"Menopause Was Change Enough for Me"

As part of a recent book project I’ve been asking women around the country: Why are you angry? What is it about the tea party movement that energizes busy working moms to get even busier organizing protests?

Many women gave the most obvious answer: “If we waited around for you men to do it, it would never get done.”

When I asked Christen Varley, the Boston tea party leader, she said it’s because moms tend to be “the CEO’s of our households. We do the shopping, bill paying, budgeting, etc. We know less money means less freedom. Maybe if the president and Congress did the grocery shopping, they’d know why we’re mad.”

Dana Loesch, talk host and co-founder of the St. Louis tea party, believes the tea party movement is the modern conservative version of “the personal is political.”