Editor's Note: Jim Acosta’s special series on the Tea Party movement continued to generate heated discussion from Thursday’s American Morning audience. Movement members suggested the values of the Tea Party were not appropriately portrayed by the media, specifically their desire for “fiscal conservatism” and “anti-socialism.” Those opposed to Tea Party values demanded full disclosure of financial backing of the group, accusing them of being “bankrolled” by “corporate America.”

• Charlotte: wow you still dont get it. tea party people want fiscal conservatism the most! charlie Crist is Not . he also wants amnesty. tea partiers Do not! Rubio is our man! i never before was interested in politics. after seeing our country gotoward socialism i am interested now and Rubio is the best man for the job its funny that Crist seems as arrogant as Obama–maybe thats why they shook hands for twenty seven seconds! we are organized- tea partiers have learned from ACORN!!
• Linda S.: where was this tea party movement when the clinton admin. handed bush a trillion $+ balanced budget and within a year after bush stole the white house he & his cronies created a approx. 864 billion $ deficit & it kept growing & growing (mostly because of the tax cuts for the richest 1% and the illegal Iraq invasion/occupation).
• Bill: The Tea Party movement would have us believe that the federal government should have taken no action to counteract the recession. They are poorly informed and dead wrong. The country would be in the midst of a second great depression if the government hadn't taken the steps it did. Were the policies perfect? No, but they are infinitely better than the do-nothing suggestions of the Tea Party.
• Eva: Let's have some balance about the Tea Party. The truth is that it is bankrolled by Koch Industries who are protecting corporate America. So all those folks who are screaming about big government spending are supporting the same greed that gave us the Wall Street debacle. Besides, the tea party folks have revealed themselves to be racist and hateful. I have no respect for that kind of name calling and dirty politics.

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