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I get a kick out of the Republican members of Congress who claim the angry constituents at their town hall meetings are paid agitators.

Not surprisingly, President Donald Trump doesnt see it that way.

The so-called angry crowds in home districts of some Republicans, Trump tweeted, are actually, in numerous cases, planned out by liberal activists.

Gee, imagine that: Angry liberals are strategically encouraging people to come out and let their lawmakers know whats on their minds. Liberals are calling it grassroots politics while some conservatives are calling it AstroTurf politics.

But thats what a lot of liberals called it when the conservative tea party movement erupted in 2009. Now many of those tea party critics are trying to employ the same tactic.

Angry constituents have made headlines across the nation, upset over everything from the Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, evidence of Russian interference in the U.S. elections and the Trump White Houses travel ban, just for starters.

As for liberal activists? Republican have known since December that a growing number of liberal organizations and activists have been sharing strategies for ways to encourage voters to light up town halls with tough questions for members of Congress.

More than a thousand local groups have popped up across the country, organizing around an online how-to organizing manual called Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda.

Drafted by former Democratic congressional staffers who say they came up with the idea at an Austin, bar a couple of days after Thanksgiving, the manual has gone viral on the web, helped along by some prominent liberal groups like Barack Obamas Organizing for America in promoting the Indivisible Guide.

Following the tea party model makes more sense than the Occupy Wall Street movement, which captured public attention for a few weeks and then faded without much follow-up. By contrast, the tea party grew potent enough to help take away the Democrats House majority in 2010, its second year. President Obamas momentum was never the same.

Does Indivisible have a chance to do the same to President Trump? That depends mainly on how well local organizers can keep their enthusiasm and momentum going.

The first big test for this new Indivisible movement may not come until next years midterms, just as it did for Republicans in 2010.

Thats a good test because Democratic Party turnout tends to drop in midterm elections. The most recent and notable exception was 2006. Dissatisfaction over President George W. Bushs handling of Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq War and a series of scandals involving Republican politicians, among other woes for the Grand Old Party, resulted in a Democratic sweep.

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This time, Democrats have another unusual asset: President Trump. Defying traditions, as he loves to do, he has continued to focus on whipping up his conservative base without making the traditional pivot that others have made toward the political center.

The result has been approval ratings in almost all of the major polls that are historically low for a new president. A new Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday, for example, found only 38 percent of voters think he is doing a good job while 55 percent said he was doing a bad job.

Worse for the GOP, a Pew Research Center poll released the day before showed rank-and file Republicans and Republican-leaning independents are still so psyched up for Trump that 52 percent of them say they are likely to side with Trump in a dispute with party leaders.

If Trump fails to keep his promises, even his core support could erode.

But, of course, Trump only gives Democrats someone to vote against. Lets see whom they offer us to vote for.

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Will today's town hall crowds turn into a liberal tea party? - MyDaytonDailyNews

Harriet Baldwin posted on Facebook: Pisses me off when the alt-left media likens these paid Obama/Soros/Alinsky violent protesters to the Tea Party.

To Harriet, I say, Amen sister!

Folks, I am a black singer/songwriter who has been in the Tea Party from the beginning. In 2008, Our Country Deserves Better PAC invited me on their Stop Obama national bus tour. In 2009, I wrote the American Tea Party Anthem which I performed at Tea Party rallies on 14 national bus tours with Tea Party Express and others.

It has infuriated me the way the despicable fake news media intentionally branded the salt-of-the-earth good Americans at the rallies a bunch of redneck racists vehemently opposed to America electing its first black president. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Many of those folks at the rallies excitedly voted for Obama assuming it would heal America's racial divides. They became aware that Obama was the Left's bait and switch president; running as a moderate governing like an out-of-control lawless far-left radical.

Folks, Tea Party people are not racist. They love their country. They desire equal justice for all Americans. They do not want government dictating how to raise their kids and micromanaging their lives to achieve the Left's absurd goal of equal outcomes.

