First we had House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with the crocodile tears, remembering the “riot” when referring to Tea Party members. Now we have former President Bill Clinton using a parallel to the Oklahoma bomber to insinuate that the Tea Party Americans might be dangerous (“Prez Tickled by Tea Party,” April 17).
Why is it always one-sided when some good Americans try to voice their displeasure with policies?
Sam King
Manhattan
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The Tea Party movement is a good thing, and a nemesis to the Beltway’s boys club.
I hope this movement will take the high road, weeding out the loonies and radical-liberal plants who diminish the movement’s purpose of putting our elected officials on notice that we will no longer tolerate business as usual.
Their spending is completely out of hand, and it’s their belt that needs tightening, not ours.
George Giftos
Boca Raton, Fla.
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Clinton’s attempt to disgracefully link the Tea Party movement to the Oklahoma bombing would be like trying to link him and his administration to the senseless murders at Ruby Ridge and Waco.
Daniel Frascella
Lebanon, NJ
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The establishment politicians and the mainstream media are desperately trying to pigeonhole the Tea Party movement into just another pressure group within the narrow two-party structure as it exists today.
The Tea Party movement is too disparate for that. The press shouldn’t be focused on the dais when it covers these Tea Party rallies.
The real story is the different discussions going on in the audience. Now that the politicians inadvertently created the Tea Party with their disdain for the people, they opened a real Pandora’s box, and it won’t go away until things are finally put straight in our country.
Tom Dilberger
Belmar, NJ
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I just saw the president of the United States wondering why the Tea Party participants were not thanking him. It has to be the first time in my life that I have seen a president mocking the people he serves.
The laugh will be on President Obama when we throw out his fellow believers in November and throw him out two years later.
Paul Sheridan
Hicksville
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Obama’s derisive commentary on Tax Day protesters was delivered with his signature smirk.
He feigned shock at their audacity in questioning European levels of taxation and suggested that they should instead be thanking him.
I wonder if King George III was similarly amused by the disdain his subjects expressed at the original Tea Party. History tells us how the people “thanked” him for the policies they rejected.
Ray Arroyo
Westwood, NJ
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People critical of the Tea Party movement need to understand that it was formed to express the growing concern about runaway spending and bigger government by the very same people who will have to pay for it: the American taxpayer.
Instead of addressing our concerns, many in government and the media called us malcontents, racists and right-wing fanatics.
The result of their insults and self-righteous superiority has turned a Tea Party that just wanted to be heard into a political juggernaut that is growing each day.
Thank you for ignoring us. We’ll see you in November.
Casey Klein
North Brunswick, NJ
