“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny;
when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
—Thomas Jefferson

“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem,
government is the problem.”
—Ronald Reagan

About Us

 We’re more than just tea…

When we say "About Us," it goes beyond just a small group of motivated folks endeavoring to stand up for what’s right; it’s about all Americans who love what this country has traditionally stood for and what it is supposed to stand for. It’s about making a statement that the structure of this country was resolved long ago in a pair of brilliant documents: The Declaration of Independence and The United States Constitution. If anyone has any doubt as to the intent and purpose of these documents they can absolve them quickly by reading any one of numerous insightful writings penned by our founding fathers. Those writings reveal unambiguously what their mindset was in those days. They simply wanted to preserve liberty and the opportunity to pursue happiness for all of our countrymen. They thought the best way to achieve this was to limit the powers of government. And that is what they did!

We reject the following policies:

• Out of control spending …It’s OUR money!

• Record deficits and debt accumulation

• The pursuit of socialism

• Funding special interest groups

• Bailing out banks, businesses, and marginal homeowners

• Government expansion into private sector ownership

• Universal healthcare—socialized medicine

• Carbon tax and other environmental extremist's schemes

• Encumbering private property with extreme environmental laws

• Promoting back door legislation that violates the first amendment

• Advocating social security payments and amnesty for illegal aliens

• Preventing U.S. companies from drilling where oil exists on our own soil

And many, many more!!!

The Spender in Chief

President Obama’s campaign revolved primarily around the following inane platitudes: “the audacity of hope,” “yes we can,” “change,” and just plain ol' “hope.” As he said himself, dismissively, “just words.” With cover from the mainstream media he did not have to define these words or his socialist agenda, he did not have to point out that a bad economy plays into his goals to expand the government beyond comprehension, nor did he have to answer the concern of informed citizens who wanted to know how his administration would reconcile his extremely liberal Senate voting record and demonstrated love of socialism with the just constraints of limited government that the U.S. Constitution places upon the holder of the office he was seeking. For him, becoming the President of the United States was about power, not about love of country. If he were indeed honest during his campaign, he would have told the voters that he believes in the "audacity" of big government and that he "hopes" he will be able to leave you with nothing but spare "change" and a permanent reliance on the federal government for your needs. So far he is succeeding in that. 

He has proposed more spending in his first year in office than all 8 years of the Bush administration. Don’t forget, the Bush administration wasn’t exactly known for its fiscal restraint. In talking about the failing U.S. economy, Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel said in November 2008, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Obama is spending our nation into oblivion to grow government under the guise of addressing a crisis. An excellent article in the Wall Street Journal demonstrates just how much debt he is proposing.

Congress and Our Present Crisis

Federal government intervention, legislation, and incompetence almost exclusively caused the financial turmoil in which we find ourselves. Yet those directly responsible for creating the policies that led to the meltdown have the nerve to try and shift blame to the private sector. With the aid of the lapdog media, they are quick to tout the so-called failure of capitalism and the "greed" of Wall Street as causes. Funny that you’ll never hear them speak of the greed of government.  If you haven’t seen the video that explains the failure please take the time to watch it here.

After seeing this, you’ll probably ask why the leaders in Congress (Barney Frank and Chris Dodd) who protected Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac aren’t being investigated. Excellent question! In fact, the irony is that, with cover being provided by mainstream media, they are being allowed to take more control over the mess they created and covered up all along.  Thus, the real outrage here at The Potomac Tea Party and across the nation is that they are taking our tax dollars to prop those institutions back up again and to bail out the high risk borrowers who should never have qualified for home ownership in the first place. All the while, we paid our mortgages and lived within our means. I guess the "fairness" of socialism demands that the government step in to punish the hard working and responsible members of our society and reward the idle or the squanderers.

Our Resolve

We at The Potomac Tea Party are just getting started. We hope to stand shoulder to shoulder with you and other patriotic Americans and peacefully resist our own federal government at every turn whenever they attempt to steal our liberty to satiate their lust for power. One of the best ways you can let your voice be heard is to write elected officials and let your opinions be weighed. It’s funny how little things like your voice and your vote can have a huge impact on the decisions they make. There are many ideas that we have on how to fight "change," so check back often and tell all of your friends, neighbors, and family members about us. The maintenance of liberty is tedious. It requires eternal vigilance!

God Bless America!!!

“We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it has been said if we lose that war, and in doing so lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening. Well, I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers.”

—Ronald Reagan on Communism and Socialism, 1964