Hope and Change?

Just won­der­ing is this the hope and the change that you vot­ed for in 2008?

It sort of seems lack­ing to me, I mean, what we heard, and what we god were two very dif­fer­ent things.

Change is some­thing that we all want, which is why so many peo­ple vot­ed for that hope and that change, how­ev­er, we were betrayed, sim­ple as that, we were told one thing then giv­en some­thing else entire­ly, they used to call that bait and switch.

A cheap par­lor trick, some might say, (alleged­ly)

Just received this in an Email, (may not nec­es­sar­i­ly rep­re­sent the opin­ions of the own­ers of this web­site)

Dear Patri­ot,

Some­thing incred­i­ble has been hap­pen­ing over the last few days, and it was every loy­al mem­ber of the Tea Par­ty Move­ment that made it hap­pen! If you’ve been fol­low­ing the news, you’ve heard near­ly every polit­i­cal com­men­ta­tor com­ment on the fact that Speak­er John Boehn­er was forced to change his orig­i­nal plan twice because he could­n’t muster the 216 votes to get it passed. The gen­er­al com­men­tary goes like this: “In the past, Speak­er Boehn­er could have giv­en away mon­ey for a bridge or a library to buy the votes he need­ed, but the Tea Par­ty banned ear­marks so he doesn’t have that lux­u­ry.” Many of these old media dinosaurs speak with dis­dain when they make this point, as though by strip­ping the Con­gress of their cur­ren­cy of cor­rup­tion (ear­marks) is a bad thing; they just don’t get it! You should feel extreme­ly proud of what those of us in the Tea Par­ty have done–we have changed the entire cul­ture inside Con­gress!

Now, if a politi­cian wants to get the votes to pass leg­is­la­tion, he bet­ter be able to win on the mer­its of that leg­is­la­tion. It’s no longer an option to trade an unprin­ci­pled vote to fund some absurd pet project. No more “corn­husker kick­backs” for Ben Nel­son in Nebras­ka; no more “Louisiana pur­chase” for Mary Lan­drieu in exchange for the pas­sage of the dan­ger­ous Oba­macare. This is the first exam­ple of how we are going to stop the flow of ter­ri­ble leg­is­la­tion from Wash­ing­ton.

I’m so proud to have played my small role, and I’m gen­uine­ly hope­ful that as we con­tin­ue to grow, “We The Peo­ple” will be able to pre­serve the bless­ings of lib­er­ty for our chil­dren and grand­chil­dren! The fight over the debt ceil­ing con­tin­ues but already we’ve secured impor­tant vic­to­ries by chang­ing the process. This orga­ni­za­tion will con­tin­ue to recruit tens of thou­sands of new patri­ots each and every week, and we’ll con­tin­ue to pro­vide the lat­est and best tools to make all of us more effec­tive activists. TOGETHER, WE WILL WIN!

The most incred­i­ble part is we have put all of this infra­struc­ture togeth­er with­out hav­ing to sell our souls to any­one. We’re entire­ly fund­ed by patri­ots just like you who make an aver­age con­tri­bu­tion of less than $60! This tru­ly is a his­toric day for the direc­tion of coun­try and we remain hum­bled by your con­tin­ued sup­port.
 
Thank you,
Dustin Stock­ton
Media Direc­tor