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JUST SAY YES: Nationwide Tea Party Leaders Call on Obama to Live up to Meeting Promise . Eightee?

By Glenn Reynolds

JUST SAY YES: Nationwide Tea Party Leaders Call on Obama to Live up to Meeting Promise .

Eighteen national leaders of the Tea Party protest movement, which has drawn the participation of hundreds of thousands of Americans over the past few weeks, today responded to President Barack Obama?s invitation to meet with members of the Tea Party movement to discuss solutions to the nation?s fiscal challenges.

Speaking at a townhall meeting in Arnold, Missouri this past Wednesday, Obama said: ?So, you know, when you see ? those of you who are watching certain news channels on which I’m not very popular and you see folks waving tea bags around, let me just remind them that I am happy to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs down over the long term, how we’re going to stabilize Social Security.?

The national leadership team of the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition, one of several organizations that form the grassroots ecosystem of the Tea Party movement, this afternoon faxed a letter to the White House accepting the President?s invitation for such a discussion. ?The Tea Party movement has grown because millions of Americans believe the government is heading in the wrong direction and their government is not only not listening to them, but ignoring them. We need to have a serious, public discussion of these issues. We are ready to have that discussion with you and look forward to your response,? the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition leaders wrote in their letter to Obama.

Think he’ll meet with them?

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on May 02, 2009 (boomark / email).