Tea Party Response to State of the Union: Tax Enough Already

Impact

The Tea Party, which rose in 2009, in opposition to President Obama's health care reform bill, will deliver its third rebuttal to the president's State of the Union address on Tuesday night. This year, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the libertarian-leaning son of failed 2008 and 2012 presidential candidate and Representative Ron Paul (R-Texas), will be delivering the "Tax Enough Already" Party's response (last year, pizza mogul Herman Cain delivered the "honor" while Minnesota Representative Michelle Bachmann did so the year before). Paul, who's also considered a potential 2016 presidential candidate, will share the spotlight with another potential presidential hopeful, Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) who will deliver a historic bilingual rebuttal in English and Spanish (in an obvious attempt to lure Hispanic voters) on behalf of the GOP.