A New American Tea Party

Bailout Nation: A Spending Timeline.Foreword.Preface.Chapter 1 The Tea Parties.Unorganized Organizers.From Stewing to Brewing.The Planning.Game Day.We're All Community Organizers Now.The Tax Day Tea Parties.Institutional Organization.Striking a Balance.Internal Complications.No, Really, We're Nonpartisan.Bureaucrats and Permits.April 15, 2009: The Million-Taxpayer March.Chapter 2 How We Got Here: Abandoning Principles and the People.Touting versus Learning from Reagan.1994: The Revolution That Wasn't.The Quasi-Conservative Presidency of George W. Bush.How to Pretend You Are Something You Aren't.Meltdown.2008 Election.Hope and Change We Can Believe In.A Center-Right Nation.Chapter 3 The Whistling Teapot: The Financial Crisis and the Bailout Nation.The Original Sin: The CRA.The Tax Code.Easy Money.Take a Loan off Fannie.Crisis.Bailouts, Handouts, and Corporate Welfare.Baby You Can Buy My Car.Newspapers Bailouts.Balance Sheet.Account Overdrawn.Chapter 4 The Political Class Reacts.Memo from the White House: You Just Don't Get It.From the Department of Homeland Security: A Preemptive Strike.Congress Claims We're All Astroturf.Straight from the Economist-in-Chief Himself.The Response from the Right.Others Show a Healthy Respect.Out of the Loop.Chapter 5 The Media Strikes Back.Media Blackout.Mr. Obama, Are You Watching?Propaganda and Disinformation.Sexual Slurs.Bad Comedy, Worse Commentary.The Racism Straw Man.By the Numbers.The Media Market Reacts.So You Think You Can Politic?Chapter 6 Radical Ideas.Part I: You Earn It, We Spend It.Part II: The Intrusion.Sliding Down the Slippery Slope.Chapter 7 Radical Tactics.The Playbook.The Organizers.The Enforcers.Sharp Distinctions.Chapter 8 The Teapot Boils Over: Health Care Takes Center Stage.The Health Care Policy Debate.The Government "Solutions".Real Reform.Now or Never.Something's Fishy.Dems Feel the Heat.Overwhelming Public Response.Town Halls.What Happened to "Democracy in Action"?Pay No Attention to the Doctors!Don't Anger

John M. O'Hara is vice president of external relations at the Illinois Policy Institute. Previously, O'Hara worked as assistant director of communications at The Heartland Institute. He served under U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao in the administration of George W. Bush and, prior to that, was a Collegiate Network journalism fellow at the American Spectator. O'Hara has appeared on dozens of radio and television programs as a commentator on the tea party movement and current political affairs. For his work with the tea party movement, he received an inaugural 2010 William F. Buckley, Jr., Leadership Award from the Young Conservatives Coalition. O'Hara graduated from Kenyon College with a BA in philosophy and a concentration in the Integrated Program in Humane Studies and was managing editor of the Kenyon Observer. For more about the author, visit JohnMOHara.com