en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/745597 Comments by roley http://biggovernment.com/wthuston/2009/12/30/tea-parties-the-biggest-mistake-we-could-make-in-2010/#IDComment49788056 This article seems to me to be a symptom of our Washington centric political culture. If it isn't big news, big money and big names, we worry that it won't work. To me the beauty of the Tea Parties is that they are the opposite of this. Our nation is supposed to be a collection of states that uses the Federal government to represent their interests in a very limited number of areas. Now we have a Federal government that has its fingers in every corner of every tiny town. For the Federal government to diminish, local and state governments need to flourish and start taking back their power. If the tea party movement gets people to care what policies their city council and state legislators are making, more power to it. If the states know they have an active population behind them, they will be able to start taking the Federal government to task for ignoring the Constitution. Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:15:55 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/wthuston/2009/12/30/tea-parties-the-biggest-mistake-we-could-make-in-2010/#IDComment49788056