Trump calling out fake news outlets is exhilarating.

Along with media from around the world, CNN was embedded on one of the Tea Party Express tours. The CNN reporter attended 35 rallies for a CNN documentary. I was a headliner, opening every rally, rocking the house with my American Tea Party Anthem. I closed every rally with a powerful rendition of God Bless the USA in which I invited every veteran in the audience to join me on stage. Audiences spontaneously jumped to their feet, cheering and applauding as vets made their way to the stage. The crowds expressed extra enthusiastic love when a WWII vet made his way or was helped to the stage.

The people loved me and I loved them back because we were united in our love for America and our desire not to see her transformed into a socialist/progressive Godless nation. Rally attendees treated me like a rock star; purchasing my CDs, asking for autographs, asking me to take pictures with their kids.

When the CNN documentary was aired, not one time was my black face shown, nor wereblack Christian publishersWilliam and Selena Owens, Kevin Jackson, Herman Cain, or other black speakers at the rallies.

Consequently, my 80-year-old black dad believed the Tea Party was a bunch of hate-filled scary racist white people because he heard it on CNN. I said, But dad, I'm on the tour bus and they allow me to ride up front!

As I said, the complete opposite of the fake news narrative regarding the Tea Party is true.

In Texas at a Tea Party rally, a white cowboy approached me pushing a stroller with two black babies. The proud father of adopted babies from Africa said he and his white wife asked God to give them kids who needed their love. He was excited about his babies soon becoming American citizens.

In Michigan at a rally, a white woman in a wheelchair, spotted me. Oh my gosh, it's Lloyd Marcus! Can I please have a picture with you? The woman's adult daughter told someone on our staff. My mom is dying. She said all she wanted to do was meet Lloyd Marcus.

Tea Party attendees endlessly apologized to me for opposing the first black president. Folks, I could go on and on with fond memories of heartwarming incidents, acts of kindness, love, respect, and tearful moments of patriotism.

So, when fake news media goes messin' with my tea party family, they're on the fightin' side of me. The decent, hardworking, orderly, and responsible patriots in the Tea Party have been purposely slandered by the fake news media. It is beyond disgusting.

Meanwhile, the scum-of-the-earth Black Lives Matter, which encourages blacks to kill white people and cops, is celebrated in the fake news media. Though unreported, black attacks on whites and ambushes and assassinations of police have skyrocketed.

Since election night when We the People stunned the fake news media by defeating Hillary, Leftists have literally lost their minds with vitriolic hate for us. Obama and Soros launched violent hate groups and protesters to wreak havoc in our streets to create the illusion that a majority of Americans hate Trump.

And now, fake news media has the nerve to place the Left's paid deranged, violent, and chaos-producing thugs on a higher moral level than the Tea Party. Heaven forbid.

Lloyd Marcus, The Unhyphenated American

Author: Confessions of a Black Conservative: How the Left has shattered the dreams of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Black America.

Singer/Songwriter and Conservative Activist

mr_lloydmarcus@hotmail.com

http://www.lloydmarcus.com/

Harriet Baldwin posted on Facebook: Pisses me off when the alt-left media likens these paid Obama/Soros/Alinsky violent protesters to the Tea Party.

To Harriet, I say, Amen sister!

Folks, I am a black singer/songwriter who has been in the Tea Party from the beginning. In 2008, Our Country Deserves Better PAC invited me on their Stop Obama national bus tour. In 2009, I wrote the American Tea Party Anthem which I performed at Tea Party rallies on 14 national bus tours with Tea Party Express and others.

It has infuriated me the way the despicable fake news media intentionally branded the salt-of-the-earth good Americans at the rallies a bunch of redneck racists vehemently opposed to America electing its first black president. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Many of those folks at the rallies excitedly voted for Obama assuming it would heal America's racial divides. They became aware that Obama was the Left's bait and switch president; running as a moderate governing like an out-of-control lawless far-left radical.

