The players are the same--it's still conservatives versus hippies and the people versus the establishment. The backdrop is the same--peaceful protests in the streets of the United States. But there is one huge difference between the Tea Party movement and the protests of the Sixties. This time, the conservatives are protesting the establishment, which is populated by ex-hippies. And no Sixties-style protest should lack a good protest folk song.
Now the Tea Partiers have one, courtesy of Congressional candidate Joel Pollak of Illinois. He unveiled it at a Chicago Tea Party on Tax Day, and judging from the applause it went over pretty well. Pollak's New Media Advisor is Royal High graduate Owen Paun.
Pollak already has some YouTube hits under his belt. He's the Harvard student that garnered national attention for grilling Barney Frank, and for exposing the Left's attempt to derail healthcare protests.
Read my interview of Pollak here.
Eric Ingemunson's commentary has been featured on Hannity, CNN, NBC, Inside Edition, and KFI's The John and Ken Show.
Eric was born and raised in Ventura County and currently resides in Moorpark. He earned a master's degree in Public Policy and Administration from California Lutheran University. As a conservative, Eric supports smaller government, less taxation, more individual freedom, the rule of law, and a strict adherence to the Constitution.
Barack Obama was born n 1961.
Yeah, he's surrounded himself with enough ex-hippies to conjure up some flower-power in the White House, though.