Conservative Leaders want some tea

As reported by Time, so called conservative leaders have offered an olive branch to tea party members in the form of the Mount Vernon statement. But the real story here is the ignorance of the Time magazine reporter:

But the document also afforded the authors a chance to define their mission as the Tea Party movement mushrooms into a potent force in American politics. With the Mount Vernon statement, conservatism's éminences grises are opening their doors to a group without a founder, an underlying framework or even, seemingly, an organizing principle beyond opposition to the Obama Administration's policies.

A group with no organizing principle other than opposition to the Obama administration? Has the author of this article been hiding under a rock? The tea party movement stands for several things, the least of which is opposition to the Obama administration, rather Obama seems to value everything that tea party members oppose. Here is a list of things that tea party members stand for from thecontract.org

• Demand a balanced budget
• Stop the tax hikes
• Commit to real government transparency
• Protect the constitution
• Pass market-based healthcare and health insurance reform
• Enact fundamental tax reform
• End runaway government spending
• Protect internet freedom
• Give parents more choices in the education of their children
• Protect freedom of the press
• Restore fiscal responsibility and constitutionally limited government
• Protect private property rights
• Reject cap and trade
• Stop the pork
• Audit the fed
• No more bailouts
• Stop career politicians and curb lobbyist power
• Sunset regulations and enact fundamental regulatory reform

These are a few of the things that stand for as tea party members