Folks, Tea Party people are not racist. They love their country. They desire equal justice for all Americans. They do not want government dictating how to raise their kids and micromanaging their lives to achieve the Left's absurd goal of equal outcomes.

Trump calling out fake news outlets is exhilarating.

Along with media from around the world, CNN was embedded on one of the Tea Party Express tours. The CNN reporter attended 35 rallies for a CNN documentary. I was a headliner, opening every rally, rocking the house with my American Tea Party Anthem. I closed every rally with a powerful rendition of God Bless the USA in which I invited every veteran in the audience to join me on stage. Audiences spontaneously jumped to their feet, cheering and applauding as vets made their way to the stage. The crowds expressed extra enthusiastic love when a WWII vet made his way or was helped to the stage.

The people loved me and I loved them back because we were united in our love for America and our desire not to see her transformed into a socialist/progressive Godless nation. Rally attendees treated me like a rock star; purchasing my CDs, asking for autographs, asking me to take pictures with their kids.

When the CNN documentary was aired, not one time was my black face shown, nor wereblack Christian publishersWilliam and Selena Owens, Kevin Jackson, Herman Cain, or other black speakers at the rallies.

Consequently, my 80-year-old black dad believed the Tea Party was a bunch of hate-filled scary racist white people because he heard it on CNN. I said, But dad, I'm on the tour bus and they allow me to ride up front!

As I said, the complete opposite of the fake news narrative regarding the Tea Party is true.

In Texas at a Tea Party rally, a white cowboy approached me pushing a stroller with two black babies. The proud father of adopted babies from Africa said he and his white wife asked God to give them kids who needed their love. He was excited about his babies soon becoming American citizens.

In Michigan at a rally, a white woman in a wheelchair, spotted me. Oh my gosh, it's Lloyd Marcus! Can I please have a picture with you? The woman's adult daughter told someone on our staff. My mom is dying. She said all she wanted to do was meet Lloyd Marcus.

Tea Party attendees endlessly apologized to me for opposing the first black president. Folks, I could go on and on with fond memories of heartwarming incidents, acts of kindness, love, respect, and tearful moments of patriotism.

So, when fake news media goes messin' with my tea party family, they're on the fightin' side of me. The decent, hardworking, orderly, and responsible patriots in the Tea Party have been purposely slandered by the fake news media. It is beyond disgusting.

Meanwhile, the scum-of-the-earth Black Lives Matter, which encourages blacks to kill white people and cops, is celebrated in the fake news media. Though unreported, black attacks on whites and ambushes and assassinations of police have skyrocketed.

Since election night when We the People stunned the fake news media by defeating Hillary, Leftists have literally lost their minds with vitriolic hate for us. Obama and Soros launched violent hate groups and protesters to wreak havoc in our streets to create the illusion that a majority of Americans hate Trump.

And now, fake news media has the nerve to place the Left's paid deranged, violent, and chaos-producing thugs on a higher moral level than the Tea Party. Heaven forbid.

Lloyd Marcus, The Unhyphenated American

Author: Confessions of a Black Conservative: How the Left has shattered the dreams of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Black America.

Singer/Songwriter and Conservative Activist

mr_lloydmarcus@hotmail.com

http://www.lloydmarcus.com/

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Fake News Still Lyin' About the Tea Party - American Thinker

Posted: Tuesday, February 28th, 2017 at 5:54 am Author: KNIA/KRLS News - Nathan Sage

The Knoxville High School After Prom Committee is sponsoring two events this Saturday in conjunction with the high schools production of Cinderella.

