Transparency

Taxes and big government are a problem in this country but, contrary to seemingly increasingly popular belief, they were NOT invented by Barack Obama. They existed long before him and they WILL exist long after him.

Pretty much every American could agree that government should be more efficient and streamlined and that taxes shouldn't be so gosh darned high or, if they are going to spend our tax money, couldn't they at least spend it wiser than they have been?

All the republican presidents we've ever had spent every nickel as if it were their own, right? Then along comes this Obama guy. He wants more money and he wants it from RICH PEOPLE! WTF?! The middle class had been doing such a fine job of supporting this country until he came along. Now he wants rich people to pay their "fair share". Well, evidently that's something that communists do!

Transparency, which Obama promised, is exactly the problem with the tea-party movement. They have transparency. That most intelligent people can see right through them is their downfall. They could easily complain about taxes and big government and get the majority of the country on their side. If republicans and democrats of all colors and all walks of life banded together and protested high taxes with media coverage and wrote and phoned congressmen and representatives, reminding them who voted and who they worked for, I promise you there would be action. You know who could lead such a movement? Our president. He wants better government and reasonable taxes. The tea parties should have been his idea. Rally the people. Force congress to change their evil, spending ways. We're mad as hell and we're not gonna take it anymore!

Yeah, I wish he had. It'd make the threads and FOXNEWS slightly more interesting. He wouldn't have the support of anyone in the tea party movement though. They seem to oppose him no matter what he does- perhaps you've noticed?

If Obama were to be against 'big government" you would hear Sarah Palin and FOX pundits touting the "virtues" of big government. Actually, we had big government during the Bush years. They weren't against it then and honestly, if there were to be a republican president in '12 or '16, they won't be against it then either. They tend to live in the moment (when they're not living in the past) and in this moment, big government is bad. It's bad because it's a democratic big government and, well, because there are n-words in the white house.

Yep. I played the race card again; that tired old, worn-out race card that democrats love to play just cause there's a black guy in the white house. People in the threads will call him a "monkey" or a "jig" and then get indignant that someone might think they were being racist by that. Yeah, imagine that? How does one draw racism from that?

Denial is not just a river in Egypt which is a country chock full of n-words, BTW. But, by and large, the tea-party persons flatly deny any notion that they might be racist. This is why they choose to portray Obama as a communist/fascist/socialist/muslim/etc/etc. He's all things to so many people and, usually, all at once. But, it's not because he's an n-word. THAT is just a card for democrats to play. Probably because we're all n-word lovers...

See, they just hate him because he wants to destroy America. His being an n-word has NOTHING to do with it. It's because he bows to foreign dignitaries...and he hates America...pals around with terrorists...he's Muslim...

Well, enough dancing around here. The tea-baggers hate him because he's a nigger. They know it's "wrong" to say this aloud but, this IS how they feel. They WANT to say it but political correctness (a demoncrat plot to subvert the first amendment BTW) makes them look like racist jerks when they do. The true base of the tea-party is racist jerks who simply hate niggers in general and Barack Obama in particular. They can deny it all they want in public but they cannot deny it to themselves. There surely are some well-meaning, disgruntled republican, second-place-finishers in there and that is to be expected after any loss, but, you are judged by the company you keep and that is why the majority of Americans do not want to side with gun nuts, skinheads, radical Christians, birthers and all others that add up to racists.

You take a grand idea- and government and tax reform IS- and it gets diluted with hate-mongering freaks. I'm disgusted with the not so-thinly-veiled threats of assassination and the bold, out-right promises of violent revolution that I see in the threads. They speak of "revenge". For what? Losing an election? Get over it. These people piss on the words of our founders to justify murder, treason and anarchy.

And, yeah, I know these assholes are pissing in the wind as they whistle through the cemetery with all their talk of killing democrats and taking back America. And that's just the boys and girls on FOX...

Well, not yet anyway. It's a bunch of losers on the net that say these things. They mean it, they believe it and they want others to think it's so and will be so they will have company in their misery. The idiots on FOX are dangerous though. They keep fueling the fire, I think in hopes of pushing some nutjob over the edge. Right now their "job" is to be contrary for the sake of being contrary and the billions of dollars that philosophy brings to Murdoch's coffers. They've got job security no matter who is in office. They cheer lead for the right and disparage the left. It all pays pretty much the same. It's business as usual until one freak takes their dogma to heart...

There's a Tim McVeigh out there waiting to happen. FOX and various jerks on the 'net want desperately to give him his 15 minutes of fame because they are too smart and cowardly to do it themselves. I wish this were about middle-aged men in tri-corner hats, with poorly spelled, hastily made signs demanding better government. I wish it were at least that productive. But, it isn't. It's about hate and fear being the residue of defeat. It is not the seeds of revolution growing this spring, rather, the same old hate like weeds that will never go away.