The Nature of the Tea Party

SEE HERE The liberal/progressive/socialist/leftist ... (have I left any out) Demon-crats seem to think the Tea Party was invented by their political opposition, those pesky, relatively stupid (I mean 'come on' the liberals have all those intellectuals that talk about reshaping America, and how we should be post-religion, and control the narrative, and how killing babies just before they are born is just a medical procedure ... you know the type) Republicans when in fact the Tea Party was just as much a surprise to the Republicans as to the Democrats.

Republicans have always been posturing as the party of small government, lower taxes, and all that sort of stuff. Then when you elect them you get Democrat-lite because they say they have to play along, you know, cooperate, with the other party. Now the Demon-crats never think they have to cooperate with anyone. Just look at how things have been going lately. We need to get the Republicans to show a little more moxie.

But I wanted to talk about the Tea Party. I've visited a few. I've helped the local Tea Party with their website for a while. And what I see is people that are pretty fed up with the lousy responsiveness of government to fundamentals like following the plain sense of the Constitution and not pretending that all the money people have earned is theirs to play around with whenever they want. The government needs to get new and more stringent rules that limit its power and focus it on what it is supposed to be doing and not letting it go on intrusive adventures all the time. Government is supposed to be a servant and not a master.