On Saturday, March 4th the Knoxville Morning Kiwanis will be serving a Royal Breakfast inside the Knoxville High School commons followed by a Royal Tea Party. The breakfast will run from 9 a.m. until noon and then will be followed by the tea party from noon until 2 p.m. Cindy Hauschildt with the Knoxville High School After Prom Committee tells KNIA/KRLS News children who attend the events will be able to meet the cast of Cinderella as well as tour the set, make and decorate cookies and take pictures. The cost for the breakfast is $6 for ages five and up and children from toddlers to second grade are invited to the Tea Party at a cost of $8 per child.

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A pioneer in the tea party movement is calling the Left to task for trying to compare tea partiers to the so-called "Resistance" movement.

"Every time there's any kind of uprising on the Left, they call it the new tea party," observes Mark Meckler, who co-founded the Tea Party Patriots that boasted millions of members across the country.

The left-wing version, Meckler says, began with the "Occupy" movement in which far-left groups supposedly opposed Wall Street. The newest movement is Black Lives Matter, which he calls a "criminal enterprise" opposed to law and order.

OneNewsNow has reported on a movement in California to secede from the United States, when conservatives in North California have demanded their own state for years due to the liberal-led state government in Sacramento.

Last summer, it was Texas officials who were vowing to leave the Union, citing the power and bureaucracy of the federal government.

MSNBC, the left-wing news network, suggested in a Feb. 25 story that liberals yelling at GOP congressmen at townhall meetings mirrors similar anger and frustration voiced by tea partiers.

MSNBC was claiming in 2009 that tea partiers were exhibiting "racial overtones" against Barack Obama (see video below) because he's black, predicting that a right-winger would attempt to attack the president due to that anger and hatred.

But media watchdog Newsbusters noticed that MSNBC footage of a tea party man carrying an AR-15 rifle at a rally was carefully edited - because the man is black.

The newest "Resistance" movement is based on anarchy with the goal of shutting down opposition, including opposing views in culture and politics.

"This is a fake movement," Meckler serves of the "Resistance" movement. "It's everything they accuse the tea party movement of being."

The vast majority of Americans, he adds, are not in favor of violence in the streets.

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Just like the tea party, huh? Don't think so - OneNewsNow

President Trump meets Congress for the first time on Tuesday night, and much of the news media hopes it will prove to be a difficult rendezvous, and one witnessed by a nationwide audience. Certainly the progressive protestors who rally outside the White House before the significant speech to lawmakers hope it will go astray, egged on by the ACLU, MoveOn.org and Rosie ODonnell, among the many organizers. Four Democrats, including Sen. Dick Durbin, plan to bring illegal immigrants to the event as their guests. Meanwhile, the hostile press has been making dire predictions for days, suggesting the president is seeking a re-set, offering viewer guides as if the speech was a sports event, or revisiting every negative poll which has appeared in recent days. Advice to Mr. Trump is plentiful.

Many are saying that Donald Trumps address to Congress is the most important speech of his new presidency and they are right. If his presidency is to succeed, he must gain the cooperation of a disturbingly recalcitrant Republican Congress for his programs and this is the time to do it, to remind the skittish members what the public voted for, advises Roger L. Simon, founder of PJ Media. Soaring rhetoric, optimistic or not, the bashing of the dishonest media, justified as that may be, and the recitation of past achievements, worthy as many may be, are all beside the point now. Tuesday night we must hear what his programs are in detail. He must put on his wonk suit.

Mr. Simon wants the details about the economy, tax reform, immigration.

Trump should largely ignore his opposition among the Democrats and the press. He has the right ideas and the facts on his side, he says, urging the president to heed the lyrics of the 1963 R&B classic titled The Nitty Gritty which advises the wise to yes get right on down to the real nitty-gritty.

New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin predicts this: Tuesday night in the Capitol is likely to be a shock-and-awe blowout of pure Trumpism and on a battleground very familiar to the president.

Hes at war with the status quo and caving in to dead-ender opponents after five weeks would mark him as weak with his core supporters. He wants to expand his power, not reduce it, as he begins the dance with Congress over ObamaCare, tax reform and the budget. Besides, we should not underestimate Trumps determination or his strategy for success. Business taught him and politics reinforced that lowering your sights too soon is a losing proposition. Timing is key to the art of the deal, Mr. Goodwin observes.

