if the tea party wants a manifesto besides sarah's twitter account, i'd suggest h.l. mencken, "on government," from prejudices: fourth series (1924):

Dr. Johnson was perhaps justified in dismissing all of [the forms of government now visible in Christendom] as but various aspects of the same fraud. The citizen of today, even in the most civilized states, is not only secured but ineffectively against other citizens who aspire to exploit and injure him - for example, highwaymen, bankers, quack doctors, clergymen, sellers of oil stock and contaminated liquor, and so-called reformer of all sorts, - and against external foes, military, commercial and philosophical; he is also exploited and injured almost without measure by the government itself - in other words, by the very agency which professes to protect him. This agency becomes, indeed, one of the most dangerous and insatiable of the inimical forces present in his everyday environment. He finds it more difficult and costly to survive in the face of it than it is to survive in the face of any other enemy. He may, if he has prudence, guard himself effectively against all the known varieties of private criminals, from stockbrokers to pickpockets and from lawyers to kidnapers, and he may, if he has been burnt enough, learn to guard himself also against the rogues who seek to rob him by the subtler device of playing upon his sentimentalities and superstitions: charity mongers, idealists, soul-savers, and others of their kind. But he can no more escape the tax-gatherer and the policemen, in all their protean and multitudinous guises, than he can escape the ultimate mortician. They beset him constantly, day in and day out, in ever-increasing numbers and in ever more disarming masks and attitudes. They invade his liberty, affront his dignity and greatly incommode his search for happiness, and every year they demand from him a larger and larger share of his worldly goods. The average American of today works more htan a full day in every week to support his government. It already costs him more than his pleasures and almost as much as his vices, and in another half century, no doubt, it will begin to cost as much as his necessities.

by the way, prejudices has just been issued in a beautiful library of america edition. i'm assuming that the american language and a volume of autobiographical writings can't be far behind.