Tea’ed Off
If we close our eyes maybe they’ll go away.
At least that is the sentiment echoing through the hallowed halls of congress today. Some Republicans tried to hitch their wagon to the protest while most Democrats tried to hitch a ride out of the spotlight for awhile.
In 750 cities across the country thousands of protestors showed up to send a message to their elected officials that we are mad as hell and we’re not going to take it anymore. There could have been in excess of one million protestors and not a single store was looted or car overturned and burned. Let just a few hundred protesters loose for illegal immigration of welfare reform and you know somebody is throwing a brick through a store window, or as Maxine Waters likes to put it, “Some baby momma’s doin some shoppin”.
There were between two and three thousand Tea Party protesters in Chicago today. I was not in town or there would have been one more. From what I heard on the Fox News station over my satellite radio there was at least hundreds if not thousands at every one of the events. Why not more? Why not the same kind of turnout seen by other protest rallies? My first guess is that most of those sympathetic to the cause were at their jobs and not able to attend. Put together a rally for people who don’t pay taxes and you could have tens of thousands. But put together a rally calling on the silent majority and a few thousand is pretty darn good.
The president’s press secretary basically brushed off the demonstrations when asked about their significance. He wrongfully suggested that this was about Republicans making a grandstand play and chided those attending by saying that if they look they will see that their taxes have actually gone down. And therein lays the problem. The politicians in Washington DC and at every other level of state and local government just don’t get it.
The American taxpayer, while gullible, is not completely stupid. We know that the increased spending on personal pet project ear marks, non-stimulus road building, tax refunds for people who don’t pay taxes and new NASA space shuttles has to come from somewhere. And that somewhere is us.
I don’t think they understand the level of outrage in this country regarding the job they are doing at spending the money we work for. My guess is that only a small fraction of those that are mad as hell were actually able to attend the tax day rallies.
But their worst nightmare awaits because even though the rallies are over the outrage is not.
The government spending has gone from unrealistic to outrageous. The Democrat controlled House and Senate have taken the mantra of “Change” touted by the chosen one during the campaign and used it like a sledgehammer to fix a watch. We are not talking about hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars. We are talking about trillions of dollars with no end to the spending spree in sight. And even though the Democrats control Congress, Republicans had better take heed as well. Long time GOPers like Arlen Specter will have one hell of a time trying to convince taxpayers in their districts that they have their best interest at heart with their hand in the taxpayer’s pocket.
The rallies are over and each in its own way was successful. But the real success will come in the midterm election when the taxpaying voters will get a chance to really show their fury.
Nobody likes an enema but they sell a lot of them so we can get rid of the crap. It’s time to give one to Congress.
And for the same reason.