TRUMP BASHING NOT LOST ON THE PUBLIC

Is the media too tough on Donald Trump? More than half of Americans think so, reports the Wall Street Journal, which conducted a poll with NBC News to prove it.

The survey found that 53 percent of Americans say the media and other elites are exaggerating problems within the White House because they are uncomfortable or threatened by the change Trump represents.

Also, 51 percent think the press has been too critical of Mr. Trump; 41 percent deem news coverage fair and objective; while a slim 6 percent say the coverage has not been harsh enough.

NO SUCH THING AS A PROGRESSIVE TEA PARTY

Progressives, disgruntled Democrats, peeved feminists and other plan multiple rallies against President Trump such as a nationwide strike for women next week. The press has suggested this resistance is similar to the emergence of the tea party eight years ago, which was, essentially, a spontaneous grass-roots movement with staying power and focus.

Wrong, says Mark Meckler, a co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots. There is no similarity between the two movements he declares. None. Nada. Mr. Meckler offers clear reasoning in a new essay for the Independent Journal Review.

The tea party challenges the Republican party to become better; the resistance is all about partisanship, he says. The tea party movement is grassroots; the resistance astroturf. The tea party is not violent. The tea party isnt comprised of millennial crybabies upset at a single politician. The tea party utilizes free speech; the anti-Trump resistance squelches it. The tea party was attacked by the government even though they broke no laws; the resistance is never properly even investigated by the media. The tea party is about love and respect; the resistance is about hatred and contempt.

CONSERVATIVE PUSHBACK

On the radar, details soon: Coming March 15, its FreedomWorks Day of Action featuring Republican Sens. Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and Rand Paul, and Rep. Jim Jordan. The rally in Upper Senate Park adjacent to the U.S. Capitol is intended as a mighty call to repeal Obamacare, organizers say. FreedomWorks is a grass-roots group backing free markets, individual liberty, lower taxes and less government.

FOXIFIED

President Trump has granted an exclusive interview to Fox News morning hosts Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade ahead of his address to Congress on Tuesday. Mr. Trump previews his speech and includes hints about his immigration policy, tax reform and the economy, among other topics. This is Mr. Trumps first morning show appearance since his inauguration; look for excerpts to air between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m.

Co-anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum offer live coverage of the speech proper from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. with help from Tucker Carlson, Dana Perino,Juan Williams, Brit Hume and Chris Wallace. Sean Hannity presents a live hour of analysis at 11 p.m. Anchor Shepard Smith and correspondent Rich Edson offer live coverage for Foxs broadcast channels.

On the Fox Business Network, Neil Cavuto will anchor a special edition of Cavuto: Coast to Coast, Presidential Address to the Congress from 8-11 p.m. ET. The network will live stream the address on FOXBusiness.com. Peter Barnes and Blake Burman will report live from the White House, Connell McShane from the Capitol.

POLL DU JOUR

24 percent of Americans say the news media is unfriendly to nation; 43 percent of Republicans, 24 percent of independents and 8 percent of Democrats agree.

23 percent overall say the media is friendly to the nation; 11 percent of Republicans, 18 percent of independents and 37 percent of Democrats agree.

19 percent overall are not sure about the relationship; 10 percent of Republicans, 26 percent of independents and 16 percent of Democrats agree.

18 percent overall say the media is an enemy of the people; 30 percent of Republicans, 20 percent of independents and 6 percent of Democrats agree.

17 percent overall say the media is an ally of the people; 6 percent of Republicans, 12 percent of independents and 33 percent of Democrats agree.

Source: An Economist/YouGov poll of 1,500 U.S. adults conducted Feb. 18-22.

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Advice to Trump: Go for the 'nitty gritty' on Tuesday night - Washington Times