Tea party as a substitute to triumphant presidency

To the Obama's and indeed the Democratic party, it started as the Boston Tea Party of 2010 as a united states senate special elections in Massachusetts, held on January 19^th in order to fill the vacant Massachusetts class 1 united states senate seat for the remainder of the term ending January 3, 2013. The senate seat was won against all odds by the republican party candidate senator Scott Brown, the vacancy that prompted the special elections was the eventual death of the democratic party senator ted kennedy on august 25^th 2009, the seat was held until the elections by the an appointee senator Paul Kirk, a nominee that did not have the wish to contest the seat for the special elections.

The seat vacated by the late Senator ted Kennedy regarded as the lion of the senate, was considered as a political birth right of the democratic party, because the senator has been on that seat since 1962 after taking over from his brother and former president of the united john Fitzgerald Kennedy, thus to have conspired to lose such a safe seat was a monumental act of political miscalculation, because the hard earned victory of 2008 was been subverted by the internal fighting and bickering for spoils of office.

The unexpected victory by the republican party coupled with harsh economic environment and the persisting unemployment in the American labor market, embolden the far right fringes of the republican party in the mould of the tea party, to tap at the disenchantment of the American people who have been promised so much yet only delivered more taxes and less tangible results. These is the origin and genesis of the tea party as a grassroots political movement, that is a conglomeration of disparate groups united by a common cause that seeks for a change in politics of Washington, from a big over bearing federal government that hardly listens to small people with their core values and interests.

It started with the attempt by Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevic to sell the senate seat vacated by president-elect Barack Obama as a trade off to the presidency, the nominee candidate being Valerie Jarrett a close associate and confident of the president, that the controversial senate nominee later worked with the president at the white house raised a lot of suspicion, more so as there were later evidence that president Barack Obama actually corresponded with Andy stern and Thomas Blanoff, the two union officials implicated as the facilitators of the deal that led to the eventual impeachment and conviction of governor Blagojevic.

The seed of distrust was eventually sown on the American populist, highlighted by the activities of the unofficial spokeswoman and arrow head of the group Madame Sarah Palin, basically the tea party is a movement that does not have a single leader nor does it have a concretized policy option for the American people, rather it is a collective that is united by a common enemy that is represented by an Obama presidency, thus the first battle of control and the eventual victory was obtained over middle of the center republicans, after which with the aid of hardliners like the republican leader in the house congressman John Boehner concretized the dominance of the tea party collective over the republican party.

The position and status of the tea party as a primarily a grassroots movement created a problem and a challenge to the obama presidency, as it was so under estimated and in some instances ignored by the white house strategist, because the democratic party as an institution found it very hard on the ways to confront a leader less movement populated by desperate house wives, thus the party strategies and officials sought to ignore the movement as a collection of hard liners that are unelectable to the American people, in fact the former democratic chair of the party Howard Dean found it as derogatory to compare the tea party as a similar grassroots movement, to the movement for change in America that swept president Barack Obama to the white house.

The evident tyranny of the majority that lend itself to complacency, aided in no small measure the Democratic Party's and the white house under estimating the strength and capacity of the party to confront the tea party challenge. The party in power was blessed with having a single party controlling the first and second branches of government, as apart from being in control of the white house the democratic party also has the majority in the capitol hill, which are the senate and congress of the united states of America.

The apparent sense of history and efforts at comparison with past great American presidents, especially the president that survived the great depression in the person of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, further assisted in beclouding the sense of judgement of the president and his officials, by deluding their foresight at the extent of challenge posed by the tea party collective, more so as the president is a man that is aware of the value of legacy to the history and persona of the individual holding the office of the president of the united states of America.