Item: Second TEA Party planned for Pullman: Organizers hope event encourages attendees to put message into action/Hillary Hamm, Moscow-Pullman Daily News

More Info: Jeff Williams isn’t sure everyone got the message during the area’s first Taxed Enough Already parties in April. Williams said the roughly 500 people who participated in the events in Moscow and Pullman understand the need for accountability in government, fiscal responsibility and standing strong by the Constitution. Now he wants to spread the word even more and start a revolution among people willing to challenge their elected officials. A second TEA Party Protest/Freedom Rally will take place in Pine Street Plaza in downtown Pullman at 4 p.m. Saturday.

Question: Have you attended any of the protest tea parties in the Inland Northwest?

Item: ‘We the People’ rally Friday: Group to protest congressional spending/Brian Walker, Press

More Info: Tea time, says Ron Nilson, should be about over for those wanting to send a message to Washington, D.C., that they’re concerned about government spending. A local non-partisan grassroots group will hold a “We the People” rally on Friday from 5:30-8 p.m. at Q’emiln Park in Post Falls to kick off Flag Day weekend and piggyback onto a similar event on April 15 in Coeur d’Alene. “This isn’t a tea party; it’s a we party,” said Nilson, CEO of Ground Force Manufacturing who will speak on Friday. “A tea party was a great start and an opportunity for people to understand what this is.

Question: Would you like to see the Tea Partiers stick around and become a political force?

About 70 people have gathered in front of the steps of the Capitol Annex to protest against taxes, in what organizers dubbed “Tea Party II.” The Rev. Bryan Fischer, in a press release, said, “The purpose of Tea Party II is to give ordinary Idaho taxpayers the opportunity to voice their opposition to an increase in their tax burden during a recession.” Among those gathered was one man with a sign saying “FBO,” which he explained stood for “Forget about Butch Otter”/Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise. More here.

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Item: Alliance plans Tea Party 2 for Monday to demand that Legislature adjourn/Idaho Values Alliance action alert

More Info: The Senate has the constitutional authority to call the House back into session next Monday if it chooses, but highly placed sources in the legislature tell me the only reason they would do so is an attempt to force the House to crumple under pressure and become complicit in raising our taxes. So, if the House is forced to come back to town next Monday, at a cost of a cool $30,000 a day to you and me, it will only be because the Senate has joined forces with the governor in trying to push through a tax increase during a recession, a foolish and economically harmful prospect at any time, and inexcusable coming from lawmakers who carry the GOP banner/Bryan Fischer, Idaho Values Alliance. More Action Alert here.

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• Idaho House out of touch with reality/Henry Johnston, Moscow-Pullman Daily News

Question: Would you like to see the forces that staged the Tea Parties around Idaho on April 15 reform to pressure the Idaho Legislature to adjourn?

Protestors take part in a tea party demonstration this morning in Lafayette Park, across from the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

Fish Wife: It amuses me that the tea partiers blame our new president for the ills of the past 8 years when he has been in office for only 94 days!! The so-called stimulus/bailout/TARP plans were hatched back in November by a lame duck Pres and Treasury Secretary.

Question: How much blame can be put on the Obama administration for the current financial situation, when the new president has been in office less than 100 days?

Idawa: No, the tea parties seem to be no more than partisan posturing - form without substance. I’m somewhat surprised by the hyperbole coming from the right fearing gun control and taxes on the average Joe, both of which have not happened under Obama, nor has their been any movement in congress toward such. They are quaking at boogeyman. Were the Dem’s really this bad about Bush, seeing evil in every word and breath? Secondly, I think our forefathers would be a little ashamed. They protested actual oppression - this political stunt is simply a weak form of parody.

Question (from Idawa): Were the Dem’s really this bad about Bush, seeing evil in every word and breath?