tea Partier believes in:
1) Individual rights, personal responsibility, and integrity.
2) Enforcing the enumerated powers of the Constitution;
3) Expect the President, Congress and the Supreme Court to comply with item #2.
Many of the administrative agencies of the Executive Branch are unconstitutional, resulting in a bloated federal tyranny. Tea Partiers believe enforcing constitutional, enumerated powers will reduce the size of that tyranny, and cost billion$ less of our tax dollars. Tea Partiers want the U. S. to get out of the U. N. and close our borders to illegal aliens. Want the courts to interpret laws, not make them. They want all elected officials to be subject to the same laws and penalties as the rest of the American citizenry.
Tea Partiers are not republican or democrat. Tea Partiers are nothing more, nothing less than patriotic American citizens who want the Constitution enforced. The Tea Party is not a partisan, political party. It is a patriot movement. Dr. B. Leland Baker refers to the party as a revival of the values, principles, and laws set down by our founding fathers.
Bill Bledsoe
Milton
This article originally appeared on Santa Rosa Press Gazette: The definition of a tea partier