POLS 368 Lecture Notes - Rick Santelli, Utopia, Al-Qaeda
11 Apr 2013
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Born in 2009 as a reaction to the bailouts from the obama administration"s efforts to curb economic decline. Called upon by a cnbc reporter named rick santelli. Generally opposed to large amounts of government spending and heavy taxation. Many members signed a pledge that they wouldn"t vote for a tax increase on any condition. For the tea party, some kind of a past utopia is now being lost because of excessive government spending and increasing debt. The tea party isn"t a coherent group probably because there"s a lot of them. Ron paul says that wars require big government and big spending, as well as taxation. As such, he was opposed to the wars in afghanistan and iraq while people like bachmann and palin were in favour of it. Its role diminished a bit in the last presidential election and probably because obama won four more years. However, it"s still a huge influence in the republican party.
