Whats the Tea party about then?

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Is it one party, or a group, or just some random movement? And what do they want?

It is a mass movement comprised of multiple tendencies.

The only thing which could be said about them is that they are following the American populist tradition and that they think they are defending the constitution.

Has someone attacked the constitution? Are they mainly disgruntled people?

They are people mad about the banks and business screwing them over. Their solution to this is to relax regulation. I am sure big business is saying "Holy s**t! They want us to do it again, but this time its going be even easier!"

Unfortunately, the market in the U.S. has never been a Free Market even since the founding of the Republic. Slavery was legally protected by the Constitution of 1787. So much for a free market in labor. The Constitution also gave the U.S. central government a monopoly on the delivery and distribution of mail. Even unto this day, the U.S. Postal Service has an exclusive claim on the use of the mail box which you purchased with your own money. No one else is allowed to use it. That is why mailboxes on posts standing in front of houses has a curved hook for newspaper to be placed. You local newspaper is not allowed to place the paper -inside- the mail box.

The U.S. government through a rather perverse interpretation of the Interstate Commerce Clause has hegemony over the buying and selling of goods and services interstate. One cannot make or sell medical drugs or instruments without being licensed by the U.S. government. The FDA act is justified on the currently accepted interpretation of the Interstate Commerce Clause.

Freedom! It is wonderful! Too bad we have so little of it.

ruveyn

The Tea party movement is funded by billionaires who want to hold on to their money and not face responsibility for their multi-billion dollar conglomerate's transgressions against the people and the environment and they don't want lose a cent of their billions that they inherited from their daddy* to taxes.


http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010 ... fact_mayer

“The Kochs operate oil refineries in Alaska, Texas, and Minnesota, and control some four thousand miles of pipeline. Koch Industries owns Brawny paper towels, Dixie cups, Georgia-Pacific lumber, Stainmaster carpet, and Lycra, among other products. Forbes ranks it as the second-largest private company in the country, after Cargill, and its consistent profitability has made David and Charles Koch—who, years ago, bought out two other brothers—among the richest men in America. Their combined fortune of thirty-five billion dollars is exceeded only by those of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett."

“The Kochs are longtime libertarians who believe in drastically lower personal and corporate taxes, minimal social services for the needy, and much less oversight of industry—especially environmental regulation. These views dovetail with the brothers’ corporate interests. In a study released this spring, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute named Koch Industries one of the top ten air polluters in the United States. And Greenpeace issued a report identifying the company as a ‘kingpin of climate science denial.’ The report showed that, from 2005 to 2008, the Kochs vastly outdid ExxonMobil in giving money to organizations fighting legislation related to climate change, underwriting a huge network of foundations, think tanks, and political front groups. Indeed, the brothers have funded opposition campaigns against so many Obama Administration policies—from health-care reform to the economic-stimulus program—that, in political circles, their ideological network is known as the Kochtopus.”



*Who also was pretty well off being the son of the owner of a regional newspaper.