With Liberty... Comes Responsibility

Those words convey the wisdom and vision of America’s founders and a roadmap for all who wish to restore and maintain a limited government and a civil society.
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We each are blessed as American's with free will.  The founders had no intention of restricting the actions of the individual when writing the Constitution; only to restrict government's authority against the individual.  However, the founders had an expectation that people will act in a moral and responsible manner.   The bill of rights protects the people from government force, but relies completely on the morality of the individual to act responsibly when exercising their rights.
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Responsibility has been omitted from the equation when teaching children about the freedoms we enjoy as Americans.  Our primary task as parents, educators, and grassroots activists is to instill the responsibilities that accompany our liberties.
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Liberty and responsibility must share an equal status in our lives and we must demand the same from our fellow man, expecting the highest standard of responsibility from those in public service. Without this balance, government and society will cease to function.  
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The focus of the member groups of OurTP is to share the values of liberty and responsibility with every citizen in our statements and actions, both public and private.

Richard Mourdock Sends Senator Lugar to Retirement

On Tuesday May 8, Indiana State Treasurer Mourdock decimated 36 year incumbent Senator Richard Lugar in the GOP primary.  Mourdock collected about 61% of the votes to 39% for Senator Lugar. 
This is the definitive effect of grassroots activists working in concert to get out the conservative vote.

Our congratulations to all who worked on the campaign and lets not leave it to luck in the General election this November.

 

FreedomWorks PAC Endorses Josh Mandel for U.S. Senate


FreedomWorks PAC arrived in Ohio on Monday April 2nd to provide their endorsement in Ohio's U.S. Senate Race.  Max Pappas Executive Director of FreedomWorks PAC, at the request of grassroots activists throughout Ohio agreed to provide their resources to on the ground efforts to elect Josh Mandel to the Senate seat currently held by Sherrod Brown.

Josh Mandel, in accepting the endorsement said Sherrod Brown has followed the policies of President Obama and has been dubbed the most liberal Senator in Washington. An amazing feat by any measure.

Ohio's grassroots activists will be out in their communities, speaking with taxpayers and making calls on behalf Ohio Treasurer Mandel.

Tea Party Is Alive And Well
Mark Twain once famously quipped “The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated” after it was erroneously reported of his passing in 1897.  The Tea Party movement now understands how he must have felt after reading their own apparent obituary in Thedailybeast.com.  After 115 years there are some things that just don’t change.
 
As much as certain political circles would like for such a story to be true, the fact is it would be impossible to kill off the Tea Party.  Certainly there will be times when the movement will ebb and flow, but what those wishful thinkers don’t seem to understand and have never gotten is that the Tea Party movement isn’t about a candidate, a party, a person, a single office, or any of the other nonsensical brush strokes that we are often painted with.  The Tea Party movement is about an idea, a simple one that is engrained in the very soul of man.  Freedom!
 
The never ending yearning for freedom is engrained in our soul because it doesn’t come from politicians, nor is it granted by any government.  It comes from God.   It is nurtured at the grass roots level and lifted up to those who are sworn to protect it from above.  Just like when plants come up from the ground to reclaim abandoned structures, so does the Tea Party grow up to reclaim those freedoms once their leaders have abandoned them.
 
There are some within the Tea Party’s own ranks who have mistakenly believed that even grass roots models need to be controlled from the top down with a centralized command structure much the same way that socialist societies are typically structured.  However, just like socialists don’t understand, in a truly free society the ability to govern must be granted from the bottom up.  It is impossible to be free when controlled from the top down. This is why the Tea Party movement is and always will be a grass roots movement.
 
The Tea Party movement is alive and well and always will be.  It may at times take on different names or different forms, but the idea will always be the same.  It’s a movement that has been here since the beginning of man.  There may be times when we are the “silent” majority, and we don’t expect to win every battle.  But make no mistake about it.  The ideas that we are here to defend have existed ever since man has existed so I wouldn’t suggest practicing too many eulogies just yet.
-Mark Etterling

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Senator Mike Lee addresses Tea Party activists at Debt Commission paneldc

The Tea Party Debt Commission in Washington D.C.

On Thursday November 17, the Tea Party Debt Commission (TPDC) presented their budget and testimony at the Hillsdale College Kirby Center.  Please download Budget from this link.  This momentous budget will do what Congress is incapable of doing; Cut, cap and balance federal spending.  This budget, unlike the miniscule cuts being discussed by the "Super Committee" will balance the budget in fairly short order and keep it balanced – without tax hikes!  Once the budget is released, we will make it available here at OurTP.org to all Americans because this is your budget, created from the suggestions of tea party leaders, activists and fleeced taxpayers who offered their suggestions at hearings around the country and completed the crowd-sourced online survey.

These links show the progression of events through the day November 17th.

Senator Brown's coffee:
http://youtu.be/UCUUvoSW5-o 

Video of Sen. Lee and Rules staffers:
http://www.freedomworks.org/the-tea-party-budget   

Gallery of Photos  from the Debt Commission Events in D.C.

We can no longer wait for politicians to solve our budget and responsibility deficit, it's up to the people to restore America's greatness and our future.

On Twitter:     #TPDC  @freedomworks  @ourtporg

OurTP invite visitors to peruse the photos, video and commentary from an August 18-25th visit to Israel .  The tour was organized in conjunction with Restoring Courage and Freedomworks.  Enjoy the sights and sounds of Israel, as Ed and Gena Bell tour the holy land with a contingent of Tea Party leaders.  All the content is now available at this Shutterfly link.