Russia Today: 'Tea Party Bagging Defense Spending?'

Source:Russa Today- U.S. Senator Rand Paul (Republican, Kentucky) member of the Congressional Tea Party Caucus.

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From Wikipedia 

"Following the November 2010 elections, several Tea Partiers went from hopeful candidates to US Senators and members of Congress. Most campaigned on a platform of cutting spending and reducing the national deficit. Now that they are in power though, will the Tea Party implement the economic austerity they promised and take on the "Sacred Cow" of US defense spending cuts? Are they serious about cutting entitlements and defense by the amounts needed for long term fiscal sanity? Of the Republicans' 47 Senators and 242 Congressional Representatives, only 5 percent (15 members) expressed support for cutting defense spending. So is it all just talk to win political points?" 

From Russia Today

What happened to the old Tea Party that was about limited government, getting the Federal Government off of our backs, that was anti-big government, anti-corporate welfare, anti-neoconservative?

The Tea Party was a movement back in 2009-10 when they came on the seen that didn't want to be associated with the Christian- Right and Neoconservatives, that was even anti-George Bush. That wasn't part of today's Republican Party thats dominated by the Christian-Right and Neoconservatives. That sort of looked like the Grand Ole Party of 20-30 years a real limited government party. 

I gotta admit that back in the summer of 2010, when I started blogging about the Tea Party movement, that I saw them as a faction of the Christian-Right with a very conservative fiscal message. As they moved along and went out-of-their-way to not be associated with social issues that moves the Christian-Right. That told me they had Conservative-Libertarians in it. That told me that they were a separate movement from the Christian-Right and were a real classical conservative movement that people had the right to live their own lives, as long as they weren't hurting anyone else with their freedom. And by in-large wasn't interested in social issues and looking to push some anti-gay or anti-porn ban. 

I'll tell you what happened with part of the Tea Party movement (in case anyone was wondering) they got in bed with the Christian-Right and combined both movements. 

Representative Michele Bachmann case in point: she's the Leader of the Christian Tea Party. This faction as I see it is different from the Tea Party or represents another movement on their own or has even replaced the Tea Party as a major political movement not only in the Republican Party, but in American politics as a whole. 

I'm sure there are still some Conservative-Libertarians left in the Tea Party movement but they are no longer in charged and won't have much of a say in who the Republican Party nominates for President in 2012. 

Anyone who believes that we can get our Federal deficit and debt under control without making overall cuts in defense spending, without making damaging cuts in entitlement programs and passing painful Ttx hikes on the middle class, as apparently these Republican Representatives believe can be done, doesn't understand the Federal budget and the debt and deficit issues it faces.