Popped onto Facebook only to see a dozen more ads for various GOP and/or Tea Party Candidates. One of them states "Help fight the Pelosi/Reid/Obama agenda!" Fight it? I want their agenda! I voted for it and will again! I think we need more regulation of the financial industry, health care reform and environmental reform! I keep flagging them as offensive, but cannot just see more of the same.
Speaking of which, does anyone else find the concept of the Tea Party just a touch ironic. Lets Compare:
* The Boston Tea Party was about taxation without representation (high Tea taxes to pay for non-colony expenditures and the colonies had no Parlimentary representation - no voice on tax policy.
* Present Tea Party (and GOP behavior) is all about obstructing any and all activities of the majority. In some cases representatives of 14% of the population (or less) is controlling the debate - if anything the rightful descendents of those revolutionaries is the rank and file Democrat who is watching their goals for improving our country being stymied by a vocal few FOX aristocrats and their lackeys.
* It is also interesting that the Tea Party seems so interested in lower taxes even though we have some of the lowest taxes in the developed world. Also interesting that so many seem to be of Medicare age, but are protesting government run health care.
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