I (like most sensible folks, I suspect) have pretty much ignored this whole tea-bag protest nonsense-- and if you don't watch FOX noise (again, like most sensible folks) then you may not even know what I'm talking about. But after spending even 30 seconds too much time reading about them, I'm still confused about the concept.
Are the tea bag protests about tax hikes? There haven't really been any major ones yet-- and didn't Obama tell us over a year ago that is exactly what he wanted to do? Are the tea-baggers upset about immigration? If so, I don't get the tea bag metaphor-- and weren't all the original tea party folks immigrants? If they're protesting government debt, don't the tea-baggers realize that Bush was the one that ushered in the current gargantuan deficit? Are they upset about the bailouts? Surely they know that Bush started those as well.
It seems to me that all this tea-bag nonsense is the work of fringe conservatives (who are ever more frustrated to find themselves out of touch with America), bolstered by more moderate segments of the GOP who are aimlessly looking for something meaningful to occupy their time.
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